The Designation of Schools Having a Religious Character (Wales) Order 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 1814

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

WALES

The Designation of Schools Having a Religious Character (Wales) Order 1999

Made

26th June 1999

Coming into force

1st September 1999

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 69(3) and (4) and 138(7) and (8) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998(1), and having followed the procedure specified in the Religious Character of Schools (Designation Procedure) Regulations 1998(2), the Secretary of State for Wales hereby makes the following order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Designation of Schools Having a Religious Character (Wales) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 1st September 1999.

2.—(1) In this Order “the relevant religious denomination” means the religious denomination in accordance with whose tenets religious education is, or may be, required to be provided at a school in accordance with Schedule 19 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.

(2) In this Order a reference to the Schedule is a reference to the Schedule to this Order.

3.  The schools listed in Parts I and II of the Schedule (all of which are schools which will become voluntary or foundation schools, within the meaning of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, on 1st September 1999(3)) are hereby designated as schools having a religious character.

4.  The relevant religious denomination in relation to a school listed in the Schedule is–

(a) Church in Wales, in the case of a school listed in Part 1 of the Schedule; and

(b) Roman Catholic, in the case of a school listed in Part 2 of the Schedule.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Peter Hain

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office

26th June 1999

Regulations 3 and 4

THE SCHEDULE

PART I SCHOOLS WHOSE RELIGIOUS CHARACTER IS CHURCH IN WALES

LEA	LEA No.	School No.	School Name
VOLUNTARY AIDED PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Gwynedd
	661	3305	Ysgol Beuno Sant Y Bala
Conwy
	662	3302	Ysgol Bodafon
	662	3307	Ysgol San Sior
	662	3340	Ysgol Y Plas
Flintshire
	664	3303	Ysgol Yr Esgob
	664	3316	Trelawnyd Voluntary Primary School
	664	3317	Rector Drew Voluntary Aided School
	664	3320	Ysgol Y Llan, Whitford Voluntary Primary School
	664	3330	St Ethelwold’s Primary School
	664	3331	Pentrobin Primary School
Wrexham
	665	3301	Bronington Primary School
	665	3305	Madras Primary School
	665	3326	Hanmer Primary School
	665	3337	Minera Primary School
	665	3338	All Saints Primary School Gresford
	665	3341	St Mary’s Primary School (Ruabon)
	665	3342	St Mary’s Aided Primary School
	665	3346	St Mary’s Church in Wales Aided School
Powys
	666	3300	Llanfihangel Yng Ngwynfa
	666	3301	St Michael’s Church in Wales (Aided) Primary School
	666	3303	Llansantffraid Church in Wales (Aided) School
	666	3314	Glasbury Church in Wales (Aided) School
	666	3316	Llanbedr Church in Wales (Aided) School
	666	3317	Archdeacon Griffiths Church in Wales Primary School
	666	3318	Priory Church in Wales School
Ceredigion
	667	3317	Ysgol Gynradd Gymorthedig Llanwenog
Pembrokeshire
	668	3310	St David Voluntary Aided Primary School
	668	3315	St Aidan’s Voluntary Aided Primary School
	668	3320	St Mark’s Voluntary Aided Primary School
Carmarthenshire
	669	3302	Llanfynydd Voluntary Aided Primary School
	669	3307	Ysgol Wifoddol Penboyr
	669	3321	Pentip Voluntary Aided Church in Wales Primary School
