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Children act as buddies and peer learners within religious education - St Andrew's Primary School

Headteacher: In St Andrew’s primary we are a community of faith and our faith is based on a life of service and celebration and worship, and we see the children putting faith into action on a daily basis in the school. We have a nurturing, caring ethos, it’s an ethos that is based on the Catholic schools’ charter. We promote gospel values, we want our children to grow up to be responsible citizens, we want them to look out for each other, to support each other, and the buddy system fits into this very well. The buddy system enables the older children to take on the responsibility of being a role model for the younger children. We’ve also involved children in teaching the primary 1s, whether it’s on a peered reading basis or maybe working on maths and recently we’ve had children working on bible stories and aspects of religious education with the younger children.

Pupil: We all know that Jesus is a very special man. Sometimes when you’re in the seniors you get like read of out of the big bible and sometimes it’s quite hard to understand, so when you read the children’s bible and the wee sheets and things we read to the primary 2s it helps your brain understand it more because it’s not in too much detail.

Pupil 2: Being a buddy helps me with my understanding of faith because we’re all children of God but they’re little, they’re even littler children and children look out for each other, so we’re all children, so we look after each other.

Headteacher: It permeates every area of the curriculum with the children, they take on their buddy roles very seriously and they look out for their buddy every day in life. They’re there to support that younger person, to serve that younger person and to make sure they are leading by example.

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