INTEGRATED EDUCATION : ‘AN EYE TO THE FUTURE’

ANNUAL REPORT 07-08The Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education

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NICIE ReportsChair’s Foreword 02Chief Executive 04Development 06Communications and Lobbying 12Buildings 18Community Relations 19Professional Development Support Programme 20Review of NICIE Statement of Principles 22The Entitlement Framework E2S 24

Standing Committee ReportsAPTIS – Association of Principal Teachers in Integrated Schools 27Teachers and Early Years Committee 28ISFA – Integrated Schools Finance Association 29

ResearchMillward Brown Ulster Survey 31

Financial InformationTreasurer 35

AppendicesGlossary 37NICIE Staff, Directors, Partners 38Patrons 40Representation 41Training 45Enrolments in Integrated Schools 46

ContentsIntroduction

Taking the Fear Out of DifferenceOne of the most significant social developments within NorthernIreland over the last 20 years has been the development of integratedschools. This development has been even more marked given thesharp political division and violence that has characterised the region.

Integrated Education can best be described as the bringing together inone school of pupils, staff and governors, in roughly equal numbers,from Protestant, Catholic, other faiths and none. It is about cultivatingthe individual’s self-respect and therefore respect for other people andother cultures. Integrated Education means bringing children up to liveas adults in a pluralist society, recognising what they hold in commonas well as what separates them, and accepting both.

The first integrated school, Lagan College, was established in Belfast in1981 by the campaigning parent group All Children Together (ACT). In1985 three more integrated schools opened in Belfast offering parentsin the city an alternative choice to the existing segregated schools.This is not to say that some schools were not religiously mixed butwhere this happened it was more to do with local circumstances andthe religious mixing did not extend to governors or teaching staff.

There are currently 61 Integrated Schools comprising 20 IntegratedSecond Level Colleges, and 41 Integrated Primary Schools. In additionthere are over 19 Integrated Nursery Units/Playgroups, most of whichare linked to Primary schools.

In the 1830s the Government failed inits attempt to construct a unifiedNational School system throughout theisland of Ireland. Many believe that thiscontributed fatally to the divisions in ourcommunity.

In the late 1900s individual parentsbegan this grassroots movement to havea unified, de-segregated, school optionfor our children, so that they could growup as friends with those other childrenwith whom they would live and workas adults.

Now in the 21st century the decline in school rolls andthe rationalisation of our school system puts a newfocus on the issue of separate schooling. The verymajor re-organisation of our primary and second-levelschool system brings serious stress, but alsoopportunity. The new power-sharing executive bringshope - reflecting, as it does, our community’swidespread wish for political and social co-operation.But, as that great man Senator George Mitchellpredicted, the signing of an agreement - excruciatinglydifficult though it was - is easier than implementing it;easier than building new relationships; easier thanworking out a pragmatic new way for us all to livetogether and share this piece of island land, buildingtrust and friendship day by day by day. Eyebrows areraised internationally that unifying school systems in aland notorious for division is left to a voluntary body.Why does a voluntary committee have a bank debt ofapproximately £20 million?

The difficulties in the world economy add further stressto the picture. Resources are not plentiful. But weknow what has to be done. The role of area-based

planning in designing our future schools will be crucial.We must demonstrate to all the community the benefitsof an integrated school system - social, community andeconomic benefits.

The end of some funding has meant the loss of manyvaluable staff members here in NICIE: Deborah Girvan,David Russell, Ian McKay, Margaret Annett, NualaMcAllister-Hart, Pam Tilson, Philip O’Sullivan and KyraSmyth. Some Board Members have also had to standdown: Ray Mullan, former Chairperson, Ian McMorris,Cynthia Currie and Olwin Frost. We certainly miss theirenergies, enthusiasm, experience and theircommitment. Some work can no longer be done byus. Greater burdens fall on our valiant core staff led bythe redoubtable Michael Wardlow. Volunteers will alsotake on such valuable tasks as the reviving of theannual Dunleath Lecture founded by All ChildrenTogether at Queen’s University.

But our friends and supporters remain loyal. TheIntegrated Education Fund continues its essential andvaliant financing work. Our long-time American

Chair’s Foreword

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supporters paid us the greatest compliment of allwhen their President George W Bush and his wifeLaura visited Loughview IPS on Monday 16th June 2008.Such is the signal as to the understanding of Americansthat integration is the way forward. They know it. Theyhave experienced the opposite and it doesn’t work.

There is work to be done. Progress always seems fartoo slow. But progress does remain constant. For thatlet us be thankful and let us continue as ever with allour strength, commitment and determination to do thisvital work for our children and our future.

Colm M. CavanaghChairperson

Seeing things clearly…I have encountered many views onthe role of Integrated Education infacilitating peace and reconciliation,during my 13 years as Chief ExecutiveOfficer of NICIE. Observations rangefrom the naive - “sure the ones whoattend your schools are all integrated,and middle class anyway,” through theridiculous, “now we have peace there isno need for you lot any more,” to thedownright partisan, “our schools wouldbe integrated if the other ones came toour schools instead of wanting their ownschools.” This situation would be at leastunderstandable if such myopic viewswere limited to those outside the ‘family’.However, I have discovered that it isquite possible to be involved withineducation today, where there is denial ofthe need to provide an integrated choicefor families on the same equal terms asplaces are made available withincontrolled and Catholic maintainedschools.

The evidence however is different. In a recent surveycarried out by Millward Brown Ulster (May 2008), over84% of the respondents felt that Integrated Educationwas important in developing peace and reconciliation,with an even higher percentage (85%) determining thatIntegrated Education was important in promotingmutual respect and understanding as well asdeveloping a shared and better future. When this isadded to the 67% who would support a jointlymanaged church school and the 79% who wishedschools to share facilities, it is clear that there isstrong public support for sharing in education.

This survey finds a basis in a recently published Office ofthe First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM)piece of longitudinal research on the impact of crosscommunity contact, “Can Contact Promote BetterRelations? Evidence from Mixed and Segregated Areasof Belfast”. Some of the key findings to come out of theresearch were that:

• direct contact with a member of the other communityresulted in a reduction in prejudice over time

• more intimate contact promoted the sharing ofpersonal information

• indirect contact has a positive effect by changingopinions about accepted and acceptable patterns ofcross-community interaction

• indirect contact is especially effective for people whohave little experience of direct cross-community contact

• when people saw that members of their owncommunity were involved in cross-community contact,this led to an increase in their own cross-communitycontact… the multiplier factor

In addition, integrated schools have also been unfairlycriticised for a lack of academic achievement. Althoughacademic performance is only one indicator of a school’s‘worth‘, this view has no basis in evidence either. Forexample, based on the 2007 GCSE results, of the 18 all-ability integrated colleges which offer GCSEs (about 10%of the total of non grammar schools), a disproportionate 9appear in the top 40 schools. In addition, one integratedschool, Lagan College, is in the top ten of the list, with71% GCSEs Grades A*-C. It is also significant to note thatSperrin IC in Magherafelt, in its first year of offering GSCEs,did remarkably well to come in the top 20.

Chief Executive

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Integrated schools such as these nine post-primarycolleges can and do provide a well rounded educationfor young people - socially, academically and spiritually- with the ‘value added’ of creating a pupil cohortwilling to engage with different ways of understandingidentity, as we move ahead to a shared future together.

This year once again there will be many disappointedpupils and parents as there were insufficient placesavailable in the 61 integrated schools to accommodateall who wished to attend. This is an annual problemwhich was not made better this year when, despiteparental demand, the Minister turned down requestsfrom four schools to transform to integrated status.We are now looking ahead to a shared and betterfuture in Northern Ireland, based on equality anddelivering better cohesion, sharing and integrationfor all its citizens.

So a time has come to clear the vision and focus onoutcomes and not structures, on young people and notperformance targets. In short to focus on agreeing whatkind of future we are building with and for our children.

It is my view that parental demand, backed up withresearch evidence, supports the view that Integrated

Education offers such a basis. It does so because itfocuses on building a shared and better future, throughmodelling safe spaces in which active, tolerant and welleducated citizens can learn together and live together.This must be taken into consideration in the new areabased planning arrangements.

The situation remains that the focus to deliver suchshared institutions still lies with parents. The facts,however, show that parents still want shared schoolsand will continue to drive the demand until eventuallysuch a choice will become a parental right in our sharedand better future.

Michael WardlowChief Executive Officer

Development

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Looking Back, Looking AheadRe-structuringOver the course of the last year a structuralreorganisation of NICIE officers has taken place.In order to offer a more efficient service to schools, thetraditional ‘Development Team’ has been expanded toinclude the Community Relations and ProfessionalDevelopment Officers and has been renamed simply asthe NICIE Support Team. The responsibilities of the twoSenior Development Officers have also been reviewedto reflect the differing support needs of the new andtransforming school projects and the existing integratedschools. While schools within the sector are unlikely tohave noticed any change, it is anticipated that thedetermination of more discrete responsibilities willallow senior managers to have a specific focus in anumber of areas.

Support for Existing Schools

TrainingOne of the outcomes of the internal re-structuringprocess has been a review of the NICIE systems fortraining delivery to schools. A substantial amount ofwork has been carried out in regard to the pursuit ofaccreditation for a number of NICIE training courses.Most successful to date has been the accreditation of“ABC – An Anti-Bias Approach to Education” at Level 3by the Northern Ireland Open College Network (NIOCN).It is anticipated that at least one other course forteachers will be accredited this year and this is timelyrecognition of the quality of the training beingdeveloped and delivered by NICIE staff. In addition,a new programme entitled “Diversity in Action”Level 2 (OCN) has been developed for post-16 pupilsand will be piloted in three integrated colleges in theforthcoming year.

