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Ideas for classroom reflection: Stories and thoughts for collective worship to use with smaller groups.

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Easter eggs and symbols of new life - Talking about Easter

A session exploring Easter eggs and symbols of new life

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Creation - what makes something 'good'?

One of a series of Core Values assemblies with Bible stories

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Getting Going with Peace

Week of Prayer for World Peace � 2

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The Call of Moses

A reflective story about the call of Moses in the style of Godly Play

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The Cross and the Crib: a class assembly presentation for Christmas

An outline for a presentation for Christmas that links the events of Bethlehem to the life, death and resurrection of Jesus

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Barnabas - the Encouraging Apostle

11th June is St Barnabas Day - a saint dear to the heart of the the Barnabas Schools' Team! His real name was Joseph and he came from Cyprus. He was given the nickname Barnabas, which means 'son of encouragement' for good reasons. He made a generous gift to the first Christians in Jerusalem and later he persuaded them to accept St. Paul into their number after his dramatic conversion. He also travelled with Paul both to Cyprus and later to the area we now call Turkey in order to tell others about the story of Jesus.

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What Christians believe about the Trinity: a classroom activity

This classroom activity explores what Christians believe about the Trinity. It's hard to picture God! We can try to show what God is like. The icon painters used all sorts of techniques to show the unshowable. Here is a starter session on one icon.

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The Lord's Prayer: a reflective story version for Circle Time

A reflective approach to the Lord's Prayer in the style of Godly Play

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Imaginative prayer

This prayer idea comes from The Lord's Prayer Unplugged in the chapter on 'Your will be done'. It picks up the idea of doing what God wants, rather than just what we want.

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Candle prayers for reflection

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Prayer based on the gifts of God

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Prayer activity on talking to God

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Prayer using hand movements

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Praying the compass

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Praying with ropes

An idea for a prayer activity with a children's group using a variety of coloured ropes

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Praying with stones

Hands-on prayer activity

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Praying with hands

A short prayer and reflection time based on hands

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Mirror, Mirror

Ideas for a classroom reflection on what God is like using a mirror, for Key Stages 1 and 2.

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Operation Christmas Child

A reflective storytelling approach to encourage pupils to think more deeply about giving gifts at Christmas.

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Reflection on a natural disaster

A classroom reflection following a natural disaster, such as a flood, earthquake or famine.

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The Lord's Prayer in movement

A way of teaching the Lord's Prayer using actions.

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A Wondering Cube

Traditionally, it's the adults who ask the questions and the children who answer them! But, in order to nurture an enquiring attitude to the Bible, it is good if children themselves can be encouraged to ask questions about a story for the rest of the class, children and adults, to talk about. This is a simple idea for helping that to happen - and, having made the equipment, you can use it with as many stories as you want, until it gets too tatty and you have to make another one!

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Remembering Peace

This idea includes some thoughts as possible inspiration for a class group to present something special in an act of Collective Worship to mark Remembrance.

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Caring for God's world

An idea to act out the story of creation.

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A story for Harvest

The following reflective story presentation is a version of the parable recorded in Isaiah 5. The prophet uses this story about the planting of a vineyard as a way of speaking about God's gift of creation to his people and God's hope that their lives would produce good fruit. God wants them to wake up and be people whose lives produce the fruit of thankfulness and goodness in response to his great love for them. Sadly, his people's lives had instead proved a bad harvest of rotten grapes.

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