The CELEBRATE Pentecost Pack

Its nearly Pentecost and I wanted to share an awesome activity from the CELEBRATE Trust that can be used to celebrate Pentecost in a variety of ways! Anyone who knows me well will immediately look at this and know why I love this activity! I am always looking for activities that involve cutting as this

Crowning Mary

May it the month of Mary and there is a wealth of tradition relating to floral crowns being used to crown statues of Mary. This is a beautiful tradition but its always important to consider how you are going to explain this tradition to those of us who are literal thinkers. People from other faiths

St Francis Rosary Kit

May is the Month of Mary and I have really been looking forward to being able to use the St Francis Rosary Kit from Be a Heart that I bought from Catholic Seasons. I had seen pictures of the kit online but its always difficult to judge resources until you can actually hold them in

Holy Week Resources

Holy Week is the most important week of the Church year and there are some great resources available to help support inclusive catechesis. There are a number of great resources out there but the resources I have been using to prepare for Holy Week (and that would be great to use during Holy Week or

Palm Sunday

I have always loved Palm Sunday. I love the idea of the triumphal entry into Jerusalem with people cheering and waving palms, I love the fact that Jesus chose to be humble and rode on a donkey and I love the fact that we remember those events in quite a physical way by starting Mass

Prince of Peace

There is a misconception amongst some people that autistic people aren’t able to empathise: this isn’t true. The autistic community are some of the most empathetic people I know and in many cases when they feel injustice has occurred or people are heart they feel the pain of the other person deeply. I think the

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

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