London Workshops: SEX EDUCATION IN STATE SCHOOLS

[yusufpatel]

The Association of Muslim Governors [AMG] presents a London Roadshow in Association with following Mosques and Islamic centres on:

SEX EDUCATION IN STATE SCHOOLS: WHAT? WHY? HOW? WHEN? WHO?

Timings: 7pm - 9pm (unless otherwise stated).

Date and venues:

Monday 26th January: Wandsworth Asian Community Centre 57-59 Trinity Road, Tooting, London, SW17 7SD

Tuesday 27th January: West London Islamic Centre & Jamia Masjid, Brownlow Rd,West Ealing, London, W13

Wednesday 28th January: Froud Centre, Romford Rd, London, E12 5JF

Thursday 29th January: Al Manaar - The Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre244 Acklam Road, London, W10 5YG

Friday 30th January: Park Road Youth & Community Centre,4 Park Road, West Hendon, London, NW4 3QB

Saturday 31st January, 6pm - 8pm: Lewisham Islamic Centre, 363-365 Lewisham High St, Lewisham, London, SE13 6NZ

Last Autumn the Government announced that lessons about personal, social and health matters including sex and relationships will be compulsory in all England's schools from ages five to 16. As Muslim parents, teachers and school governors, the subject of Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) has always been an uncomfortable one.

On the one hand we are aware of the falling moral standards and the other hand the lack of response from the Muslim community leading to our children developing dual personalities.

The UK has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Western Europe, a recent UNICEF report placed Britain at the bottom of the league of 21 developed countries forchildren’s well-being. Amid this chaotic picture there are growing calls to teach Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) at an even earlier age.

This workshop will provide Parents & School Governors with an overview of the opportunities and challenges that exist with current SRE provision in state schools as well spelling out the impact the government's proposals to make SRE compulsory will have.

This workshop will cover:

- A deeper understanding of Sex and Relationship Education (SRE)
- What guidelines have the Government set for teaching SRE?
- What does the repeal of Section 28 mean for schools?
- What is the Role of the Governing Body i.e. School Governors?
- What is the role of the Local Community, Parents and Mosques?
- Do parents have the right to Opt-Out?
- Towards devising a SRE policy suitable to your school
- Watch a sample video of SRE shown in schools
- Practical advice

Please come to this seminar to learn, share and develop a strategy to go forward. You do not need to be a parent or a governor to attend!

Inshallah a local Mufti/Imam will be present and an experienced local state schoolteacher of SRE for advice.

In conjuction with SREIslamic, visit the campaign blog and sign the online petition at: http://sreislamic.wordpress.com

All welcome and free entrance but via but confirmation of attendance will guarantee a seat.

To register or for more information please contact:
Tel: 0845 652 4016
E-mail: info@muslimgovernors.org
Website: www.muslimgovernors.org

Please forward to all your friends, family and email distribution lists

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Please support the campaign to oppose government proposals to impose compulsory Sex & Relationship Education (SRE) in all state schools from the age of five.

Sign the online petition: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/against-the-imposition-of-statutory-sre.html

Visit our campaign blog: http://sreislamic.wordpress.com/

Please forward to your mailing list and encourage others to support the campaign

“Oh you who believe! Protect yourselves and your families against a fire (Hell) whose fuel is men and stones…” (TMQ 66:6)

[yusufpatel]

Assalamualaikum,

As we enter the month of July, the deadline for the end date of the consultation (into making Sex and Relationship Education statutory in all state schools from the age of five) is quickly drawing near.

DEADLINES
Just a gentle reminder for the following deadlines:
Deadline for submission of completed petitions to us: Friday 10th July
Deadline for completing the online SRE consultation: Friday 24th July at 5pm
To stand up for our Islamic values please contribute your voice to this consultation. It can be accessed at the following link http://qca.org.uk/qca_22258.aspx"]http://qca.org.uk/qca_22258.aspx(online[/URL] registration required, click on ‘Register to complete the questionnnaires online’, on the top right-hand corner).

EVENTS
We have our final two seminars this coming weekend.
Central London – Saturday 4th July 2009, 1:30pm – 3pm, Hall A – London Central Mosque, 146 Park Road. London. NW8 7RG
Redbridge - Sunday 5th July, 3pm, Qur’ani Murkuz Trust, 10-14 Mulberry Way, South Woodford, London, E18 1ED

PETITIONS
We plan to present our consultation response alongside a 20,000 strong petition that rejects the proposals to make statutoruy a values free approach to SRE in state schools from the age of five.
Over the next few weeks we are initiating a petition drive to increase the numbers of petitions, focussing on masaajid which have a large number of Jummah attendees.

