2 Schools Newsletter: Autumn 2015 / Spring 2016

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DIOCESE OF ST ALBANS: Board of Education
Schools Newsletter: Autumn 2015 / Spring 2016
Inside Issue 49
Hail & Farewell
Circulation
This termly Newsletter is sent to church school headteachers, priests with a
church school in their parish, members of the Diocesan Board of Education,
senior diocesan clergy, members of Diocesan Synod, and other interested
people.
Heads: Please let your RE Co-ordinator have this copy once you have finished.
2
School News
3-9
Courses (future)
10
Future Events
11
Farmington Fellowships
11
From the RE Adviser
12-19
Prayer Pages
20-21
Living God’s Love
22
Prayers for Schools
23
Director’s End Note
24
Page  2
HAIL AND FAREWELL
Welcome to Herts
Natasha Chiswell—Aldbury
Primary (Sept 15; from Reddings
Primary, Hemel Hempstead)
Caroline Moore—St Paul’s
Primary, Chipperfield (Sept 15;
from Deputy)
Lydia Hunt—St John the Baptist,
Great Amwell (Sept 15; from
Deputy)
Andrew Emeny—St Nicholas
Primary, Harpenden (Acting,
Sept 15; from Herts LA)
Rizelle Crouch—St Nicholas
Primary, Harpenden (Jan 16;
from Deputy)
Philip Ashby—Hormead First
(Sept 15; from Cambs LA)
Shirley Whales—Northaw
Primary (Nov 16; from Acting)
Vicky Lunniss—Preston Primary
(Sept 15; from Service Children’s
Education)
Pippa Bremner—Sarratt Primary
(Sept 15; from Herts LA)
Alison Rafferty—St Michael’s
Primary, St Albans (Sept 15; from
Greenfield Primary, Watford)
Geoff Holmes—Weston Primary
(Jan 16; from Richard Whittington
Primary, Bishop’s Stortford)
Welcome to Beds
Nancy Sheehan—Dunton &
Wrestlingworth Lowers (Acting,
Sept 15; from Senior Teacher)
Lisa Virnuls—Milton Ernest
Lower (Nov 15; from Acting; from
Eileen Wade Lower)
Farewell to Herts
Kathy Little—Aldbury Primary
(Aug 15; to St Alfred the Great
RC Primary, Bennetts End)
Norah Tattersall—St Paul’s
Primary, Chipperfield (Aug 15; to
Herts LA)
Sue Robinson—St John the
Baptist Primary, Great Amwell
(Aug 15; early retirement)
Andrew Emeny—St Nicholas
Primary, Harpenden (Dec 15)
Alis Rocca—Northaw Primary
(Aug 15; to Morgans Primary,
Hertford)
Gemma Potterton—Preston
Primary (Acting, Aug 15; to
Deputy)
Ellie Shaw—Weston Primary
(Aug 15; to Wilbury Junior,
Letchworth)
Farewell to Beds
Heather Curry—Dunton &
Wrestlingworth Lowers (Aug 15;
early retirement)
Mary Harris—Milton Ernest
Lower (Aug 15; early retirement)
Hope we’ve not missed anyone
out!
Very many thanks to the deputy
or acting head for your sterling
work!
School Support Officer
We are delighted to announce the arrival at the end of January of
Belinda Copson as School Support Officer. This is a new, parttime, position, designed
 to develop and lead DBE initiatives to recruit high quality
candidates to act as school governors, including potential
members and directors of Free Schools, Academies and MultiAcademy Trusts
 to lead the professional development of services to school
governors
 to support school reorganisation proposals across the Diocese
 to provide professional leadership, support and advice to the head
teachers, senior school leaders and governors of 20 church
schools
Belinda comes to us from Hertfordshire County Council where she is
Education Health and Care Plan Coordinator, and has plenty of
experience of working with governing bodies. She is also a Reader in
the Hitchin Team Ministry. We look forward to working with
Belinda.
Many apologies that this
Newsletter, ostensibly for the
Autumn Term, has arrived at the
start of the Spring Term.
Pressure of work delayed
production.
Page  3
NEWS FROM SCHOOLS
Spades at Silsoe
A ground-breaking ceremony has
taken place to mark the start of
construction work on Silsoe CofE
Lower School’s new building.
Central Bedfordshire Council last
year approved plans to expand
and relocate the lower school as
part of its commitment to provide
6,500 new school places over the
next five years.
It means that from September
2016, the lower school will move
from its current location in High
Street, to a new site on the
former
Cranfield
University
campus within the village. The
new lower school will be able to
offer 240 places, up from 135 at
the current site.
On 4 November, staff and
children from the school joined
dignitaries, including Council
Chairman Cllr David Bowater,
Deputy Executive Member for
Education and Skills Cllr Ian
Dalgarno, Ward member Cllr
Alison Graham, Chairman of
Silsoe Parish Council Mike
Jarrard and Deputy Chairman Ian
Kelly, Silsoe’s vicar the Revd
Dave Bell, and the Venerable
Paul Hughes, Archdeacon of
Bedford for a ground-breaking
ceremony at the new site.
Cllr Dalgarno said: “A key role for
the council is for all children
across Central Bedfordshire to
have a place at a good, local
school. With all the new homes
being built in the village, there is
a real need for new school places
in Silsoe.
“Despite the rain, I was very
pleased to be able to attend
today’s ceremony and to see the
start of the work at Silsoe CofE
Lower School’s new campus.”
Silsoe
Lower
School
headteacher Susan Purdue said:
“We have a wonderful design
which will help us to continue to
deliver
the
best
quality,
innovative and creative education
for the children and families of
this community. Our new school
has been designed to be outward
looking, values based and God
centred.”
Work is being carried out by
Ashe Construction and the
company’s
Business
Development Director Andrew
Morris said: “We are delighted to
have won yet another local
project in Central Bedfordshire
where we will use local labour to
deliver this fantastic new school
for Central Bedfordshire Council.
“Our strong performance in
education sector will ensure
successful construction of
wonderful new facility for
school children of Silsoe.”
the
the
this
the
For more information about the
council’s new school places
programme,
visit
www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/
school-places.
