The Designation of Schools having a Religious Character (England) (No. 2) Order 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 2552

EDUCATION, ENGLAND

The Designation of Schools having a Religious Character (England) (No. 2) Order 2003

Made

2nd October 2003

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 69(3) and (4) and 138(7) 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 Education and Skills hereby makes the following Order:

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Designation of Schools having a Religious Character (England) (No.2) Order 2003.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order “the relevant religion or religious denomination” means the religion or 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 School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (or, as the case may be, each such religion or religious denomination).

Designation of the schools

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

4.  The relevant religion or religious denomination in relation to a school listed in column (1) of the Schedule is stated opposite thereto in column (3).

Caroline Macready

A Divisional Manager in the

Department for Education and Skills

2nd October 2003

Regulations 3 and 4

SCHEDULE Schools having a religious character

(1) Name and Post code of School	(2) Category of School	(3) Relevant Religion or Religious Denomination
Barnet
Beis Yaakov Primary School NW9 6NQ	voluntary aided	Jewish
Birmingham
Al-Hijrah Secondary School B9 4US	voluntary aided	Muslim
Hawkesley C of E/Methodist Primary School B38 9TR	voluntary aided	Church of England/Methodist
Woodside C of E Controlled Primary School CV9 2BS	voluntary controlled	Church of England
Blackburn with Darwen
St Silas C of E Primary School BB2 6JP	voluntary aided	Church of England
Blackpool
St George’s Church of England High School FY4 4PH	voluntary aided	Church of England
Bradford
Feversham College BD2 1JL	voluntary aided	Muslim
Brent
Avigdor Hirsch Torah Temimah Primary School NW2 6RJ	voluntary aided	Jewish
Coventry
St Mary and St Benedict Catholic Primary School CV1 5HG	voluntary aided	Roman Catholic
Croydon
St Cyprian’s Greek Orthodox Primary School CR7 8DZ	voluntary aided	Greek Orthodox
Cumbria
Montreal C of E Primary School CA25 5LW	voluntary controlled	Church of England
St Patrick’s Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School CA25 5DG	voluntary aided	Roman Catholic
The Bishop Harvey Goodwin School CA2 4HG	voluntary aided	Church of England
Derbyshire
Chapel-en-le-Frith C of E (C) Primary School SK23 0NL	voluntary controlled	Church of England
Doncaster
Rossington All Saints C of E (VA) School – A Sports College DN11 0BZ	voluntary aided	Church of England
East Sussex
The Haven VA C of E/Methodist Primary School BN23 5SW	voluntary aided	Church of England/Methodist
Essex
St Peter’s College CM1 2BL	voluntary aided	Church of England
Two Village C of E VC Primary School C012 5HP	Voluntary aided	Church of England
Hackney
St John and St James C of E Primary School E9 6DX	voluntary aided	Church of England
Halton
Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Catholic Primary School WA8 8JN	voluntary aided	Roman Catholic
Hampshire
Micheldever C of E Primary School S021 3DB	voluntary controlled	Church of England
Hartlepool
St Hild’s C of E Primary School TS24 9PB	voluntary aided	Church of England
Isles of Scilly
Five Islands C of E (Voluntary Controlled) Isles of Scilly All Age School TR21 0LB	voluntary controlled	Church of England
Kent
St Mary of Charity C of E (Aided) Primary School ME13 8AP	voluntary aided	Church of England
St Nicholas CE (Controlled) Primary School TN28 8BP	voluntary controlled	Church of England
Lancashire
Cuerden Church School PR5 6NN	voluntary aided	Methodist/Church of England
Leeds
All Saints CE Primary School LS21 1DF	voluntary controlled	Church of England
Lincolnshire
St Botolph’s C of E Primary School NG34 7FE	voluntary controlled	Church of England
Liverpool
Our Lady of the Assumption Primary School L25 2RY	voluntary aided	Roman Catholic
St Christopher’s Catholic Primary School L24 0SN	voluntary aided	Roman Catholic
St John’s Catholic Primary School L4 1SR	voluntary aided	Roman Catholic
St Mathews’s Catholic Primary School L4 8UA	voluntary aided	Roman Catholic
Medway
St Mary’s Island C of E (Aided) Primary School ME4 3ST	voluntary aided	Church of England
Merton
St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School CR4 1YG	voluntary aided	Roman Catholic
Newcastle upon Tyne
Venerable Bede C of E (Aided) Primary School SR2 0HG	voluntary aided	Church of England
Norfolk
St Martin at Shouldham C of E VA Primary School PE33 0BU	voluntary aided	Church of England
North East Lincolnshire
Lisle Marsden C of E VA Primary School DN32 0DF	voluntary aided	Church of England
North Yorkshire
Sacred Heart RC Primary School DL7 8UL	voluntary aided	Roman Catholic
Nottingham
Pierrepont Gamston Primary School NG2 6TH	voluntary aided	Church of England
St Peter’s C of E Primary School NG18 4LN	voluntary aided	Church of England
Oxfordshire
St John the Evangelist C of E Primary School OX18 1BU	voluntary aided	Church of England
Reading
New Christ Church C of E Primary School RG2 0AY	voluntary aided	Church of England
Sheffield
Pye Bank C of E Primary School S3 9EL	voluntary aided	Church of England
St Helens
Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School WA9 2JE	voluntary aided	Roman Catholic
Stockton-On-Tees
St Francis of Assisi CE School TS17 5GA	voluntary aided	Church of England
St Gregory’s Catholic Primary School TS19 9AD	voluntary aided	Roman Catholic
St Mark’s Elm Tree C of E VA Primary School TS19 7HA	voluntary aided	Church of England
Swindon
Holy Family Catholic Primary School SN3 2PT	voluntary aided	Roman Catholic
Warrington
Latchford C of E Primary WA4 1AP	voluntary aided	Church of England
Sankey Valley St. James Church of England Primary WA5 1XE	voluntary aided	Church of England
Sir Thomas Boteler Church of England High School WA4 1JL	voluntary aided	Church of England
Warwickshire
St Michael’s C of E Primary School CV12 9DA	voluntary aided	Church of England
West Sussex
All Saints C of E Primary School RH12 5JB	voluntary aided	Church of England
Windsor and Maidenhead
Churchmead C of E (VA) School SL3 9JQ	voluntary aided	Church of England
Wolverhampton
St Andrew’s Church of England Primary School WV6 0RH	voluntary controlled	Church of England
Worcestershire
Ipsley C of E Middle School B98 9PJ	voluntary controlled	Church of England

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates further voluntary schools in England which have a religious character in accordance with section 69(3) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.This is in addition to those schools already listed in the Designation of Schools Having a Religious Character (England) Order 1999(SI 1999/2432), the Designation of Schools having a Religious Character (England) Order 2000 (SI 2000/3080) and the Designation of Schools having a Religious Character (England) Order 2003 (SI 2003/800).

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 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 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..

Designation by this Order is not of itself a means of acquiring a religious character or of changing religious character. Designation is the recognition certain attributes of the school or its governing body as described in the Religious Character of Schools (Designation Procedure) Regulations 1998 (SI 1998/2535). 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 England, the religions 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 Act are currently the Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Sikh religions. The relevant religious denominations within Christianity are the Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church, the Methodist Church, the United Reformed Church, the Free Church, the Congregational Church, the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, the Greek Orthodox Church and the Quakers.

Designation by this Order as a school with a religious character will not be accepted by the Secretary of State 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 of England 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.

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 Act, is Roman Catholic, does not determine whether or not the school is a Catholic school according to canon law.

(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.