SACRE: Actions from meeting held 12^th July 2016

1.            Mrs Snodin had contacted the local branch of the NUT and had been given a contact name for the Rutland Representative, Mr Steve Kelly.  She had e mailed Mr Kelly and invited him to tonight’s meeting but had not received a response.  She will send a further e mail inviting Mr Kelly to attend the next SACRE in January 2017.

ACTION:  Mrs Snodin

2.            Miss Waller confirmed that Lord Nash was still in post and had not yet been replaced under the new administration.  This will be revisited when a new person is in post.

ACTION:  Miss Waller

3.            No response from Diocese regarding the training of RE teachers.  Mrs Crellin said there was a new person in post who is very good.  There was a big push towards REQM for which there will be some funding.  Mrs Crellin will forward the Diocese information leaflet to Miss Waller.  The two main training events will be “Understanding Christianity” and “Islam in Britain”. 

ACTION:  Mrs Crellin

4.            Dr Sharif reported that there had been a delay in setting up the initial networking meeting.  The feedback she had received from head teachers was that September was a difficult time to set up a new meeting as the academic year had just started and the school timetable was extremely busy between beginning of term and half term. Following this feedback, Dr Sharif will organise this event for between half term and Christmas.  She will draft a letter to head teachers inviting them to the event.  Dr Sharif also suggested mentioning the networking meeting in the fortnightly newsletter sent out by Mr Nick Brenton, Team Manager of the Learning and Skills Department to give it wider publicity within Rutland schools.  Dr Sharif also suggested feeding this through the Rutland Teaching Alliance to invite external authorities.  This was supported by the group

ACTION:  Dr Sharif

AGENDA Item for next meeting

5.            The content of the networking meeting was discussed.  Miss Waller asked Dr Sharif to e mail Ms Walker and Mrs Megan Davis as active heads on SACRE and agree what should be included.  Ms Walker said that PSHE/Prevent would need to make up a significant part of any networking group.  Mrs Crellin said that we should let the group know about the agreed syllabus update.  She also suggested asking participants to suggest three positives and three negatives to give the networking group an idea of where future training is needed.

ACTION:  Dr Sharif

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9.            Miss Waller confirmed that she had deliberately not yet spoken to the Leader and Chief Executive as no new syllabus had yet been agreed.  Miss Waller and Mr Menzies had met with Ms Amanda Fitton, SACRE/RE Adviser to Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough the previous day and had requested that Rutland be allowed to participate in the writing of the new agreed syllabus which was currently underway.  Miss Waller said that she would request funding so that we can pay for some of Ms Fitton’s time.  Ms Walker said that it was frustrating that it is Northants based.  Miss Waller said that Ms Fitton was working on an on-line syllabus which is a positive development.  Conference would want to see someone from Rutland participating and Miss Waller suggested that a head teacher would be appropriate.  Ms Walker said this was a possibility but would prefer that it wait until safeguarding had been handed over.  Miss Waller to speak to the Leader after feedback from the joint meeting.  Miss Waller said the RE Newsletter contained lots of good ideas.  Ms Walker talked about a recent reflection day at Peterborough Cathedral and said how great it would be to have such a day in Rutland which would be much more accessible for Rutland children.   Though a great day out, Ms Walker felt that certain parts of the visit were rushed, such as looking around the Cathedral.  It was also expensive and felt that this would exclude socially disadvantaged children.  Mrs Crellin said she would feed these reflections  back to the Diocese Board. This is to be put on the Agenda for the Networking meeting. 

ACTION:  Miss Waller

Dr Sharif

Mrs Crellin

10.         Action completed

11.             Letter to Parks School drafted and awaiting typing