Page  4
Harvest at
Pulford Lower
Why was there a sheep’s fleece and spinning wheel in church?
Everyone knows about Harvest
time. Or do they?
Schools from around the town
came to All Saints Church to take
part in the harvest trail
organised by Pulford School in
October. There was a wonderful
array of activities. See if you can
guess the answers to the
following questions:
Why do some people live in a tent
at Harvest time?
Why did some children make clay pots?
A date for your diary
Headteachers’ Conference
Tuesday 26 April 2016
Putteridge Bury Conference Centre
Making a difference in RE:
developing concepts and best practice in RE
in KS 1,2,3
Keynote Speaker: Mary Myatt,
National Children’s Work Adviser
Book in with Ruth Garman: 01727 818168,
[email protected]
The trail
was a
huge
success
with
very
positive
feedback
from all
participants. It
is part
of the
school’s initiative to form
close partnerships with other
schools within the local learning
community to develop RE
programmes. The school
continues to work closely with the
Diocese of St Albans on this project
and aims to achieve the RE Quality
Mark, gold standard, by July 2016.
More of these trails are planned
throughout the year with the next
one planned around Signs and
Symbols in November.
Thanks as always are due to All
Saints’ Church for making this a
possibility and to all the people
engaged in decorating the church
so beautifully and helping on the
day.
Tessa Rees , Deputy Head
Pulford Lower,
Leighton Buzzard
Remembrance
Holywell School, Cranfield,
borrowed an idea from the Tower
of London poppies 2014 (right).
St Andrew’s Primary,
Stanstead Abbotts created a
Cross of Crosses on the front
lawn of the school (below). Every
child from Reception to Year 6
created their own cross to
symbolise the soldiers who have
died in conflict so that we can
enjoy the freedoms that we take
for granted, but also the cross on
which Jesus died so that we can
be forgiven and enjoy eternal
peace.
Page  5
Page  6
Reaching out in
Biggleswade
The opening of the additional
school site for St Andrew’s Lower
School in Biggleswade at King’s
Reach took place in September.
representatives from the
developers Willmott Dixon,
and many of our governors.
Cllr Jane Lawrence spoke,
and Bishop Richard talked to
the children about what a
With the new east site, the school
has now doubled in capacity.
Bishop is and talked to them
about his finery.
Many guests attended the special
assembly, including Rob Parsons
and his team from Central
Bedfordshire Council,
The children sang songs and
told all the visitors what
they like about their new
school. Other children
A date for your diary
Church Schools
Harvest Services
Monday 3 October 2016 (pm)
Tuesday 4 October 2016 (am & pm)
St Albans Cathedral
Details enclosed with this Newsletter
Register interest with Ruth Garman:
01727 818168, [email protected]
explained our Christian Values. At
the end of the assembly Bishop
Richard blessed our new building.
The guests then had a tour of the
school.
Sue Rolfe,
Headteacher,
St Andrew’s Lower, Biggleswade
Education Sunday
For well over 100 years there has
been an annual recognition of
Education Sunday in England and
Wales. It is a national day of prayer
and celebration for everyone in the
world of education. The theme is
devised by an ecumenical steering
group representing different
Christian denominations and
organisations.
For some years it has been
celebrated on the ninth Sunday
before Easter; for 2016, however,
after extensive consultation, it will
be moved to coincide with the start
of the school year.
(Continued on page 7)
Page  7
Bishop blesses new
buildings at Stotfold
In September, Bishop Michael
visited St Mary’s Academy,
Stotfold, to open and bless the new
extension which encompasses four
new classrooms and a new hall.
Members of the School Council
told the Bishop about the school
and helped him cut the ribbon.
Congratulations ...
Bishop Michael of Hertford
visits Leverstock Green Primary
... to Annette Graham, school
chef at Roger de Clare First in
Puckeridge, who was named
as East of England School Chef
of the Year!
(continued from page 6)
The resources are intended to be
used as a springboard for a variety
of events on or around Education
Sunday. Churches and schools
which wish to keep Education
Sunday in January 2016 are
encouraged to use resources from
previous years (eg http://
www.cte.org.uk/Groups/252108/
Home/Resources/
Education_Sunday/
Education_Sunday_2015/
Education_Sunday_2015.aspx. A
new suite of resources is planned
for September 2016.
As we waited for the Bishop to
appear, we wondered what he
would be like, what he would say,
what he would tell us. He arrived
with the Revd Lizzie Hood, our
priest, met Mrs Vikkie Burgess,
our headteacher, stretched out
his hand to the RE Ambassadors
and said “My name is Michael;
what’s yours?” They introduced
themselves, were given a time
limit and then took him off on a
tour of the school during which
they explained about our Core
Values, showed him the I-spaces
and explained their use and told
him of the plans for the Spiritual
Garden.
On returning to Mrs Burgess’
office he spoke to her, Revd
Lizzie and myself and said how
impressed he was with what he
had seen and heard. He
questioned us on our Rights
Respecting School status and
was very impressed that the
school had no rules!! Once,
however, he had heard how we
expect the children to value each
other and are guided by the
concept that everyone has a
right, for example, to learn, and
we all have to ensure that we
make that possible, he realised
just how different it is from the old
premise of you will do/won’t do
this or the other.
Next came Worship. We thought
we might have a story or
something similar, but what
Bishop Michael did was to get
dressed in his Bishop’s clothes.
With the help of the children, who
all wanted to help, he explained
about the various items of
clothing and why they are the
colour they are and their purpose
in making him recognisable as a
Bishop. The children were quick
to recognise the Hertfordshire
Stag on his cope which indicated
he was the Bishop of Hertford.
This was certainly a day for all
the children, and the adults to
remember.
Dr Margaret Rayner,
Chair of Governors,
Leverstock Green Primary
Page  8
Teaching Incarnation
I attended a training at Holywell
Lodge, St Albans in March which
included a session on Teaching the
Incarnation, led by Helen Matter
(Schools Adviser, Diocese of
St Edmundsbury and Ipswich).
The ideas and materials that were
passed on inspired me to plan and
organise a whole school RE Day
based on the 'Waiting for
Christmas' booklets, which had
planned activities for each year
group from EYFS to Year 6. There
was so much material that we
planned a whole unit of work for
Nursery and Reception and we
held a RE Day for Y1-6 in
November.
