Saturday 3rd Nov, 2007 by Chris Curtis
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You find yourself standing in front of a class of 30 Year 10’s. They’re ready and waiting for you to start the lesson. What are you going to do? What will engage them, get them talking and thinking, and ultimately learning? How can you communicate your Christian beliefs and faith?
Monday 17th Dec, 2007 by Tim Burnage
Categories: Secondary
A challenging video with a good message from World Vision. New approach to thinking about others’ needs this Christmas.
Wednesday 9th Jan, 2008 by Chris Curtis
Categories: Primary, Secondary, Assembly, Lesson, Curricular, Assemblies, Lessons
In 2006 BBC Newsround produced a series of incredible films, The Wrong Trainers, about young people living in poverty in the UK. Using the voices of real young people, the films use animation and carton characters to…
Thursday 10th Jan, 2008 by Chris Curtis
Categories: Secondary, Assembly, Curricular, Assemblies
An assembly adapted from Oxfam’s award-winning role-play resource for ages 13+. Using the life of 25 year-old sweatshop worker Mara from Cambodia, students learn about: the labour behind branded trainers and sportswear…
Friday 11th Jan, 2008 by Chris Curtis
Categories: Secondary, Lesson, Curricular, Lessons, Multimedia
A very funnily executed animation of The Good Samaritan using lego. The unusual approach makes an often told story seem fresh and it would work well as a way of presenting it to a class of secondary pupils, especially…
Saturday 12th Jan, 2008 by Chris Curtis
Categories: Secondary, Lesson, Curricular, Lessons
‘Chasing God’ is a video resource from Teachers TV aimed at secondary RE. The hook is that it’s narrated by the comedian Dawn French. The intro on the Teachers TV site says: “Narrated by award-winning…
Sunday 13th Jan, 2008 by Chris Curtis
Categories: Secondary, Other, Other
Scenes from the Bible have been imagined by countless artists over the centuries, but never quite like this. God’s Eye View portrays four key Biblical events as if captured by Google Earth. It’s the work of Sydney-based…
Monday 14th Jan, 2008 by Chris Curtis
Categories: Secondary, Lesson, Curricular, Lessons
Youth Specialties is an American company, originally started by Mike Yaconelli, providing resources and conferences for youth workers. They have a page on their web site of free downloadable resources which includes…
Wednesday 16th Jan, 2008 by Chris Curtis
Categories: Secondary, Lesson, Curricular, Lessons
Chalkface is a company producing (paid for) resources for teaching which include RE, Citizenship and PHSE. The units are generally quite expensive - around £25 - but for that you a get 60 pages of resources including…
Thursday 17th Jan, 2008 by andrea Dalton
Categories: Secondary
Help, looking for film clip of modern worship!
Thursday 17th Jan, 2008 by Chris Curtis
Categories: Secondary, Lesson, Curricular, Lessons
Complete Hero is a multimedia project looking at issues of peace and war. Their website says: “Hero is an attempt to re-evaluate what we mean when we use the word ‘hero’.... Hero asks questions like…
Saturday 19th Jan, 2008 by Chris Curtis
Categories: Primary, Secondary, Other, General Resource, Other
There are lots of sites on the web where you can design and print your own cards or stickers, but none comes close to ‘Moo’ for ease of use and quality of the finished product. Once you’ve uploaded…
Sunday 20th Jan, 2008 by Chris Curtis
Categories: Primary, Other, Other
This exercise would work well in a lesson as an introduction to the subject of prejudice or simply the concept of similarities and differences. First give one lemon to each child. Then ask the children to “get…
Wednesday 23rd Jan, 2008 by Jon Keel
Categories: Secondary
I’m currently looking at the use of self esteem material in and through the PSHE syllabuses at Key Stage 3, does anyone have any recommended resources that they have found particularly useful in this area?
Monday 4th Feb, 2008 by Chris Curtis
Categories: Secondary, Assembly, Lesson, Curricular, Assemblies, Lessons, Youthwork Magazine
Each month schoolswork.co.uk provide assembly and lesson resources in Youthwork magazine. In the February 2008 issue of Youthwork magazine, the schoolswork.co.uk resource page has a secondary lesson on forgiveness. Here’s…
Friday 29th Feb, 2008 by Amy Stock
Categories: Primary, Lesson, Curricular, Lessons
Looking for new resources to use in primary schools this Easter? Here’s a brilliant new teaching resource produced by CMS and the disocese of London. Not only does it lay out some good practical ideas to communicate…
Friday 14th Mar, 2008 by Amy Stock
Categories: Secondary, Lesson, Curricular, Lessons
Here you will find an overview of the SEL program we’re currently running in schools in Luton. We’ve developed a series of four lessons, two on emotions and two on spirituality that will help young people to…
Saturday 15th Mar, 2008 by Amy Stock
Categories: Primary, Lesson, Curricular, Lessons
Here’s an activity you can use in RE with pupils aged 7-11 to help them think about the cross of Jesus and its meanings.
