Sentences with phrase «faith ethos of the school»

The school has developed a very successful balance of providing students with accurate information within the faith ethos of the school.

Not exact matches

Currently, faith schools are limited in the number of pupils they can admit who share the religious ethos of the school.

«Schools will be encouraged to reflect their own ethos and values whilst being sensitive to the needs of the community, including the context of belief, faith, religion and culture.»

«Religious Education» involves little detailed teaching of the Faith upon which the school's ethos is based.

These schools are complying with government requirements (at the time of writing, see Eric Hester's «Sex Education or Chastity Education: Church Teaching and Civil Law», in Faith, July 2007) to teach SRE, at the same time as upholding their Catholic ethos and protecting children from premature details about sex.

European Council Directive 2000 / 78 / EC, which established «a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation», sets out in Article 4.2 that organisations with an ethos based on religion or belief, such as «faith» schools, can treat persons differently in recruitment and employment on the grounds of religion or belief where there is «a genuine, legitimate and justified occupational requirement».

We would question the legality of extending the faith of a school's curriculum beyond RE and Collective Worship, as parents are often forced to send their children to a «faith» school and these parents and children will have their human rights broken if they are not able to escape from the religious ethos of the school.

The DfE have not listed this as having a «faith ethos», but given the role played by BCCS in establishing the school, it seems that there will be some Church of England influence.

Of the 24 free schools opening this month, nine are faith - based or have strong religious ethos, six are parent - or teacher - led and five will be run by trusts already running academies.

The school will take children of all faiths and none, giving places to those who live nearest to it, but will have a Christian ethos, she says.

The situation echoes other conversions in which the Department for Education has approved a branch of the church to run academy trusts in which faith - ethos schools are in the minority.

Clarke said he found an «intolerant and aggressive» Islamist ethos in some Birmingham schools brought about by governors intent on promoting an ultra-conservative version of their faith.

There is already at least one example of non-faith schools being required to form part of a Church MAT, as a «faith - ethos academy».