Despite the loss of the NICIE Peer Mediation Officer postat the end of 2007, NICIE support has continued to besought in developing peer mediation programmes in anumber of primary schools. This has resulted in a ‘Trainthe Trainer’ course to be held at NICIE in late November2008 with representatives from at least six schools dueto attend. It is expected that this will become a regularevent for the Support Team.

NICIE’s promotion of peer mediation in schools wasalso recognised in April 2008 when an invitation wasextended to participate in the prestigious EuropeanMediation Conference at the Waterfront Hall. A group ofyoung pupils from Oakwood IPS, in association with theScottish Mediation Network, ably demonstrated theprocess of peer mediation and greatly impressed theaudience of international mediators and academics.

Board of Governor training was delivered at sevenschool venues throughout the year. The NICIE generictraining (Roles and Responsibilities and Recruitment andSelection) continued to prove popular with over 70governors participating in training across all the events.

In addition, NICIE officers continue to respond, whereappropriate, to requests from schools for bespoketraining. During the year training has been delivered tostaff, parents and governors in a diverse range of topicsrelated to integration in practice.

Louise Warde-Hunter, Head of Policy at the Department ofEducation, Dr Godfrey Brown, Chair of the Board of Governors,Gordon Topping, Chief Executive of the NEELB and DianaEvans, Principal, at the official opening of Ballycastle CIPS andNursery Unit

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A Kite Mark for IntegrationThe current review of the NICIE Statement of Principleshas raised many questions about how an integratedschool demonstrates a truly integrated ethos and howthe characteristics of an integrated school can berecognised and acknowledged. Expanding on workinitiated by the Integrating Education Project, a smallworking party has been established to explore thepossibility of trialling a Kite Mark for integrated schoolswithin the next 18 months. The proposed creation ofsuch a scheme reflects requests from schools for greaterguidance on the development and promotion of theintegrated ethos and potentially provides a way ofpublicly recognising good practice throughout theintegrated sector.

ResearchOver the last number of years NICIE has been able tosupport different strands of research which reflect howschools deal with diversity. As part of the NICIEIntegrating Education Project, Dr. Claire McGlynn(Queen’s University Belfast) carried out new researchinto responses to cultural diversity within a selectedgroup of both integrated and non-integrated primaryand post primary schools. This qualitative studycollected data from eight schools. Dr. McGlynn found anumber of common characteristics of good practice

emerging from the schools, namely, attitudes todiversity, curricular activities, staffing, parentalinvolvement, pupil voice, school links and schoolmanagement. The report, which provides examples ofgood practice in all these areas, was launched in theNorth Eastern Education and Library Board (NEELB) inApril 2008 and copies are available from the NICIE office.

Official School OpeningsMembers of the Support Team were pleased to beinvited to join a number of schools this year who werecelebrating official openings. In October 2007 theDeputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, presided atthe opening of Sperrin IC’s new building in Magherafeltand later in December singer Brian Kennedy joined theschool community of Enniskillen IPS to celebrate its newschool. In January 2008 Drumlins IPS, Ballynahinch,celebrated a move to a new site, and in May, theformer Ballycastle PS held an official opening to markits transformation to Ballycastle CIPS and NurserySchool.

School ClosuresThe delight in celebrating the growth of new andtransforming schools is somewhat tempered this yearby the news of closures within the integrated sector.The South Eastern Education and Library Board (SEELB)

announced the closure of Kindle IPS, Ballykinler, fromAugust 2008, with Hilden IPS, Lisburn, to follow inDecember 2008. NICIE understands that integratedstatus alone cannot protect a school from rationalisationor closure but a major concern is the apparent lack ofconsideration being given to ensuring that children fromthese schools are provided with alternative integratedprovision.

In June 2008, the Board of Governors of Armagh IC tookthe difficult decision to submit a development proposalto close the school from August 2009. The school,which opened in 2004, has not attracted the number ofpupils needed to demonstrate long term viability andthis has lead to the announcement of the plannedclosure. Armagh IC has worked closely with theDepartment of Education, NICIE, the Southern Educationand Library Board (SELB) and Integrated CollegeDungannon in order to secure the best possible futureprovision for its pupils, many of whom will remain inthe integrated sector by transferring to IntegratedCollege Dungannon.

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Support for New Schools andOther Developments

New and Independent SchoolsSeptember 2007 saw the opening of Rowandale IPS inMoira. This represented the realisation of the dreamsof a very dedicated group of people who had beenworking towards this goal for over three years.Barry McGuigan, former world featherweight boxingchampion, officially opened the school during a greatlyenjoyed visit in January 2008, and further delighted theschool community when he dropped in again duringJune 2008.

Clogher Valley IPS entered its second year of operatingas an independent school, supported by the IntegratedEducation Fund (IEF). Unfortunately, despite holdingconditional approval, Clogher Valley IPS did not achievethe required numbers but the IEF, have given a thirdyear of funding during which the school can establishitself more thoroughly within the local community.

Last year the Minister presented an interestingopportunity to Rowallane IC which meant that theindependently funded school worked with DownAcademy, a Controlled Integrated College, to produce adevelopment proposal for a new Grant MaintainedIntegrated College. In March, the Minister gave her

approval for the new school and Blackwater IC openedits doors in September 2008. This represents atremendous reward for all the commitment anddetermination of all involved in this innovative project.

Pre-school DevelopmentsAfter last year’s disappointment and dismay whenOakwood IPS had its application for a nursery unitturned down, delight greeted the Minister’s approval inApril of a nursery unit for Millennium IPS in Carryduff.This brings the total of integrated nursery units in theintegrated sector to 14.

In May 2008, Glencraig IPS was delighted to have thenew Playgroup and Children’s Centre officially openedby Lady Cooper. This exciting development, funded bythe IEF, brings the total of playgroups in the integratedsector to five.

Transformation, Sustainable Schools and AreaBased Planning: what will shape the futureGrowth of Integrated Education?The level of demand for integration throughtransformation has never been higher than this year,which saw Development Officers working with a totalof 10 schools at various stages of the transformationprocess. Unusually, three of these schools - ConligPrimary School, Knockbreda Primary School and

Parkhall College had attempted the process last yearand had failed at one of the hurdles, but undaunted themanagement teams and Governors were determined totry again. Sadly in the cases of Conlig PS andKnockbreda PS, the Minister turned down theirproposals yet again. On a more positive note inMay 2008, Parkhall College parents voted in favourof transformation, which will enable the school tosubmit a development proposal for September 2009.Acknowledgement must be given to the members ofthe steering group working towards the development ofSixmile IC. During their campaign they have beenresponsible for raising awareness of the possibility of anintegrated option to serve the Antrim area and haveworked tirelessly and with great fortitude in what hasbeen a very difficult and prolonged process.

The viability criteria for schools, which Bain had statedin his Review in December 2006, (long term enrolmentof 105 pupils in a rural primary school, 140 in urbanareas of Belfast and Derry City Council areas and 500pupils for a post primary school) has now beenconfirmed in the long awaited “Schools for the Future,A Policy for Sustainable Schools”, which was finallypublished in July 2008. However, despite the long delayin the publication of the Sustainable Schools Policy,Ministerial decisions this year have been largelyconsistent with these criteria. Hence in July 2008 we

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Barry McGuigan at the opening of Rowandale IPSsaw refusals for the transformation of Donaghadee HSand Suffolk PS. Both schools had sadly experiencedfalling rolls in the recent past and are below the viabilityfigures. Yet it must be remembered that in all theschools where the Minister refused to give theopportunity to transform, there had been a positiveparental ballot for integration. The Minister and newlyestablished Area Based Planning Groups must bechallenged therefore to show how the parental wish forIntegrated Education is going to be met in their localityin the future.

Development Officers continue to work with fiveschools in which there have been positive parentalballots - Straidhavern PS, Cliftonville PS, Fort Hill PS,Ballymoney PS and Park Hall College.

Work with schools seeking to transform, and withexisting controlled integrated schools, was significantlyhelped through a grant from the IEF. This funding madepossible a specific focus on transformation by one of theDevelopment Officers operating throughout the year asa Transformation Officer. A seminar organised for theprincipals of existing and potential transformed schoolswas one of a number of successful initiativesundertaken and made possible by this funding, forwhich NICIE is grateful.

General NICIE Support Team Work for SchoolsIn addition to the items highlighted in this report theSupport Team are also involved in delivering thefollowing services to schools:

• advice and support services

• distribution of information and documentation

• board of governor training

• wide range of training programmes including ethosbased training and integration in practice fortransforming and existing schools

• participation in recruitment panels

• induction day for teachers new to Integrated Education

• support for NICIE Standing Committees:Teachers’ and Early Years Committee and thePrincipals’ Association (APTIS)

• co-ordination of Staff Care Services(Knockbracken Health Trust)

• appointment of external advisors for PrincipalsPerformance Review and Staff Development (PRSD)

• co-ordination of indemnity insurance for teachers

• distribution of circulars on behalf of TeachersNegotiating Committee

Support Team StaffingIt is never easy to say goodbye to valued colleaguesand friends and this year continues to be a difficult onefor NICIE in terms of loss of staff and functions. InJanuary 2008, Anne Moreland, Development Officer, leftNICIE at the end of her contract. She is greatly missedby the remaining team members. The team has alsolost Judith Searle, Peer Mediation/Development Officer,for the same reason. We would like to thank both Anneand Judith for their contribution to the team and wishthem every success for the future. Our congratulationsare extended to Paula McIlwaine who was appointed tothe post of Professional Development Officer, followingthe award of a three year grant from the EsmeeFairbairn Foundation, and Teresa Willis who joined us asadministrative support for this position. Congratulationsalso go to Nichola Lynagh, Community Relations Officer,who has been seconded to the Regional Training Unitand Roisin Marshall, Senior Development Officer, who ispresently heading up a pilot project in integratingeducation at the NEELB. We welcomed Darren O’Reillyto the post of Community Relations Officer.

