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Volume 20, Issue 2, Spring Term 2019 £5.95 Catholic Education Today www.networkingcet.co.uk A Catholic Research School: igniting the enquiring minds of young people - See page 15 CATHOLIC CATHOLIC CATHOLIC NDEPENDENT INDEPENDENT INDEPENDENT I SCHOOLS SCHOOLS SCHOOLS CONFERENCE CRDCE CONFERENCE CONFERENCE 2 Networking Volume 20, Issue 2, Spring Term 2019 2 Networking Volume 20, Issue 2, Spring Term 2019 Take the give it up challenge! CAFOD is the Catholic charity that helps the poorest, most hard-to-reach people around the world. People who are facing drought, conflict, disease, injustice. We believe in a world where every woman, man and child Meet Rabiul’s family in Bangladesh This Lent we are sharing the story of Rabiul’s family in Bangladesh. Rabiul lives by a river and his family rely on fishing to eat and make a living. Last year the river dried up and all the fish died. The fish have not returned and sometimes the family just drink water for dinner. This is not right. God has given enough resources on this planet for everyone. No one should go hungry. The good news is that CAFOD is part of the global Church network that reaches to the ends of the earth, so we know here Rabiul is and how to help. But we need the help of schools like yours to make a difference! We can’t wait to see how your school takes on the give it up challenge this Lent, on or around Fast Day this Friday 15 March! Networking Volume 20, Issue 2, Spring Term 2019 3 So, this year we are inviting schools to take the give it up challenge to support families like Rabiul’s. Taking the give it up challenge can be simple: Get involved How your money can help • Find videos, assemblies, prayers and other free education resources on our website cafod.org.uk/schools • Did you know we have a team of trained speakers who visit schools and deliver assemblies and workshops? Last term they visited over 500 schools! Get in touch to book yours. Email: [email protected] • Order free resources such as give it up posters and stickers from shop.cafod.org.uk 4 Networking Volume 20, Issue 2, Spring Term 2019 Weather changes create poverty By Madeline Woods, a CAFOD Step into the Gap volunteer based at Leeds Trinity University, who has just returned from a trip to Uganda. As a Step into the Gap volunteer with CAFOD, I have had the opportunity to speak with lots of students at Leeds Trinity University about issues such as climate change. Many of them have been passionate about helping – pledging to change elements of their lifestyle to become more sustainable. But all too often in the UK, climate change is seen as a faceless and abstract issue. Although we are aware of the issue, we are lucky enough not to have to face the serious and devastating reality of climate change on a daily basis. However, the tide may be turning even in this country. The impacts of climate change are becoming even For three weeks I travelled through different communities. Most of the more apparent on our doorstep – Uganda with my fellow Step into people we met have benefited with last year seeing record soaring the Gap volunteers. Throughout from water projects funded by temperatures and an increasing our time there we were privileged CAFOD supporters across England number of floods. to meet with many people from and Wales. In Uganda, climate change is When the crops fail due to worst-case scenario is simple: more than just being about ‘save unpredictable changing weather famine. the polar bears’ or ‘ban plastics’ patterns, it leaves people with campaigns. For people in Uganda, nothing to eat. They have nothing climate change is the difference to sell at the market to bring in between life and death. some money for their family. The Networking Volume 20, Issue 2, Spring Term 2019 5 We asked every group we met whether they had noticed the effects of climate change in their area of work. The answer was always ‘yes’. In Karamoja in the north of Uganda, the last two years have been particularly rough. In 2017, there was a drought. This meant that the rainy season – which usually runs from March to May – never came. In 2018, the problem was reversed – the rain was too heavy. This caused flooding and, once again, the communities’ crops were destroyed. While visiting a local school we met a man called Philip, who necessary reminder for me about I knew at the beginning of the lives in a community helped by the realities of climate change. trip that climate change was one of CAFOD’s food security Before I came away, I made a few something that affects the poorest programmes. Without even asking changes in my life to try and act communities in the world first, but Philip directly about the impact more sustainably. I try to recycle now I know that it’s not just any climate change was having on his because it takes little effort, but I community. It is Philip, as he sits in life, he told us “weather changes know I could do so much more. the school with a group of children are creating poverty”. who face an uncertain future. It is all From becoming a flexitarian or the communities we have met here giving up meat entirely, to reducing in the north of Uganda. Meeting my plastic consumption and people who are living this reality in avoiding single use plastics, there Ugandan communities has instilled are so many ways in which I can act. in me a sense of responsibility to I urge you to consider your options, act. too. Climate change is very, very real. The people I have met in Uganda And now I realise fully that it’s our have put a face to the abstract duty to our brothers and sisters all stories we have heard about climate over the world to do everything we Hearing from Philip about the change; it is ruining people’s possibly can to reduce the negative challenges faced by communities livelihoods and leaving people impacts of climate change by in Karamoja was a shocking but hungry. taking action now. Applications are open for Step into the Gap 2019! Visit cafod.org.uk/gapyear Find resources for schools on climate change. 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CAFOD Update .................................................................................................................... 2 - 5 The Catholic Independent Schools Conference. In defence of state-funding for faith-based schools in the UK and beyond ............. 8 The Birmingham Catholic Secondary Schools Partnership. by Professor Gerald Grace, KSG, KHS The Manchester Catholic Secondary Schools Partnership. Catholic Universities, ...................................................................................................11 Through the SCES to all Catholic Schools in Scotland. By Rosa Lewis, Parliamentary Officer, Catholic Education Service Editorial Team: Reflections of a Catholic CEO .....................................................................................12 Editor - John Clawson by Raymond Friel, CEO of Plymouth CAST News Roundup - Willie Slavin A Catholic Research School: igniting the enquiring minds of young people .........15 by Louise McGowan and Christopher Doel Netcet Editorial Board Bob Beardsworth, Peter Boylan, Carmel O’Malley, Kevin Quigley, Dr. Larry McHugh, Willie Slavin, Academisation of Catholic Schools ............................................................................ 17 Fr John Baron By Dr. Ellis Field Editorial Contributors: News from CATSC ........................................................................................................19 Research: Professor Gerald Grace, CRDCE Peter Boylan News from Scotland .................................................................................................... 24 CATSC - John Nish CISC - Dr Maureen Glackin CISC News..................................................................................................................... 26 SCES - Barbara Coupar CAFOD - Victoria Ahmed Take care – changes are on the horizon for RE in Catholic schools ........................