Our school serves the Arundel & Brighton parishes of Ashtead, Leatherhead, Effingham & Fetcham and Cobham. (Please click on the Diocese or parish names to link to their websites.)

At St Peter’s Religious Education influences the ethos and the daily life of the school. Together with home and the parish, school is a place where children hear the Gospel through word and example, experience the Church as a community of God’s people and grow in understanding of the world and themselves.

Our Parish Priests regularly visit the school in a formal and informal way and are a link with the wider community of the Church. Masses and Class Services are an integral part of the life of the school, we regularly visit our local churches for masses and celebrations.

At St Peter’s we take the time to celebrate the seasons of the Liturgical Year. All of our class displays reflect the Liturgical colour and we take time to recognise the changing of the seasons. We spend time in our R.E lessons looking at the events in the churches calender and we celebrate many of them together through collective worship. Throughout the months of October and May we hold weekly prayer groups with parents and children, inviting them to say the Rosary together, exploring the different mysteries as we do this. We recognise the importance of Advent and Lent and encourage children to spend this time thinking about their role as a disciple of Jesus.

Holy Mass is celebrated in our local parishes Our Lady and St Peter, Leatherhead and St Michael’s, Ashtead on Holy Days of Obligation and other special occasions involving the whole school.

Year 3 take part in a special mass to celebrate them making the sacrament of First Holy Communion at the end of the Summer Term.

In Reception, Year 1,2,5 and Year 6 children are taught from the new RE Curriculum based on the new religious education directory "To know You more clearly". This 'Branch 6' curriculum will be fully implemented in our school over the next 2-3 years and seeks to present the teaching of religious education in a sequential and progressive form.

Information about this term’s programme, to help you to support your child’s religious education at home, may be accessed here.

As part of ‘Come and See’ each year children will also study two other world religions from Judaism and Islam. Visits to places of worship from other world faiths are arranged to widen the children’s understanding of the rich and diverse world they live in.

On Tuesdays (KS1) and Thursdays (KS2) we gather in our Key Stage groups to reflect on the Gospel from Sunday’s mass. This child-led liturgy gives every child an opportunity to hear the word of God and reflect on what it means to us as Catholics today. We use Lectio Divina and Visio Divina to help us to understand the Word of God as well as developing children's opportunities and experience of prayer.

Once a term each class invites family members to join them in a class liturgy reflecting on their current learning in R.E. Each class also has the opportunity to visit our prayer room once a week. During this time they are given the opportunity to pray and reflect through a variety of different mediums. We also encourage some of our older children to plan and hold their own liturgies using scripture from their current learning in R.E.

We promote the children’s awareness of the local and wider communities by encouraging them to participate in charitable activities and fund raising. Every year as a school we take part in Mission Together. ‘Children helping Children’ is at the heart of Mission Together’s work. Throughout the world children are learning about the role they can play in helping others. It is a simple idea but puts children at the centre of the Church’s work to help those in need. We take part in a number of fundraising activities across the year in order to support people not only in the developing world, but also in our local community.

We also support a whole range of other charities, ranging from national campaigns such as Red Nose Day and Children in Need, to local charities too.