On behalf of the entire team we would like to recordour gratitude to our colleagues in the CommunicationsTeam who have ably supported our work both

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professionally and personally over the last seven years.They have enhanced our delivery of services to schools,complemented our development of new schools andpromoted Integrated Education with unwaveringenthusiasm and dedication. To the previous membersof the CAL team we extend our grateful appreciation fora job well done and offer our best wishes for the future.

Principal Appointments and RetirementsThis year saw the retirement of three long standingprincipals, Peter Agnew of New-Bridge IC,Loughbrickland, Seamus Leonard of Malone IC, SouthBelfast and Ronnie Johnston of Down Academy,Downpatrick. All of these principals will be sadlymissed from the sector, and we wish them good healthand a long and happy retirement. On behalf of NICIEwe thank them for their significant contribution to thedevelopment of Integrated Education in their areas.Congratulations go to Gerry Jones and Gerry Pricewho have succeeded Peter and Seamus respectively.Our congratulations and best wishes for the future arealso extended to Olwen Griffith who assumedPrincipalship of the newly approved Blackwater ICfrom September 2008, and Vanessa Wilson, who wasappointed principal of Rathenraw IPS.

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ThanksDue to the limited numbers of staff that can beemployed by NICIE, the Support Team relies on othermembers of the integrated community to assist them inmeeting the needs of the sector. We would like tothank all those principals, governors and staff fromintegrated schools who have willingly offered their timeand expertise to carry out a diverse range of tasksincluding representation, advice and guidance, co-facilitation, training and mentoring.

Finally the Senior Development Officers wish to stateour personal appreciation of the hard work andcommitment demonstrated by colleagues from withinour own team. Their passion for their jobs has ensuredonce again that at the end of this year more childrenthan ever before have access to schools which aredelivering a genuinely unique integrated experience.

Lorna Mc Alpine and Frances DonnellySenior Development Officers

The past year has been another rollercoaster ridefor the Communications and Lobbying (CAL) Team.As devolution bedded in at Stormont, our priorities andobjectives shifted yet again, as we grappled with thenew government administration, a flurry of policies,new faces on ‘the hill’, and a new Minister forEducation. The Joint Communications Committee (JCC)comprising of the CEO of NICIE and the Director of theIEF, along with two members from each of therespective Boards, continued to monitor the progress ofthe CAL Team at quarterly meetings. We were pleasedto welcome Jane Morrice, former Women’s CoalitionMLA, to act as JCC independent chairperson.

TransformationEncouraging more schools to transform to integratedstatus became a primary focus throughout the year.A working group, that combined the strengths of bothCAL and Development Team members, met monthlyand was set up to plan and monitor the effectiveness ofour communications strategies. Since June 2007, NICIEhas been approached by eight schools seeking furtherinformation about the transformation process. We arepleased to report that Donaghadee HS; Model PS,Ballymoney; Suffolk PS, Belfast; Straidhavern PS,Crumlin; Cliftonville PS, Belfast and Fort Hill PS, Lisburn,all had successful parental ballots to transform to

integrated status and have submitted developmentproposals to the Department of Education. ParkhallCollege, Antrim, after taking three parental ballots, wonits bid to transform. Disappointingly, Knockbreda PS,

Belfast, and Conlig PS, Newtownards, were turneddown for approval. Despite valiant efforts to stay open,two small integrated primaries, Hilden in Lisburn andKindle near Ballykinler, were earmarked for closure.

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Communications and Lobbying

Lord Alf Dubs with Keila Kowlessar and Diamond Walker from New York based dance group Celtic Dream andNatalia Bactirys and Janette Wall, pupils of Hazelwood IPS, during the APPG visit to Northern Ireland

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PolicyThe CAL Team has been kept busy responding togovernment consultations including the IndependentStrategic Review of Education (Bain), Review of PublicAdministration (RPA), Sectoral Support for NICIE post-RPA, Sustainable Schools Policy, Building a Better Future:Draft Programme for Government, Every School a GoodSchool, and Area Based Planning. The transfer to Post-primary (11+) debate has continued to dominate theheadlines and has caused much discussion both in themedia and at Stormont.

Westminster LobbyingThe All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) is a supportgroup for the Integrated Education movement. Annually,a delegation from the group visits Northern Ireland on afact finding mission. This is of great importance forrenewing the direct links and meeting old and newfaces. The delegation this year consisted of the formerConservative Education Secretary Kenneth Baker, LordAlf Dubs, Baroness May Blood, Emily Thornberry MP,Baroness Angela Harris and Baroness Nora David.

Thanks to the sterling efforts of Lord Dubs,Baroness Blood and Dave Anderson MP, the All PartyParliamentary Group on Integrated Education kept theflag flying in Westminster and further afield.

Commons Questions have become less frequent sincedevolution but interventions for Integrated Educationhave continued. Lord Dubs initiated a debate in theLords on the security fence at Hazelwood in Novemberto urge its reconsideration, and Dave Anderson MPtabled a Commons motion regretting the decision toerect the fence.

Baroness Blood raised Integrated Education issues at themeeting of the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Bodywhere she warned that segregation made the peacefragile. She has done much to increase understanding ofthe positive role of Integrated Education in Anglo-Irishpolitics.

We also organised a Christmas reception in theCommons with SDLP leaders, the Shadow Secretary ofState, Owen Paterson, and Liberal Democrat, BaronessShirley Williams. The APPG helped secure favourablecoverage in UK national newspapers and assisted withfundraising.

Northern Ireland LobbyingSince devolution in March 2007, much time has beenspent engaging with our local politicians to win moresupport for Integrated Education, by one to onemeetings, attending political party conferences, and

weekly visits to sit in on the Assembly EducationCommittee meetings at Stormont. One of our mostsuccessful strategies has been to encourage morepolitical visits to integrated schools. Over 45 visits bylocal political representatives of all parties wereorganised to integrated schools in the last year. Someschools directly benefited from the involvement of localMLAs in their campaigns. Priory CIC, Holywood, wasparticularly successful in their campaign for capitalfunding for a new school build. The Minister herselfvisited several integrated schools over the course of theyear, including Groarty CIPS, Priory IC, Kindle CIPS,All Children’s CIPS and Hazelwood IC.

Selection at post-primary level has dominated theeducation debate this year, and NICIE has continued tochampion our schools as all ability schools, whichproduce academic excellence.

EventsRunning events is a major part of the CAL Team’s workand helps to raise the profile of Integrated Education.Some of the significant events which took place duringthe year included:

• NICIE and IEF Christmas Social: Over 100 guestsenjoyed a Christmas gathering at BT Tower, Belfast,on 12th December 2008.

• Integrated Education Week, 3-6th March 2008.The annual event, with the theme of ‘Eyes’ waslaunched by Dennis Taylor, world champion snookerlegend, at Glencraig CIPS, near Holywood. Pupils fromboth primary and post-primary integrated schoolswere invited to submit entries for a letter writingcompetition on “My Vision for the Future of NorthernIreland,” addressed to the First and Deputy FirstMinister. Martin Lynch, Belfast playwright, who helpedto judge the competition, presented prizes to all thelucky winners at the beginning of the week. The letterwriting competition winners, David Gilkinson, SlemishIC and Rhiannon Finn, Corran IPS, then presented afolder of all the letters received to Martin McGuinnessat Stormont, on 2nd June 2008.

• Public Information Meetings on IntegratedEducation were held in Newry on the 5th March2008 and another took place in Lurgan on the 11thMarch 2008.

• Choir Performance: Bangor Central CIPS choir sang“Imagine” by John Lennon and “Bridge over TroubledWaters” by Simon and Garfunkel to great acclaimat a European conference at the University of Ulster,Jordanstown on 28th April 2008, to mark the EuropeanUnion’s role in the Northern Ireland peace process.

• VIP Visits: It was an amazing year for celebrity andpolitical VIP visits to integrated schools. In partnershipwith our colleagues at the IEF, we welcomed BarryMcGuigan who opened Rowandale IPS; Dennis Taylorto Glencraig CIPS; Gerard McCarthy, Hollyoak’s star, toNewbridge IC; Geraldine Hughes, actress, and MichaelBloomberg, Mayor of New York to Hazelwood IC; andPaula Dubronski, US Special Envoy to Northern Irelandand Sharon Corr, singer, to Rowallane IC.

Press and MediaThe CAL Team have once again had a busy year in termsof press and media in relation to Integrated Education.A total of 1,186 stories have appeared in the localnewspapers regarding integration, and a total of 91press releases were issued. There has also been widecoverage of 32 stories in the national papers includinga response by Michael Wardlow in the Irish Timesregarding the support for shared education which isnot being reflected in reality.

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• The Trevor Phillips Symposium on 21st Novemberat W5 Lecture Theatre. With funding secured from theCommunity Relations Council, 180 people turnedup to hear Trevor Phillips, Chair of the Commission forEquality and Human Rights, deliver his keynoteaddress on “The Role of Education in PromotingEquality and Social Cohesion.“

Deborah Girvan, Communications and Lobbying Manager,Trevor Phillips, Chair of the Commission for Equality andHuman Rights and Caitriona Ruane, Minister of Education,at the Symposium at W5 in November 2007

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This year, there has been an unprecedented interest inIntegrated Education from international journalists andfilm crews including, Japan, Germany, Spain, Holland,the Basque Country and USA. We worked with TrueNorth Productions, an independent Film company whowere commissioned by national BBC to produce aprogramme for Sunday Life. This was fronted by BarryMcGuigan and the 30 minute programme wassubsequently broadcast on 13th July 2008 on BBC1.

