Children attending schools in the parish receive religious education throughout their school experience.  Running alongside this is sacramental preparation in the Parish involving both children and parents in primary three, four and seven.  Parents are expected to attend a parish meeting and enrol their child for the appropriate sacrament.  This pre-sacramental preparation is vital in helping parents to recognise and assume their responsibility with regard to handing on their Catholic faith to their children.

Parents are the first teachers of their children. The schools will support parents of the parish in this task.  Those who choose, however, to send their children to other schools are at the same time accepting full responsibility for the religious upbringing of their children.  This is their right and privilege.  The Parish will endeavour to ensure that, with the parents’ co-operation, these children will be adequately prepared for the reception of the sacraments.  It is important that parents enrol their child for the appropriate sacrament with the Parish, in the first month of the school year i.e., September.  Parents will then be kept fully informed regarding the parish pre-sacramental programme and are expected to participate.