Our Christian Distinctiveness

Reigate Parish Church Primary School is a voluntary aided school. We are the church school for St Mary’s Church, Reigate. We are also a Surrey maintained school, meaning we are not an academy or in an academy trust.

The KS1 and KS2 school councillors were asked about the
Christian distinctiveness at Reigate Parish Church Primary School.

(March 2024)

The school's vision is for all children and adults to reach to achieve their best, rooted in the belief that God desires everyone to fulfil their capabilities.

This is what they, unprompted, said

We talk about the miracles and Jesus in Collective Worship. We learn more about Jesus and Christianity in Collective Worship.

We go to St Mary’s church at Easter, Christmas and the end of the year.

Year 3 lead the Harvest service in our school to parents.

We sometimes watch videos about Jesus.

We have crosses around our school.

When you leave in year 6, you get a bible.

We have reflection corner / folder with different activities.

We have Bibles in the classrooms.

Every day we worship God and learn more about our Christian values.

We have different verses from the Bible in Collective Worship.

We have three candles and know they represent God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

We learn about Easter and Christmas in our RE lessons.

We have prayers in Collective Worship.

Sparkfish come in and teach us about God.

The vicar and other people from St Mary’s church (and from other churches) come and take Collective Worship.

We have the cross on our jumper and a picture of St Mary’s church.

Year 2 and 5 go to a Sparkfish event (at a local church) looking at Christmas and Easter respectively.

“Love your neighbour as yourself” Mark 12:31

The school's vision is for all children and adults to reach to achieve their best, rooted in the belief that God desires everyone to fulfil their capabilities.

The Prayer Group

The prayer  group meets in person on the last Thursday of every month, to pray for the school, the staff, the parents, the community and the wider world.  The meeting dates for the term are publicised in the  weekly Parish Post and parents and staff are welcome to come and pray for 20 minutes.

Through the school’s vision and practice,

the school is living to its foundation as a church school and is enabling its pupils and adults to flourish.

Please refer to the below document.

The Faith Team

At Reigate Parish there is an active Faith Team made up of the headteacher, foundation governors and RE and collective worship leaders.

Click on the links below to read about the projects they have been involved with over the years to develop and improve the Christian distinctiveness of our school:

Please click here to find out more about St Mary's Church.