In the March Youthwork magazine we featured a favourite resource from Jason Royce called ‘Masked Appearances’. Here is the powerpoint presentation to accompany his idea.

In the March Youthwork magazine I shared some ideas about how to creatively open up conversations with students in corridors. Here is an audio track which can be used with the ‘Forgiveness Shredder’ idea.

In the Youthwork Magazine in 2009, there was a great lesson from RE Today based on the idea of exploring emotions in the Easter story. The resource is now here for you to download.

In January’s Youthwork Magazine, the favourite schoolswork resource was all about using eggs in assembly. We’ve done a short film to illustrate his trick here, which is quite simply standing on eggs without breaking them.

In January’s Youthwork Magazine we featured a resource that fits really well in a January assembly. It explores the idea of what it means to be on an adventure using the Pixar film UP, and the accompanying slideshow is here for you to download.

Advent assembly to explore the theme of waiting. Here’s an outline for an assembly to use in this advent season, including two movie downloads.

The playing cards featured at Youthwork the Conference 2009 are now available to buy online. The idea is to have a resource that you can carry around with you that is ready to use, fun, interactive and ideal for getting discussions going with the young people you meet.  Whether it’s about how often you brush your teeth, whether the world would be a better place if we all spoke the same language or what God would be like if he came to your town in 2009, there will be plenty of questions to get your young people talking!

We launched our new playing card resource at Youthwork the Conference last weekend in Eastbourne. A third of the all those at the conference went home with their own pack of cards, and were asking about how to do some of the card tricks we were doing on the schoolswork.co.uk stand. We only learnt the tricks a couple of days before the conference, and are really simple to do once you know how, but can look very impressive! We’ve found they are a great way to raise intrigue and curiosity in young people and is the perfect context to get conversation and interesting discussions going.

Continue reading to see the videos and learn how to do these tricks yourself.

If you’re thinking of running a prayer room or a reflective space in your school, you’ve come to the right place. Here are 11 ready to use resources, which require varying amounts of preparation and equipment, but are all available to you free of charge. They have been designed as part of Orison, which is a prayer initiative for use in schools encouraging children and young people to engage with prayer and thinking reflectively about themselves, other people, the places around them and God.

Continue reading to find out more about Orison and to access the resources.

In the October Youthwork Magazine the featured schoolswork resource is ‘My Life as a Tube Line’. Here you can access the accompanying resources.