Year 1 sharing their work from the day with the rest of the school
opened they reveal something
helpful the children can do at
home or school.
Years 3 & 4 focused on how the
shepherds were
given the task of
spreading the
news of Jesus’
birth. This led to
a discussion on
whether
everyone has a
voice and
whether
everyone has the
right to be
heard.
Yrs 5&6 working with the Revd Derwyn Williams
Each year group focused on a
particular aspect of the
Christmas story. Activities
ranged from role play, drama,
modelling, discussion, poetry
and artwork. The day was a
huge success, enjoyed by the
children and staff alike. The
children produced some really
high quality RE work ranging
from the discussions they had in
all year groups to really
thoughtful and reflective poetry
and artwork from upper KS2.
Children in KS1 enjoyed
discussing and making ‘Helping
Advent Calendars’; when the
doors of their calendars are
Years 5 & 6
wrote poems
about Joseph’s
dilemma and the
daunting task he faced in bringing
up God’s Son. They also created
their own artwork on Jesus –
Emmanuel, picturing where Jesus
would be and what He would be
doing if they saw Him today.
Our local vicar attended the day
and commented on how
impressed he was with the extra
insight into the Christmas story
that the children were given and
the deep level thinking that
resulted from it.
Thank you Helen, for your
inspirational training and
excellent resources.
Sue Halliwell, RE Subject
Leader,
St Michael’s Primary,
Bishop’s Stortford
School wins injury
claim
Page  9
which had been swept
clear of snow.
I should like to mention this to
counteract the impression that
everybody who claims for injury
on school premises wins their
case. It might encourage other
schools to resist such claims.
A pupil in Yr 5 tripped over a tree
root that was covered in snow on
her way out to morning
break. She took a short cut
across grass rather than follow
instructions and stay on the path,
18 months later, after
she had left the school,
the pupil launched a
claim on the basis that
the school had been negligent.
The school resisted, strongly,
arranging statements from all
staff involved, producing policies,
and collecting
photographs. Hertfordshire
County Council’s Claims
Department played a leading role
in getting the case together.
Schools, churches and communities
—brought together by music
Check out
http://www.isingpop.com/songs.html
and http://www.popuk.org/
Both highly recommended
By the time the claim reached
Luton County Court in October
2015, £10,000 damages were
being sought by the girl’s
parents, and there was a full day
of giving evidence in court.
The judge found in favour of the
school. There was no need to
cut down, rope off or cone off the
tree, or station a member of staff
by the roots—the girl should
have followed instructions. The
County was awarded costs
against the family - £8,000. The
headteacher and caretaker both
gave evidence and were crossexamined. As Chair, I went
along to give support, which is
apparently the first time a
governor has accompanied staff
to court.
I would encourage others to
defend claims!
Stephen Morrill
Chair of Governors,
St Paul’s Primary, Chipperfield
Page  10
COURSES—future
20 January 2016
9.15am—3.30pm
Teaching Christianity effectively—Salvation
The second in our series of teaching Christian
concepts
Holywell Lodge, St Albans
AL1 1HE
21 January 2016
10am—12 noon
Newish Heads’ Breakfast
An informative yet relaxed follow-up to the New
Heads’ Day, answering specific questions
AL1 1HE
1-6 March 2016
Senior Leaders’ Retreat
Rome
14 March 2016
7pm—8.30pm
Admissions—Appeals
An introduction to the Appeals process for VA
schools and Academies—for governors/staff
dealing with Appeals
AL1 1HE
16 March 2016
9.15am—3.30pm
Supporting your local school
A day for clergy and Readers who regularly visit
church and community schools and academies
AL1 1HE
20 April 2016
9.15am—3.30pm
The Distinctive Christian Character of Church
Schools
A free course for staff and governors to
understand the distinctive aspects of running a
church school
AL1 1HE
26 April 2016
9.15am—3.30pm
Headteachers’ Conference
Making a difference in RE
Putteridge Bury Conference
Centre LU2 8LE
16 June 2016
9.15am-3.30pm
SEF Writing
A course to support senior and middle leaders in
developing their SIAMS SEF
AL1 1HE
20 June 2016
7pm—8,30pm
Admissions
An evening for governors and staff of VA schools
and academies on writing an Admissions policy
AL1 1HE
27 June 2016
9.15am—3.30pm
New Heads’ Day
An introduction to running a church school
AL1 1HE
29 June 2016
9.15am—3.30pm
Deputies’ & Senior Leaders’ Conference
Building effective partnerships between church
and school communities
Putteridge Bury Conference
Centre LU2 8LE
Further details of all our courses can be found on our website at http://www.stalbans.anglican.org/
schools/courses/
To book a place, please contact Ruth Garman: 01727 818168; [email protected].
The Bishop’s Harvest Appeal 2015
Thank you for helping to raise the
amazing total of ££52,500 for the
appeal. 9% of this came from
schools.
Carol Chisnall from this office
went to Uganda to help with the
building project and was
delighted to meet poster boy
Moses.
Page  11
Future events
Blood—Uniting &
Dividing
A cutting edge exploration of what
unites and divides us—an
exhibition examining the
provocative and complex subject
of blood.
At the Jewish Museum, Raymond
Burton House, 129-131 Albert
Street, London NW1 7NB—runs
until 28 February 2016
Further info at http://
www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/Blood
Holocaust Memorial
Day—27 January
Your electronic diocesan newsletter
for all diocesan news,
including Bishop’s Letter, events,
courses, clergy movements ...
Issue 13 (December 2015)
can be found at http://www.stalbans.anglican.org/
news/seeround/
or subscribe at http://www.stalbans.anglican.org/
news/signup-see-round-online/
STOP PRESS:
Congratulations
to all at Bromham
Lower School for
achieving their
Gold REQM Mark
in January 2016.
