Another thread has made me realize that I have no idea about how religious education works in state schools here, and therefore would not even know the appropriate questions to ask a school.

(I grew up in the UK, went to a catholic primary school, but majority of secondary school went to non-religious school, and my mum is a catholic (of the type who likes to go to church but seems not to hold with many catholic beliefs), but if I had to class myself as anything I would say agnostic, and I didn't believe in God from quite an early age (while still at catholic primary school))

The other thread seemed to suggest that there is some sort of opt in and opt out thing? and that religious education is not always taught by teachers? (At secondary we had a specific RE teacher, who taught us about a lots of different religions, but they were a teacher who specialized in RE, in primary school all I really remember is learning and doing activities around a few bible stories but always taught by class teacher (not all were catholic))

Is there a website that someone can PM me which explains how it works - I tried Google but apart from learning that is something is in the news at the moment, wasn't sure what would be the best site to look at.