Artcards Series 2
Categories: Primary, Schoolswork Plus, Schoolswork Plus
This resource is all about using art to open up big questions and ideas with children.
The pack comprises 12 high quality Artcards complete with stunning images based on questions by children that they have thought of to ask God. The cards are designed to unpack and dig deeper into the big ideas and questions that children have about the world around them and God.
The questions are grouped into four categories, and there will be a lesson pack (including the digital images) coming in the next few days.
The four categories are:
1. Questions about ‘creation’
2. Questions about ‘the world’
3. Questions about ‘wonder’
4. Questions about ‘knowing me’
On the back of each Artcard, are three sections: an idea, two questions and a task. This makes the resource very adaptable and usable for classroom settings, with the option of focusing on just one category per lesson, or for older students who can handle lots of different ideas, the option to include a variety of topics spread throughout the class to enable more varied and interesting conversations. More tips and ideas for lessons to come in the lesson pack very soon (watch this space for details).
Series 2 differs from series 1 in that it has been designed for a younger age group, primarily 7-13 year olds. Like any of our resources they can be adapted for any age group, however the pitch of the questions has been aimed at a younger audience than the first series.
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Talking About Self Harm (DVD) Charity Deal
Categories: Secondary, 16+, Schoolswork Plus, Schoolswork Plus
This youth work pack will enable you to talk with confidence about self-harm, providing a safe space for your young people to explore the issue.
Based around four short films, this DVD resource contains essential information, lesson plans and accompanying materials for use in the classroom, small groups or one to one settings.
The youth work charity pack includes a PDF download of material ready to use with youth groups or individuals, looking at Christian ideas and what the Bible has to say about issues related to self-harm.
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Self-Harm Postcards x 2
Categories: Secondary, 16+, Schoolswork Plus, Schoolswork Plus
Selfharm.co.uk has produced a set of 6 unique postcards, each of which answers a different commonly-asked question to do with self-harm. These postcards would be good discussion starters, or used as part of an information stand, especially where they may be found by young people or those who may work with teenagers struggling with self-harm. Each pack contains one of each design.
Save £1 by getting 2 packs of 6 postcards (normally £3.50 per pack)
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Self-Harm Postcards
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Selfharm.co.uk has produced a set of 6 unique postcards, each of which answers a different commonly-asked question to do with self-harm. These postcards would be good discussion starters, or used as part of an information stand, especially where they may be found by young people or those who may work with teenagers struggling with self-harm. Each pack contains one of each design.
You can also buy multiple sets and save money here.
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Test Product 2
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Test Product
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Talking About Self-Harm (DVD)
Categories: Secondary, 16+, Schoolswork Plus
This schools pack will enable you to talk with confidence about self-harm, providing a safe space for your students to explore the issue.
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Talking About Self-Harm (DVD)
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HALF-PRICE: £20 SPECIAL OFFER FOR SELF-HARM AWARENESS DAY, 1ST MARCH 2012 (for one week only)
This schools pack will enable you to talk with confidence about self-harm, providing a safe space for your students to explore the issue.
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I would be interested to see the secondary assembly themes you cover.
Artcard Series 1
Categories: Secondary, 16+, Lesson, Curricular, Lessons, Schoolswork Plus
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The new Art in Heaven Competition is open to 16-19s - see the NATRE website. It might just yield some new artcards. Hope so, and invite all schoolsworkers to take the chance and get involved
Artcard Series 1 Lesson Pack
Categories: Secondary, 16+, Schoolswork Plus
The lesson pack costs just £2 an includes a digital image of each artwork set into a presentation format ready to use in a lesson, group or other activity. There are two formats available for you, PowerPoint and Keynote.
There is also a PDF of the lesson pack, complete with curriculum aims and outcomes, lesson ideas and further resources.
This item does not include the Artcards themselves, you will need to add them to your basket separately here: http://www.schoolswork.co.uk/schoolsworkplus/entry/artcard-series-1-where-is-god/
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Primary Age Playing Cards
Categories: Primary, Schoolswork Plus, Schoolswork Plus
The new playing cards contain 52 brand new questions, and are geared towards the 7-13 yr old age group. This means they are suitable for use with the primary age group, middle schools and also in secondary schools with lower ability students.
Differences between these cards and the original orange cards include:
- Completely new questions
- Simpler language
- Larger font, making the questions easier to read
However, they still maintain the principle of using questions to open up conversation with humour and depth. The four suits also use the four different types of questions as the secondary ones do:
DIAMONDS: questions about you (e.g. identity)
SPADES: questions about others (e.g. friendships)
HEARTS: questions about the world (e.g. the environment, the world around us)
CLUBS: questions about beliefs (e.g. prayer, why we believe things - suitable for any age group and for those from any faith and none)
Here’s a quote from Lat Blaylock from RE Today talking about the cards:
You’ve got to have these cards: a playful approach to being spiritual. 52 little pieces of thoughtfulness in fours suits. Just what I expect from schoolswork – profound, and profoundly simple, fun, and funnily powerful. Get some.
