(a)

the conference had been well attended by primary, secondary and student teachers;

(b)

the keynote addresses were provided by Helen Matter (Schools' Adviser, Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich) and Grace Davie (Professor emeritus of Sociology at the University of Exeter, and Chair of the St Luke's College Foundation);

(c)

workshops took place on subject leadership, new projects, developments in ‘assessment without levels’ and teachers’ subject knowledge;

(d)

two new areas were now being funded, and Katie had been involved in training their RE Hub leaders;

(e)

funding was available for another LTLRE Annual Conference, however the situation surrounding the future funding of LTLRE was still unknown;

(f)

the next RE Hub meeting would be held at 4 pm on Thursday 1 December at St Matthew’s Primary and Nursery Academy, and all SACRE members were invited to attend.

(g)

he sent an annual update to all Plymouth schools to remind them how SACRE supports RE and what it can fund;

(h)

two Plymouth schools had received grants of £250 to support the development of RE in their schools.  No applications for this grant had been received so far this year and it was possible that SACRE could award eight of these grants each year;

(i)

the SACRE page on the ‘School Room’ page of the Plymouth City Council website contained links to key RE websites;

(j)

plans were underway to hold three teaching sessions on ‘Teaching Judaism’ at Plymouth Synagogue in February 2017;

(k)

collective worship was an important issue, and a meeting on this subject would be held at Hyde Park School on Monday 28 November at 4.05 pm;

(l)

the South West SACRE Conference would be held on Monday 6 March 2017 at Dillington in Somerset, and funding was available for 2 members of SACRE to attend.

(m)

SACRE had always supported HMD with funding and events. however there was no capacity to organise any events in the city centre in 2017;

(n)

it was hoped that Solly Irving would to visit Plymouth again in 2017;

(o)

schools were being encouraged to support HMD;

(p)

it was possible that Plymouth City Council could provide some additional funding for HMD, however they would not be able to provide any staff cover to organise and co-ordinate events;

(q)

the HMD website www.HMD.org.uk provided resources for all age groups;

(r)

Barbara Wintersgill had links with a local community choir – Brent Singers – who were hoping to work with a local school to premier a piece of music for HMD.