The Designation of Schools having a Religious Character (England) Order 2009

Statutory Instruments

2009 No. 3273

Education, England

The Designation of Schools having a Religious Character (England) Order 2009

Made

10th December 2009

The Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 69(3) and (4) and 138(7) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998(1).

In making this Order the Secretary of State has followed the procedure specified in the Religious Character of Schools (Designation Procedure) Regulations 1998(2).

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Designation of Schools having a Religious Character (England) Order 2009.

Designation of schools

2.  The schools listed in column (1) of the Schedule (all of which are voluntary schools, or are new schools that have temporary governing bodies and which will be voluntary schools when established) are designated as schools having a religious character.

3.  In relation to each designated school, the religion or religious denomination (or, as the case may be, each such religion or religious denomination) in accordance with whose tenets religious education is, or may be, required to be provided at the school is listed in column (3) of the Schedule.

J D Loosley

Deputy Director

Department for Children, Schools and Families

10th December 2009

Regulations 2 and 3

SCHEDULE Schools having a religious character

(1) Name and Postcode of School	(2) Category of School	(3) Religion or Religious Denomination
Barnet
The Jewish Community Secondary School EN4 9AR	Voluntary aided	Jewish
Bath and North East Somerset
St Nicholas CofE Primary School BA3 3QH	Voluntary controlled	Church of England
Blackburn with Darwen
Blackburn The Redeemer CofE Primary School BB2 4JJ	Voluntary aided	Church of England
Bolton
St Catherine’s CofE Primary School BL6 5SJ	Voluntary aided	Church of England
Bury
St Luke’s CE Primary School BL9 9JQ	Voluntary controlled	Church of England
Calderdale Walsden St Peter’s CE (VC) Primary School OL14 6RN	Voluntary controlled	Church of England
Cheshire East
Christ The King Catholic and Church of England Primary School SK11 7SF	Voluntary aided	Roman Catholic/Church of England
Cheshire West and Chester
Saughall All Saints Church of England School CH1 6EP	Voluntary controlled	Church of England
Ealing Khalsa VA Primary School UB2 4LA	Voluntary aided	Sikh
Halton
St Chad’s Catholic and Church of England High School WA7 5YH	Voluntary aided	Roman Catholic/Church of England
Manchester
The Divine Mercy Roman Catholic Primary School M14 7SH	Voluntary aided	Roman Catholic
Middlesbrough
Trinity Catholic College TS5 7EY	Voluntary aided	Roman Catholic
Oldham
Holy Cross CofE Primary School OL1 3PU	Voluntary aided	Church of England
Shropshire Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School SY11 2LF	Voluntary controlled	Church of England
Mereside Church of England Primary School SY2 6LE	Voluntary controlled	Church of England
Meole Brace Church of England Primary and Nursery School SY3 9HG	Voluntary controlled	Church of England
Oakmeadow Church of England Primary and Nursery School SY3 0NU	Voluntary controlled	Church of England

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates the voluntary schools named in the Order as having a religious character in accordance with section 69(3) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (“the Act”).

Designation as a school which has a religious character is relevant for a number of purposes under 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 to 60 of the Act;

(d) for the purposes of the determination of admission arrangements under section 89 of the Act having regard to the code of practice issued under section 84;

(e) for the purposes of the disposition of assets under paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Act, so that assets can be re-assigned for the benefit of schools of the same religion or religious denomination.

(1)

1998 c.31.

(2)

S.I. 1998/2535, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.