tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171102652715696831.post1786224381130400231..comments2023-12-18T18:42:46.233-08:00Comments on TDRE Boss Blog: SACRE: Time to move on to drive improvement? Andy Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10106347340506174045noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171102652715696831.post-91307865127005455812015-01-12T09:00:25.780-08:002015-01-12T09:00:25.780-08:00I think there is a sort of a vision here about wha...I think there is a sort of a vision here about what goes on in the deciding on an Agreed Sylalbus that doesn't reflect the reality on the ground. It is rare for an Agreed Syllabus Conference to work in any detail on the text. The majority of ASCs rely on professionals or teachers (or both) to write the syllabus. The majority use a succession model because when you ask teachers what they want as part of the review they don't want change. Hence, you have 'traditions' of syllabuses in areas which are irrerations of previous syllabuses. The notable exceptions to this are Birmingham, Cornwall and Hampshire in recent years.<br /> <br />There is another issue too. I am sure that you remember the 1996 Ofsted report on the impact of Agreed Syllabuses on teaching and learning in RE. This HMI report clearly noted that Agreed Syllabuses were being effectively ignored by secondary schools. Where primary schools had followed the locally agreed syllabus RE had improved but the crisis was especially acute at KS3. This has not changed - althrough the reasons for this may have.<br /> <br />In terms of a NCO for RE the issue is not really about whether it would be good or not, or whether it would gain consensus, but whether it would make things better. I would suggest not on the basis of Citizenship. The NCO Citizenship has been a failure since it was introduced, Yet PSHEe is having something of a boom without a NCO. What matters is how the SLT, especially, view the subject, that is quite different from the issue of a NCO for a subject. Interestingly, research in Catholic secodnary schools indicates that the Directory is not necessarily having the impact it is in your context - I haven't published that yet though.<br /> <br />Joyce Miller has produced some really interesting research on the impact of locally agreed syllabuses in light of the Bradford riots which should not be overlooked in discussions. You might also be interested in:http://re-handbook.org.uk/section/managing/agreed-syllabuses which I published some time ago.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14109111621646062992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171102652715696831.post-50200031244377668282015-01-11T09:59:44.456-08:002015-01-11T09:59:44.456-08:00There was a time when it all seemed to be going we...There was a time when it all seemed to be going well, but with the number of academies, free schools and so on, there will be less power in the SACREs. The idea of different people from the community working together on a syllabus is a wonderful idea when it works well and when development is funded properly, but we are losing the original vision. The Redbridge RE syllabus, which didn't have AT1 and 2, but 'exploring and responding to religion and human experience' sparked lots of brilliant RE in the borough and still does.AnneK-Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07765852089990539613noreply@blogger.com