Resources available at http://
hmd.org.uk/content/for-educators
Schools Autism
Awareness Week
14—18 March 2016
Free resource pack available from
http://www.autism.org.uk/saaw
Further resources available at
http://autism.sesamestreet.org/
Farmington Fellowships for Teachers of RE:
open for 2016
Details have now been published
of the Farmington Fellowships for
2016-2017, which are open to
secondary and primary school
teachers, teachers of RE to
children with Special Educational
Needs, and headteachers. The
fellowships enable teachers to
undertake research on aspects of
teaching RE in schools, and to
further their own professional
development. The Fellowship will
cover the cost of tuition, board
and lodging where appropriate,
essential local travel and, by
negotiation with the school, the
salary of a replacement teacher
up to point 6 of the main pay
scale. The deadline for
applications is 25 January 2016,
and more information can be
found on the Farmington Institute
website http://
www.farmington.ac.uk/
fellowships_and_awards/
fellowships.html.
Page  12
FROM THE RE ADVISER
Special thanks to Eileen and
Ruth as I have been absent for
periods during the Autumn Term
with a knee operation and kidney
infection.
Courses
for
Staff,
Governors, Clergy and
Readers
The autumn term was busy as
usual with repeated courses from
last term such as SMSC and
British Values, led by Bill Moore
(consultant) and Teaching Islam
Effectively, led by Deborah
Weston
(RE
Council
and
NATRE).
These proved so
successful, we thought we’d offer
them twice. There will be more
opportunities
to
come
to
workshops on Islam in the
coming terms through the
Bedfordshire RE Society in
February and the National RE
conference #RE-AmIBothered?
at Center Parcs Woburn (see
adverts).
Our
RE
conference
on
“Christianity in church schools”,
led by Jo Fageant (national
trainer) was fully booked and had
a special input from diocesan
schools on inspection of RE
(SIAMS), working with the local
church and community schools;
and how to use the RE Quality
Mark tools.
I am grateful to all the presenters
who took part in these courses.
The annual SIAMS inspection
training day, led by Lyn Field
(national trainer) was another
successful day, looking at school
improvement through SIAMS. If
you haven’t booked on the SEF
writing day, it is well worth
keeping an eye on the course
booklet for 2016.
The Collective Worship training in
Bedfordshire in October was led
by Shahne Vickery (Gloucester
Diocese). She shared her work
on worship and values through
“Jumping Fish” and “Imaginor”
publications. If you haven’t seen
these resources, please look
online.
We are running annual Ethos
Briefing sessions which is a half
day free update on key changes
in Christian ethos. The first took
place in October at Holywell
Lodge. There have been many
changes in the distinctive ethos
of church schools since 2013 and
RE (as you may have noticed in
the media) is constantly being
discussed. Hopefully it was a
helpful session, which was open
to governors, clergy, Readers
and school staff.
School
Visits
Training
and
I have visited a number of schools
this term, meeting staff and
running sessions for staff and
governors on the four areas of
SIAMS
(Worship,
Christian
Character, RE and Leadership and
Management), SMSC and the
changes in RE. From May, after
the launch of the Christianity
Project, we will be looking to roll
out a programme of training
across schools on key Christian
concepts. In the meantime, please
come along to our training on
Salvation (Easter) on 20 January at
Holywell Lodge.
A display at Aston St Mary’s
Character Education
A number of our primary heads
and I attended the launch of the
C of E “The Fruits of the Spirit”
Discussion Paper on Character
Education at Church House in
October. This is an interesting
project which combines well with
the
programme of
explicit
Christian values already in
church schools and the diocesan
vision of Living God’s Love.
Christian Values are currently
explicitly named in diocesan
schools and they run through the
whole school like a golden
thread.
The discussion paper will support
and enhance this work in
schools.
A copy of the
discussion paper can be found
on the diocesan schools Useful
Documents
page:
http://
www.stalbans.anglican.org/wpcontent/uploads/
fruits_of_the_spirit_oct_2015.pdf.
The
Christianity
Project
Pilot 2 of the draft materials of the
Christianity Project took place
before half term in different
diocesan schools outside the
diocese. The national working
party met before half term to look
at the responses from advisers,
teachers and academics and to
prepare for the final draft.
The project is on schedule and will
be launched at Lambeth Palace on
26 May.
More work will need to take place
after May to prepare schools and a
scheme of work will be written
during 2016-17 to support
Page  13
Early Bird discount until
15 January for Center Parcs RE
Conference Woburn Forest,
Saturday 18 June
Center Parcs
If you haven’t booked your place
on our national RE Conference
planned for 18 June 2016 please
do so before the price goes up in
mid-January! My aim for local
schools is to connect RE teachers
who can support each other in
teaching the subject. Please look
at
the
advert
http://
www.stalbans.anglican.org/wpcontent/uploads/
national_re_conf_180616_flier1.p
df and information online:
http://
www.stalbans.anglican.org/
schools/re-conference-18-june2016/.
We are holding a national RE
conference at Center Parcs
Woburn Forest on Saturday 18
June. It is sponsored by the
Diocese of St Albans and
Bedfordshire RE Society and has
workshops for all phases run by
national RE advisers including
Lat Blaylock, Fiona Moss, Dilwyn
Hunt, Kathryn Wright, Andy
Lewis and Ed Pawson and local
teachers Juliet Lyal (from
NATRE) and Sarah Payne.
The conference runs from
9.30am to 4.30pm and there will
be RE publications on sale.
Afterwards, you can join us in
the Center Parcs pool or one of
the restaurants, bars or take part
in leisure activities. We can stay
on site until 10.30pm!
Alternatively, you may wish to
stay overnight with a group of
friends
(to
be
arranged
separately to the conference) or
at a local Travelodge.
There is plenty of parking at
Center Parcs, but you can also
arrive in Flitwick by train as the
Parc is a five-minute taxi ride
away.
Workshops include:
 What is a TeachMeet?
 What is the Purpose of RE?
 How do I introduce active




learning?
Will I be able to talk to others
about the new GCSE?
How do I use enquiry methods
in RE?
How do I improve my subject
knowledge on Islam?
Which key concepts should I
teach in RE?
Please note the discounts for
bookings: before 15 January,
NQTs, ITT and Beds RE Society
members.
The booking form
downloaded here:
can
http://www.beds-reresources.org.uk/national-reconference-booking.pdf.
be
Page  14
(Continued from page 13)
diocesan schools.