WebsiteThe NICIE website – www.nicie.org has continued toattract and inform a great number of interested partiesfrom inside and outside Northern Ireland and provide aforum for schools to showcase their achievements. InDecember 2007 there were 93,180 page views permonth and 4,049 unique visitors compared to 61,350and 4,178 respectively in December 2006. The bi-monthly E-Newsletter subscription has now grown toover 1,000 people. A complete redesign of the website,which includes a new Teachers and Governors ResourceSection has been commissioned and went live inSeptember 2008.

Caroline Deness with Dennis Taylor at the launch ofIntegrated Education Week at Glencraig IPS

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PublicationsThe CAL Team produced four editions of LearningTogether, the joint NICIE and IEF newsletter, and havebuilt up the distribution list to over 3,000 mailings.The success of the newsletter is evidenced by thenumber of favourable comments that we have receivedabout its style and content and increased requests forthe publication. 2,000 A5 leaflets outlining the key factsabout transformation were also produced for distributionat the Roadshows.

OutreachThe central role of the three Outreach Officers is toraise awareness of Integrated Education in localcommunities; they also support integrated schoolswith their marketing and PR strategies, liaise with localpoliticians and represent NICIE at a local level on variouspartnership boards and committees.

Over the past year, Outreach Officers have beenengaged in several awareness raising campaigns,including the successful “Roadshow Trail” whichinvolved exhibition stands and leaflet distribution in17 venues throughout Northern Ireland betweenNovember 2007 and March 2008. This initiativeresulted in both sustained dialogue with individualmembers of the public (over 1,300 in total) and in the

completion of 163 request forms for further informationabout Integrated Education. The Outreach Officersattended many other public events, conferences andlaunches, including the Northern Ireland Gardens Showat Hillsborough Castle in June 2007 and Clogher ValleyAgricultural Show in July 2007.

Outreach Officers continued to work towards raisingthe profile of developing schools such as Rowallane,Saintfield/Carryduff; Clogher Valley, Fivemiletown, andRowandale, Moira, and in assisting recently transformedschools to maintain a high press and media presence.

During the past year, the Outreach Team has distributedmany thousands of leaflets, booklets, promotionalmaterials to venues such as medical surgeries andshopping centres. They have also visited playgroups,crèches and nursery schools in each Education andLibrary Board area. Presentations to community groupsand information stands at crèches and nursery schoolsform an important strand of outreach work, as does thecontribution of articles to local newspapers and journals.Whilst working in local communities, Outreach Officershave continued to highlight the benefits and advantagesof transformation to integrated status for schools,resulting in several enquiries being received by NICIEthroughout the past year.

Playwright Martin Lynch presenting prizes to the winners of theIntegrated Education Week letter writing competition, DavidGilkinson from Slemish IC and Rhiannon Finn from Corran IPS

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Outreach workers recently completed an audit of thenumber of ‘newcomers’ (pupils receiving EAL tuition)in integrated schools. This work will result in a reporthighlighting ‘best practice‘ in dealing with thechallenges of working with pupils who arrive inintegrated schools from outside Northern Ireland.

ConclusionsOn behalf of the CAL Team, I would like to thank ourcolleagues in both NICIE and IEF for support andencouragement; the integrated schools for taking partin our activities; and all the celebrities, politicians andgovernment officials who have supported our initiatives.I would also like to thank our funder, AtlanticPhilanthropies, for giving us the opportunity to takepart in a very worthwhile and rewarding project.

Finally, it is with great sadness and regret that we saygoodbye to the CAL Team members, as the three yearCAL project drew to its conclusion on 31st August 2008.During our time working for both NICIE and the IEF, weembarked on many adventures and made significantprogress towards our objectives as demonstrated in thisannual reflection of our work. I would like to paytribute to the CAL Team members for their exceptionalcommitment, professionalism and team spirit in makingsignificant progress towards delivering the CAL Strategy

and wish them every success in the future. It is hopedthat as we look to the future, that further funding willbe sourced to employ communications and lobbyingprofessionals to pick up the mantle and continue tocontribute to building a shared and better future forNorthern Ireland.

Deborah GirvanCommunications and Lobbying Manager

Last year in the opening of this report I used the quote”To build or not to build that is the question?” Today, Ican report that in the last 12 months no new schoolbuildings for our more recent primary schools havebeen constructed despite three of them being on theirpermanent site.

In an educational journal recently, I noted an articlefrom an educational authority’s conference where theylooked at scenarios for the future of education and thiswas the opening paragraph of the scenario:

“In the mid-2020s, the last schools as we knew them –places where children and young people were requiredto be during the weekday, supervised by teachers –finally closed down. Now, education happens innetworks based around people’s homes, nurseries,churches, sports centres, community bases, hospitals,shopping centres, you name it.”

From my perspective, the question has to be what isthe future of school buildings and what will the policyof the newly formed Education and Skills Authority(ESA) be? Currently, as a sector delivering educationwithin the overall education network we are unable toagree with the Department of Education on a wayforward for the construction of new schools. New

building regulations have meant that the former semipermanent style construction is not possible, as in anumber of areas, required levels cannot be achieved.When we looked at permanent construction the costlevels were above the targets set by DENI and, again,were not feasible. Currently we are looking, along withthe Department, at modular construction and exploringseveral possibilities both here and in the South ofIreland. We would hope to present our findings and afuture proposal to the Department by the end of thesummer. Looking at the school accommodation forSeptember 2008, again we are providing one simplemobile for each school in the anticipation that someform of agreement can be achieved on the way forwardby the start of the next school year.

In conclusion, it would be my hope that when theEducation and Skills Authority is fully operational fromApril 2009, that we will see a uniform and equalapproach to the construction format of all schools withinthe school estate, and not different approaches as hasbeen the case to date.

As always NICIE continues to strive to get the best forall its school construction programmes.

Lawrence RowanBuildings Officer

Buildings - Has the future got an eye?

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Shimna IC, Newcastle

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We are glad to be able to say that due to the currentpolitical developments in Northern Ireland, we believewe can take confidence in the future possibilities whichlie before us.

Yet again we had another busy year working withintegrated schools. The colleges we worked withincluded: Lagan; Drumragh; Strangford; Priory; New-Bridge; Hazelwood; Brownlow; Oakgrove; Rowallaneand Erne. We also worked with the following primaries:Oakwood; Portadown; Saints and Scholars andEnniskillen. The support has been wide and hasincluded work involving governors, parents, youngpeople and whole school staff.

A newly accredited programme, “ABC – Promoting anAnti-Bias Approach to Education in Northern Ireland”,was developed and offers an Open College Network(OCN) Level 3 accreditation. This complements thenewly revised ABC: Promoting An Anti-Bias Approachto Education in Northern Ireland publication which wasre-launched earlier this year. A total of 18 participantsfrom integrated schools had the opportunity to engagein an interactive three day programme focusing onissues such as: the origins of bias as a phenomenon andits many manifestations, global educational responsesto bias, personal bias in a Northern Ireland context andthe role of education locally to address and developanti-bias practice.

A pilot programme was also delivered in the autumnterm of 2007, when participants from a range oforganisations engaged in the area of communityrelations worked alongside representatives fromintegrated and other schools

This year has also seen the development of “Diversity inAction”. This sixth form programme will be accreditedat OCN Level 2 and will be piloted in integrated schoolsin 2008/9. We look forward to exciting times aheadwhen there will be further opportunities for otherintegrated schools to take part in the programme.

NICIE will continue to seek further funding from theDepartment of Education Community Relations Branchfor the project. We will continue to build our case toensure that we can sustain growth and development incommunity relations work with school communities.

As always, it has been a privilege for us to workalongside the schools we’ve engaged with throughoutthe year and we would like to take this opportunity toexpress our sincere thanks to those who welcomed us.We look forward to hearing of the successes in schoolswho take up the challenges and opportunities ofdeveloping community relations.

In the last year we had a change of staff in thecommunity relations post as Nichola was seconded

Teachers from integrated schools participating in a trainingsession on flags and emblems

to the Regional Training Unit, and in March 2008NICIE welcomed Darren O’Reilly to the CommunityRelations post.

Nichola Lynagh & Darren O’ReillyCommunity Relations Officers

Community Relations

phase, with the development of a teachers section forthe NICIE website and also in designing an attractive,appropriate induction pack for teachers new toIntegrated Education.

It has also been hugely beneficial to have worked inpartnership with other NICIE colleagues, such as theCommunity Relations Officer, in terms of the promotionand delivery of the three day OCN Level 3 accreditedAnti-bias training course which took place with18 very enthusiastic participants in May and June 2008.

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November 2007 saw the launch of an excitingprogramme designed to provide professionaldevelopment support to teachers in integrated schools.

The aim of the Professional Development Programme isto assist teachers in building and enhancing professionalskills and competencies in dealing with diversity.The intention is to facilitate teachers in creating,developing and sharing good practice within their ownschool context and with teachers in other integratedschools. The beginnings of this project have beenenhanced by the collective expertise and advice ofDr Claire McGlynn (QUB), Gerry Devlin (GTCNI), NormanRichardson (Stranmillis University College), MichaelMcKinight (Cedar IPS), Ivan Arbuthnot (Priory CIC) andFrances Donnelly (NICIE). It should be noted that thefirst year of this project has built on existing NICIEinitiatives, including the work of colleagues in theDevelopment Team, Integrating Education Project andthe Community Relations Programme.

The initial phase has concentrated on taking variousstrands of good ‘integration in practice’ and attemptedto weave them together and promote them widely,within and beyond the Integrated Education sector.A perfect example of this lies in our involvement inthe most recent incarnation of the Anti-Bias Curriculum

document as the redrafted and rebranded ABC:Promoting an Anti-Bias Approach to Education inNorthern Ireland. It was fitting that the redrafteddocument (aimed at all practitioners working in earlyyears, primary and secondary schools) should form thelaunch pad for Integrated Education Week 2008 at areception in the Long Gallery, Stormont, attended byover 100 interested parties.

