Look to the Cross

Its the first week of Lent and all of the doors on our Lent calendar are open and I am feeling so blessed. Let me tell you a story…. It doesn’t matter how well you know a child, young person or adult you are supporting: they can still always surprise you! I like the idea

Lent with the Mark 10 Mission

Wouldn’t life be simple if Lent was a mathematical equation Don’t eat chocolate + say an Our Father x 40 = perfect Lent. The thing is that we aren’t trying to have the ‘perfect Lent’: we are trying to draw close to our Father in Heaven in a way that is meaningful to us. On my

Lent and Holy Week Visual Resources

The very nature of Lent can be tricky for some individuals who face barriers to learning. Lent requires us to give up something meaningful or do something meaningful. It asks us to focus on the suffering of our Saviour (The Saviour that loves our children and young people and that we tell them all about,

Preparing for Lent

I imagine that most of us are currently preparing for Lent in one way or another. We may be choosing a devotional or praying about what may be the most meaningful thing to give up or begin to do during that Holy period of fasting, prayer and almsgiving. There are so many considerations when we

The Ten Commandments (and Will Power)

I remember when I was taught about the 10 Commandments as a child. I immediately knew that we were going to cover an important subject because we were told we would need a double page in our exercise book: one to represent each of the stone tablets. The lesson itself was very simple: we were told

The Lord’s Prayer Flashcards

Pope Francis recently urged us to focus on our prayer life in 2024 ahead of the Jubilee Year in 2025 and I have been looking for some new ways to help children who face barriers to learning to enjoy a meaningful prayer life. With this in mind I bought a set of The Lord’s Prayer Flashcards

Bible Fun Cut and Paste

One of the challenges that parents of children who face barriers to learning can face is that they have additional things they have to build into their daily timetable: this may take the form of special exercises (eg Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy that parents have to do daily at home) or taking medication as well

Christmas Nativity Trail

As you may know, I really love the Trueway Kids resources. The packs are free to download and you can choose which pages may work for the person you are supporting. As a Christmas Eve activity I decided to use the Nativity Trail resource and it is excellent! This activity can be downloaded here: This

Vulnerability

The topic of the final week of the Northampton Diocese Advent Retreat ‘Let the Wilderness Bloom’ was on a subject very close to my heart, ‘Vulnerability’. The term vulnerability is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as: ‘The quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally’ and

Faith in Phonics – Box Set 2

As I have mentioned in previous posts I absolutely love the First Box Set of the Faith in Phonics Series and have now had the privilege of being able to look at the Second Box Set. The 12 books in this set have the following titles: When Jesus Came to Stay – The story of