Special themes

An idea by Martyn Payne of the Barnabas Schools' Team exploring cross ideas based on the Ash Cross.

A collective worship idea for the end of the school year that uses pilgrimage imagery to reflect positively on the past year.

A no-rehearsal drama about teamwork, resilience, leadership… and food!

This noisy storytelling with percussion lesson recounts a classic Bible story about showing courage in adversity.

Collective Worship outline reflecting on the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Links with the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

This idea offers suggestions for using war memorials as a study resource to investigate key ideas about faith, belief, sacrifice, loss, bereavement and remembrance.

The centenary of the First World War provides an opportunity for schools to extend their spiritual, moral, social and cultural provision. The following ideas offer suggestions as to how this could be done through different subjects.

When people fight, do you think God is on anybody's side? A hundred years ago, in the First World War, the British, the Germans, the Russians - and just about everyone else - thought that God was definitely on their side. But was God on anyone's side?