	669	3322	Model Church in Wales School
Swansea
	670	3306	Christchurch Church in Wales School
Neath Port Talbot
	671	3311	Bryncoch Church in Wales School
	671	3313	Ald. Davies' Church in Wales School
Bridgend
	672	3323	Archdeacon John Lewis School
Vale of Glamorgan
	673	3320	St Brides Church in Wales Primary School
	673	3321	Wick Marcross Church in Wales Primary School
	673	3363	Pendoylan Church in Wales Primary School
	673	3364	St Andrews Major Church in Wales Primary School
	673	3365	Llansannor Church in Wales Primary School
	673	3367	St David’s Church in Wales Primary School
	673	3372	All Saints Church in Wales Primary School
Rhondda Cynon Taff
	674	3317	Aberdare Town Church in Wales Primary School
	674	3319	Cwmbach Church in Wales Primary School
Blaenau Gwent
	677	3309	St Mary’s Brynmawr Church in Wales Voluntary Aided School
Torfaen
	678	3330	Henllys Church in Wales Primary School
Monmouthshire
	679	3310	Magor Voluntary Aided Primary School
Newport
	680	3311	Caerleon Endowed Junior School
	680	3312	Caerleon Endowed Infant School
Cardiff
	681	3338	St Anne’s Church in Wales Infant School
	681	3341	St Monica’s Church in Wales Primary School
	681	3343	St Paul’s Church in Wales Primary School
	681	3344	Tredegarville Church in Wales Primary School
	681	3346	Llandaff City Church in Wales Primary School
	681	3355	St Mary The Virgin Church in Wales Primary School
	681	3357	All Saints Church in Wales Primary School
	681	3366	St Fagans Church in Wales Primary School
	681	3371	St David’s Church in Wales Primary School
	681	3373	Bishop Childs Church in Wales Primary School
VOLUNTARY CONTROLLED PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Anglesey
	660	3033	Y Parch Thomas Ellis
	660	3034	Ysgol Parc Y Bont
	660	3035	Ysgol Llangaffo
Gwynedd
	661	3004	Ysgol Pont Y Gof
	661	3005	Ysgol Gynradd Maesincla
	661	3009	Ysgol Y Faenol
	661	3010	Ysgol Foel Gron
	661	3013	Ysgol Llandygai
	661	3018	Ysgol Gynradd Llandwrog
	661	3023	Ysgol Llanystumdwy
	661	3029	Ysgol Tregarth
	661	3030	Ysgol Gynradd Cae Top
	661	3037	Ysgol Machreth
	661	3041	Ysgol Gynradd Dolgellau
Conwy
	662	3007	Ysgol Porth y Felin, Conwy
	662	3020	Ysgol Babanod Llanfairfechan
	662	3021	Ysgol Llangelynnin
	662	3024	Ysgol Pencae
	662	3032	Ysgol Ysbyty Ifan
	662	3038	St George Controlled Primary School
	662	3039	Ysgol Llanddoged
	662	3040	Ysgol Eglwysbach
	662	3059	Ysgol Llanddulas Controlled
	662	3062	Betws Yn Rhos Primary School
Denbighshire
	663	3020	Ysgol Tremeirchion
	663	3024	St. Asaph Voluntary Primary Church in Wales Infant School
	663	3034	Llantysilio Church in Wales Controlled School
	663	3044	Llanbedr Church in Wales Controlled School
	663	3045	Ysgol Reoledig Llanfair D.C.
	663	3050	Borthyn Voluntary Controlled Primary School
	663	3051	Ysgol Trefnant
	663	3057	Ysgol Reoledig Pantpastynog
	663	3061	Ysgol Dyffryn Ial
Flintshire
	664	3002	Nannerch Primary School
	664	3004	Rhes-Y-Cae Controlled School
	664	3021	Nercwys Primary School
Wrexham
	665	2265	Borderbrook School (Talwrn Green)
	665	3028	St Peter’s Primary School
	665	3035	Ysgol-Y-Wern
	665	3036	Pentre Primary School
	665	3042	Eyton Primary School
	665	3043	St Paul’s Primary School
	665	3052	St Giles Junior School
	665	3053	St Giles Infants School
Powys
	666	3000	Llanfechain Church in Wales School
	666	3002	Montgomery Church in Wales School
	666	3005	Gungrog Church in Wales Infant School
	666	3016	Forden Church in Wales School
	666	3021	Llandysilio Church in Wales School
	666	3022	Castle Caereinion Church in Wales School
	666	3023	Beguildy Church in Wales School
