Bradford Christian School
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Bradford Christian School is a private school situated in Bradford
, West Yorkshire
, England
. It contains a primary school, a middle school, and a senior school, and takes pupils from the age of 4 to 16 years old. It has been running since 1993, and the headmaster, Philip Moon, helped in the foundation of the school.
The school also functions as a charity to help sponsor trips to Romania
every year for older students.
Chapter 23:13–14: "Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die", but their case, R. (on the application of Williamson) v Secretary of State for Education and Employment
, was rejected by the Law Lords in 2005.
Bradford
Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...
, West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It contains a primary school, a middle school, and a senior school, and takes pupils from the age of 4 to 16 years old. It has been running since 1993, and the headmaster, Philip Moon, helped in the foundation of the school.
The school also functions as a charity to help sponsor trips to Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
every year for older students.
Smacking ban challenge
In 2002 the school was one of a group of Christian schools which challenged the ban on corporal punishment in UK schools, citing ProverbsBook of Proverbs
The Book of Proverbs , commonly referred to simply as Proverbs, is a book of the Hebrew Bible.The original Hebrew title of the book of Proverbs is "Míshlê Shlomoh" . When translated into Greek and Latin, the title took on different forms. In the Greek Septuagint the title became "paroimai paroimiae"...
Chapter 23:13–14: "Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die", but their case, R. (on the application of Williamson) v Secretary of State for Education and Employment
R. (on the application of Williamson) v Secretary of State for Education and Employment
R. v Secretary of State for Education and Employment;UKHL 15 [2005] 2 A.C. 246, was an unsuccessful challenge to the law against beating children by the headmasters of private Christian schools.-Facts:...
, was rejected by the Law Lords in 2005.