Would You Send Your Child To A Faith School......

[GlenW]

Yes I would, but I'd feel like a hypocrite. We have been lucky and didn't need to, as our local non-faith schools have all been very good.

[SimonMac]

I'd send my kids to a Jedi School. Pity any child called Luke though.

Its ok, you're not his father anyway

[shaunbhoy]

Home page of the website has a big splash on celbrating "first communion", not sure it would go well with my Bowler hat and orange sash

But they are rated as Outstanding with OFSTED

Things are a lot different now. In the old days that may have been frowned upon. Nowadays you'd be invited along on Sports Day in full regalia to act as a kind of Pinata Donkey for the juniors! All part of building bridges.

[eek]

Home page of the website has a big splash on celbrating "first communion", not sure it would go well with my Bowler hat and orange sash

But they are rated as Outstanding with OFSTED

So you are looking at primary schools then (I'm guessing key stage 2).. One issue will be being the only non catholic child as the entire year is devoted in part to that first communion.

The real question is how good are your local secondary schools. Remember I spent years ensuring that our local cofe church school had a significantly good relationship with the nationally outstanding Catholic Secondary school to get the eek jrs in.

That relationship has now fallen about within a year of me leaving...

[vetran]

Its ok, you're not his father anyway

POTD!

[unixman]

The question is, would the school accept your child if you have no interest in the relevant faith. The answer is no, they would not.

[eek]

The question is, would the school accept your child if you have no interest in the relevant faith. The answer is no, they would not.

Admission criteria isn't based on interest. Its based on sibling links, religion and distance...

[TheFaQQer]

I'd send my child to the school that they were most comfortable with, which would hopefully also be the one where I thought that they would do best.

Which is the approach we have adopted with my elder daughter - on paper there are better schools nearby, but she liked the one that she is going to (which on paper is the worst one in the area) best. She was comfortable there, the staff were more welcoming there, and it's got significantly smaller class sizes than any of the others.

We considered the Catholic school, even though we aren't Catholic, but because of that she wouldn't have got in there without us needing to go to appeal - but she didn't like it as much and nor did we.

[BrilloPad]

I joined the Catholic church to get my elder kids into the local school.

Interestingly the best secondary schools in Wales are Welsh speaking. And I would rather move to England than put baby bp through that!

[TheFaQQer]

We considered the Catholic school, even though we aren't Catholic, but because of that she wouldn't have got in there without us needing to go to appeal - but she didn't like it as much and nor did we.

When we did the open days, we discussed with the RE staff at the Catholic school about whether there would be any issues - my wife is atheist rather than agnostic, whereas I am not and nor are the children (strictly speaking).

They were very welcoming and said that they'd like more children from backgrounds like that because then they have a bit more of a mix of beliefs in the class.