This will
probably be arranged between
diocesan advisers and working
groups of teachers in the Eastern
Region/South-East.
RE Today are also publishing a
pack of photos and support in the
very near future which will
dovetail
into
this
project,
particularly focussing on global
Christianity.
Interim Heath Checks
and RE Checks
Spotted at Dismaland, Weston-super-Mare, August 2015
SIAMS
inspectors
are
undertaking eight interim health
checks under the SLA this term.
We have received one report and
have made a few changes to
protocol and documents at our
recent inspector meeting. We
are pleased with the progress so
far. If you have any queries
about health checks, please
contact me by email or 07776
142741.
RE in the news!
A New Settlement: Religion and
Belief in Schools by Charles
Clarke and Linda Woodhead
Professor
Linda
Woodhead
(Professor in the sociology of
religion in the Department of
Politics, Philosophy & Religion at
Lancaster University) and the Rt
Hon Charles Clarke (visiting
professor in Religion and Faith
Lancaster
University)
have
continued to talk about their
reform regarding RE and Worship.
SACREs and major RE groups have
discussed the recommendations.
The RE Council of England and
Wales met recently and spent time
gathering feedback from its large
membership. It will reveal next
steps shortly.
Not yet a member of Bedfordshire RE Society?
All you need to know is here:
http://www.beds-re-resources.org.uk/resbl.htm
Calling all Bedfordshire Primary RE teachers!
Teaching Islam – How? Why? What?
Tuesday 9 February 2016
9.30 am to 3.15pm
The Forest Centre, Marston Moretaine
Workshop leader: Fiona Moss (RE Today)
Open to Hertfordshire teachers too.
http://www.beds-re-resources.org.uk/resocbl/teaching-islam-flyerfebruary-2016.pdf
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(Continued from page 14)
RE for REal
The RE for REal project, led by
Adam Dinham and Martha Shaw,
has released a report: The Future
of Teaching and Learning about
Religion and Belief. (You can
read the full report at http://
www.gold.ac.uk/media/
goldsmiths/169-images/
departments/research-units/faiths
-unit/REforREal-web-b.pdf.)
The project was prompted by the
fact that “an urgent conversation
is underway within the RE
community in the UK about the
future of RE in schools, following
growing criticisms of the policy
muddle which frame it”. The
report therefore builds on the
Religious Education Council’s A
Review of Religious Education in
England (2013) by providing a
new evidence-base to support
and facilitate continuing national
discussions on RE through in
depth analysis of the views of
students, teachers, parents and
employers on the place of RE in
our the current educational and
social landscape.
Year 10 pupils across the country
were asked about RE. All Saints
Academy Dunstable took part in
this study.
The report makes ten key
recommendations:
A statutory National Framework
for Religion and Belief Learning
should be developed, and be
applicable to all schools,
balancing shared national
approaches with school level
determination.
Since SACREs currently play a
leading part in religion and belief
learning, there is an urgent need
for review of their role, and the
role of others, such as
professional bodies and experts,
in the forming of learning. This
should inform and result in the
appointment of a national panel
to develop the framework.
The National Framework panel
should be mandated to consider
and make recommendations
about the purpose, content and
structures of teaching and
learning, and about the
relationship between learning
inside RE, outside in other
subjects, and in the wider life of
schools, especially in relation to
the Act of Worship requirement,
and to the right to withdraw.
Religion and belief learning
should be a compulsory part of
the curriculum to age 16, and
consideration should be given to
what, if anything, happens in
post-16 learning.
Content should reflect the real
religious landscape, as revealed
by cutting edge theory and data
in the study of contemporary
religion and belief.
The process of producing a
National Framework for Religion
and Belief Learning should
determine the mix, content and
location of religion and belief
learning specific to RE, and that
which takes place in a distributed
way in learning outside RE.
GCSE Religious Studies should
remain as an optional subject for
schools, and consideration
should be given to reframing its
content to demarcate the
boundary between academic
study of the real religious
landscape, and other religion and
belief learning associated with
personal, spiritual and social
learning.
There should be continued
investment in Initial Teacher
Training for subject specialist RE
teachers.
There should be increased
investment in continuing
professional development for non
-specialist teachers of religion
and belief.
The process of producing a
National Framework should
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include a review and decision on
the name or names of religion
and belief learning in schools.
These are based on the findings
developed from data collected
from the four groups of
participants (students, teachers,
parents, employers).
Key Quotes
Each section of the report
provided some illustrative quotes
from the data. Here is a selection
of key ones:
Students
“You’re going to meet all kinds of
people, you don’t know what the
future holds, and it’s important
that you have at least awareness
and consideration for everything
that you might come across.”
“If people are educated about
different religions it’s going to
help people get along better
because they can understand
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what people believe and why
they believe it.”
“The parents’ generation and
above had a bad experience of
the subject… a lot of people from
that generation seem to
disregard it a bit.”
“We’re supposed to be doing RE
and then we’re doing global
warming.”
Teachers
“Ultimately it’s not about
someone who can answer the
pub question on Hinduism; it’s
about someone who can go out
there and relate to someone of
the Hindu faith.”
“Make it an academic subject, be
honest about it. If it’s about
holistic development, be honest
about it. But it can’t be both. Not
in an hour a week.”
“It’s very confused. One of the
issues in RE generally is it isn’t a
thing. It’s a strange collective of
subjects, which, depending what
your own background is, you
come at from your own way… I
think the present government
struggle with wanting it to be
about knowledge but also
thinking that through it they can
achieve other aims. Community
relations or…whatever.”
“You’re not really doing RE
unless you lift up the rug. If we
teach them Christians are all kind
people, then they’ll get to history
and hear about the crusades or
slavery and go, ‘What?’”
“I think it lives and breathes. It’s
the same with language, its
eternally changing, we should
teach it as that.”
“RE as a standalone subject is
something that is quite powerful.
I think it sends out a powerful
message as well to the students.
So it’s not RE and PSHE, it’s not
RE as part of humanities or
citizenship, it’s RE as a credible
subject.”
Parents
“When I was at school we were
purely taught Christian beliefs,
mostly Protestant. So there’s
little I know about any other
religion. But my children have
been taught lots of religions. And
I think that makes diversity a lot
easier.”
