Many of us will be doing Christmas assemblies this month, hosting Christmas parties for our extra-curricular groups, teaching lessons, speaking in carol services….and probably lots of other festive things where we have the opportunity to share about the love of God through Christ coming into the world.

If you’re looking for ideas, inspiration, stories or practical illustrations, we’ve done our best to create the ultimate Christmas resource list for you. This post won’t contain every single Christmas resource that is out there, but is schoolswork.co.uk’s pick of favourite links and ideas…

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.

So it’s Thursday morning and once again I unlock the prayer room at Cathedral school Wakefield bleary-eyed. I have a tidy up, mop up sand and water that has spilt and restick the post-it notes on the map that have fallen off. As I do so I read some of the heartfelt and honest prayers that students have posted…

The pupils file in, class by class, to fill up the space in the hall.
When teachers and students are all in their place, you can end up feeling quite small.
The year-head begins with announcements of things and then says: ‘Today we’ve a guest’,
The clock-watching starts, it’s over to you, Ten minutes to give it your best…..