I went to a Catholic primary school, and from my own experience, religion pervaded every single day. From Grade One we prayed before meal times, we prayed at weekly assemblies and on parade. There were school masses and class liturgies each term and every time someone was introduced to us, we would say, ‘Good morning, God bless you’. Religion in primary school isn’t simply taught as another subject like mathematics or geography - which was discussed for an hour and then quickly forgotten when we all went out to play football at lunch - religion is a way of life at school, a way of talking to children.