“It should be compulsory. It gets
them talking.”
“Up till 16. Because they’re not
old enough to know they want to
learn it or not. I’d still like my son
to learn stuff like that even
though he’s not interested.”
Employers
“A very, very large number of
beliefs are relevant to the
workplace, eg if you work in
education or health sector,
understanding about religious
beliefs in our society today is
very important. The precise
utility of religious knowledge will
vary by occupation, activity and
sector but there is no doubt that
to a wide, wide range of sectors,
knowledge about religion and
belief is very important. And to
put the contrary, not
understanding about religious
belief is a serious weakness.”
“…you take the current context of
the way in which religion rears its
head in a whole set of different
ways…that’s why we should
keep RE on the curriculum and it
should also be encompassed into
a spirituality or good citizenship
approach throughout the whole
curriculum.”
http://www.reonline.org.uk/news/
reforreal-report-the-future-ofteaching-and-learning-aboutreligion-and-belief/
Humanism High Court
win – changes RE but
not GCSE?
The recent high court ruling about
the place of Humanism in RE has
led to a great deal of debate in the
RE world and, to a certain extent,
confusion over the implications for
RE and GCSE RS.
The following can be found on
http://www.reonline.org.uk/
news/30985/where Richy
Thompson from the BHA has
explained the verdict.
The High Court ruled that the UK
Government’s subject content on
GCSE Religious Studies in English
schools is unlawful. The ruling
was as a result of a case brought
by three humanist families, with
support of the British Humanist
Association (BHA). It reflects the
views of 90% of respondents to
the earlier consultation on the
subject content, as well as the
Religious Education Council and a
wide range of RE academics,
consultants, advisors, professors
of philosophy and religious
leaders.
The ruling focussed on
paragraph 2 of the content, which
reads “By setting out the range of
subject content and areas of study
for GCSE specifications in religious
studies, the subject content is
consistent with the requirements
for the statutory provision of
religious education in current
legislation as it applies to different
types of school.” It was this
paragraph that was deemed by the
judge to be “a false and misleading
statement of law, which
encourages others to act
unlawfully”.
Since the decision two narratives
have emerged that it would be
worth quickly debunking. One,
from the Department for
Education, is that the “judgment
does not challenge the content or
structure of that new GCSE, and
the judge has been clear it is in no
way unlawful. His decision will
also not affect the current teaching
of the RS GCSE in classrooms.”
The other is the narrative that the
GCSE subject content needs to be
rewritten and that this will be
massively disruptive for exam
boards, teachers, and students.
The problem with both of these
narratives is that they are all
about the GCSE,
when the case
wasn’t really all
about the GCSE at
all. It was about
the rest of RE as a
whole.
What the decision
has done is firmly
established the fact,
based on the
European Convention on Human
Rights, that Religious Education
(and not Religious Studies),
outside of schools with a
religious character, must be
neutral, impartial, objective and
pluralistic. RE must treat the
principal religious and nonreligious worldviews in this
country equally (other than
Christianity, which could have a
greater share of coverage). If a
syllabus has a certain level of
coverage of Islam, Hinduism,
Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism,
then it must now give similar
priority in its level of coverage of
Humanism. This clearly has big
implications for agreed syllabuses,
schools, and Academy chains in
setting their RE curriculum
content.
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Where the GCSE comes into it is
that most routes through the GCSE
content are not inclusive of nonreligious worldviews, due to the
decision of the Government to
prioritise religions over nonreligious worldviews in the
content (because, in its words, “as
these are qualifications in
Religious Studies, it is right that
the content primarily focuses on
developing students’
understanding of different
religious beliefs”). The
consequence is that if a school just
teaches the GCSE as the entirety of
its Key Stage 4 RE (as is quite
common), and in so
doing it doesn’t major
on those few bits of the
GCSE content that are
inclusive of nonreligious worldviews,
then it has failed in its
RE obligation to be
pluralistic in what it
has taught.
The DfE’s press
statement is
misleading—through omission.
Strictly speaking it is right that the
content of the GCSE does not have
to change (other than in the way
I’ve just explained). But if your
school is not a religious school,
and it does not currently teach non
-religious worldviews on an equal
footing to the major religions, then
the rest of your curriculum now
needs to change. This is a much
more significant consequence than
any changes to the GCSE might be.
The countervailing narrative,
meanwhile, that the GCSE will now
need a major rewrite, is simply
wrong. The DfE could choose to
rewrite majorly the GCSE to make
it inclusive, but the court hasn’t
compelled it to and its own
responses make it clear that it isn’t
minded to do that.
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Social Media
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Both national and regional
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If you have not yet joined, here
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Twitter
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@JChipperton
@iTeachRE (Andy Lewis)
@j_Lyal
@NATREupdate
@REQualityMark
@RECouncil
@RE_Today
@threefaiths
@reonline_tweets
@TrueTube
@RE:quest
@3FFSchools
@HolocaustUK
@TalkingDonkeyRE (Andy
Lewis)
@RedhillRE (Redhill RE)
@FaithDebates
@HodderRE
@ArticlesFaith
@Face_to_Faith
@HolocaustCentUK
@BlogSyncRE
last chance for applications!
Following the huge success of
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Religious Education and British
Values continues to fly off of the
shelves and has proved to be a
useful resource
http://www.retoday.org.uk/news/
religious-education-and-britishvalues
TrueTube
Have you looked at the TrueTube
website lately?
www.truetube.co.uk
Videos, lesson plans for RE (as
well as Assemblies, PHSE and
Citisenship) but the great news is
that in Spring 2016 there will be a
series of films to support RE in
EYFS and KS1. Do keep checking
their website for further news as
well as films suitable for KS2
Survey of Primary RE
NATRE’s online survey on
primary RE will be launched in
the first two weeks of January.
We want to know what’s
happening in RE in your schools
so that we can best meet needs
of pupils and teachers across the
nation. All teachers of RE are
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teacher who takes part. To find
out more and take part, please
go to: http://www.natre.org.uk/
news/latest-news/2016-natreprimary-survey/
Teach RE Course
Want to teach RE? Already
teaching RE? Have to teach RE?
Then this course might be perfect
for you.
