Barnabas RE Day themes
Barnabas RE Days work with the following themes. You are welcome to select one or two of the themes for your Barnabas RE Day. You may choose to follow the same theme with all classes or choose different themes for KS1 and KS2.
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What's your school got planned for the lead-up to the Olympics? Will you be running a special 'international' athletic-themed week?
'Who comes first?' is our new creative arts-based Barnabas RE Day that explores sporting values and challenges through the eyes of Christian faith and belief.
What's so special about the Bible?
2011 marked the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible and a year of celebration of the Bible in the English language.
The translation of the Christian's special book into the everyday English of its generation was a milestone that opened up a whole new world of possibilities. It led to profound changes in thinking that have shaped the culture of the western world and left a lasting legacy right up to the present day.
Workshops explore issues involved in caring for others, the nature of compassion and the building blocks that form creative communities.
Workshops explore issues relating to our identity as individuals, each person's unique and special gifts and how those gifts might be creatively combined in successful teamwork.
Workshops explore the order and beauty of our world as a sacred gift and open up questions about developing a shared responsibility towards our environment.
The workshops will use Bible stories that relate to issues of personal, social and global justice. It will include material that draws on the dramatic messages spoken by the Old Testament prophets as well as the stories of Jesus, which focus on how we should treat others and in particular those who are less fortunate than ourselves.
The session will also include consideration of a real-life story related to the issue of fair trade, which will be supplied by World Vision and which will involve a child of primary-school age from the developing, majority world.
Workshops explore the events of the Bible that lead up to Christmas. Learners will be encouraged to use their imagination and step into these stories for themselves, so that they can experience the excitement and the dilemmas of people involved at the time, understand what they mean for Christians today and respond with what they themselves think about these stories.
Workshops explore the stories of the Bible that relate to the period of Lent, Holy Week and Easter Day. Learners will be encouraged to use their imagination and step into events for themselves, so that they can experience the excitement and the dilemmas of people involved at the time, understand what they mean for Christians today and respond with what they themselves think about these stories.
Workshops will explore Bible stories and themes that relate to Harvest. Learners will be encouraged to use their imagination and step into the stories for themselves, so that they can experience the excitement and the dilemmas of people at the time, understand what they mean for Christians today and respond with what they themselves think about these stories.