Useful Links
NEW
The web address
of the
King's Academy's
site is to be :
http://www.kingsacademy.org.uk
, though nothing is as yet online.
Rev. Alan
Leighton's (a member of King's Academy Board) School Assembly resources.
Very pleasant reading. Closer to what most of us hoped for from a "broadly
based Christian Ethos"
"www.schoolweb.middlesbrough.gov.uk
and click on Staff Room and then SACRE Assemblies"
See also the Reverend's site for St George's Church at Normanby:
www.st-georges-org.uk
Campaign
for State Education- useful information on school governance and Parental
involvement
http://www.casenet.org.uk
Secondary
School in Lambeth Campaign- Distinct sense of Deja-vu. This is not only happening
to us.
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/stevemalone/sscil/welcome.html
MPs contact information
is available at
http://www.apeg.org.uk/content/h_o_c.htm
Articles written
by John Burn and Nigel McQuoid (Principal of Emmanuel College) are available
at
http://www.christian.org.uk/html-publications/pub_education.htm
A transcript
of a lecture given by Stephen Layfield, science teacher at Emmanuel College
can be seen at
http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/liars/layfield.html
A useful definition
of Creationism in the BBC' s h2g2 section
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A670213
The DfES information
on Independent/State School Partnerships
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/indstatepartner
and on Legislation for City Academies
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/a-z/CITY_ACADEMIES_legislation_ba.html
The Northern
Echo
http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/the_north_east/news/NEWS22.html
http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/the_north_east/archive/2002/05/14/A6osh0.re.html
http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/the_north_east/archive/2002/05/23/superschool.re.html
There are Many
illuminating newspaper articles, particularly from the Guardian
http://education.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4371165,00.html
http://education.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4385379,00.html
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,5500,664515,00.html
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,5500,680792,00.html
24/05/02 http://education.guardian.co.uk/ofsted/story/0,7348,721588,00.html
Search
the archives yourself
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/
Emmanuel College
Site
http://www.emmanuelctc.org.uk
The Vardy Foundation's
information site on the new Academy
http://www.southmiddlesbrough.com
The British Humanist
Association Site has details of the Letter sent to No. 10 and suggestions
of actions you can take against the teaching of Creationism in Schools
http://www.humanism.org.uk
Channel 4 News
story on Emmanuel College
http://www.channel4.com/news/home/20020311/Story01.htm
Emmanuel's defense of their position, based on a very loose and selective interpretation of the National Curriculum http://www.christianpublications.co.uk//emmanuel11march02.htm
Church Times
article expressing the concern of DURHAM DIOCESE’S director of education,
Canon David Whittington, about the creationist stance of Vardy Foundation
Schools.
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/templates/NewsTemplate_1.asp?recid=1090&table=news&bimage=news&issue=7256&count=2
The Bishop of
Oxford's excellent "Thought for the Day" on BBC Radio 4 on Biblical
Literalism
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/tv_radio/thought/documents/t20020315.html