The Culham St Gabriel’s Teach RE
course is a distance learning
course designed to support
teachers’ subject knowledge, and
to provide opportunities to apply
this to classroom practice. The
course is appropriate for all
teachers of RE or those planning to
teach the subject. There are
currently teachers from primary,
special and secondary schools
taking the course as well as those
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who are
entering
Initial
Teacher
Training.
The course
comprises
an audit,
and three
modules.
These
modules
include
opportunities to
“Stairs of decisions” by Fenella (12)
explore a
rationale for
in entries in a range of media,
RE, create a presentation, write an
with sculpture, photography and
essay or develop a scheme of
a dance video all being classed
learning. Modules on field trips,
as winners.
primary subject leadership and
curriculum design have also been
The 2016 competition runs until
recently developed.
31 July 2016, so why not work on
entries with your students? The
Culham St Gabriel’s are delighted
winning artwork from previous
to be able to offer “bulk buy”
years can be viewed at http://
packages, when five or more
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places are bought together. This
projects/spirited-arts/art-inmeans £125 per trainee, rather
heaven/2015/ to inspire entrants
than the usual £150.
and let them know what they are
Every trainee has a tutor allocated
aiming for.
to them, so 1:1 support is provided
There for 2016 are:
throughout the course. If you
would like more information
It's not fair! Faith and Justice
about the course please email
(suggested for primary)
[email protected] or visit
www.teachre.co.uk.
Where is God today? (suggested
for primary)
Spirited Arts Competition
NATRE’s 12th Spirited Arts 2015
competition had a huge number
of entries. Do look at the gallery
of winners and those who are
highly commended. Many
teachers use the gallery as
inspiration for their own teaching.
As ever, the standard was
incredibly high and the judges
had to make some very tough
decisions! Pupils chose to send
Seeing Jesus (suggested for
primary)
Could Britain be a rainbow
nation? (suggested for
secondary)
Visions and Prophecy (suggested
for secondary)
Page  20
PRAYER PAGES
Star Wars and
Lord’s Prayer
the
Star Wars movies, from 1977
to the present, dramatise the
conflict between good and evil.
Drawing on themes from
various religions and locating
fictional events in an imaginary
galaxy “long ago and far away”,
Star Wars feature alien
creatures, robots and the now
famous Jedi who represent
good, versus the Sith who are
evil. An omnipresent energy,
known as the “Force” is said to
bind the galaxy together.
Some people are so hooked on
Star Wars that a number
actually declare their religion
to be “Jedi”. 176,632 people in
England and Wales did just
that on their 2011 Census
forms.
So, when the latest in the Star
Wars pop-culture series was
sch edu l ed
for
screening
just
before Christmas
last
year,
it
offered an ideal
opportunity
to
remind
cinema
audiences of the
impor tance
of
prayer in the real
world, by drawing
their attention to
a
brand
new
w e b s i t e
www.justpray.co.uk.
A
one-minute
advertisement was made by the
Church of England, with a wide
range of people simply saying or
singing the words of the Lord’s
Prayer, leading to the website.
The video was paid for by the
Allchurches Trust and approved
by the British Board of Film
Classification.
The company
selling the cinema advertising
space, Digital Cinema Media,
actually said they would give a
discount of 55% on their
standard advertising rate.
Months later,
w i t h
n o
explanation for
their change of
mind,
they
issued
rules
which
would
e x c l u d e
r e l i g i o u s
advertising on
the
grounds
that it might
offend.
News of this
extraordinary
ban hit the UK
headlines, then
went round the world. Within
days, more than a million people
had seen the video on YouTube
and the justpray and other
websites.
Director of Communications for
the Archbishops’ Council of the
Church of England, the Revd
Arun Arora, said: “The Church
of England is absolutely full of
people like me who make
mistakes, but who have a
change of heart or who are led
to repentance and forgiveness.
I hope the next step would be
for the people who run DCM:
Odeon, Vue and Cineworld, to
show the strength of
leadership, to recognise they’ve
made a mistake, have a change
of heart and reconsider their
decision”.
Unknown opponents then
attempted to bring down the
website and fill it with spam
messages. They failed. So in
spite of everything, people who
want to pray can still learn the
“Our Father” by visiting
www.justpray.co.uk.
As a New Year begins
A prayer by Karl Barth (1886–
1968) - this most prominent
Protestant theologian of his
time spent much of his life
resisting the Nazi movement,
and so knew a thing or two
about entering a New Year
undaunted by troubles all
around him.
Page  21
O Lord, our Father, at the turn of the year our hearts are filled
with sombre thoughts, our ears are deafened by the voices of the
radio and the newspapers, with their numerous predictions for the
coming year. Instead we want to hear your word, your voice, your
assurance, your guidance. We know that you are in our midst, and
are eager to give us all that we need, whether we ask or not.
We ask for one thing only: that you collect our scattered thoughts,
getting rid of the confused and defiant thoughts that may distract
us, and thus enable us to concentrate on your limitless generosity
to us. You were abundantly generous to us last year, and will be no
less generous to us next year, and in every year to come. Fill us
with gratitude to you. Amen.
Disturb us, Lord
This prayer of Jacopone da Todi (c 1230–1306)
reminds us of how personal and real our
relationship with Christ can become....
A new creature
Once I felt I was melting under the heat of
anguish.
Once all hope of happiness had left me.
Now I melt under the heat of your warm joy,
And my present bliss excludes even the memory
of past misery.
I am a new creature, Lord, reborn in you.
Your grace rises up and rushes through my veins.
You re-fashion my heart, as a sculptor fashions a
statue,
Shaping it in the perfect image of love.
Jacopone da Todi (c 1230 – 1306) was a
Franciscan lay brother, briefly imprisoned by the
Pope for his opposition to the papal corruption of
the time. This is from his prayer “Ecstasy
through Christ”.
Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased
with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we have dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when
With the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.
Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wider seas
Where storms will show your mastery;
Where losing sight of land,
We shall find the stars.
We ask You to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push into the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love.
