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 follow the Agreed Hertfordshire Syllabus for Religious Education. The aim is to ensure that all pupils develop knowledge and understanding of sources of wisdom and their impact whilst exploring personal and critical responses.

Sources of wisdom from religions and worldviews and their impact

All pupils should:

• know, understand and explore the significance and impact of sacred texts, other sources of wisdom and ways of expressing meaning

• express ideas and insights about the nature of beliefs, values and practices and their impact on the identity of individuals and communities locally, nationally and globally

• recognise and explore similarities and differences which exist within and between religious and non-religious worldviews

Personal and critical responses to religion and worldviews

All pupils should:

• express with increasing discernment their personal reflections, critical responses and connections to faith and belief enquiring into and responding to spiritual, philosophical, moral and ethical issues

• engage with the questions and responses offered by religions and worldviews concerning ultimate questions and human responsibility

• develop the skills required to engage with others in dialogue and to cooperate in society with respect and compassion
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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.

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.

Our RE curriculum is taught through the education tool 'Jigsaw R.E'.