Mount Pleasant Lane Primary School warmly welcomes all children from our local community, embracing their diverse cultural and racial backgrounds, as well as their varying educational abilities. We recognise and appreciate each child as a unique individual along with the valuable contributions they make to our school community. Additionally, through our Religious Education programme, we aim to foster and strengthen community cohesion.

At Mount Pleasant Lane we aim to inspire our pupils’ curiosity to find out about the world and their place in it. Children develop their understanding of their own beliefs. They are also given the opportunity to explore, consider and debate wider issues and questions. 

At Mount Pleasant Lane, our intention for the teaching of RE is to provide an opportunity for children to:

• Encourage a sense of awe, wonder, delight, joy and mystery through links with the expressive and creative curriculum.
• Develop respect for the right of others to hold beliefs different from their own.
• Contribute to the pupil’s spiritual, moral, cultural and social development.
• Promote and support Community Cohesion.

Our RE curriculum builds from exploring the children’s own experiences and comparing those to other children. The children are taught of similarities and differences between religions as well as within religions. The curriculum allows the children to make links between religions and use religious ideas to answer philosophical questions. Throughout we teach key religious vocabulary and provide opportunities for children to visit a variety of different places of worship.

The aims of teaching R.E. at Mount Pleasant Lane are consistent with our School Aims and Values and take into account the requirements set by the National Curriculum. All children are entitled to access to the programmes of study at a level appropriate to the needs of the individual child.

Assemblies are used to identify, promote and celebrate the school’s values. Opportunities include: celebrating individual and group achievement; raising and considering topical, political, spiritual, moral, social, and cultural issues; reflecting on personal and religious ideals, values, experiences and feelings, and those of others.

Mount Pleasant Lane Primary School respects the right of parents/carers to withdraw their children from RE lessons. . In such cases, other arrangements can be made via the class teacher if parents wish their children not to attend these sessions.