Non catholic child going to a catholic school?

[mumaw]

Does anyone know if this would be possible? We're moving to a new area and there is a school in particular rated Outstanding by Ofsted that I would want to add as one of DCs choices.

Does he have to be baptised for this?

Tia

Also, the sex ed was absurd and weird. They specifically told parents they would not be teaching anything about gay relationships and the sex education was basically a video showing a graphic painful childbirth and warnings of the horrors of sex before marriage. Babies being left on doorsteps as young mothers had sinned. Awful. It actually screwed my dd1 up about sex for ages. This was a private school so hopefully state funded schools would be less weird!

Depends a lot on the school's admissions policy and local demographics. If there aren't enough local RC's to keep the school viable, then they need more entrants.

RC schools particularly popular with some muslim parents where on the grounds that a church school must be better than a godless school of Satan.

Not RTFT but one thing to watch out for if you have younger/further children is does the admission policy prioritise baptised Catholics (in parish or not) over non catholic siblings? Some of the RC schools in my area does this and it causes major problems when the younger siblings don't get a place.

I was convent educated from 4-18. To put it bluntly, I wouldn’t do that to an child.

Our nearest secondary (by all acoounts excellent) is Catholic. The only non-catholic children to get in in the last five years are those with EHCPs (non-Catholic LACs are too far down the priority list). My eldest has a ECHP and the school could meet his named needs - but I think being one of max 2 kids out of 180 in his year not being Catholic, and the fact that him being non-Catholic would make clear to all that he has special needs (which otherwise would not be noticeable if his needs are met), means he'd likely struggle socially.

I know some local Catholic families who didn't put Catholic schools down as first choice as they didn't want classes where their kid would be part of a Polish majority and not learn English so fast. Most of them ended up in Catholic primaries anyway but as there's lots of Portuguese, Irish and other Eastern European kids represented, by Y1 this wasn't an issue and wouldn't be for secondary. Our school is non-denom and eldest was one of two native English speakers in his class at first, which worked well as he got a cool status that hasn't been too diminished by becoming 'wierd' when his ASD became clear.

Where I live you can choose to register for either your nearest non denominational or RC school. I’m in Scotland though

@LatteLove That's true but catholic's in the area have priority. They will choose a catholic child over a non religious child. If the school isn't over subscribed with catholic's you're fine. Some catholic secondaries in Scotland are you need to show a baptism certificate.

I think the schools being over subscribed where I live isn’t going to be a problem!

Op please don't think all Catholic schools are like they were in 60s/70s and run by nuns... My mum went to a Catholic school.. Hated it..very dubious of our choice for her grandchildren before went... Loves it.. Says how a school should be..

It’s funny the comments about the sex Ed comments. I taught year six this year and went close to the wind with the conversations we had. They are children of the modern world and you cannot avoid the questions. The asked all sorts of questions about trans issues that I answered to the best I could. The only thing I avoided was actual sex as I would probably have been fired. I just went as close as I could without “breaking the rules”. *as an aside the nhs nurse that came in to talk about periods said that you flush tampons and that a certain period pain was unusual! 🙄.

You would not have been fired for giving a sex Ed talk to Year 6 in any Catholic school I’ve ever known? In fact, Year 4 is usually the year it would be introduced. Are you confusing Catholic with Amish or something?
Don’t make Catholics look like regressive gobshites, please, they get enough bad press as it is.