Religious and Moral Education
The children at Gordon Primary progress through the Curriculum for Excellence Religious and Moral Education experiences and outcomes in order to:
Parents have the right to withdraw their child from Religious Education lessons and Observance and should contact the school if they so wish.
Parents from ethnic minority religious communities may request that their children be permitted to be absent from school in order to celebrate recognised religious events. Only written requests detailing the proposed arrangements will be considered. Appropriate requests will be granted for up to three occasions in any one school session and the pupil noted as an authorised absentee in the register.
The school has a very positive relationship with the local church and Minister, Tom Nicholson. Six of our assemblies are held in the church throughout the year as art of our religious observance.
The children at Gordon Primary progress through the Curriculum for Excellence Religious and Moral Education experiences and outcomes in order to:
- Develop their spiritual, social, moral and
cultural values;
- Develop a knowledge and understanding of
Christianity and other world religions;
- Appreciate moral values such as honesty,
respect, fairness and concern for others
- Investigate and understand the questions and
answers that religions can offer about the nature and meaning of life
- Develop their own beliefs, attitudes, moral
values and practices through a process of personal search, discovery and
critical evaluation.
Parents have the right to withdraw their child from Religious Education lessons and Observance and should contact the school if they so wish.
Parents from ethnic minority religious communities may request that their children be permitted to be absent from school in order to celebrate recognised religious events. Only written requests detailing the proposed arrangements will be considered. Appropriate requests will be granted for up to three occasions in any one school session and the pupil noted as an authorised absentee in the register.
The school has a very positive relationship with the local church and Minister, Tom Nicholson. Six of our assemblies are held in the church throughout the year as art of our religious observance.