2011 No. 2575

Education, England

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

Made

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 19981. In making this Order the Secretary of State has followed the procedure specified in the Religious Character of Schools (Designation Procedure) Regulations 19982.

Citation1

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 McVeanA Deputy Director in theDepartment for Education

SCHEDULESchools having a religious character

Regulations 2 and 3

(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.