SRE in 2019
2019 SRE Classes
Special Religious Education (SRE) is offered to Years 7 and 8 students. Classes will be held on alternate Wednesdays throughout the year, rotating through periods. Students must return a signed permission note to attend.
From time to time SRE seminars may be offered to students in Years 9-10. Information will be provided to parents if and when seminars are organised.
Students must return a signed permission note to attend any SRE activity. Parents may withdraw their child from SRE at any time by writing to the school.
Tuncurry Campus staff do not supervise SRE. Instead they will be running alternative meaningful activities for students who do not attend SRE.
SRE Providers
The SRE teacher, Jose Vergara, is employed by Generate Ministries delivering the curriculum, ‘Think Faith’. Information on the curriculum can be found at https://thinkfaith.com.au.
Please note: The school is not responsible for the SRE curriculum. Any concerns regarding the curriculum should be directed to the Authorised Providers of SRE: contact details listed below.
Generate Ministries is organising SRE on behalf of the approved SRE providers: the Anglican, Baptist, Coast EC, Churches of Christ, Salvation Army, Presbyterian, Seventh Day Adventist and Uniting Churches.
For more information about Special Religious Education (SRE) and Special Education in Ethics (SEE), including the list of approved providers, please visit: https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/learning-across-the-curriculum/religion-and-ethics
If your preferred SRE or Special Education in Ethics (SEE) option is not available please contact the approved provider.
Special Education in Ethics is not available in high schools at this time.
Alternative Activities During SRE
Students not attending SRE are to engage in alternative meaningful activities during SRE periods. At Tuncurry Campus, students not attending SRE will attend their regular class. The alternative meaningful activities will be curriculum related, non-assessable tasks in that subject. Examples of such activities may include, but are not limited to:
· Drama games in English
· Maths challenges
· Maths Online games
· Science Interest Experiments
· Historical Film Study
· Orienteering Challenges in Geography
· Sport and Games in PDHPE
· Non-assessable cooking activities
· Japanese revision games
· Music performance activities
· Working on design projects in Technology
· Revision for exams and assessments
Provider Contact Details
SRE Board: Scripture in Forster – Tuncurry (SIFT)
Board Contact: Dennis Ang
E-mail: dennis@dennisang.net
Board Contact Phone: 0422 459 549
Employer: Generate Ministries
Employer E-mail: info@generate.org.au
Employer Phone: 02 8042 2760
Authorised Providers Contacts
Anglican Diocese of Newcastle
St Albans, Forster
Mark Harris
02 5543 7683
http://newcastleanglican.org.au/community/school-scripture-sre
Baptist Union of NSW
Baptist Church Forster
Jan Long
0409 070 311
https://nswactbaptists.org.au/baptistsre
Churches of Christ
Forster Tuncurry Church of Christ
Bret Clarke
02 6557 2194
https://freshhope.org.au/news-resources/special-religious-education
Coast Evangelical Church (Forster)
Coast EC
Chris Elkin
02 6555 4093
http://coastec.net.au/sre-training
Presbyterian Church of Australia
Forster-Tuncurry Presbyterian Church
David Hann
02 6555 7904
http://pynsw.org.au/sre
Seventh Day Adventist Church North NSW Conference
Forster/ Tuncurry SDA Church
Graham Stewart
04 4744 4424
https://nnsw.adventist.org.au/special-religious-education
The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army Forster-Tuncurry
Phillip and Donna Sutcliffe
02 6554 6101
http://toolkit.salvos.org.au/toolkit/resource/sre-special-religious-education-nsw-only-/845
Uniting Church in Australia (NSW Synod)
Forster Tuncurry Uniting Church
Geoffrey Battle
02 6555 8573
http://ume.nswact.uca.org.au/our-work/sre