New site coming very very soon!

Here’s a quick update from the schoolswork.co.uk desk about all the fun and crazy things that have been happening over the past few weeks and months, which might explain why things have been so quiet on this site recently. 

NEW website launch

...“so where is it???” I hear you cry. Well, it’s just around the corner, believe me we’re working very hard at developing the new schoolswork.co.uk website so that you can access all the great new features. It’s truly a labour of love, we’re really excited about it and hope you will be too when you see how things have changed. Bear with us over the next few days as we continue to work to make this ready for you, a beta version of the site should be live very soon. I may release a preview of some of the new features over the next couple of days, so keep visiting to find out the news.

Youthwork Magazine Summer of Schools Work

Coming out this week is the schools work issue of Youthwork Magazine. We hijacked the magazine for the month (shhhh, I don’t think they noticed) and you can read all about that in the August issue. If you don’t subscribe, get along to your local Christian bookshop to pick up your copy. Accompanying that issue is a special Youthwork the Podcast edition focused on schoolswork, which is live now over at http://www.youthwork.co.uk/magazine/podcast/. More to come on this soon…look out for all the accompanying resources and downloads that we refer to in the magazine.

Brand new resource launching this month!

On the front cover of the Youthwork Magazine, you will receive a FREE new resource, which is the first Artcard in a set of 12 we have developed for you to use in your schools work. It’s based on the idea of using art in your conversations with young people in helping them to explore faith and some of the big questions in life. This first series is called ‘Where is God?’, and contains 12 high quality Artcards, complete with questions for debate and discussion, which can be used in an RE lesson, lunchtime activity, conversation around school and in any context with a young person who has questions about God.
Throughout the years I’ve been involved in schools work, I’m not sure I’ve ever found a method which is more successful than this in helping to give young people a language to begin to explore their ideas and beliefs in such a deep way.

The Artcards are currently in production and will be available for you next week. This would be a great resource for you to explore over the summer in preparation for a new term in September.

Education Symposium

...And just because we felt we needed something else to do last month, we co-hosted a symposium in Parliament at the House of Commons with our friends at Chapel St. It was an incredible opportunity to engage with government on the theme of ‘the future of Christian schools work in education”. We’ll be posting a report from the Symposium by Martin Saunders along with some photos from the event on the new site.

Imagine 2010

So the final headline is a really exciting new event for the start of term in September. There will be more details about this event coming in the next few days, but places are limited so we recommend booking soon to avoid disappointment. You can do that here. Save the date, it’s Friday 10th September at the Oasis Academy in Enfield. There are posters and postcards available for this event, as well as PDF downloads available soon, so .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) if they will be useful for you to help share information with your projects and organisations.

Well, that’s given you a taster of what’s to come. I’m off to continue working on the new site, but do look out for all that’s coming. When the new site is live I will send around an email to members, so if you’d like to receive that email sign up here to become a member… (oh, and if you sign up during July or August you will receive a free Youthwork Magazine!!).

God bless, and enjoy the last couple of weeks of the summer term.

Amy

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