Religious Education

Our Religious Education provision is based on the Somerset's "Awareness, Mystery and Value" curriculum, alongside this we also use 'Understanding Christianity'.

Each year/class focuses on Christianity and another faith throughout the year. In reception they will spend time looking at different festivals, such as Diwali, Hanukkah and Holi Festival. This means our children can draw meaningful comparisons and identify contrasting features between different world faiths and Christianity. Our RE curriculum follows a two year rolling programme which ensures children experience the required 50% or more of work on Christianity, as well as covering other religions such as: Judaism, Hinduism and Islam.

Christian principles are embedded in our aims and vision for the school and underpin our ethos.

Throughout each term we follow one of our Christian Core Values:

Respect Giving Honesty Empathy Wisdom Hope.

As part of our induction, in September, each class writes their own prayer which is then said each and every day. In each daily act of collective worship, which is led by a different member of staff, there is a prayer and time for reflection. Weekly singing assemblies and celebration assemblies are strong features of our assembly calendar. Our core values are integral to our collective worship programme. At Mells celebration assemblies are lead by each class / year group and parents are invited.

Parents have the right to withdraw their children from Collective Worship and if they wish to do this they must meet with the Headteacher and put their request in writing.

At Mells the children attend services at St Andrews Church throughout the year (e.g. Harvest, Christingle and Easter). Parents and friends of the school are always welcome.