ABSTRACT
Religious education in the primary school is a wide theme having in mind the range of interest, age and ability of the children in primary schools, and the equally varied practice to be found in the several schools. Professor Niblett, in his introductory lecture, has reminded us of the conditions which gave birth to the religious clauses of the Education Act of 1944 which for the first time made religious education a statutary duty. Worship and religious teaching became a statutary element in the state school system. Comparatively little research on scientific lines has been carried out into the nature of the religious experience of young children. Music is normally associated with school worship and in general this is improving in the primary school. Local education authorities are coming round to the view that a service of technical assistance is needed in all schools.