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I would like to buy a pack of the primary cards and a pack of the original cards but do not want to set up a paypal account. Can you send them to me with an invoice so that i can pay by cheque.
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Hi, Yvette yes we can do this for you. Please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) with your order and mailing address. We are also in the process of building in a secure payment system to our website. This will be ready in the next few days and will enable you to multiple resources at the same time (without having to us paypal).
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what an excellent resource!!! I will definitely be ordering some of these for our school.
Secondary Age Playing Cards
Categories: Secondary, 16+, Young Leaders, Schoolswork Plus, Extra Curricular, Schoolswork Plus
52 questions
4 themes
1 pack of cards
These playing cards came out of a situation with a young person who would only ever open up in a mentoring situation when there was a card game involved. It seemed obvious that to put questions onto the playing cards would be a perfect solution for this particular young person to open up about different areas of her life, and so this is our way of passing on an idea that has worked in lots of different settings in schools including:
• Group work
• Mentoring sessions
• Card tricks to use in the playground/dining hall
• Card games in a lunchtime or after school club
• If you need to fill a few minutes at the end of a lesson you’re taking, have some cards with you and divide up some appropriate questions between the students for them to discuss in groups
In all of these settings and more, discussion naturally flows from the questions that appear, whether it’s through a favourite card game, a trick, or just taking a card from the pack and seeing what happens. The questions are divided into four categories which correspond with the four different playing card suits:
DIAMONDS: questions about you
SPADES: questions about others
HEARTS: questions about the world
CLUBS: questions about beliefs.
If you want to see more pictures take a look at our facebook page here.
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Hi,
I am a teacher in a high school in Airdrie and I would like to purchase a pack of the question cards. I can’t quite see a link that I can purchase them on? Do I just send a cheque? Please help.
Thanks, Jennifer S
Hi Jennifer, you can buy them online from this page. You just need to be a member and logged into do so. Just above your comment you should see a link where you can either ‘login’ or ‘register’. If you do that and then come back to this page, you will see a link at the bottom that says ‘Buy Now’.
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Thanks, Amy
I have used the playing cards a couple of times in the extended day lesson I lead at my local Academy school on Tuesdays called TRUST. The last time I used them it created the opportunity for young people to share about what is going on in their lives. Three of them shared some quite deep stuff from one of the questions on the cards. It was really encouraging to hear them share and open up. I look forward to using the cards again soon. I highly recommend this resource.
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Easter Assembly
Categories: Secondary, 16+, Schoolswork Plus, Schoolswork Plus
A lot of time and thought has gone into producing this assembly which is why we have chosen to charge for these Schoolswork Plus resources.We hope you find it useful and have some great Easter assemblies.
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This was an excellent assembly resource. It’s jam packed with great visuals and info, so much so that you won’t be able to use everything in one assembly. I tweaked it slighty to suit the year group I was working with. I used a Third Day song called ‘Love Song’ and played it while they looked at the photos. Really wanted them to think about a particular line…‘just to be with you I gave everything, yes I gave my life away.’ Thank you for this fab resource
That’s great Gillian, thanks for letting us know. We like Third Day too…good choice!
I used this brilliant resource last year in the end of term services for several different year groups. I was able to use all of the resources (slightly adapted) and they provided a powerful and engaging framework for sharing the message of Easter. Thank you so much for producing this resource and the excellent value it represents. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this to anyone else.
I can’t find the link to download this??
Schoolswork.co.uk Set
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The schoolswork.co.uk set is ideal if you work in both primary and secondary schools, or with mixed ability students. Both sets can be adapted to suit any age group, but the questions for the green (primary) set use simpler language and a bigger font, whereas the orange (secondary) set employs more complex ideas and a smaller sized font. Different questions are used in the separate packs.
Please see individual pack descriptions for more information: PRIMARY PACK / SECONDARY PACK
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Looking for the ‘how to use the cards’ piece - am I missing the obvious?
Looking Into Lent
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I’m surprised that you charge for the assembly!
Hi Hannah, really happy for feedback, do email me with your thoughts. Thanks, Amy
Hi. Really pleased to see an assembly section but disappointed that there is a charge. I do primary assemblies and have no facilities for powerpoints etc. Because of this I wouldn’t buy an assembly that I hadn’t at least seen first as I may find that it was all not appropriate and I had wasted my money. If they were free I would maybe at least be able to use them for inspiration for something I can develop to suit the junior school.