Attributed to Sir Francis Drake, 16th Century
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The diocesan vision, Living
God’s Love, has been
thoroughly examined and a way
forward for the diocese
discerned. The vision will
continue to follow the three
paths, Going Deeper into God,
Tranforming Communities and
Making New Disciples and will
enjoy a new name: Living God’s
Love 2020, as well as a
renewed focus on the values in
the Living God’s Love prayer:
generosity and joy,
imagination and courage.
In line with this, the Diocesan
Board of Education has created
a vision for church schools: how
they live God’s love by being
distinctively Christian,
community-focussed and
serving the common good.
Documents were circulated to
schools and attached clergy in
early January. Schools are
encouraged to respond with an
individual vision showing how
they can live God’s love.
(SIAMS reports generally
contain much of this
information.)
The Schools Team are collating
a library of photographs to
demonstrate how church
schools live God’s love and are
asking each school to send us a
picture as evidence of this, of
sufficient quality to be
enlarged to A4. We would
appreciate these to be with us
by 12 February 2016. We
envisage many uses for these
pictures!
PRAYERS FOR SCHOOLS
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Cheshunt Deanery
 Broxbourne Primary
Let us hold the schools of
specific deaneries in our
prayers. In this issue, we pray
for the church schools in:
 Northill Lower
 Sutton Lower
 Churchfield Primary,
Cheshunt (Turnford)
Bedford Deanery
 Wrestlingworth Lower
 St Mary’s High, Cheshunt
 St James’ Lower, Biddenham
Bishop’s Stortford Deanery
 St Catherine’s Primary,
Hoddesdon
 Cranfield Academy
 Holywell, Cranfield
 Renhold Lower
Berkhamsted Deanery
 Aldbury Primary
 Victoria Infant,
Berkhamsted
 Thomas Coram, Berkhamsted
 Great Gaddesden Primary
 Little Gaddesden Primary
 Long Marston Primary
 Northchurch St Mary’s
Primary
 Roxton Lower
 St Swithun’s Lower, Sandy
 Albury Primary
 All Saints Primary,
 St Michael’s Primary,
 Dagnall
 Little Munden Primary
 Ashton St Peter’s Primary,
Dunstable
 St Andrew’s Primary,
Much Hadham
 Spellbrook Primary
 Roger de Clare First,
Puckeridge
 Ardeley St Lawrence
Primary
 St Andrew’s Lower,
Biggleswade
 Edward Peake Lower,
Biggleswade
 John Donne Lower, Blunham
 Caldecote Lower
 Dunton Lower
 Alban Academy,
Great Barford
 Wormley Primary
 High Wych Primary
 Bishop Wood Junior, Tring
Biggleswade Deanery
 Holy Trinity Primary,
Waltham Cross
Dunstable Deanery
Buntingford Deanery
 St Bartholomew’s Primary,
Wigginton
 Northaw Primary
 Furneux Pelham Primary
 Potten End Primary
 Tring
 Dewhurst St Mary’s Primary,
Cheshunt
 St Mary’s Infant, Baldock
 St Mary’s Junior, Baldock
 Barkway First
 Ashton Middle, Dunstable
 All Saints Academy
Dunstable
 Manshead, Dunstable
 St Augustine’s Academy,
Dunstable
 St Leonard’s Lower, Heath &
Reach
 Thomas Whitehead Primary,
Houghton Regis
 Barley First
 Pulford Lower, Leighton
Buzzard
 Benington Primary
 Kensworth Primary
 Layston First, Buntingford
 Studham Village
 Edwinstree Middle,
Buntingford
 Toddington St George
 Hormead First
 Weston Primary
Give support to all staff, pupils,
parents and governors. Guide
them in all that they do. Give
them the comfort of knowing
that they are safe in your arms.
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Diocesan Office, Holywell Lodge
41 Holywell Hill, St Albans AL1 1HE
Tel:
01727 818170
Fax:
01727 844469
E-mail: [email protected]
www.stalbans.anglican.org/schools
Endings and Beginnings
I don’t have much of a memory for Roman gods,
having been obsessed with all things to do with
the industrial revolution when I was at school, but
I always remember the Roman God Janus, the
God of beginnings and transitions who looks both
ways backwards into the old year and forward to
the new.
All new beginnings have to have a starting point;
all journeys commence with a first step. On 4
January all schools were sent a vision document
which articulates how church schools in the
diocese can live God’s love by being distinctively
Christian, community-focussed and by serving
the common good. This is our shared vision:
church schools promote human flourishing and
The beginning of the New Year is a time for the
sustain local communities. At the heart
Schools Team to look both backwards
of this work are Christian values and
Director’s virtues, which are central to all aspects
and forwards. It is a time of transition.
July 2015 saw the end of Jon Reynolds’
End Note of school life.
16 years as Director of Education and
this was followed in December by Geoffrey
In sharing this vision we do so recognising that as
Williams, long serving Vice-Chair of the Diocesan
church schools we equally look back to our
Board of Education stepping down after 16 years
formation as local, church-led schools, serving
in that position. We are thankful for all that Jon
local children, and forward into the future,
and Geoffrey gave in service to furthering the
committed to the difference a distinctively
work of church schools in the diocese and our
Christian, community-focussed education can
prayers go with them as they enter a new phase
make to pupils, parents and the local community.
of their lives.
Thank you for what you do. I appreciate it, as
Transition is challenging both in terms of
does the whole Schools Team and the Board of
maintaining the high standards of those who have
Education. Your role within a church school,
gone before but also in discerning a way forward
whatever it may be, is important. It is important
that enables the Board of Education to continue to
because it enables children and young people to
offer schools in the diocese the pastoral and
flourish, to grow into the people God created
professional support they need to develop and
them to be. Please be assured of my ongoing
grow. We all work in a challenging educational
prayers for all the schools in the diocese and the
environment and there is still much change to
communities they serve.
come.
Your Schools Team:
Contact us at:
David Morton
Director of Education
01727 818172
[email protected]
Jane Chipperton
RE Adviser
01727 818175
[email protected]
Bob Garrard
Admissions Adviser
07895 176572
[email protected]
Eileen Bigg
Schools Secretary [& Editor]
01727 818170
[email protected]
Ruth Garman
General Schools Administrator
01727 818168
[email protected]

2 Schools Newsletter: Autumn 2015 / Spring 2016

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