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Items
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10. |
Welcome, Apologies and Changes Of Membership
Minutes:
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Apologies were received from:-
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Group A
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Mag Kushner
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Jewish Representative
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Group C
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Ruth Evans
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Association of School and College
Leaders – (ASCL)
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Mr D Parrott
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The National Association of
Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT)
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Group D
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Councillor Damani
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Southampton City Council
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11. |
Minutes of the Last Meeting including Matters Arising PDF 43 KB
To approve and sign as a correct record the
minutes of the meeting held on 19 October 2009, attached.
Minutes:
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RESOLVED
that the minutes of the meeting held on 19
October 2009 be approved and signed as a correct
record. (Copy of the minutes
circulated with the agenda and appended to the signed
minutes).
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12. |
Review of the Agreed Syllabus
To consider the report of the
Secondary Phase Inspector with regard to the
issues discussed at, and arising from, the Agreed Syllabus Review
meeting held on 19 October 2009,
attached.
Minutes:
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The SACRE reviewed and noted a
verbal update provided by the Secondary Phase
Inspector with regard to the issues discussed
at, and arising from, the Agreed Syllabus Review meeting held
on 19 October 2009.
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The SACRE noted that:-
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- the representative for the writing
group had now attended three writing groups;
- the Agreed Syllabus needed to be
accessible to all children, particularly because
Ofsted were assessing vulnerable
groups;
- the
Agreed Syllabus needed to be fit for purpose and support teachers
to deliver, playing a key role in personal learning and thinking
and also community cohesion.
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The representative for the writing
group reported that there were no changes regarding content of the
Agreed Syllabus and the SACRE noted inclusion of the
following:-
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- national strategies;
- the easy to access and user friendly
format;
- the
updates to the Constitution regarding Humanism and Bahaii.
- recent updated Primary changes;
- possible
changes regarding Assessing Pupil Progress (APP) and the way this
may expand to cover a wider range of subjects as opposed to the
core subjects.
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The SACRE further noted that
provisional dates for the sign off of the Agreed Syllabus by SACRE
together with the confirmed dates for the Heads’ Conferences
for Primary schools were as follows:-
- 26 April 2010 (SACRE sign off)
- 25 March 2010 (Heads’
Conference)
- 27 May 2010 (Heads’
Conference)
- 25 June 2010 (ASC sign off).
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In addition, the following points
were received and noted:-
- that the
budget should include some allocation for training
teachers with regard to Religious Education and that time was
needed to be set aside to do this.
- that the
national strategy funding was only allocated to core subjects,
excluding RE.
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A discussion concerning the best way
to ‘roll out’ the new Agreed Syllabus and various
practicalities took place.
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RESOLVED
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(i)
(ii)
(iii)
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that future meeting dates of the
Agreed Syllabus Conference for SACRE be confirmed;
that the Hampshire Inspector be
requested to provide a detailed time line for the implementation
and ‘roll out’ of the Agreed Syllabus; and
that
Councillor Daunt be requested to investigate the distribution of
the Agreed Syllabus (electronic or hard copies).
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13. |
Feedback and discussion on the writing group PDF 34 KB
To consider the reports
relating to the writing group, attached.
Additional documents:
Minutes:
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There was no
significant feedback to note, other than that already mentioned in
Item 5 above.
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