Free Resources for Primary Aged School Groups

RE Online have produced an impressive interactive page looking at setting up a reflective area for primary school children to introduce them to the idea and practice of reflecting. It involves setting aside a comfortable area in a classroom and can be either directed or left open.

If you are a schools worker in Scotland it’s important to understand the educational context for religious observance.

Anyone got any inspiring ideas for an assembly on Spring for an Infant and Junior school?

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 the Easter story, but also gives some great tips about going into a school, especially if this is something you’re not used to doing.

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.

Lifepath is an exciting Scripture Union project which helps Christians connect with their local schools by inviting them to an event. Lifepath aims to give Junior School pupils the opportunity to explore the Christian faith through the lifepath of a well known historic Christian with a link to the location and to use this as a springboard to encourage them to reflect on their own lifepath.

Hi, I would really appreciate some help finding a story about retaliation…does anyone have any ideas?

If you work with primary age children it’s worth getting along to the Children’s Ministry Conference next weekend in Eastbourne (23rd-25th Jan). We enjoyed a great weekend in Eastbourne not so long ago for the Youthwork Conference, and now really looking forward to this one too, where there’ll be a schoolswork.co.uk presence in the exhibition hall, as well as a couple of seminars on schools work. If you haven’t heard about it yet, check out the site for more info.

If you work in primary schools, here’s a great interactive resource you can use to engage children in learning about the Bible. http://www.bibleinliteracy.org/.