morning assembly and RE classes

[ethandron]

am somewhat out of touch with what goes on in primary and secondary schools these days so perhaps someone can enlighten me. do all state schools still have a morning assembly which includes some sort of singing of anything? and do they still have RE classes of some description?
i'm guessing that these days things aren't as i remember them from my own school days, or even my sons.

[ponjee]

im sdill at school. bt we dont have assemblys evry mornning, jst somedays. n wats RE classes. bt it mite b different to where i am, i live in NZ

[mccfluff]

religious education

[ummmm]

RE....Religious Education Classes.

My sons have to say prayers at both registrations...

Assembly is once a week...

RE classes are 3 times per week...

[ponjee]

thats kewl. i wish my school had RE classes.
is that a private school?
n is it in England?

[ummmm]

No it's not a private school...and yes it's in England.

[sara3]

ponjee, is it not 2.50am where you are? on a school day?

[mollykins]

Last year we had assemblies about once a week, the only one I can remember singing at was the christmad assembly and that wasn't a hymn before you ask.

We had complusory Social Ethics lessons throughout our gcses but only the top two sets (the only one's that stood a chance of passing) had to do the exam. In those lessons we had to learn about such ltopics as social harmony, crime and punishment, matters of life and death and 7 more i can't remember the name of. And in year 9 we did a bit about religion but it was mainly about sexual health, as we didn't have time to do that during the gcse lessons.

[ummmm]

So you don't do GCSE RE Molly???

[sara3]

RE is compulsory at my kids' school, to GCSE level.

[ponjee]

yep its 2:57am, bt its the holidays.
xxx

[mollykins]

Well on the exam paper it said religious studies but the lessons we had were called social ethics, on my timetable, at my school.

[mollykins]

Umm, no I don't do it now, I finished it this summer.

[ummmm]

Did you take it as GCSE?

We also did an 'ethics' side...like Sara said it was compulsory.

[mollykins]

Like I said, it was compulsory. And because I was in the top set for science, and we were with our sience groups so S.E., I had to do the exam, well they couldn't force us but if we didn't turn up we'd egt a U, or possibly X but the lower groups weren't entered for it unless they wanted to be.

[boxtops]

That sounds awfully politically correct "social ethics" rather than "RE" or is that just me?

[mollykins]

It was porbably called that because it wasn't all about religion. For example we did stuff about punishment and whether the justice system is fair, do the media portray things fairly and it's influence upon us, and stuff about equality.

[mollykins]

*probably*

[mccfluff]

we had re and social studies

[ummmm]

Boxy....I left school in 1989 and we had two RS (as we called it) exams. One on the religious side and one on the Ethics side. It was a Catholic school though...

[mollykins]

We had two, two hour exams.