Primary (LDS Church)

[2] The official purpose of Primary is to help parents in teaching their children to learn and live the gospel of Jesus Christ.

After music time, children are then sent to their individual classes where they are taught lessons from Come, Follow Me - For Primary.

The following is a partial list of names that have been applied to different age groups in Primary.

Previously, names were indicative of the age children would turn the coming year, (4-year-olds in CTR 5).

[6] Primary was first organized in 1878 by Aurelia Spencer Rogers in Farmington, Utah, and adopted church-wide in 1880 under the direction of Louie B.

With permission from church leaders and under the initial direction of General Relief Society President Eliza R. Snow, Rogers organized a Primary Association for her local Farmington congregation on August 11, 1878.

[8][9] |} Primary provides Sunday teachings and church-related activities to approximately 1.1 million Latter-day Saint children.

[12] Nursery and Primary leaders are required to release children only to members of their immediate families unless permission has been granted for someone else to pick the child up.