Scottish Catholic Education Service

This is Our faith
Launch of This is Our Faith
St John’s High School, Dundee
Two senior pupils from St John's High School Dundee
St John Bosco Primary School, Erskine
Pupils from St John Bosco Primary School, Erskine reading prayers at Mass in St Francis Xavier, Carfin
St Luke’s High School, Barrhead
School Chaplain and Pupils of St Luke’s High School, Barrhead
St Stephen’s Primary, Sighthill, Glasgow
Pupils of St Stephen’s Primary, Sighthill, Glasgow enjoying some out door leasons
Papal Visit - England
The Big Assembly with the Holy Father, Twickenham 17th September
Papal Visit - Scotland
Girls from Taylor High School, Motherwell, singing their own song “Faith” before the Papal Mass at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow on 16th September 2010.
Papal Visit - England
Scottish pupils addressing the Holy Father at the Big Assembly, Twickenham 17th September.
Papal Visit - Scotland
The St Ninian’s Day Parade, Edinburgh, 16th September 2010

Liturgical Year

Recent SCES Resources

Church News

Latest SCES News

Resources for Catholic Education Week 2012

Resources are now available to support the celebration of Catholic Education Week in schools and parishes from Sunday 12th to Saturday 18th February 2012. (Where school holidays fall at this time, schools and parishes are encouraged to organise the...

Aquinas Lecture 2012

Faith, Reason and the Tasks of Education in a Secular Age: A Christian Response to the New Atheism The Aquinas lecture to be given by: Professor Robert A. Davis, Head of School of Education, University of Glasgow on Monday 30 January 2012 at 7.30p...

THIS IS OUR FAITH is moving fast!

Orders for THIS IS OUR FAITH are still being processed by SCES. Since its publication in mid November, over 4,000 copies have been distributed to schools and parishes across Scotland, from Shetland to Dumfries. Many positive comments have been rece...

Pope urges parents and teachers to pay attention to young people

Pope Benedict XVI, in his message for the 45th International Day of Peace, which will be celebrated on 1st January 2012, encouraged young people to offer new hope to the world. He called for parents, as the first educators of their children, to tra...

Latest SCES Newsletter now published

Copies of the latest SCES Newsletter have been sent to schools, parent councils and parishes across Scotland. The Winter 2011 issue of SCES News features: the publication of THIS IS OUR FAITH; the work of a CEC Parents working group who are respon...

The Pope explains prayer to children

Addressing children during his visit to Benin on Sunday 20th November 2011, Pope Benedict XVI explained: What, then, is prayer? It is a cry of love directed to God our Father, with the will to imitate Jesus our brother. Jesus often went off by himsel...

THIS IS OUR FAITH now ON SALE

THIS IS OUR FAITH is a significant new document which now governs the teaching of religious education in Scotland's Catholic schools. This is the first religious education syllabus to be originated wholly in Scotland and designed to meet the nee...

THIS IS OUR FAITH NOW LAUNCHED

THIS IS OUR FAITH, the new Religious Education syllabus for Catholic schools in Scotland, was launched by the Bishops of Scotland in Edinburgh on Monday 7th November 2011 before an audience of invited guests, including representatives of the m...

Scottish Catholic teacher scoops UK Teacher of the Year award

A teacher from a Catholic primary school in Hamilton has seen off competition from 22,000 others to be crowned UK Teacher of the Year Christine Emmett, who has been teaching at St Elizabeth’s Primary School in Hamilton for 27 years, was presented ...

Dead Sea Scrolls go online

A new website developed by the Israel Museum and Google will enable anyone with an internet connection to see five of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Pages for each of the five scrolls – the Great Isaiah Scroll, the Community Rule Scroll, the Commentary on...

Pope encourages young people to have faith

Addressing assembled young people at a prayer vigil in Frieburg, Germany on 24th September 2011, Pope Benedict encouraged young people with these words: We do not live alone in this world. And it is for the important things of life that we have to re...