	666	3026	Gladestry Church in Wales School
	666	3028	Howey Church in Wales School
	666	3030	Llandrindod Wells Church in Wales Primary School
	666	3031	Newbridge-On-Wye Voluntary Primary School
	666	3032	Nantmel School
	666	3033	Clyro Church in Wales School
	666	3034	Ffynnon Gynydd School
	666	3035	Knighton Church in Wales School
	666	3036	Rhayader Church in Wales School
	666	3042	Cwmdu Church in Wales School
	666	3046	Llangedwyn Primary School
	666	3048	Llangattock Church in Wales School
	666	3050	Llangorse Voluntary Primary School
Ceredigion
	667	3058	Ysgol Gynradd Wirfoddol Mefenydd
	667	3060	Trefilan Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Pembrokeshire
	668	3033	Angle Voluntary Controlled School
	668	3034	Burton Voluntary Controlled Primary School
	668	3035	Cilgerran Voluntary Controlled Primary School
	668	3036	Cosheston Voluntary Controlled Primary School
	668	3038	Jeffreyston Voluntary Controlled Primary School
	668	3040	Llangwm Voluntary School
	668	3042	Manorbier Voluntary Controlled Primary School
	668	3043	Manordeifi Upper Voluntary Controlled Primary School
	668	3044	Tredafydd Voluntary Controlled Primary School
	668	3046	Mathry Voluntary Controlled Primary School
	668	3047	Penally Voluntary Controlled Primary School
	668	3050	Spittal Voluntary Controlled Primary School
	668	3051	Stackpole Voluntary Controlled Primary School
	668	3052	Tenby Infants Voluntary Controlled School
	668	3053	Haverfordwest Junior Voluntary Controlled School
	668	3054	Letterston Voluntary Controlled School
	668	3055	St Florence Voluntary Controlled School
	668	3057	Hubbertston Voluntary Controlled Nursery and Primary School
Carmarthenshire
	669	3000	Ysgol Wirfoddol Abergwili
	669	3002	Tremoilet Voluntary Controlled Primary School
	669	3003	Laugharne Voluntary Controlled Primary School
	669	3004	Ysgol Gynradd Wirfoddol Llanddarog
	669	3008	Ysgol Capel Cynfab
	669	3009	Ysgol Llanfihangel Ar Arth
	669	3013	Ferryside Voluntary Controlled Primary School
	669	3017	Ysgol Gynradd Wirfoddol Myddfai
	669	3022	Llanddowror Voluntary Controlled Primary School
	669	3025	Ysgol John Vaughan, Llangynog
	669	3026	Ysgol Gynradd Wirfoddol Llanllwni
	669	3032	Cilycwm Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Bridgend
	672	3013	Penyfai Church in Wales Primary School
Vale of Glamorgan
	673	3027	Penarth Church in Wales Primary School
	673	3037	St Nicholas Church in Wales Primary School
	673	3047	Peterston Super Ely Church in Wales Primary School
	673	3057	Gwenfo Church in Wales Primary School
Torfaen
	678	3002	Ponthir School
	678	3027	St. Peter’s Church in Wales Primary School
Monmouthshire
	679	3004	Llantilio Church Voluntary Primary School
	679	3005	Llanfair Kilgeddin Church Voluntary Primary
	679	3014	Portskewett Voluntary Controlled Infants School
	679	3020	Llanellen Church Voluntary Junior & Infants School
	679	3022	Usk Church Voluntary Primary School
	679	3030	Osbaston Church Voluntary Junior School
	679	3031	Raglan Voluntary Church Primary School
Newport
	680	3000	Malpas Church in Wales Junior School
	680	3001	Malpas Church in Wales Infant School
Cardiff
	681	3000	St Mellons Church in Wales Primary School
FOUNDATION PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Powys
	666	5200	Ysgol Gynradd Llanerfyl
VOLUNTARY AIDED SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Rhondda Cynon Taff
	674	4604	St John Baptist Church in Wales Comprehensive School
Cardiff
	681	4608	The Bishop Of Llandaff Church in Wales High School
	681	4609	St Teilo’s Church in Wales High School

