(a)
To receive, for
information, the monitoring form in respect of schools’ self-evaluation for the
Summer to October 2015 period.
(b)
To present a
summary of the following schools’ Self-evaluation:
(i)
Morfa Nefyn Infants’ School
(ii)
Beddgelert School
(iii)
Hirael School
(iv)
Llanaelhaearn School
(v)
Llanelltyd School
(vi)
Ysgol y Traeth School (Barmouth)
(vii)
Dyffryn Nantlle School
(viii)
Ysgol y Gader School
Minutes:
(a) The SACRE Clerk guided Members through the sheet submitted giving a
summary of school findings and attention was drawn to the fact that five
primary schools had been inspected by ESTYN during the 2015 Summer term. Reference was made to extracts taken from
ESTYN reports under indicator 2.3 and heading care, support and guidance of the
Common Inspection Framework.
Miss Bethan James explained the vocabulary used specifically by ESTYN
about collective worship and they had to be careful regarding how the sentences
were interpreted e.g.
"successful" meant good, "appropriate" meant sufficient. Members were also reminded that they should
not be too critical of the schools that had received unsatisfactory /sufficient
for the care, support and guidance element as it was possible that this
referred to other elements apart from collective worship and pupils’ spiritual
and moral development.
(b) Members were guided through the self-evaluations of the schools of Morfa Nefyn, Beddgelert,
Hirael, Llanaelhaearn, Llanelltyd, Y Traeth and two
secondary schools namely Dyffryn Nantlle
and Y Gader by referring to the three key questions,
namely:
1. How good are outcomes in Religious Education?
2. How good is provision in Religious Education?
3.
How good is provision
for collective worship?
SACRE Members
appreciated the self-evaluations and Miss Bethan James gave an explanation
regarding the gap that notes the standards of literacy, numeracy, ITC and
thinking skills and this had been included to encourage schools to
differentiate between religious education standards and skills and to be more
specific regarding the type of elements presented in the report.
Attention was
drawn to interesting elements in some schools and they would welcome schhols to attend future SACRE meetings to share good
practice with Members.
RESOLVED: (a) To accept and note the contents of the
inspections and self- evaluations.
(b) To
approve for Miss Bethan James, GwE Challenge Adviser, to invite a school to
give a presentation on any element of the self-evaluations that would be of
interest to SACRE.
Supporting documents: