My friends over at Pure Creative Arts have got themselves a great article in the Times Educational Supplement.
I met Tamsin and her team when working at Spring Harvest a few years ago and was really impressed with their creative approach to tackling issues of worth and self-esteem in young people through schools work in the [...]
Last week I took a 15 minute assembly for Year 7 in 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. This assembly plan [...]
Yes it’s my birthday and I’ve had a busy old day! I started out at 8:30am with a Year 9 assembly that got promptly cancelled when a tree fell onto the learning support block! The hall needed to be used to house the students and we had to clear out before I started.
I then [...]
Is anyone out there attending Youthwork The Conference in Eastbourne this weekend? If so, why not leave me a comment and I’ll get in touch and buy you a coffee while we’re there! Good deal eh?
Also, don’t forget to check out schoolswork.co.uk, the great new resource site for those working with young people [...]
Traditionally Arun Community Church has run various clubs for children and young people. Some were to teach the Christian faith, others purely social, with others seen as an outreach to the community that fit in with the government’s Extended Schools agenda. In fact, we do so much that people have had trouble putting it all [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about schools work recently. Part of my role for Arun Community Church is to develop a programme of schools work in the local area (the rest of my job is a combination of the pastoral care of young people within the church and delivering a variety of community based activities [...]
I love long weekends! It’s Kirsty’s birthday tomorrow and we’re heading into London later today to spend the weekend doing touristy things. We’ve booked to go see the new Antony Gormley exhibition at the hayward which I’m really excited about. I’ll try to take some pictures and post them to flickr while we’re there. We’re [...]
Today I spent an enjoyable day in central London at the LICC Strategic Schools Work Conference. Apart from making some new friends and listening to the excellent speakers (thanks to Chris Curtis for helping to clarify some key points), I’ve come away with a great deal to think about for the new schools-based initiatives we [...]
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