Agenda item

3.1   Members are asked to note that since the Agenda was published, a determination application has been received from Northview Junior and Infant School, details attached, which Members are being asked to consider at the consider at the meeting along with:

(a)        Anson Primary School

(b)        Brentfield Primary School

(c)        Mitchell Brook Primary School

(d)        Mount Stewart Federation & Mount Stewart Infants

(e)        Newfield Primary School

(f)         Northview Junior and Infant School

3.2   Following the decision made at the previous meeting, members are asked to note that the Governing Body minutes in support of the determination application from Stonebridge School have now been received, with the determination application subsequently having been approved.

3.1   Ian Slade, Chair, advised that there were six determinations to be considered at the meeting as follows:

(a)    Anson Primary School

(b)    Brentfield Primary School

(c)    Mitchell Brook Primary School

(d)    Mount Stewart Federation & Mount Stewart Infants

(e)    Newfield Primary School

(f)     Northview Junior and Infant School

In considering each determination application members of SACRE were keen to recognise the quality of the applications which had been submitted for consideration having noted the wider context of collective worship within the determination process and current statutory requirements in relation to the application process.  Whilst recognising, as an example, the value in the provision of supporting information designed to outline how the RE curriculum had been tailored to reflect different religions in each school, members were reminded this did not form part of the formal application requirement to SACRE.

In addition, members were keen (in reviewing the Collective Worship Policy provided by each school in support of their applications) to recommend as good practice the inclusion of details, as part of any application moving forward, should any parents/carers at the school have indicated they wished to withdraw their children from collective worship.

Having considered the applications, it was therefore unanimously RESOLVED (with each of the four membership groups voting in favour) to approve and grant the renewal of the following determinations:

(1)      Anson Primary School

(2)      Brentfield Primary School

(3)      Mitchell Brook Primary School

(4)      Mount Stewart Federation & Mount Stewart Infants

(5)      Newfield Primary School

(6)      Northview Junior and Infant School

3.2   Following the decision made at the previous meeting, members were also advised that the Governing Body minutes in support of the determination application from Stonebridge School had now been received, with members noting the determination application had subsequently been approved.