The diploma thesis deals with the religious education at the church elementary school in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part describes the church elementary school, its history and its relation to the Framework Education Program for the Elementary Education and to the official documents and then it describes the religious education itself from the perspective of the aims and contents. The next part describes the participants of the religious education - the teachers of religious education and the characteristics of the children in the 4th and 5th grade in terms of developmental psychology. The final chapter of the theoretical part is dedicated to the researches that were carried out in the church elementary schools and in the religious education. The practical part of my diploma thesis is devoted to the research, which was carried out by means of questionnaire method. The aim of the practical part was to find how pupils of the 4th and 5th grades at the church elementary school in Prague view the subject of religious education using the questionnaire construction. The results of the research show that the pupils have mostly a positive relationship toward the subject. They consider it as a rather relaxing and amusing subject. In their eyes, the subject is connected to the faith and its symbols....

This thesis is concerned with the development of the church educational system and its mission in the educational scheme of the Czech Republic. It also explores the post- revolutionary development and contemporary legislative background of the church educational system. The key chapter is devoted to more than 150-year history of Archbishop Grammar School in Kroměříž - since its foundation, through the communist period, until its restoration and its present condition. Then a detailed analysis of the spiritual environment and catechetic activity presently performed at Archbishop Grammar School follows. The goal of this thesis is to map out currently used methods and catechetic models at Archbishop Grammar School, their effectiveness, their usage and available means, with which it is possible to work at the school. The whole thesis thus responds to the need of objective evaluation of catechetic activity at Archbishop Grammar School in Kroměříž and wants to contribute to further possible development of this activity in the spirit of bigger effectiveness.