PART II SCHOOLS WHOSE RELIGIOUS CHARACTER IS ROMAN CATHOLIC

LEA	LEA No.	School No.	School Name
VOLUNTARY AIDED PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Anglesey
	660	3304	Ysgol Santes Fair, St Mary’s Roman Catholic School
Gwynedd
	661	3300	Ysgol Santes Helen
	661	3301	Ysgol Ein Harglwyddes
Conwy
	662	3303	Blessed William Davies School
	662	3333	St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Primary School
Denbighshire
	663	3313	St Winefrides Roman Catholic School
	663	3315	Ysgol Mair Roman Catholic School
Flintshire
	664	3306	St Mary’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	664	3307	St Winefredes Roman Catholic School
	664	3308	St David’s Roman Catholic School
	664	3311	St Anthony’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	664	3312	Ven. Edward Morgan Roman Catholic Primary School
Wrexham
	665	3334	St Mary’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	665	3343	St Anne’s Roman Catholic Primary School
Powys
	666	3319	St Joseph’s Roman Catholic (Aided) School
	666	3320	St Mary’s Roman Catholic (Aided) School
Ceredigion
	667	3318	St Padarns Roman Catholic Primary School
Pembrokeshire
	668	3311	Holy Name Voluntary Roman Catholic School
	668	3312	St Mary’s Voluntary Roman Catholic School
	668	3313	Mary Immaculate Voluntary Roman Catholic School
	668	3314	St Francis Voluntary Roman Catholic School
	668	3319	St Teilos Voluntary Roman Catholic School
Carmarthenshire
	669	3300	St Mary’s Roman Catholic Primary School, Llanelli
	669	3301	St Mary’s Roman Catholic Primary School, Carmarthen
Swansea
	670	3300	St Joseph’s Junior School
	670	3302	St Joseph’s Cathedral Infant School
	670	3303	St David’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	670	3305	St Illtyd’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	670	3308	St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Primary School
Neath Port Talbot
	671	3309	St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	671	3310	St Joseph’s Infant School
	671	3314	St Therese’s Roman Catholic School
	671	3316	St Joseph’s Junior School
Bridgend
	672	3311	St Mary’s & St Patrick’s School
	672	3315	St Robert’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	672	3322	St Mary’s Roman Catholic Primary School
Vale of Glamorgan
	673	3361	St Helen’s Roman Catholic Infant & Nursery School
	673	3368	St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	673	3369	St Helen’s Roman Catholic Junior School
Rhondda Cynon Taff
	674	3309	Our Lady’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	674	3312	St Michael’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	674	3313	St Gabriel & Raphael Roman Catholic Primary School
	674	3314	St Margaret’s Roman Catholic Primary School
Merthyr Tydfil
	675	3300	St Illtyd’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	675	3306	St Mary’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	675	3307	St Aloysius Primary School
Caerphilly
	676	3310	St Helen’s Roman Catholic Primary School
Blaenau Gwent
	677	3308	St Mary’s Roman Catholic School – Brynmawr
	677	3315	All Saints Roman Catholic Primary School
	677	3316	St Joseph’s Roman Catholic School
Torfaen
	678	3319	St Alban’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	678	3321	Our Lady of the Angels Roman Catholic Primary School
	678	3322	St. Francis Roman Catholic Primary School
	678	3324	St David’s Catholic Primary School
Monmouthshire
	679	3326	St Mary’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	679	5200	Our Lady & St Michael’s School
Newport
	680	3300	St David’s Roman Catholic Junior & Infants School
	680	3301	St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	680	3302	St Mary’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	680	3304	St Michael’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	680	3305	St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	680	3306	St Gabriel’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	680	3307	St David Lewis Roman Catholic Primary School
Cardiff
	681	3321	St Alban’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	681	3323	St Cuthbert’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	681	3326	St Francis Roman Catholic Junior School
	681	3327	St Francis Roman Catholic Infant School
	681	3328	St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	681	3330	St Mary’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	681	3332	St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	681	3334	St Peter’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	681	3336	St Cadoc’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	681	3351	Christ The King Roman Catholic Primary School
	681	3353	St John Lloyd Roman Catholic Primary School
	681	3354	Holy Family Roman Catholic Primary School
	681	3370	St Bernadette’s Roman Catholic Primary School
	681	3374	St Phillip Evans Roman Catholic Primary School
VOLUNTARY AIDED SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Denbighshire
	663	4601	Blessed Edward Jones Roman Catholic School
Flintshire
	664	4600	St Richard Gwyn Roman Catholic High School
Wrexham
	665	4602	St Joseph’s Roman Catholic High School
Carmarthenshire
	669	4600	St John Lloyd Roman Catholic Comprehensive School
Swansea
	670	5400	Bishop Vaughan Roman Catholic School
Neath Port Talbot
	671	4601	St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Comprehensive School
Bridgend
	672	4601	Archbishop Mcgrath Roman Catholic High School
Vale of Glamorgan
	673	4612	St Richard Gwyn Roman Catholic High School
Rhondda Cynon Taff
	674	4602	Cardinal Newman Roman Catholic High School
Merthyr Tydfil
	675	4600	Bishop Hedley Roman Catholic High School
Torfaen
	678	5402	St Alban’s Roman Catholic High School
Newport
	680	4602	St Joseph’s Roman Catholic High School
Cardiff
	681	4600	St Illtyds Roman Catholic High School
	681	4611	Corpus Christi Roman Catholic High School
	681	5402	Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic High School

