Vardy Hunting 12 - Ms Moore washes her hands of the affair
Created | Updated Apr 25, 2005
From: [email protected]
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: FW: FW: Creationism
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:31:45 +0100
Thank you for your email of 10 April.
There is little more I can add to my previous reply except to expand on the broad and balanced curriculum requirements of the CTC Funding Agreement. To comply with this requirement CTCs are required to teach the core and other foundation subjects of the National Curriculum to all pupils in years 7 to 11. The core subjects are: Maths, English and Science. The other foundation subjects are: design and technology, ICT, history, geography, art and design, music, PE, modern foreign languages, citizenship, sex education, and personal, social and health education. In addition the College is required to teach religious education.
Emmanuel College is fulfilling these requirements and is providing a broad and balanced curriculum.
Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number 2005/0020407
Yours sincerely
Hazel Moore
CITY TECHNOLOGY COLLEGES
ACADEMIES DIVISION
01325 391032
[email protected]
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/index.htm
________________________________________________________________________
And I Replied:
Dear Ms Moore,
We seem to have reached an impasse: I have a legitimate complaint, with evidence to back it up, and you are simply taking Emmanuel College's word that they are not doing anything wrong.
I know what the National Curriculum requirements are - I am a Science teacher. I also know that Emmanuel College are actively promoting the teaching of religious myths ("the Earth is only 6000 years old, and was created in six days by God") as Scientific fact, and that the Head of Science at Emmanuel College has gone on record to explain to other Science teachers how to teach the "biblical facts" as Science when they are not.
The Vardy Foundation is suspect in its methodology, and may have put pressure on Ofsted to force at least one school into Special Measures so that they can buy influence over its curriculum, so it is unlikely that they are going to admit to teaching Creation as Scientific fact in reply to a single question regarding its curriculum.
I also know that nobody has actually inspected Emmanuel College's teaching of evolution and adaptation, since Ofsted told them they would only inspect it if it was being taught at the time of the inspection.
So, a question about your "investigation" of my complaint: has anybody been to the school, looked at the school's scheme of work, looked at each teacher's medium and short-term plans, or inspected the pupils' books to check the work they contain regarding evolution and creationism?
If the answer to this question is not 'yes', then my complaint has not been properly investigated. If you do not have the authority or inclination to initiate an actual investigation, then I expect this message (and your archive of my other messages) to be passed to a more senior representative of the DfES.
Yours Sincerely,
(We'll see what happens next!)
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: FW: FW: Creationism
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:31:45 +0100
Thank you for your email of 10 April.
There is little more I can add to my previous reply except to expand on the broad and balanced curriculum requirements of the CTC Funding Agreement. To comply with this requirement CTCs are required to teach the core and other foundation subjects of the National Curriculum to all pupils in years 7 to 11. The core subjects are: Maths, English and Science. The other foundation subjects are: design and technology, ICT, history, geography, art and design, music, PE, modern foreign languages, citizenship, sex education, and personal, social and health education. In addition the College is required to teach religious education.
Emmanuel College is fulfilling these requirements and is providing a broad and balanced curriculum.
Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number 2005/0020407
Yours sincerely
Hazel Moore
CITY TECHNOLOGY COLLEGES
ACADEMIES DIVISION
01325 391032
[email protected]
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/index.htm
________________________________________________________________________
And I Replied:
Dear Ms Moore,
We seem to have reached an impasse: I have a legitimate complaint, with evidence to back it up, and you are simply taking Emmanuel College's word that they are not doing anything wrong.
I know what the National Curriculum requirements are - I am a Science teacher. I also know that Emmanuel College are actively promoting the teaching of religious myths ("the Earth is only 6000 years old, and was created in six days by God") as Scientific fact, and that the Head of Science at Emmanuel College has gone on record to explain to other Science teachers how to teach the "biblical facts" as Science when they are not.
The Vardy Foundation is suspect in its methodology, and may have put pressure on Ofsted to force at least one school into Special Measures so that they can buy influence over its curriculum, so it is unlikely that they are going to admit to teaching Creation as Scientific fact in reply to a single question regarding its curriculum.
I also know that nobody has actually inspected Emmanuel College's teaching of evolution and adaptation, since Ofsted told them they would only inspect it if it was being taught at the time of the inspection.
So, a question about your "investigation" of my complaint: has anybody been to the school, looked at the school's scheme of work, looked at each teacher's medium and short-term plans, or inspected the pupils' books to check the work they contain regarding evolution and creationism?
If the answer to this question is not 'yes', then my complaint has not been properly investigated. If you do not have the authority or inclination to initiate an actual investigation, then I expect this message (and your archive of my other messages) to be passed to a more senior representative of the DfES.
Yours Sincerely,
(We'll see what happens next!)
