RME (Religious, Moral Education) is the name given to the Core subject. It is one of the 8 Curriculum Areas in Scotland.  This is a subject that you will get 1 period a week in S1, S2 and S4. In S3, you will come to the department as part of the enrichment rota to  compete in a competition called  YPI.

You can read more about it here

RMPS  (Religious, Moral, Philosophical Studies) is the name given to the subject when you choose to study it at National 3/4/5, Higher, Advanced Higher.

Although there are some crossovers between  RME and RMPS, they are both completely different.

RMPS is similar to Social Subjects such as History and Modern Studies.

You can learn more about it here

Psychology  is a subject that we offer in the senior school for S5 and S6 pupils at Higher level. It is a Higher course and requires  students to have a high level of literacy skills and preferably be studying or studied a Science at Higher.

The Course Specification on the SQA website has more information  – it can be accessed here.

Revision Links

www.learningrmps.com – Lots of resources and course notes for RME courses.