A new partnership between yfc and youth alpha have developed an excellent resource for RE lessons.

World Fair Trade Day is an international celebration of Fair Trade internationally, with events organised worldwide. On and around the second Saturday of May every year, IFAT (International Fair Trade Association) member organisations based in 70 countries, along with Fair Trade shops and networks, host events including Fair Trade breakfasts, talks, music concerts, fashion shows and much more, to promote Fair Trade and campaign for justice in trade. Fair Trade products from marginalised communities in the majority world, including coffee and tea, clothes, jewellery and beautiful handicrafts will be showcased on this day. Many events continue throughout the month of May.

Send My Friend is a fantastic campaign which aims to highlight the plight of the 72 million children who are missing out on education around the world. The website has resources for schools and explains what the campaign is all about and how you can get involved.

Each month schoolswork.co.uk provide assembly and lesson resources in Youthwork magazine. In the April 2008 issue of Youthwork magazine, the schoolswork.co.uk resource page has a secondary assembly which includes a celebrity quiz. Here’s the slides of pictures in both Keynote and Powerpoint formats.

In this month’s Youthwork magazine, Sarah Byde - a schools worker from Leeds, suggests a great resource for getting discussions going with young people about relationships. Download the pyramid structure here and some cards to use with the resource.

This US video from Creature Comforts is a brilliant take on self image that would be a great element in a lesson or assembly. The comments are from a wide range of Americans and, although most are adults, it’s got lots of interesting quotes that would fit into something for teenagers (and maybe even primary too?).

‘Children Talking’ is a web-based database of pupils’ responses to key questions raised in RE, with a search facility and the option for pupils to add their own responses to the original questions. What that means is that you can get a list of quotes about a whole range of subjects from young people in the UK. And you can specify the age, gender and religion of the children or young people you want to hear from. Their comments could be really useful as part of an assembly or lesson.

Over Easter 2008, the BBC screened a dramatic account of the Passion story. Here’s a collection of resources to help you use the production in lessons or groups.

A new resource from the Frontier Youth Trust looking at spirituality and youth work.

QUEST is a 7 session DVD series designed to engage youth in discussion of spiritual issues from a Christian perspective. Sessions are 35 minutes long and contain 3 discussion questions followed by vox pops with young people.