Sikhs Plan Free School In Leeds

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Sikhs plan free school in Leeds

Published on Friday 6 January 2012 07:30

Leading members of the Sikh community are hoping to set up a new free school in Leeds.

Teachers are joining forces with business people, religious leaders and parents in the hope of setting up a specialist primary school catering for youngsters in the Chapeltown area.

Backers of the project hope to use a disused building near the Sikh temple on Chapeltown Road.

But they say the school will be non-faith and open to all children living in the local community.

Initially, it would be one-form entry for around 30 pupils with plans to extend it year by year.

Sukhraj Singh, who is currently teaching at a school in Bradford, is one of the people spearheading the project.

He said: “We don’t want to set up a religious school, the idea is it will be for everyone. We are planning to use one of our buildings to set up a school teaching more subjects based around science.

“We want to give something back to the community and offer a new opportunity for our younger children to set them in the right direction for a professional career.”

The scheme already has backing from the New Schools Network, a charity funded by the Department for Education, which is currently offering help to free school groups aiming to open in deprived areas by September 2013.

The Leeds Free School scheme is one of 20 across the country to be selected in the first year of its new programme.

Co-ordinators of the project are receiving expert help in showing there is sufficient demand for the school

They are also being given access to legal and business expertise via seminars, workshops and special “boot camps” being held at the charity’s HQ in London.

It is hoped a formal submission will be made to the Department for Education by the end of February.

If the scheme gets the green light, it will be the second free school to open in Leeds.

The Department for Education has already given the go-ahead to Lighthouse School in Pudsey, which will have places for up to 50 youngsters suffering from autism.So far, three free schools have opened in West Yorkshire.

More than 100 are expected to be operating nationwide by mid summer this year.

http://www.yorkshire...leeds_1_4116306

[KhalistaniGunMan]

Sikhs plan free school in Leeds

Published on Friday 6 January 2012 07:30

Leading members of the Sikh community are hoping to set up a new free school in Leeds.

Teachers are joining forces with business people, religious leaders and parents in the hope of setting up a specialist primary school catering for youngsters in the Chapeltown area.

Backers of the project hope to use a disused building near the Sikh temple on Chapeltown Road.

But they say the school will be non-faith and open to all children living in the local community.

Initially, it would be one-form entry for around 30 pupils with plans to extend it year by year.

Sukhraj Singh, who is currently teaching at a school in Bradford, is one of the people spearheading the project.

He said: “We don’t want to set up a religious school, the idea is it will be for everyone. We are planning to use one of our buildings to set up a school teaching more subjects based around science.

“We want to give something back to the community and offer a new opportunity for our younger children to set them in the right direction for a professional career.”

The scheme already has backing from the New Schools Network, a charity funded by the Department for Education, which is currently offering help to free school groups aiming to open in deprived areas by September 2013.

The Leeds Free School scheme is one of 20 across the country to be selected in the first year of its new programme.

Co-ordinators of the project are receiving expert help in showing there is sufficient demand for the school

They are also being given access to legal and business expertise via seminars, workshops and special “boot camps” being held at the charity’s HQ in London.

It is hoped a formal submission will be made to the Department for Education by the end of February.

If the scheme gets the green light, it will be the second free school to open in Leeds.

The Department for Education has already given the go-ahead to Lighthouse School in Pudsey, which will have places for up to 50 youngsters suffering from autism.So far, three free schools have opened in West Yorkshire.

More than 100 are expected to be operating nationwide by mid summer this year.

http://www.yorkshire...leeds_1_4116306

whats the point of sikhs spearheading this project if we are not going to make it a sikh faith school...what a waste time

[HDSH]

whats the point of sikhs spearheading this project if we are not going to make it a sikh faith school...what a waste time

It's not a waste of time. There is a really important concept in Sikhi, it's called Sarbat Da Bhala.

[khalistan_zindabaad]

Im sure the gursikhs doing tjis campaign are aware of what they are doing, bhai sukhraj singh is a respectable singh and im sure he knows what to do and what not to do. even if its not a faith school im still aure they will do alot more then what half the faith schools are doing.