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IMPACT<br />
REPORT<br />
Building of the new St John Fisher School in Chatham<br />
Children from Margaret Roper School attend<br />
the Start of Year Service at St George's<br />
Cathedral’<br />
• 66 visits to support Religious<br />
Education and the Catholic Life of<br />
schools<br />
• 13 in-person senior leader<br />
interviews<br />
• 16 in-person and 10 virtual<br />
meetings with governing bodies<br />
• Joining eight Ofsted feedback<br />
meetings to governors<br />
• Hosting the ‘Beginning of Year<br />
Mass’ at the Cathedral for schools<br />
across the diocese<br />
• Seven in-person courses and six<br />
virtual courses<br />
• Headteachers’ Conference<br />
A new and exciting project has been<br />
the development of the Chaplaincy<br />
Apprenticeship Programme. The key<br />
feature of this first year of the project<br />
has been to design, from scratch, the<br />
Chaplaincy Apprenticeship course<br />
structure and content. From there<br />
the formal links with St Mary’s University (Twickenham) were<br />
established. The programme has been formally validated for the<br />
first cohort to start in Spring 2022 which has attracted interest<br />
from a good number of schools in the Archdiocese of <strong>Southwark</strong>.<br />
This project has become nationally significant because this is the<br />
first apprenticeship of its kind in the country. Other dioceses are<br />
interested in participating because they see this as a potential<br />
answer to the need for better formed chaplains for schools.<br />
Some inspection activity of the Catholic character of schools<br />
(Section 48) in the diocese was possible during the autumn before<br />
pausing again as Covid cases increased. Preparations for the<br />
introduction of a national Catholic Schools Inspection framework<br />
continue with the appointment in September of a Catholic Schools<br />
Inspection Coordinator. This will enable us to recruit/train a team of<br />
inspectors. We will also be better placed to run a variety of courses<br />
to help school leaders and governors to understand the new<br />
requirements when the new inspection processes go live.<br />
Our commitment to inclusion, diversity and equality continued.<br />
Members of our team have been delivering training for school<br />
staff and governors in various settings. We collaborated with the<br />
diocesan Commission for Racial Justice on a couple of projects,<br />
including arranging for some of our schools to participate in the<br />
Mass at the Cathedral on Racial Justice Sunday.<br />
The buildings team at the Education Commission carried out 67<br />
projects for our Voluntary-Aided schools via the Schools Condition<br />
Allocation (SCA) funding. The buildings team led the launch of the<br />
Statlog system. Statlog is a ‘premises management’ tool that helps<br />
governors and diocesan staff ensure our school buildings are fit for<br />
purpose. In time we would like all schools be able to use the system<br />
to its full potential. The construction of the new school building at<br />
St john Fisher Catholic Comprehensive in Chatham is progressing<br />
well. We are confident that the school will highlight what modern<br />
day Catholic education can be.<br />
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