Indeed, the anti-bias approach has formed an integralpart of all subsequent generic training including theStaff New to Integration event which broughtIntegrated Education Week to a close. Twenty eightteachers and classroom assistants new to the integratedsector received training on the relationship betweenthe integrated ethos and their specific role in anintegrated school.

It is notable that some of the dynamic teachers whosupported this training are also involved in the Teachers’and Early Years Committee. During this first year, thework of the committee has been invaluable insupporting and helping guide the ProfessionalDevelopment Support programme in order to ensurethat it responds, in a relevant way, to the needs ofteachers in integrated schools. As a consequence, thecommittee has opted to assist, in the next project

Cynthia Currie, teacher at North Coast IC with pupils, duringthe launch of the new ABC publication at Stormont

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possible: Regional Training Unit (RTU); IEF; CommunityRelations Council; Belfast City Council Good Relations;Omagh District Council Community Relations and theEsmee Fairbairn Foundation. Finally, we were indebtedto the many external partner organisations whodelivered workshops on ‘next’ practice during theafternoon sessions at each event.

Undoubtedly, the first year of the ProfessionalDevelopment Programme has been extremely active,drawing on a broad range of skills and creativity. NICIEis extremely grateful to the Esmee Fairbairn Foundationfor their guarantee of funding for this three year project.

Paula McIlwaineProfessional Development Officer

Clearly the most ambitious project, of this first year,involved the design and delivery of four Educating for aShared Future Conferences which were attended by 39primary and post-primary integrated schools with over1,000 teachers and classroom assistants participating.Schools overwhelmingly responded to the idea ofrefocusing on the integrated ethos, sharing goodpractice and strengthening relationships. The venueswere geographically spread and the four events tookplace over two days, at the end of August, which aretraditionally set aside for Inset training. On 26th Augustparticipants were kindly hosted by Drumragh IC andShimna IC while Oakgrove IC and Hazelwood ICgenerously opened their doors on 27th August.

The content of these joint Inset training events wasdeveloped by a steering group comprising APTISmembers Gerry Jones (New-bridge IC), Nigel Frith(Drumragh IC), Anne Makin (Saints & Scholars IPS),Larraine Coulter (Oakgrove IPS), Jill Houston (HazelwoodIPS), Nigel Arnold (Glengormley CIPS) as well as NicholaLynagh (NICIE/Regional Training Unit) and AnneMoreland (NICIE). We are particularly grateful to themany teachers who offered their skills in facilitation inorder to help deliver good practice workshops at theseevents. We are also extremely thankful to thefollowing funding bodies for making these events

our society remain unhealed and we appear to besettling for the easy option of ‘separate but equal’ lives.

The educational landscape has also changedsubstantially, falling rolls has led to thousands of emptydesks across the country and this coupled with therequirements of the entitlement framework has

contributed to unprecedented sharing and collaborationamongst schools of all types. Furthermore the revisedcurriculum, which includes the key elements of PersonalDevelopment & Mutual Understanding and Citizenship,along with an enhanced inclusion agenda for youngpeople with special needs and newcomers to NorthernIreland, has prompted many within the integrated

NICIE Statement of Principles

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Reviewing for the FutureSince 1991 the NICIE Statement of Principles has servedas the foundation upon which integrated schools havebeen created and developed. When the 1989 EducationReform (NI) Order created a status for integratedschools, it was on the basis that such schools should beable to attract “reasonable numbers of Protestant andRoman Catholic pupils”. It failed however, to articulatethe desire of the integrated movement at the time tohave a definition for Integrated Education that would seta standard for those schools who sought to bring youngpeople from a divided society together in that mostfundamental of ways – within a classroom. Integratedschools have always been different to other schools inregard to their structure, management and ethos; theStatement of Principles made this clear and was thetemplate upon which new integrated schools couldmodel themselves.

The Northern Ireland of 2008 is very different to that of1991 when there were only 16 integrated schools, justtwo of whom had developed through transformation.Today there are 61 schools and approximately 1/3of the sector is composed of transforming schools.The political landscape has changed in ways that manythought impossible but the sectarian divisions within

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sector to revisit the question of difference again.All these factors led us to address two fundamentalquestions: firstly, what continues to make IntegratedEducation different from any other form of educationavailable in Northern Ireland? and secondly, does theStatement of Principles still adequately reflect thisdifference?

Research carried out for the NICIE Integrating EducationProject in 2006 by Dr Claire McGlynn from Queen’sUniversity Belfast, found that approaches to integrationvary significantly across schools within the integratedsector. While these range from passive to reactive andproactive, comments from principals and staff suggestthat schools would actually prefer to have clearguidance on how to develop and promote a distinctiveethos, one that can be recognised and identified asrepresenting a unique type of education. It was withinthis context and taking into consideration the shift inpolitical and educational landscapes that NICIEundertook to carry out a comprehensive review ofthe 1991 Statement of Principles.

The consultation process surrounding the review hastaken almost 18 months and is now reaching itsconclusion. There have been a number of strands to

the process including presentations to principals,teachers, NICIE directors and staff, two substantial postalconsultations with all schools and Trusts and a clustermeeting for all schools held in NICIE in May 2008.

The debate around the Statement of Principles has beenlively, robust and often challenging. Participants haveasked that the document be made more concise andaccessible, that the language should be made moreinclusive to reflect the greater diversity within ourschools and most importantly, that all integratedschools, both GMI and transforming, should feel able tosubscribe to it. The consultation has demonstrated thatIntegrated Education continues to attract people withdiffering viewpoints and strongly held beliefs. There isnot universal agreement about how IntegratedEducation should be defined but the core valuesidentified in 1991 remain very close to the core valuesof 2008. In addition, the commitment to securing afuture for integrated schools as places which offerchildren and young people from all backgrounds andtraditions an opportunity to learn together in a safe andaffirming environment, remains as strong now as it wasin 1991.

In autumn 2008 all members of NICIE will be invited to

attend an Extraordinary General Meeting at which allmember schools and Trusts will be asked to vote on theproposed changes to the Statement of Principles andeither endorse or reject the new document. We hopethat all members will participate in the vote andrecognise the significance of the Statement of Principlesas an integral element in the determination andpromotion of school ethos.

The existing Statement of Principles, as well as thelatest revised version, can be read at the NICIE website.I would urge all interested parties who have not yetdone so, to read these documents.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all thoseschools and individuals who to date have contributed tothe consultation process and to members of theStatement of Principles steering group who have freelygiven their time to develop and progress the reviewprocess.

Frances DonnellySenior Development Officer

Entitled to Succeed - One Year OnThe entitlement framework as a policy vehicle to ensurethat all pupils have access to a broad range of courseoptions (both general/academic and applied/vocational) has become significantly developed duringthe past academic year.

All of the 21 post-primary integrated colleges aredirectly involved in their local area groups. Thesegroupings have now been formally named by theDepartment of Education as ‘Area LearningCommunities’.

These Area Learning Communities (ALCs) now meet ona very regular basis – at least one meeting per monthof two hours plus duration.

The principal of each post-primary school in the ALCrepresents their school. In many regions in NorthernIreland much of the discussion among the schools hasmoved on beyond examining what the possibleopportunities for developing course ranges across agroup of schools might be.

In the ALC meetings, discussion centres on the courseswhich will be offered, where they would be located,who would staff and deliver them, and how schools’

timetables can best be realigned to allow for maximumopportunity for all pupils in the ALC.

Addressing such issues leads to the involvement ofother personnel, such as school governing bodies,senior teachers, school time tablers and bursars.

Slowly, over this past year, as more meetings have beentaking place between academic institutions, the ideaof partnership and sharing resources to develop fullpotential in an area has become much stronger.

The integrated sector is very well represented acrossthe 30 ALCs which are now recognised by theDepartment of Education for Northern Ireland.

In quite a number of locations the Principals of localintegrated colleges are making very significantcontributions to the progess and development of theEntitlement Framework (E2S).

A significant number of integrated college Principals areeither Chairpersons/ Vice-Chairpersons of ALCs or assistas secretaries to ALCs. Some chair or lead teacherworking parties, to develop a particular aspect oforganisation that would be relevant to theenhancement of provision for their community.

In summary the Entitled to Succeed (E2S) / EntitlementFramework (EF) is here to stay with us all in post-primary education. Much of the recent policystatements from DENI highlight the crucial role thatEntitlement Framework has to play in the review andreorganisation of secondary education in NorthernIreland. Integrated colleges are well placed to lead,assist and foster such development.

Ivan ArbuthnotEntitlement Framework Officer

The Entitlement Framework (E2S)

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StandingCommitteeReports

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Association of Principal Teachers in Integrated Schools (APTIS)

This has been a busy year for APTIS as we have beenfacing major change across many fronts. For us, it hasbeen important to use our forum to ensure that we willhave progress towards a better educational futurefor everyone.

We have simultaneously looked into what integrationmeans through the review of the Statement ofPrinciples, while looking outwards to see whatcontribution we can make to the wider discussions onissues such as the new Education and Skills Authority(ESA), and the ongoing debate about the transferprocedure.

As we have helped in planning the joint In-ServiceTraining (INSET) days across all integrated schools onthe “Educating For A Shared Future” theme, we havegiven careful thought to the values which shouldunderpin all that goes on in integrated schools andhow best we can explore these together.

We have supported lobbying work by NICIE and the IEFto promote the cause of integration. While othersstruggle with the vexed issue of what might replace atransfer test, we have continued to be a voice whichconfidently argues that a Northern Ireland without

Peter McCreadie and Ivan Arbuthnot, Priory IC, Jill Houston,Hazelwood IPS and Eileen Lenehan, Hazelwood IC

selection and where difference is cherished is onewhich we need not fear.

