Agenda and minutes

No reflection was taken at the meeting. Members were invited to let the Clark know in advance if they would like to hold a reflection at the next meeting.

Apologies were given from, Norma Corney, Beryl Miller, Lianne Charmers, Nicki Mobley, Sister Stella, Kirsty Thomas.

To invite Members to declare any interest they might have in the matters on the agenda.

Justine Ball wished to make a standing declaration that she works 1 day a month for the National Association of the Teachers of Religious Education.

1.    1.To confirm as a true record the minutes of the meeting held on 9 June 2021.

2.    To discuss any actions from the minutes

The minutes were approved with minor amendment to the dates of the next meetings.

To receive a verbal update.

New members of the committee were introduced and welcomed to the committee. Past and soon to be leaving members of the committee were also thanked for their time and commitment to the committee.

To receive a verbal update.

It was brought to the committees attention that the Monitoring Group, a sub group of SACRE has been re-instated since the end of lockdown. Current members of SACRE were invited to join the group and heard how the sub group looked in detail at monitoring Religious Education and all members of SACRE were welcome to join.

It was asked if it could be recorded that Beth from The Bay was recorded by AQA to have exemplary marking for GCSE results. Thanks was also given to Ryde Academy to as their moderation was assessed as good.

The committee were advised that on the SACRE website the figures of the number of students entered for the RE GCSE and their grades were available for viewing, and it was asked if this could be recorded. These figures can also be compared to other areas of the UK. Link to the webpage needs to be added

To consider and discuss the three year action plan.

The action plan was passed around by the Clerk and the committee was given time to consider the plan. The changes in the plan were raised and members were invited to make comments or changes to the action plan.

It was noted that despite collective worship being in the three year plan on more than one occasion and that the authority were finding it difficult to monitor. The committee also said they felt that section two, number seven is a living document so should be changed to Amber. The Chairman agreed this would be made amber.

To include an update regarding activities of National and Regional RE events and meetings, including south Central Hub and Future NASACRE meetings.

Justine Ball gave the committee an update on activities nationally, the south central hub and NASACRE. It was noted that the annual report would have a new template and the annual report will be taken to the Isle of Wight Council’s Scrutiny Committee for Children’s Services, Education and Skills in its new format.

To receive updates and notification of future agenda items.

It was noted that the SACRE constitution had not been updated for a length of time and contained nothing regarding virtual meetings. This triggered a review of the constitution to be added to the agenda for the next meeting. It was suggested a sub-committee was formed to review the constitution and members were asked to make themselves known if they would like to volunteer. A member raised quoracy being added to the review as there had previously been meetings that were close to not being quorate.

The next scheduled meeting is on 23 March 2022: 16:00-18:00.

Members were invited to let the committee know if they knew of any schools that would like to host the next SACRE meeting on March 23^rd march 2022 commencing at 1600hrs.