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Special Religious Instruction

Removing Special Religious Instruction from your school: A ‘How to’ guide

by Jac Tomlins · Jun 18, 2014

Last week the principal of my children’s local, state primary school sent home a letter explaining to parents that the Special Religious Instruction (SRI) program would finish at the end of this semester. This was something I had been working towards for some time and so the news was very welcome. In this blog, I […]

Filed Under: Rainbow families, Religion, School and education Tagged With: Access Ministries, Kew Primary School, Special Religious Instruction

Kew Primary School ends Special Religious Instruction

by Jac Tomlins · Jun 18, 2014

One parent’s crusade?…A David and Goliath battle?…Blow your trumpet loud enough and walls come tumbling down! This week the principal of Kew Primary School (KPS) sent a letter to all parents announcing the end of Special Religious Instruction (SRI). Here’s the letter on my fridge! (Actually, I photocopied a few extra just for the hell […]

Filed Under: Rainbow families, Religion, School and education Tagged With: Access Ministries, Kew Primary School, Special Religious Instruction

Special Religious Instruction: A letter to School Council

by Jac Tomlins · May 6, 2014

Last month I wrote a blog about Special Religious Instruction at my kids’ local state primary school. The blog generated lots of schoolyard discussion which was fantastic. I had some great conversations with parents of different faiths – Greek Orthodox, Muslim, Catholic, Anglican – and parents of no faith. The overwhelming sense I got from these […]

Filed Under: Religion, School and education Tagged With: Access Ministries, Fairness in Religion in Schools, Special Religious Instruction

Special Religious Instruction: Time to push back

by Jac Tomlins · Mar 7, 2014

I’ve written about a broad range of topics on this blog over the last couple of years, but the subject that’s received most attention by far is Special Religious Instruction, the program delivered by Access Ministries to students in our state primary schools. It’s also one of those issues that just won’t leave me alone […]

Filed Under: Religion, School and education Tagged With: Access Ministries, Christian Religious Education, Kew Primary School, Special Religious Instruction

Without Jesus, our students are lost

by Jac Tomlins · Feb 11, 2014

The dreaded yellow form came home again today…

Filed Under: Rainbow families, Religion, School and education Tagged With: Fairness in Religion in Schools, FIRIS, Special Religious Instruction

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