Meanwhile, can't we look the other way..?
This post will take me a while to type, i'm eating shortbread, mmmm.
A little while ago I was guided to this website that was concerned about an organisation called 'Truth in Science' because they are trying to encourage schools to teach "Intelligent Design".
Anyway, because I am a concerned adult who is "worried about the children!" I thought I would use the forms to send a letter about it to my MP, Derek Twigg. Today I received a letter from my MP which included a letter from Andrew Adonis, Minister for Schools.
Here is what it said.....
Dear Derek,
Thank you for your letter of 18 October........ (blah blah, we can ignore this first paragraph...)
Mr Dyer refers to the "Truth in Science" resource pack which is about scientific controversy over the origins of life and its diversity. Neither my Department nor QCA have been involved in the development or distribution of this pack to schools.
It is up to schools to decide what teaching resources they need to help them deliver the national curriculum for science effectively. However, Mr Dyer is correct, neither intelligent design no creationism, are recognised scientific theories and they are not included in the national curriculum. The Truth in Science information pack is therefore not a suitable resource for the science curriculum.
The programme of study sets out the legal requirements of the national curriculum. There are two programmes of study currently operating in Key Stage 4 science: pupils in year 11 are following the 2000 programme of study, while year 10 pupils are following the 2006 programme of study.
Both programmes of study include a focus on the nature of sciences as a subject discipline including what constitutes scientific evidence and how this is established by experimentation. Pupils also learn about scientific theories with extensive supporting evidence from established bodies of scientific knowledge, and how evidence can form the basis for further experimentation. The role of the scientific community in evaluating and validating new work is also included, as is the nature of and evidence for evolution.
I should mention that my department has received a range of correspondence about the teaching of creationism and intelligent design in the science curriculum. My officials are currently working with QCA to find a suitable way of communicating to schools that they are not part of the science national curriculum.
Yours ever
Andrew Adonis
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I'll try an send that to the BHA to see what they think.
......
In other news, i've uploaded my new title/logo and updated the colours. My .media site has the new logo too, I think it looks pretty cool.
Lastly, Casino Royale was ace, I thought that I had lost interest in the Bond thing ages ago but this new version seems to have brought some life back into the franchise. This review is good, I like how they go into very fine details about the films sex/violence/language and then moan about it as if everyones mind is going to be corrupted. Silly.
Right, bed for me soon I think
byee
A little while ago I was guided to this website that was concerned about an organisation called 'Truth in Science' because they are trying to encourage schools to teach "Intelligent Design".
Anyway, because I am a concerned adult who is "worried about the children!" I thought I would use the forms to send a letter about it to my MP, Derek Twigg. Today I received a letter from my MP which included a letter from Andrew Adonis, Minister for Schools.
Here is what it said.....
Dear Derek,
Thank you for your letter of 18 October........ (blah blah, we can ignore this first paragraph...)
Mr Dyer refers to the "Truth in Science" resource pack which is about scientific controversy over the origins of life and its diversity. Neither my Department nor QCA have been involved in the development or distribution of this pack to schools.
It is up to schools to decide what teaching resources they need to help them deliver the national curriculum for science effectively. However, Mr Dyer is correct, neither intelligent design no creationism, are recognised scientific theories and they are not included in the national curriculum. The Truth in Science information pack is therefore not a suitable resource for the science curriculum.
The programme of study sets out the legal requirements of the national curriculum. There are two programmes of study currently operating in Key Stage 4 science: pupils in year 11 are following the 2000 programme of study, while year 10 pupils are following the 2006 programme of study.
Both programmes of study include a focus on the nature of sciences as a subject discipline including what constitutes scientific evidence and how this is established by experimentation. Pupils also learn about scientific theories with extensive supporting evidence from established bodies of scientific knowledge, and how evidence can form the basis for further experimentation. The role of the scientific community in evaluating and validating new work is also included, as is the nature of and evidence for evolution.
I should mention that my department has received a range of correspondence about the teaching of creationism and intelligent design in the science curriculum. My officials are currently working with QCA to find a suitable way of communicating to schools that they are not part of the science national curriculum.
Yours ever
Andrew Adonis
......
I'll try an send that to the BHA to see what they think.
......
In other news, i've uploaded my new title/logo and updated the colours. My .media site has the new logo too, I think it looks pretty cool.
Lastly, Casino Royale was ace, I thought that I had lost interest in the Bond thing ages ago but this new version seems to have brought some life back into the franchise. This review is good, I like how they go into very fine details about the films sex/violence/language and then moan about it as if everyones mind is going to be corrupted. Silly.
Right, bed for me soon I think
byee
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