Issue - meetings

Membership of Young People on SACRE

Meeting: 12/09/2007 - Standing Advisory Committee for Religious Education (Item 23)

Membership of Young People on SACRE

Minutes:

The Committee considered whether they should invite young people as a group to come to a meeting of the SACRE to talk about their experience of RE or whether young people should also be appointed as SACRE members.

 

Several suggestions were put forward:

 

Ø      A group could attend and discuss what they like about RE.

Ø      The Chairs of School Councils could attend and talk about RE.

Ø      Arrange focus groups to look at teaching and learning, challenges for students in the community around them.

Ø      Ask young people how relevant Is RE today?

 

Mr Yarrow informed the meeting he held a list of all school coordinators and would email this to the Chair and Ms Chaplin.

 

The Chair and Ms Chaplin agreed to send a letter out to all secondary schools to invite their school councils to discuss questions about their RE experiences and their answers would be brought to a future meeting of the SACRE.

 

RESOLVED

 

That a letter be sent to all secondary school councils with questions about their RE experiences.