Religious Education in Roman Catholic Schools

Religious Education is presented according to guidelines defined in a Curriculum for Excellence in partnership with the Catholic Education Commission.

At St Patrick’s Primary the Catholic faith underpins the ethos of our school. We celebrate our faith through prayer, sacrament and liturgy. The daily actions of staff and pupils lay the strong foundations of attitudes which will enrich our communities.

The organisers within the religious education in Catholic schools framework are:

·       Catholic Christianity

·       Other World Religions

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The core of our Religious Education Programme is This is our Faith. This is Our Faith provides guidance to teachers on the religious education curriculum which has been developed for children and young people in Catholic schools in Scotland.

Our school chaplain is Father Philip Kitchen. Preparation for the sacraments is an area of special partnership between school, family and parish.

It should be noted that parents have the right to withdraw their child from religious education and/or religious observance. Every opportunity will be offered to parents to discuss the options before such a decision is taken forward.

Parents from ethnic minority religious communities may request that their children be permitted to be absent from school in order to celebrate recognised religious events. Only written requests detailing the proposed arrangements will be considered. Appropriate requests will be granted on no more than three occasions in any one school session and the pupil noted as an authorised absentee in the register.