Jill MarkhamAPTIS Chair

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This year’s theme of ‘Eyes’ for Integrated EducationWeek was quite ironic as we look into our educationalfuture and find it slightly blurred. There doesn’t seem tobe the clarity which we envisaged, but we must acceptthis as a time of great opportunity and excitement forthe development of our young people. The opportunitythat the revised curriculum, in all its forms in primaryand post-primary, affords us in the education of ourpupils is immense and, as integrated schools, we surelyfind that we are implementing many of these ideasalready in the daily running of our schools.

Our integrated schools have the vision, strongleadership and enthusiasm to carry us over the comingyears. This is an opportunity to show the wider publicthe excellent work that happens in our sector on a dailybasis. In reality only we are integrated schools with acapital ‘I’ and we must meet the challenge in thecoming months and years to show what we are about.

The Teachers’ Committee has certainly, over thelast year, been involved in a visioning process.Following the merger of the Teachers’ and Early YearsCommittees, in October 2007, the committee’s originalterms of reference “to protect, develop and supportintegration in practice within integrated schools byproviding a forum for sharing integration ideas andresources, identifying staff development needs and

addressing these through the work of the committee“were revisited.

After a process of consultation, the committee decidedon key priorities for 2008/9 including assuring the‘quality’ of integrated schools; development of the‘integrated ethos’ and developing good practice inrelation to the revised curriculum.

Subsequently, in relation to assuring the quality ofintegrated schools, the committee has voted twomembers onto the NICIE led Kite Mark / Standards forIntegrated Education working group, giving teacherssome input into how they are developed. Thecommittee also took the opportunity to submitresponses to the Statement of Principles review andhave shown great interest in their redrafting.

In terms of ethos development, the committee greatlybenefited from guest speaker David Crawford giving apresentation about the development of the IntegrationCommittee at Brownlow CIC.

Additionally, Teachers’ Committee representatives,Carolyn Sullivan, Kierna Corr (Early Years), Jim McDaidand Tim O’Sullivan, all shared their good practice asworkshop facilitators at the Staff New to IntegratedEducation Training Day on 7th March 2008.

Following a meeting with NICIE lobbyist, Pam Tilson, alobbying sub-group was also established. I hope that,in the future, the Committee continues to become morepro-active and helps develop future policy for ourschools instead of just reacting to it. The Teachers’ andEarly Years Committee is the forum for us, as educatorsdirectly involved in the education of all our youngpeople, to have our voices heard and respected as wellas engaging in a process of developing our skills inrelation to integration in practice.

Finally, it rests with me to thank Paulette Gallagher fortaking on the role of Committee Secretary. I would alsolike to extend our thanks to Cynthia Currie as theoutgoing Chair and to Anne Moreland as the NICIErepresentative who has worked alongside theCommittee over the last few years.

Each school is entitled to send a representative to ourbi-monthly meetings and we encourage all schools totake the opportunity to come along and see the goodwork we are trying to do.

Barry CorriganChair Teachers & Early Years Committee

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The membership of the ISFA continued to grow thisyear, which is testament to the value members placeon the opportunity to meet bi-monthly. As well asproviding a forum for staff involved in a finance role inintegrated schools to support one another and sharegood practice, a number of outside agencies wereinvited to provide us with some valuable training.

Employers for Childcare brought us up to date with theirscheme for both teaching and non-teaching staff whopay registered childcare and helped us with anyquestions or problems which we had with the scheme.

The Northern Ireland Local Government Officers’Superannuation Committee (NILGOSC) presented uswith a valuable training session mainly covering thecompletion of the various forms and procedures inrespect of changes in staffing. This was a veryproductive session when many issues particular to theeducation sector were discussed.

NICIE provided our members with advice from Tony Mayof the Central Management Support Unit (CMSU) on jobevaluation particularly in respect of classroom assistants.This is an issue which many of us are still trying toaddress and the support provided by NICIE is very muchappreciated by our association.

NICIE also facilitated an information session on the new‘Access NI’ vetting procedures. This was an extremelyvaluable session.

Thanks to NICIE staff for the much needed centraladministrative support and maintaining our growing listof members and also to Bronagh McKibben for hersecretarial duties. Finally a big thank you must go to the

members for making the effort to attend meetings andshare ideas so openly. New members are mostwelcome.

Angela RossStrangford Integrated College

Integrated Schools Finance Association (ISFA)

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Research

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The latest independent research on public attitudes toeducation in Northern Ireland shows very strong supportfor closer integration, collaboration and sharing acrossthe traditional school ‘sectors’.

The findings come from a survey about attitudestowards Integrated Education, carried out on behalf ofNICIE by Millward Brown Ulster Limited in May 2008.NICIE wished to conduct research about attitudestowards Integrated Education amongst the generalpublic and in particular those with children orgrandchildren aged under 19 who were still at schoolor college or who had children not yet started school.A similar survey was last conducted in February 2006.

Preference for Integrated EducationPublic support for formally integrated schools remainsvery high. When asked what type of school they wouldprefer their children or grandchildren to attend, morethan 4 in 10 (43%) stated that they would prefer thatthey attended an integrated school. 29% preferredstate controlled, 22% said Catholic maintained and3% Irish Medium.

Reasons for not sending children/grandchildrento an integrated schoolOf those whose children or grandchildren (who) do notattend, or have never attended, an integrated school,who were asked their reasons for not sending theirchildren/grandchildren to an integrated school: 34%said there are no integrated schools available in theirarea; 10% didn’t know enough about IntegratedEducation; 5% prefer a single denomination school;5% are opposed to Integrated Education in principle;4% want to send them but can’t find them a place(oversubscribed); 4% said integrated schools have low/unproven academic standards; 3% said their church isopposed to Integrated Education; 2% would like to butgrandparents disagree and 34% stated other reasons.

Awareness of how to change school status tobecome integratedYet despite this stated preference for an IntegratedEducation, few parents and grandparents with children/grandchildren of school age or younger were clearabout how the process of integration could be initiated.When asked if parents at their child’s school wish theirschool to become integrated, only 7% were aware thatthe process could be initiated if at least 20% of parentsproduce a written request and only 4% felt it could be

Parents and Public continue to back Integration Education

initiated if the schools’ governors produced sucha request.

Significantly, however, when respondents were told thata school could become integrated if 20% of parentswith children at the school made a written request forthis to happen, almost two thirds (64%) claimed theywould support a parent’s request to transform theirchild’s school into an integrated school. More than afifth (22%) were unsure/didn’t know and less than 1in ten (9%) citing that they would not support this.

Importance of Integrated Education toNorthern IrelandWhen asked: “How important or unimportant to peaceand reconciliation is Integrated Education in NorthernIreland?” almost two thirds (64%) of parents /grandparents with children of school age or youngerbelieved that Integrated Education was “very important”for peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, and afurther 20% thought it was “fairly important”.(Total figures: 84% important / 7% Unimportant).These figures were very similar to those recorded in2006, in fact those thinking it was “very important” roseslightly from 62% in Feb 2006 to 64% in May 2008.

Again, there was similar importance placed onIntegrated Education in terms of its contribution inpromoting mutual respect and understanding by thegeneral public at large (all 1001 respondents) with 63%seeing it as “very important” and a further 21% as“fairly important”. (Total figures: 84% important /5% unimportant)

When asked: “How important or unimportant isIntegrated Education in promoting a shared and betterfuture for Northern Ireland?” There was similarimportance placed on Integrated Education by thegeneral public with 63% of all respondents statingIntegrated Education was “very important” in promotinga shared and better future for Northern Ireland; afurther 21% said it was “fairly important”(Total figures: 84% important / 5% unimportant)

Support for sharing and collaboratingbetween schoolsA huge 79% of parents and grandparents with childrenof school age or younger supported schools sharingfacilities with the nearest school even if from a differenttype (sector).

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When asked: “Irrespective of the school type you wouldprefer, would you support or oppose the school, yourchildren or grandchildren attend, partnering, sharingfacilities or collaborating with other nearby schools evenif they are a different type?” 38% strongly supportedthis idea and 41% supported it, with only 7% opposingit. (9% neither/nor; 4% oppose; 3% strongly oppose;5% don’t know).

Support for joint management of schoolsby ChurchesVery interestingly, when asked: “Would you support orbe opposed to the establishment of a jointly managedchurch school, that is, a school where the management(of the school) is shared between the catholic andProtestant churches?”, just over two thirds 67% - ofparents and grandparents with children/grandchildrenof school age or younger support the establishment of aschool which is jointly managed by both Catholic andProtestant churches. Only 17% opposed this suggestion.(31% strongly support; 36% support; 12% oppose; 10%neither/nor; 5% strongly oppose; 6% don’t know).

Commenting on these findings, Michael Wardlow, ChiefExecutive Officer of NICIE, said: “Yet again independentresearch confirms what All Children Together claimed

over 30 years ago, that parents and grandparents ofschool age children in Northern Ireland, want theirchildren to be educated together.

“At a general level, we are very encouraged to notehow many people support greater sharing andcollaboration across the traditional ‘sectors’ and wewould hope that the Department and otherstakeholders take note of the strength of feeling in theirpolicy making. The strong support for new initiatives,such as shared management of a school by the Catholicand Protestant churches, sends an encouraging thoughchallenging message to our church leaders, byeffectively saying ‘look at ways of helping us betogether’.

“We would welcome a wider debate with policy makersand other stakeholders in looking more closely as suchoptions, particularly now when the educational systemis being significantly re-organised. We have a systemwhich is overburdened with too many separate schoolsbut not sufficient shared spaces to accommodate thegrowing demand for integration. Now is the time forevidence based planning to be at the core of decisionmaking, if we are to provide a school estate fit forpurpose for our shared and better future.”

