Celebrating Easter together
Here are some simple ideas to celebrate Easter together before term finishes. During or after each activity chat about how this way of celebrating relates to the Christian story of Easter. Why do Christians do this to celebrate at Easter? Have an Easter Egg hunt! Enjoy a hunt together. If you are able to hide …
Easter: Outdoors and Active
Why not go outside and get active exploring the Easter story? There are lots of ideas to help you do this throughout our Easter resources, here are some of our favourites. Enjoy an Active Quiz to Reinforce the Easter Story Jump up and down for true , jog on the spot for false – or …
New: Early Level Easter Resources
Unsure of how to explore the Easter Story with wee ones? Look no further than our NEW Early Level Easter Resources. Find them here. They include: a quick guide to help you get the most out of what’s on offer, an early level story script, some simple, but interactive teacher-led ideas to explore the story …
Countdown to Easter!
In amongst the eggs and chocolate and rabbits why not take time to explore the Christian story of Easter with your class? It will be a great opportunity for children to gain a new understanding of what Christians believe and why Easter is so important to Christians. Over the next few weeks we’ll share ideas …
Learn at home: Noah’s Ark
Ready to go! These resources are ready to copy and paste into your home learning instructions. No preparation needed. You could use these resources tomorrow 🙂 Encouraging children to go outside and be active. These resources encourage children to take their learning outside. Strong literacy and health and well being links. Our resources always link …
Learn at home: Creation
Ready to go! These resources are ready to copy and paste into your home learning instructions. No preparation needed. You could use these resources tomorrow 🙂 Encouraging children to go outside and be active. These resources encourage children to take their learning outside. Strong literacy links. Our resources always link across the curriculum and especially …
Delve Deeper into the Christmas Story
Here are 3 ideas to explore the Christmas story with classes who feel like ‘they know it all already’ Think about the characters! Invite your class to create or draw one of the characters from the story. They need to consider how the character is feeling and make sure the facial expression matches! Provide them …
Outdoor Classroom Day 2020
Will you be going outside for Outdoor Classroom Day? Here are 5 of our favourite (and easy!) outdoor learning ideas. Make an outdoor picture: tell, read or watch a Bible story in your classroom and then head outside to create a picture from it using natural objects. You could allocate groups a scene from the …
A Christmas Scavenger Hunt
This is a great activity to help early years (or older!) children remember the story of Jesus birth, get them moving and encourage them to be creative! The only prep required is that they need to have heard the Nativity story before you start. You could do this inside or outside, with the children hunting …
Moving on. Learn at home resources based on the story of Daniel and the Lions
We may not know exactly what’s going to happen next for the children we teach (or ourselves!) but we do know they will all be experiencing change and transition. This may be simply the change of going back to school or bigger changes like moving up to academy. Prior to the story of Daniel in …
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Jump for Joy? Let go of your worries? Send a message in a bottle?
Transition themed prayer or reflective spaces for Nursery to P1, P7-S1 and to support the transition between learning at home and coming back to school. Around this time of year we would usually host ‘Prayer spaces’ in our local schools for our P7 classes around the theme of transition. They have proved hugely popular in …
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Are rules good or bad? Learn at home resources based on the story of the Ten Commandments.
As this Coronavirus outbreak progresses we’re all finding it harder to stick to the rules. It’s frustrating to have to stay at home and we are missing our family and friends. We’re sure lots of our children are feeling the same. In the story of the Ten Commandments God gives his people rules, and they …