Hi, thanks for your comments, this is part of a useful process for us and we want to know your thoughts. I took on board your thought Jean about needing more detail and have added some more information to the description. At the moment we only have a secondary school assembly available but in the near future we hope to expand this area to include primary resources. For now, some great primary material for the Easter season can be found here. It was written for Easter last year, but is really good stuff. Do email further if you’d like to follow up on any questions you have. Thanks, Amy
Hi. Can I wade in here as one of the team helping run the site. The challenge we have is figuring out how to run the project on something other than thin air. Right now it costs, not surprisingly, quite a bit to keep it rolling. We’re always going to offer 99.9% of it free, because it’s about mission and ministry and our passion is to make a difference. But we’re also trying to figure out ways of developing income other than filling the site with banner ads from Google. Having a section where there are a few resources (that have taken someone considerable time and effort to write!) seems like a good experiment, especially if it’s only £1.99. I’ve just bought a coffee from the shop down the road for more than that this morning! So please bear with us while we work out how to make this project work in the long term and, if you really believe in what we’re doing, hit the ‘make a donation’ button at the bottom of the page and join us in making this site the best possible resource, inspiration and support for Christians working in schools!!
Is the fee going to be for assemblies developed by the schoolswork.co.uk team only? What about a way to have outline ideas shared by site users available free through the blogs, with additional resources available for purchase if people want full plans rather than ideas? Then we as users choose to ‘donate’ our resources to help meet the costs of the site.
Ideally, I guess, if we all donated there wouldn’t need to be any fees at all.
Thanks Wendy. Although this is an interesting way of doing it, it’s actually really helpful to work through this issue in the community and wrestle with the best ways of keeping this going. We’re passionate about supporting people, developing stuff that will be useful and also for providing space for us all to learn from each other. Like Chris says, we just are trying to think long term and need to make this project sustainable. We are looking at other ways to share ideas and generate resources for the site, most of which we will offer without charge. Bear with us as we figure out how to best serve you!
Thank you for the resource, as always inspirational and very helpful :)
Looks like a great use of money when I need fresh ideas, thank you…
£1.99 surely won’t break any banks (even in credit crunch Britain) - and if Chris had wanted he could have quoted Luke 10:7.
Just a personal plea - isn’t £2 a bit more honest? Or is there a reason it has to be .99??
Hi Froudie, good question. I guess we were inspired by the Proost model who set their resources at £1.99 per download.
£1.99 guys! Great value, this site costs a fortune to run so please don’t moan. Use your expenses!
I understand the need to make some money, but I think the charge cuts against the spirit of the site where people share ideas for free. It’s not a huge charge but I don’t think I will buy the resource as I think there will be several free offers from other users. Call it a protest if you like, but I would not normally charge people for my own resources, although I might ask for a favour one day. Perhaps you should make £1.99 a ‘suggested donation’ leaving it up to the individual to pay or not. So many Christian websites are focussed on flogging new resources, someone’s dvd or new life changing book. Please don’t go down that route.
Hi Richard,
Do you know how much it costs a year to run this website?
Amy could you enlighten us?
Lee
Hi Lee,
I have no idea how much it costs but I am grateful for the free services it provides.
Seriously - people are upset that the assemblies cost £1.99? Are we taking into account that to be a member of schoolswork.co.uk is free in the first place? If you look at any assembly guides elsewhere on the net, I guarantee that you’ll struggle to find a) a resource that is free or cheaper than £1.99 (most are more expensive) or b) find an assembly resource that’s as good quality and well put together. With all the time and effort that has been poured into providing a resource that’s here to save us time, I don’t think that £1.99 is asking much is it really? You could spend 2 hours on google finding resources or you could get quality here now - and spend those 2 hours in school with young people - bit of a simple decision surely?!
Thanks everyone for your comments…I genuinely want to listen to them all. In answer to your question Lee, it does cost a lot to keep this project running. This year costs are just over 20k, and next year we’re looking to develop the team to increase the efficiency of the project, taking the costs to between more like 40-50k. This involves upkeep of the site, web developments, training we’re developing (this is really exciting by the way), staff and a whole host of other costs, which until you run a project like this, have no idea that exist. Charging £1.99 per resource isn’t going to impact greatly on the overall costs just yet, but even from the first couple of resources we’ve put on here, we’ve been able to pay for a few more hours of our web designer’s precious time to add some more features that will hopefully make this site more useful and effective for you.
Hope that helps!
Thanks Amy, keep up the good work :)
£1.99 is less than a latte in St. Arbucks mmmmm food for thought
Hi, I am really grateful for this website!! Keep up this amazing work!! I would be happy to pay anything for your ideas, they are always up to date, and modern and well presented, which shows how much time goes into them!! I sometimes get stuck and have offen been inspired by an ide from here even though I do primary assemblies, the ideas can be adapted slightly for a younger age. God bless you in your work.
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