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Hi Laura,
Apologies for not replying to this thread before now. Did you have the assembly already, or is it still to come? What an interesting topic to have to cover in assembly, and I guess would vary quite a lot with each year group! Would be fascinated to see what you came up with, but please do shout out if you’re still looking for ideas!
Amy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/9mxm
it’s great to see someone with such positive lyrics making a hit - hope the lyrics really speak to people.
Hi Lou,
If you would like to put me in touch either give my details to them or vice versa and i will see what i can do.
Cheers
Lisa Jones, Scripture Union, in Folkestone
we’re still have a couple of group spaces in Sussex, so if you know of a youth group interested (16+), please get in touch. The project cannot run in lesson time as our funders state it has to be an opt in opportunity.
A great blog by Jenny Baker on the work of TrueTube
http://blog.sophianetwork.org.uk/2009/06/truetube---opportunities-for-young-filmmakers.html
Hi. Thank you so much for your comments and suggestions. The Creation lesson went well on Friday. We invited them along to our C.U, which followed the lesson, for any further discussion and 5 came along.
Here’s a decent website with public domain pictures of jesus: http://picture-of-jesus.com. it’s pretty interesting that Jesus looks almost the same in nearly every painting since the year 300. Why is that?
Someone’s just pointed me to this very wonderful looking resource: http://www.thewonderproject.co.uk/. It tackles your topic and gives some fab resources to use from different faith persectives (e.g. vox pops). The downside is that it costs £39.50, but by the looks of it is worth the money. I will feature this in the resource toolkit as it looks like something worth getting a hold of.
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I believe…
I just had my daily intake of Twitter and noticed a trending topic* that intrigued me so followed the link and found this great site. You can select from these words: love, hate, think, believe, feel or wish, to see what poeple are tweeting about using these words. For example I just clicked on believe, and here are some of the things people all over the world are believing at 19:12 on a tuesday evening:
“the divinity i believe in has no gender. It exists in each of us, and each of us exist in it.”
“i believe a roast dinner is being cooked for me, this is not seeming a good idea”
“i believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.”
“HMMM....i believe GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL...OR OUR PLANET THINKS ITS APRIL FOOLS EVERYDAY...”
*topics that are talked about the most on Twitter get picked up and get listed in a kind of top 10 on your home page.
Grants
Check this out. If you’ve been involved in the UK schools work scene for a while you may recall Schools Ministry Network (SMN), which existed for about ten years as a means of linking up and resourcing schools workers across the UK. SMN has been dormant for several years now and the signatories to its bank account have decided that now is the time to dispose of its remaining assets. There are details at http://schoolsministrynetwork.wordpress.com.
If you are involved with or know of a UK project involving networking between Christian schools workers that might be able to benefit from some of this money (no it’s not millions!), please do look at the information on the site and consider making a bid. The closing date for applications is 31 August.
Wayne Dixon
FRESH
To add to Wayne’s post about support for students moving on to university, here’s another great resource that came out last year.
“Fresh: bite size inspiration for new students” has been developed by Krish Kandiah, aiming to give students daily inspiration to encourage them to begin university life by focusing on God, “covering everything from writing essays to writing home, from making friends to making the grade, from debt to dating”. Definitely worth checking out and giving to students you may be saying goodbye to as a leaving gift. There’s also web support to go along with the book (see freshspace.org) and a community feel to the site with discussion forums and support for those who want to share ideas in this way.
Stories and Songs - using music with a message
Using the track YTKE (from Homecut’s ‘No Freedom without Sacrifice) as a discussion starter with teenagers , could be especially useful working with disengaged and NEET young people.
life in pictures
This is cool. Action for Children, a charity supporting vulnerable children and young people, have come up with a set 150 artworks by celebrities about their life journeys. The contributors were asked to depict the start and end points of a transformational experience personal to them, with a single, unbroken line. (some of them do this, some don’t!). Ex-England defender Tony Adams points towards how he beat his drink problem, while TV’s Duncan Bannatyne maps the rise of his business empire.
Work in Dover, Kent
I have a contact in Dover Grammar school who would like a schools worker…
Training in Schools Work
Training in Schools Work is a week long opportunity happening in October (12-16) in Northampton (Kings Park Conference Centre) and put on by Scripture Union. More details do read on…
Wayne Dixon
What a great day
Today I had the privilege of hanging out with some great people at a schoolswork conference in Surrey. There was a great turn out, and I’ve come away from the day really encouraged about the passion and enthusiasm for thinking creatively about our input into schools. The day began with a keynote from Nick Shepherd reminding us of the mission each of us is a part of as we step into the world of education each day. It’s interesting, as he was talking my mind drifted to a conversation I had with a teacher in school last week…
Taking a breath
Sorry things have been quiet on here for a while. I’m hoping that will change over the next few months, and come September there will be frequent updates, current articles and thinking as well as lots of exciting new features on the site. Anyway, more on that later. For now, just let me tell you a bit about the week I was running in school last week…
