Agenda

·         To confirm as a correct record the minutes of the last meeting held on Monday 21 September 2015 at the Civic Suite

·         Public Examinations in Lewisham, summer 2015 – to be updated on progress with obtaining the exam data

·         To confirm the order of business and notify of any urgent business. Please also notify the Chair of any items to be raised in information exchange.

To be updated on membership issues

To receive information from John Goodey and Mohammed Barrie about a project they are collaborating on with their school (deferred from the last meeting)

Discussion of the Charles Clarke and Linda Woodhead Report based on a paper produced by the National Association of SACREs

Updated Ramadan advice

Ramadan will fall next year at the hottest time of the summer, when the days are at their longest and pupils in our schools are doing public and internal exams and tests, this advice has been revised so that it can be circulated early next year to enable schools to manager internal and public exams most sensitively and efficiently for their Muslim pupils.

Responding to Crises

Updated advice.

To receive an update on local events from Gerald Rose

Information from the RE Council, the APPG and other National bodies

·         Farmington Scholarships for Teachers of Religious Education and Headteachers, Academic Year 2016/17

·         RE and Community Cohesion Update, Autumn Term 2015

·         SMSC Self Evaluation Tool

To allow the opportunity for SACRE members to exchange issues/ information

If you have any information to circulate please inform the Chair before the meeting

Report back from the Inter Faith week 2015 Greenwich United ‘Question Time’ – Shaun Burns

·         The next Lewisham SACRE meeting (meetings take place from 6:30pm to 8:30pm)

·         Training for new SACRE members – repeat session