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FinancialInformation

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TreasurerWelcome to this my final report as treasurer of NICIE.The year 2007-08 proved to be an interesting year forthe finance team. At times we were under pressure tokeep up with all the requests for assistance and fundingof projects throughout the organisation as a whole.However, we managed to achieve this despite risingcosts and our fixed budget.

Once again we have used income from non-government sources to help NICIE develop approachesin new areas, not just new schools. Such pioneeringwork needs to continue into the future. To this end,it is vital that we are successful in securing morefunding. I must thank the Chief Executive Officer and thestaff of NICIE who successfully secured funding in thiscompetitive market, where everyone is looking forvalue for money and measured accountable results.

But how do you measure Integrated Education?As mentioned in last year’s report, the accountingsystem presentation changed to the new regulationFRS17 which takes into account liabilities for final salarypension funds and as such we still appear to show amajor deficit even though the finance team kept withinthe budget all year. To this end, I would like to thankthe finance team for all their hard work not just for lastyear but for the previous four years making my jobas treasurer more rewarding than onerous.

John KissickChairperson

Balance Sheet at 31 March 2008

2008 2007£ £

Fixed assetsTangible assets 4,994 12,746Investments in school buildings 19,338,070 11,753,303

19,343,064 11,766,049Current assetsDebtors 75,466 87,526Cash at bank and in hands 248,018 6,547,575

323,484 6,635,101

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year (238,645) (6,526,668)

Net current assets 84,839 108,433

Total assets less current liabilities 19,427,903 (11,874,482)Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year (19,346,128) 11,797,457

Net assets excluding pension liability 81,775 77,025Pension liability (342,000) (391,000)

Net liabilities including pension liability (260,225) (313,975)

ReservesRestricted funds (260,225) (313,975)

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Appendices

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ABC Anti- Bias Curriculum

ACT All Children Together

ALCs Area Learning Communities

APPG All Party Parliamentary Group

APTIS Association of Principal Teachers of Integrated Schools

CAL Communications and Lobbying Team

CEO Chief Executive Officer

CIPS Controlled Integrated Primary School

DENI Department of Education for Northern Ireland

E2S Entitled to Succeed

EF Entitlement Framework

ELB Education and Library Board

GMI Grant Maintained Integrated

GTCNI General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland

Glossary

HS High School

IEF Integrated Education Fund

INSET In Service Training

IC Integrated College

IPS Integrated Primary School

ISFA Integrated Schools Finance Association

NICIE Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education

NIOCN Northern Ireland Open College Network

OFMdFM Office of the First and Deputy First Minister

PR Public Relations

PS Primary School

QUB Queen’s University Belfast

RTU Regional Training Unit

SEN Special Educational Needs

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Michael Wardlow Chief Executive OfficerClaire Adrain Administrative SecretaryStephen McCartney/Kelly McKeaveney ReceptionistLawrence Rowan Building Development Officer

Development/Support Team:Frances Donnelly Senior Development OfficerLorna McAlpine Senior Development OfficerAnne Moreland Development OfficerDenise Morgan Development OfficerRoisin Marshall Support Officer (on secondment to NEELB)Cliodhna Scott-Wills Development OfficerJudith Searle Development OfficerTerry McMackin Development/Transformation OfficerTeresa Willis Professional Development AdministratorPaula McIlwaine Professional Development OfficerMary O´Donnell Development SecretaryAmanda Higgins Development SecretaryNichola Lynagh Community Relations OfficerDarren O’Reilly Community Relations OfficerLindsey Jackson Secretary

Staff List

Finance:Ann Blackburn Payroll AssistantDeborah Crawford Finance AssistantMaurice Kennedy Finance and Administration Officer

Communications Team:Deborah Girvan Communications and Lobbying ManagerDavid Russell Policy Analyst (until March 08)Gary Kent Westminster Lobbyist (until July 08)Ian McKay Outreach Officer (Until July 08)Margaret Annett Outreach Officer (until July 08)Margery Magee NI Lobbyist Consultant (until Nov ’06)Pam Tilson NI Lobbyist (from Feb ’07)Nuala McAllister-Hart Outreach OfficerPhilip O’Sullivan PR Officer (on secondment to QUB to July 08)Emma Hassard PR Officer (until December 07)Kyra Smyth Communications Secretary (September - December 07)

PR Officer (January - July 08)Sam Fitzsimmons Communications Officer

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PartnersIntegrated Education FundBelfast Trust for IEFoyle Trust for IEAll Children TogetherSouth Ulster Trust for IEWestern Area Charitable Trust for IE

Board of DirectorsSimone BartlettBill BrownColm Cavanagh (Chair)David ClementKierna CorrCynthia Currie (Left June 2008)Olwin Frost (Left November 2007)Olwen GriffithMaurice Johnston (Deputy Chair)Margaret KennedyJohn Kissick (Treasurer until January 2008)Michael McKnightIan McMorris (Left May 2008)Celine McStravick (secretary)Paul MaddenMichael Morrow (Treasurer from January 2008)Ray Mullan (Left June 2008)Sean Murphy

David ThompsonGeraldine Tigchelaar

AssociatesRudolph Steiner SchoolSion Mills Primary SchoolLisnaskea PlaygroupStrabane Parent Steering GroupAntrim Parent Steering Group

Sister Anna(The Anglican Community of the Sisters of the Love ofGod)

Sir Kenneth Bloomfield KCB(Head of the NI Civil Service 1984 - 1991)

Kenneth Branagh(Actor and Film Director)

Polly Devlin(Writer)

Barry Douglas(Pianist)

Dorinda Lady Dunleath

Very Rev Dr John Dunlop(Moderator of Presbyterian Church in Ireland 1992 - 93)

Lady Faulkner of Downpatrick CBE

Brian Friel(Playwright)

Sir James Galway OBE(Flautist)

Very Rev Dean Victor G M B Griffin(Retired Dean, St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin)

Neil Hannon(Singer/Song-writer)

Dr Maurice Hayes(Permanent Secretary DHSS-NI 1984-87; Ombudsman1987-91)

Professor Dr Seamus Heaney(Nobel Laureate for Poetry)

The Rt Hon Lord Holme of Cheltenham CBE(Lib Dem Lords Spokesman on NI)

Professor Aine Hyland(Founder of ‘Educate Together’ in Republic of Ireland)

Jennifer Johnston FRSL(Novelist)

Marie Jones(Playwright, Charbanc Theatre)

Sister Ethna Kelly R.S.M.

Dr Brian Lambkin(Ulster-American Folk Park)

Cecil Linehan MBE(Co-founder All Children Together)

Mairead Corrigan- Maguire(Noble Peace Prize Winner)

Rev Professor Enda McDonagh(Former Professor of Moral Theology, Maynooth)

Barry McGuigan MBE(Former European and WBA Featherweight Championof the World)

Liam Neeson(Actor)

Dr Mary Peters CBE(Former Olympic Pentathalon Champion)

Sean Rafferty(Broadcaster)

Diljit S Rana MBEHotelier)

Rev Dr Norman Taggart(President Methodist Church in Ireland 1997-98)

Patrick Yu(Director of NI Council for Ethnic Minorities)

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Patrons of Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education

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Teachers’ Negotiating Committee (TNC)This forum comprises representatives of the employing authorities and Teacher Unions and determinesannual salaries and the conditions of service for teachers in Northern Ireland.

Representation

Company and Description NICIE Representation

Child Care Partnerships (CCP)Multi-agency groups which exist to raise the quality of childcare within and across the early years sector inthe Education and Library Board (ELB) areas. Meets Quarterly.

Margaret AnnettDenise MorganIan McKay

Pre-school Education Advisory Group (PEAG)ELB-based, they decide how free pre-school places are distributed across the Board area.

NEELB & SEELBLorna McAlpineDenise MorganWELBEric Bullick, Omagh IPS

Anne Murray,Oakgrove IPSFrances Donnelly

SELBStephen McKernan, Phoenix IPSDenise MorganBELBJill Houston, Hazelwood IPS

Principal Qualification Headship (PQH)(Regional & Employers)Advising the Regional Training Unit on the management and implementation of its PQH training programme andresponsible for the initial selection of applicants for the PQH training programme.

Frances DonnellyLorna McAlpine

Frances DonnellyGeneral Teaching CouncilGTCNI ‘s role is to advise government on a range of education issues relating to teachers, enhance the status of the teachingprofession and promote the highest standards of professional conduct and practice. The Council has 33 members comprisingteachers, representatives of advisory bodies and individuals from the field of industry and commerce.

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Company and Description NICIE Representation

NOF (New Opportunities Fund)Groups that decide which schools receive funding from the New Opportunities Fund

SEELB – Paula McIlwaineNELB – Paula McIlwaineBELB – Paula McIlwaine

SELB – Margaret AnnettWELB / NEELB –Ian McKay

Youth Education Social Inclusion (YESIP) Frances Donnelly

Teachers Support Network ForumTeacher Support is a UK charity which exists to improve the health and well being of teachers. A Northern Irelandoffice was opened in 2002. The advisory forum will provide advice and expertise on matters of teacher health andwell being to the Chief Executive and trustees of Teacher Support NI.

Paula McIlwaine

Teaching AwardsNational competition to reward excellence in practice. Member of the judging panel for the regional nominees.

