The Designation of Schools having a Religious Character (England) Order 2011

Statutory Instruments

2011 No. 2575

Education, England

The Designation of Schools having a Religious Character (England) Order 2011

Made

18th October 2011

The Secretary of State for Education 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 2011.

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 hereby 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.

David McVean

A Deputy Director in the

Department for Education

18th October 2011

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
Barking and Dagenham
The George Carey Church of England Primary School	Voluntary aided	Church of England
IG11 OFJ
Barnet
Edgware Jewish Primary School	Voluntary aided	Jewish
EN5 2EQ
Bracknell Forest
Jennett’s Park Church of England Primary School	Voluntary aided	Church of England
RG12 8EB
Birmingham
Harper Bell Adventist School	Voluntary aided	Seventh-Day Adventist
B12 0EJ
City of York
Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Roman Catholic Primary School	Voluntary aided	Roman Catholic
YO24 4JW
Kirklees
Whitechapel Church of England VC Primary School	Voluntary controlled	Church of England
BD19 3UE
Knowsley
Hope Catholic/Church of England Primary School	Voluntary aided	Roman Catholic/Church of England
L14 8UL
Lancashire
Preston Muslim Girls High School	Voluntary aided	Muslim
PR1 6QQ
Liverpool
St Teresa of Lisieux Catholic Primary School	Voluntary aided	Roman Catholic
L11 3BW
Oldham
The Blessed John Henry Newman Catholic College	Voluntary aided	Roman Catholic
0L8 4ED
Stockport
St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Primary School	Voluntary aided	Roman Catholic
SK5 6BG
Surrey
Pewley Down Church of England Voluntary Aided Infant School	Voluntary aided	Church of England
GU1 3BT
Wandsworth
St John Bosco School	Voluntary aided	Roman Catholic
SW19 6QE
Warwickshire
St Marie’s Catholic Primary School	Voluntary aided	Roman Catholic
CV22 7AF

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.

(1)

1998 c.31. By virtue of S.I. 1999/672 the powers conferred by these provisions are exercisable by the Secretary of State only in relation to England.

(2)

S.I. 1998/2535, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.