Question about Faith and Education

[preciousmum]

My son is four and half and due to start reception School in September.
As most parent, I have been through the process of searching for a good school for him to give him a good start up. Eventually I did come up with four good ones which include the Church of England school.
Having seen the Church of England standard and Ofsted report, I would love my son to attend it, but My dilemma is that: because we are of
a Muslim background, we love our son to grow up as Muslim. Does anyone have any view on whether the school religious activities and education will have an effect on my son faith?Thanks.

My son is four and half and due to start reception School in September.
As most parent, I have been through the process of searching for a good school for him to give him a good start up. Eventually I did come up with four good ones which include the Church of England school.
Having seen the Church of England standard and Ofsted report, I would love my son to attend it, but My dilemma is that: because we are of
a Muslim background, we love our son to grow up as Muslim. Does anyone have any view on whether the school religious activities and education will have an effect on my son faith?Thanks.

it depends so much on the school. I know many RC and CofE schools cater very well for children of other faiths. My dcs went to a CofE high school (we are humanists) did them no harm although they found some things rather strange.
I'd talk to the head, find out more, ask what their policies are etc

i'm not in the ssame situation, but similar I guess.
we wanted our son to go to the local CofE because it's closest to us, it's a smaller school, and on the open day we went to we loved it. it has a great feel to it and they have a lovely ethos. it had a good community feel to it.

we, however, are not religious at all, so we did discuss at length whether we should send our son there, knowing that there would be religion taught in the school.

we've gone for just saying to him that some people believe certain things and some people don't. So school believe in God and heaven, but mummy and daddy don't.
he is fine with this

I think you could do a similar thing, you could talk about the similarities between your religions (having a God etc) and then what's different, and that school believe one thing, and you believe another

fwiw the school our son is at has children from different faiths too, although the majority are christian and they all seem totally happy with it