Paula McIlwaine

ContinYouOut of school hours support group

Frances Donnelly

FOCUSForum for Community Understanding in schools – a networking organisation of groups interested in Education for MutualUnderstanding and Good Relations

Terry McMackin

Employers for ChildcareOut of school hours childcare promotion group

Integrated Schools Finance Association (ISFA)

Paula McIlwaine

Cliodhna Scott-Wills

Human Rights ConsortiumUmbrella group within the community and voluntary sector working to campaign for a strong and inclusive Bill of Rights for NI

Pam Tilson

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Company and Description NICIE Representation

NIGAG – NI Government Affairs GroupNetworking group of Public Affairs practitioners working across a range of sectors

Review of Public Administration Steering Groups Senior Management Team

WATIE – Western Area Trust for Integrated Education Nuala McAllister-Hart

Anti-Bullying Forum Save the Children

CRC Shared Future Policy Group David Russell

Northern Ireland (mixed) Housing Executive advice panel on mixed housing David Russell

Teachers’ Education Partnership GroupThis group is charged with advising the Department of Education on all aspects of the partnership model

JEDI Group for the Youth ServiceJoined in Equity, Diversity and Interdependence Group aims to establish a creative partnership promotinga new vision of community through sectoral, organisational and personal transformation

Nichola Lynagh

CCEA Advisory Group on RERepresenting the integrated sector on the CCEA group which is advising on the delivery of the new RE Core Syllabus

Terry McMackin

South Belfast Learning Partnership BoardThis involves education, higher education, community and business interests focussing on the curriculum withregards to employment.

Margaret Annett

CRC Community Initiatives CommitteeThe Community Relations Council exists to promote better community relations between Protestants andCatholics in Northern Ireland and, equally, to promote recognition of cultural diversity.

Michael Wardlow

Darren O’Reilly

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Company and Description NICIE Representation

One Small Step CampaignA campaign encouraging people to work together in addressing the issues which cause pain and division in our society

Michael Wardlow

Dept of Education Strategic Advisory Group for Post-Primary Education Michael Wardlow

Joint Consultative Forum - Education sectorProvides a framework for consultation on matters relevant to the statutory equality duties in theeducation sector in Northern Ireland.

Steering Group & ForumPaula McIlwaine

South Belfast Round Table on Racism Education sub Group David Russell

Media Initiative Advisory Council, The Early Years Organisation Lorna McAlpineDenise Morgan

Area Based Planning Groups Michael WardlowLorna McAlpineFrances Donnelly

Belfast City Council Good Relations Partnership Michael Wardlow

War On Want Michael Wardlow

NICMA (The Northern Ireland Childminding Association) Denise Morgan

Central Planning Group for Area Based Planning Michael Wardlow

Sharing Education Programme Michael Wardlow

RTU Management Board Michael Wardlow

Northern Ireland Foundation Advisory Panel Michael Wardlow

Cliodhna Scott-WillsIvan Arbuthnot

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This year 1,685 participants have taken part in NICIE training programmes.

NICIE offers a range of generic and bespoke training programmes which support the personal and professional development of governors,school staff, parents and young people. Examples of the type of training which NICIE currently facilitates are given below:

Training

Board of Governor training programmes: • Governing for Diversity• Roles and Responsibilities• Recruitment & Selection

Integration in Practice • Visioning• Symbols and Emblems• Religious Education: Policy and Practice• Individually tailored programmes

Staff new to Integrated Education • An introduction to Integrated Education and anti-bias approaches

Anti-Bias in Education TrainingOCN Level III Accreditation

• To outline the principles and rationale of anti-bias theory and practice• Focus on the role of challenging bias• Help teachers gain an understanding of how to embed anti-bias practice in the school environment and encourage others to do the same

Anti-Bias Approaches in the Early Years • To outline the principles and rationale of anti-bias theory and practice• Help early years practitioners gain an understanding of how to embed anti-bias practice into their environment

Peer Mediation (Train the Trainers) programme • An introduction to peer mediation as a means of conflict resolution• Support teachers in training young people as peer mediators.

Diversity in Action (OCN Level II Accreditation) • Support young people in developing an awareness of diverse groups and practices• Helping young people recognise the contributions of diverse groups in society

Enrolments

SCHOOL/COLLEGE Location OPENED 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008Lagan College Belfast 1981 1020 1040 1124 1150 1150 1200Forge CIPS * Belfast 1985 212 226 213 230 250 249Hazelwood College Belfast 1985 721 744 740 804 810 845Hazelwood IPS * Belfast 1985 456 452 455 455 454 456All Children's CIPS Newcastle 1986 211 208 211 199 203 203Bridge IPS Banbridge 1987 411 410 414 408 413 409Mill Strand IPS * Portrush 1987 180 181 210 190 196 192Windmill IPS * Dungannon 1988 217 222 231 230 228 234Braidside IPS * Ballymena 1989 336 345 351 346 351 370Enniskillen IPS * Enniskillen 1989 235 243 261 235 239 240Omagh IPS * Omagh 1990 239 232 276 291 300 325Portadown IPS * Portadown 1990 223 222 218 220 228 234Brownlow CIC Craigavon 1991 377 410 410 434 439 450Carhill CIPS Garvagh 1991 41 46 42 44 55 40Corran IPS * Larne 1991 199 190 189 201 212 208Oakgrove IPS * L'Derry 1991 460 452 445 467 451 441Acorn IPS * Carrickfergus 1992 229 229 229 230 254 260Oakgrove lC L'Derry 1992 852 876 849 846 800 850Cranmore IPS * Belfast 1993 211 193 215 208 223 209Lough View IPS * Belfast 1993 348 368 415 437 435 420Saints and Scholars IPS * Armagh 1993 240 250 275 272 274 258Erne IC Enniskillen 1994 341 332 362 375 419 415Shimna IC Newcastle 1994 495 492 514 511 509 510Cedar IPS * Crossgar 1995 213 216 211 217 220 225Drumragh IC Omagh 1995 563 519 493 525 610 580Integrated College Dungannon Dungannon 1995 489 483 467 462 467 430New-Bridge IC Loughbrickland 1995 498 514 502 504 500 500Portaferry CIPS Portaferry 1995 84 84 86 83 80 73Hilden CIPS Hilden 1996 69 69 60 47 35 0North Coast IC Coleraine 1996 527 522 512 534 535 495Oakwood IPS * Derriaghy 1996 206 192 224 230 231 232Rathenraw CIPS Antrim 1996 111 105 101 94 84 82Slemish IC Ballymena 1996 677 681 690 720 710 720Annsborough CIPS * Castlewellan 1997 42 46 50 55 62 54Malone IC Belfast 1997 799 797 800 791 790 797Strangford IC Carrowdore 1997 466 486 469 488 505 526Ulidia IC Carrickfergus 1997 500 522 529 530 540 540

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Integrated Schools in Northern Ireland

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SCHOOL/COLLEGE Location OPENED 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008Bangor Central CIPS Bangor 1998 498 531 537 561 561 560Down Academy CIC Downpatrick 1998 304 297 300 300 240 0Forthill CIC Lisburn 1998 891 867 867 867 873 880Kilbroney CIPS Rostrevor 1998 88 96 93 93 105 105Kircubbin CIPS Kircubbin 1998 126 119 111 103 102 121Priory CIC Holywood 1998 446 477 489 418 420 445Spires IPS Magherafelt 1999 163 183 188 201 200 202Millennium IPS * Carryduff 2000 97 105 155 195 208 218Carnlough CIPS Carnlough 2001 27 37 41 41 52 48Sperrin IC Magherafelt 2002 115 196 268 353 403 442Glengormley CIPS * Glengormley 2003 185 150 160 155 155 167Maine IPS * Randalstown 2003 17 30 48 86 104 117Round Tower CIPS * Antrim 2003 120 134 195 187 216 245Armagh IC Armagh 2004 50 108 153 140 61Lir IPS Ballycastle 2004 17 26 0 0 0Drumlins IPS Ballynahinch 2004 12 22 37 61 83Glencraig CIPS Holywood 2004 186 210 225 230 253Groomsport CIPS Groomsport 2004 21 21 25 0 0Phoenix IPS Cookstown 2004 17 42 54 80 105Roe Valley IPS Limavady 2004 25 44 72 101 126Groarty CIPS L'Derry 2005 43 40 36 31Ballycastle CIPS * Ballycastle 2006 100 124 129Clogher Valley IPS Fivemiletown 2006 12 20 23Crumlin CIC Crumlin 2006 352 350 400Rowallane IC Belfast 2006 40 86 0Rowandale IPS Moira 2007 18 34Kindle CIPS Ballykinlar 2007 36 0Blackwater IC Downpatrick 2008 340Cliftonville CIPS Belfast 2008 182

Total 16575 17149 17811 18733 19183 19589

*designates a pre school unit, including reception classes, nurseries and playgroups

Lir IPS closed in June 2005 following the successful transformation of Ballycastle PSGroomsport CIPS closed in June 2006 due to decreasing enrolmentsKindle CIPS closed in August 2008Hilden CIPS is due to officially close in December 2008Blackwater IC came about as the result of a merger between Rowallane IC and Down Academy.

These figures include all children being educated in integrated schools, including pre-schoolprovision and those with statements of special educational needs, which explains anydiscrepancy with the official Department of Education figures.

61 schools16 Grant Maintained Integrated College4 Controlled Integrated Colleges23 Grant Maintained Integrated Primary Schools17 Controlled Integrated Primary Schools1 Independent Primary - Clogher Valley IPS

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Tribute to Lord Holme

The recent passing of Lord Holme of Cheltenham has deprived the Integrated Education

movement of a supporter in the House of Lords.

Richard Holme, a Liberal Democrat, had served as the Party Northern Ireland

Spokesperson in the 90s, and agreed at that time to become a patron of NICIE. A close

advisor to Paddy Ashdown during his time as Liberal Democrat Leader, he was a

passionate advocate of a shared society in Northern Ireland and firmly of the belief

that educating children of all traditions and none together could be a key contributor to

this. Combining a distinguished business and political career, he will be fondly

remembered by those he worked with during his time here and since.

Northern Ireland Council forIntegrated Education13-19 University RoadBelfast BT7 1NA

Tel: 028 9023 6200Fax: 028 9023 6237E-mail: info@nicie.org.ukWebsite: www.nicie.org

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