Does anyone here have any experience of faith schools in the UK?

I didn’t mind, it was nice but I think re should be taught till like year 9 as afterwards it just becomes dull and makes you just question everything in life. And I despised the re gcse.
I liked re in primary though, it was quite fun and answered lots of life questions.
So overall re should be taught till year 8/9
I could’ve done an extra gcse in history for example instead of re.

I agree, I wouldn't make RS mandatory at GCSE level under any circumstances. If it's mandatory then we should learn about more religions or do 1 religion per year (Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Jewism and Islam) so I would do the 3 religions that aren't being done at GCSE in Y7-Y8/9 (can't word this properly 😅). E.g if at GCSE level the 2 religious options are Islam and Christianity, then focus on doing Buddhism, Jewism and Hinduism in Y7-Y8/9 don't teach Islam or Christianity to those year groups. So it could be ok in Y7 let's learn about Buddhism, in Y8 Jewism, in Y9 Hinduism then in Y10&Y11 Islam and Christianity.

My school didn't teach it as religious studies but as philosophy and ethics, from a secular/agnostic perspective.

Do you have particular questions you'd like to ask? As that is easier for me than trying to think of things to say off the top of my head (I went to a Roman Catholic convent school from 2000-2007) :jebus:

My school called it ethics and philosophy too but still made RS mandatory 💩.

I can at least say that at my school (a secular one), it wasn't taught from a particularly religious or one-sided perspective - we learnt about different religions (and secular beliefs such as atheism) and compared and contrasted their viewpoints from a neutral perspective.

My main questions for life at a Catholic school would be:
*How many collective prayers did you typically do in a typical day (my guess would be one or two)?
*Was Catholicism or Catholic values stressed in every aspect of the curriculum or not, or were most lessons aside from religious studies taught from a standard way like at any secular school?
*Did you learn about evolution in science lessons (I believe the Catholic church has generally accepted evolution for about 70 years)?
*Was your school run primarily by priests/nuns/monks or by ordinary staff members (who were most likely Catholics)? I think that historically a lot of Catholic schools were run by the former but these days nearly all are run by the latter.

I've known people who attended my town's Catholic secondary school and get the impression that their experience at school was largely the same as mine besides differences with religious studies lessons and assemblies.

I doubt are significantly different from where I went aside from maybe a morning prayer and slightly more focus on their own religion when teaching about religion.