A presentation you can download and use in a Christmas assembly.
Asking the young people how they plan on spending their time, money and energy this Christmas, this presentation includes story, images and questions for young people to reflect on.

Last week I took a 15 minute assembly for Year 7 in a Secondary School on the theme of Poverty. This session was only meant as a basic introduction to the theme, so is deliberately lightweight but is designed to get the children thinking about their own personal response to poverty this Christmas.

Are we making Christmas too nice?

Some of the staunchest supporters of Christmas come from other religions, says Zaki Cooper…

An assembly idea that takes a bit of preparation, but is well worth the effort!

A challenging video with a good message from World Vision. New approach to thinking about others’ needs this Christmas.

I lost my copy of a very good christmas drama…i wonder if anyone has it or knows of it?

Thinking of doing Christmas differently? Here are some great resources to help you and your pupils consider what a more ethical Christmas might look like…

Each month in Youthwork Magazine there are some resources for you to use in your schoolswork. In the December issue we included a lesson called ‘The Christmas Experience’. Here is a short reflection you may find helpful at the end of the lesson.

Really helpful conversation starter from our friends over at Truetube. Would you like to get your young people thinking wider this Christmas season?

XMAS ROWS

The final bell of the term will ring in under two weeks, agh, how did that happen?! Still time for plenty of assemblies, lessons and groups looking at the festive theme and engaging young people we encounter with God’s story. If you are looking for ideas, here’s a summary of all the Christmas related items and resources already featured on this site, but feel free to add your own too…

An email just came through reminding me of the clips available at the fab Wing Clips site, so thought I’d pass it on. If you’re looking for last minute festive films or a short clip to use in a lesson/assembly/group/other you might just find something here.

less on gifts, more on relationships. love this site.

A very happy Christmas to all our members and visitors to the site.
May God bless you and give you a peaceful and happy Christmas time.

We’re signing off for a few days, see you in 2009!

Someone at the Churches Advertising Network has got really creative this past Christmas and produced two fab radio ads. They’re only 30 seconds but they’re begging to be used in an assembly. Listen and see what you think. Football is my favourite!

Football
Racing

I had my first exposure of Coca Cola’s Christmas advert on TV last night, which, by the looks of various Twitter comments, seems to be a real sign that Christmas is on its way! We’re starting to think about advent assemblies, Christmas assemblies and other ways that we can engage students in schools in exploring the story of Christmas in meaningful ways. Soon there will be new Christmas resources available for 2009 here on the site, but in the meantime, we want to get some discussion going here on the site and point out a couple of resources we really like.

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…