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which comes into force on 1st September 1999, designates those foundation and voluntary schools in Wales which have a religious character.

Designation as a school which has a religious character is relevant for a number of purposes under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (“the Act”), notably:

a. as part of the mechanism for determining the form of religious education to be provided under Schedule 19 to the Act;

b. as part of the mechanism for determining the form of collective worship to be provided under Schedule 20 to the Act;

c. as part of the mechanism for determining school staffing matters under Sections 58–60 of the Act;

d. as part of the mechanism for schools to include an ethos statement in their instrument of government paragraph 1(1)(g) of Schedule 12 to the Act;

e. as part of the mechanism for determining the criteria for the admission of pupils to schools under section 91 of the Act.

Designation as a school with a religious character will not be accepted as conclusive evidence that an endowment has been held or used, wholly or partly, in connection with the provision at the school of religious education for the purposes of Section 554(2) of the Education Act 1996. Section 554 enables appropriate authorities of any religious denomination or religion (but normally Church in Wales diocesan authorities) to make fresh provision for endowments held or used for the provision of religious education. This normally happens as a result of a school closing. In confirming eligibility for an order, the trust deeds and other supporting evidence would be considered.

Designation by this Order is not of itself a means of acquiring a religious character or of changing religious character. Designation is the recognition of certain existing attributes of the school or its governing body as described in the Religious Character of Schools (Designation Procedure) Regulations 1998 which apply to both England and Wales. Under the Act a school must first close if it is to acquire a religious character, if it does not, as a question of fact, have one already, or where it is to change its religious character.

In Wales, the only religion in accordance with those tenets religious education is, or may be, required to be provided at the school in accordance with Schedule 19 to the 1998 Act is currently the Christian religion. The relevant religious denominations within Christianity are the Church in Wales and the Roman Catholic Church.

A statement in the Order in relation to a school that the religious denomination in accordance with whose tenets religious education is, or may be, required to be provided at the school in accordance with Schedule 19 to the 1998 Act, is Roman Catholic does not determine whether or not the school is a Roman Catholic Church school according to canon law.

(1)

1998 c. 31.

(2)

S.I. 1998/2535.

(3)

See section 20(7) of the Act and the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (Appointed Day) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2083).