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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2005 No. 1195

EDUCATION, ENGLAND

The Designation of Schools Having a Religious Character (Independent Schools) (England) Order 2005

  Made 14th April 2005 

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 69(3) and 124B of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998[1], and having followed the procedure specified in the Religious Character of Schools (Designation Procedure) (Independent Schools) (England) Regulations 2003[2], the Secretary of State for Education and Skills hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
     1. This Order may be cited as the Designation of Schools Having a Religious Character (Independent Schools) (England) Order 2005 and shall come into force on 15th April 2005.

Interpretation
     2. In this Order "the relevant religion or religious denomination" means the religion or religious denomination in accordance with whose tenets education is provided at the school or the school is conducted (or, as the case may be, each such religion or religious denomination).

Designation of Schools
     3. The schools listed in column (1) of the Schedule 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 (2).


P S A Jones
A Divisional Manager in the Department for Education and Skills

14th April 2005



SCHEDULE
Articles 3 and 4


Schools Having a Religious Character


(1)Name and Postcode of School (2)Relevant Religion or Religious Denomination
Brighton & Hove     
St Christopher's School, BN3 4AD Church of England
Birmingham     
King Edward's School, B15 2UA Christian
King Edward VI High School for Girls, B15 2UB Christian
Buckinghamshire     
Dair House School, SL2 3BY Church of England
Wycombe Abbey School, HP11 1PE Anglican
Cambridgeshire     
The King's School, Ely, CB7 4DB Church of England
Camden     
The Royal School, Hampstead, NW3 5UD Church of England
Cornwall     
Roselyon Preparatory School, PL24 2HZ Church of England
The Bolitho School, TR18 4JR Church of England
Devon     
Blundell's School, EX16 4DN Church of England
Dorset     
Port Regis School, SP7 9QA Church of England
Kent     
Beechwood Sacred Heart School, TN2 3QD Roman Catholic
Northbourne Park School, CT14 0NW Anglican
St Edmund's School, CT2 8HU Church of England
Lewisham     
St Dunstan's College, SE6 4TY Church of England
Newbury     
Downe House, RG18 9JJ Church of England
Oxfordshire     
Iqra School, OX4 3HB Islamic
Summer Fields School, OX2 7EN Church of England
Tudor Hall School, OX16 9UR Anglican
Redbridge     
Bancroft's School, IG8 0RF Church of England
Solihull     
Solihull School, B91 3DJ Church of England
Somerset     
Wellington School, TA21 8NT Christian
Suffolk     
Framlingham College (Albert Memorial College), IP13 9EY Church of England
Brandeston Hall Junior School, IP13 9EY Church of England
Ipswich School, IP1 3SG Church of England
Surrey     
Cranleigh School, GU6 8QQ Church of England
Lanesborough School, GU1 2EL Christian
Milbourne Lodge Junior School, KT10 9EA Church of England
St David's School, TW15 3DZ Church of England
The Royal Grammar School, GU1 3BB Christian
Swindon     
Maranatha Christian School, SN6 7SQ Christian
Wakefield     
Ackworth School, WF7 7LT Society of Friends (Quakers)
Wandsworth     
Broomwood Hall School, SW12 8NR Christian
Northcote Lodge School, SW11 6EL Christian
West Sussex     
Farlington School, RH12 3PN Church of England
Lavant House, PO18 9AB Church of England
Windlesham House School, RH20 4AY Anglican


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order designates the independent schools named herein as having a religious character.

Under section 124A of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, independent schools which are so designated are permitted to take account of certain religious considerations in making specified employment decisions which relate to teaching staff.

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) (Independent Schools) (England) Regulations 2003.

A statement in the Order in relation to a school that the religious denomination in accordance with whose tenets education is provided at the school, or the school is conducted, is Roman Catholic, does not determine whether or not the school is a Catholic school according to canon law.

Notes:

 [1] 1998 c.31; section 124B was inserted by the Independent Schools (Employment of Teachers in Schools with a Religious Character) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2037).back

[2] S.I. 2003/2314; as amended by S.I. 2004/2262.back


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 © Crown copyright 2005

Prepared 25 April 2005

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