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RE Council Newsletter August 2012 |
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Aug 02, 2012 at 01:43 PM |
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ONE STUDENT’S PERCEPTION OF RE
Clare – a sixth former from Birmingham - was a speaker at the launch, in
June, of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Religious Education. In
her speech, she listed five things she wouldn’t have known about, had it
not been for RE lessons. They included the work of Amnesty
International, the UK parliamentary voting system, and why some people
don’t believe in God. Conversations with Clare after the business part
of the meeting revealed that this list was, for her, just the tip of the
iceberg. The submerged portion, it turns out, contained a further 20
topics, amongst them the causes of world poverty, UK laws on drugs,
alcohol and tobacco, and what we can do to conserve the environment.
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RE Council Communications Survey results |
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May 11, 2012 at 12:10 PM |
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In April, the RE Council conducted a survey to ascertain members' views
on communication between the Council and its member organisations. The survey
was sent to all the listed representatives of all the Council's member bodies
and we received 30 responses, representing 23 organisations. These graphs give
a broad picture of members' views of our current communications and of their
ideas as to how we might improve and develop them. The survey results will be
used to inform our strategy for communications in the coming months and years.
Please click here to download the survey results. |
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Minister for Schools speaks at REC AGM |
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May 10, 2012 at 02:38 PM |
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The REC was
delighted that the Minister for Schools, Nick Gibb MP, took up its invitation
to speak at our AGM on 3rd May. We hope that this fruitful dialogue will
continue.
The text of his speech has been reproduced here. |
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RE materials removed from DfE website |
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Feb 06, 2012 at 10:24 AM |
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There has been considerable concern recently that support materials for RE which were formerly available on the QCDA website, alongside other national curriculum subjects, seemed to have disappeared without notice from the DfE website. The REC has been assured that there was no intention of undermining the status of RE when this was done but there was an acknowledgement that there should have been some notification before the change took place. The materials for both primary and secondary RE continue to be available in the National Archive at the following link (then click 'Subjects' and 'Religious education').
Visit the related National Archives webpage. |
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Letter to HMCI at Ofsted |
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Jan 23, 2012 at 12:33 PM |
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A letter has been sent to Sir Michael Wilshaw, newly appointed Chief Inspector (HMCI) at Ofsted, regarding the new Ofsted framework and our concerns about RE. The letter has gone jointly
from the RE Council and NATRE.
Click here to download a copy of the letter. |
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Report on RE Community Weekend |
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Jan 20, 2012 at 11:51 AM |
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The full conference proceedings of the Wokefield Park RE Community Weekend on 1 - 2 October 2011 are now available.Click here to access the full report.
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