Help - Sending your kids to a Religious School when you are not Religious

[Mrs O'M]

Most schools will have a dedicated teacher who is the religious educator, or at least helps the other teachers to design the religion lessons. (My mum does this at her catholic primary school) she gets approached by some parents who are not religious but want to support the kids and she has mini information books on the prayers, sacraments and mass rituals.

The only thing to perhaps think about is if your DS will participate when the other kids go through the sacraments. I think reconciliation is year 2, communion year 3 and confirmation year 5. He would be involved in all the pre learning anyway, but I think it's up to you if he participates in the actual events ( he would need to first be baptised to do any of them)

[LuluHB]

HotI - the Lord's prayer has changed. Not sure how that has happened, but there you go.

Its now something like Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name etc . . . Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we have forgiven our debtors. Deliver us from the evil one . . . Amen, Praise the Lord.

There's DH at the first assembly trying to shut me up because for whatever reason being delivered from "the Evil One" tickled my funny bone

[HotI]

HotI - the Lord's prayer has changed. Not sure how that has happened, but there you go.

Wow, I didn't know that. I just copied it from catholic.com (or similar).

[LuluHB]

Maybe its a school by school thing? The girls' school is Christian, rather than Catholic so maybe that's it? I must admit, I don't understand the changes. While sometimes things need to be modernised, I don't think the language used at my girls' school improves it, simplifies it for the kids or brings any benefits. It just confuses us old people who still remember the Lord's Prayer from their own days at primary school ;-)