THINGS YOU CAN DO

We need your help in doing this in two ways:
1) Volunteer - help us to collect signatures to the campaign petition outside masaajid and large Muslim gatherings.
2) Donate - We are going to mass produce the petition and print A0 posters to raise awareness and get signatories to our petition.
If you can do one or both of these please contact me.
We would like to thank An-Noor Primary school for offering us a corporate stall at the annual An-Noor Funday on Sunday July 19th (11am-7pm). They are expecting over 10,000 people at this event. If we can get get 5,000 signatures to our petition at this event we can greatly increase the impact of our consultation response.

FUNDRAISING PROJECT - DIG DEEP
We would also like to draw to your attention to a project to build a Muslim secondary school in Redbridge. This is a community need which requires community support in order to protect the Islamic identity of our future generations. Please give as much as you can and support these brothers and sisters. I have copied a message from brother Sadiq Khotia below. Please forward to your distribution lists.

Assallumulaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatahu

Many of you would have heard that Al-Noor Muslim Primary School has managed to acquire the Pub directly next to its present location in Green Lane, Ilford, in Essex U.K. Our aim is to establish a Secondary School on the site!!!
However we have only until the end of September '09 to raise £650,000

We humbly request each you to do just three things to help further our cause!
1) Please go to this link and watch our appeal www.650special. co.uk and donate whatever you can, every little will take us a step closer.

2) Forward this link to everyone on your mailing lists, lets see if we the Muslim community the world over can raise the £650,000 needed.
3) Explore our youtube channel on http://www.youtube. com/user/ NoorSchool lets hit 650,000 views.

CAN YOU JUST IMAGINE IF WE MANAGE TO GET 650,000 HITS AROUND THE WORLD, WOW!!!

PLEASE POST A POSITIVE COMMENT FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD, WHERE IS THE FURTHERST WE WILL GET A HIT FROM?
SO OFF YOU GO, DO YOUR LITTLE BIT!

Jazak Allah Khairun to each and every one of you

Sadiq Kothia Trustee
Al-noor Muslim primary School

Please sign the online campaign petition if you have not already done so and encourage others to do so as well.
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Yusuf Patel
SREIslamic
http://sreislamic.wordpress.com
sreislamic@btinternet.com
07883 027 067

[asharee_salafi]

Are you the HT Yusuf Patel?

[yusufpatel]

Assalamualaikum,

Yes I am a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir.

Wassalam

Yusuf

[Abu Treika]

Assalamualaikum,

Yes I am a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir.

Wassalam

Yusuf

walaikum assalaam

good to have you on the forum bro!

hows this campaign going?

[yusufpatel]

Assalamualaikum brother,

All praise be to Allah, it is going very well. A lot more awareness needs to be raised around this issue and the protection of the Islamic values of the Muslim community living in this country. We have been running awareness raising workshops and petitions in partnership with masaajid and other educational organisations.

Please do help us spread the word for our last two campaign workshops.

JazakAllahu khairan

Wassalam

Yusuf

[asharee_salafi]

Is this an event run by HT brother?

[yusufpatel]

Assalamualaikum Isa,

I pray you're well?

This is not a Hizb ut-Tahrir event. I am quite surprised that with all the issues surrounding the teaching of SRE and its impact on the Islamic identity this is the one question you chose to start with.

Now the question has been answered, does that mean you will be coming Saturday?

Wassalam

Yusuf

[abu 'eesa]

Why is it only aimed at Muslims? Does it only affect them?

[asharee_salafi]

Assalamualaikum Isa,

I pray you're well?

This is not a Hizb ut-Tahrir event. I am quite surprised that with all the issues surrounding the teaching of SRE and its impact on the Islamic identity this is the one question you chose to start with.

Now the question has been answered, does that mean you will be coming Saturday?

Wassalam

Yusuf

No I am busy on Saturday

It's important to know who events are run by because it may be run by deviant people. So therefore I just had to confirm if it was done by HT or not.

In saying this, I am glad that you and other HT's are now attending other events, perhaps out of realisation that they are actually better then any event HT can organise.

Out of interest bro, what's the solution to all this?