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CDEC website

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CDEC is a global learning charity. We work with schools and communities in and beyond Cumbria, inspiring, educating and enabling them to influence social and environmental justice in their world. Using a partnership approach, we deliver high-quality work for young people, with local and global reach.

"Cumbria as a beacon of global citizenship" is our vision - a place where young people, through their global learning experiences, become informed, responsible and active global citizens with a lifelong commitment to building a fairer and more sustainable world.

Virtual Voices in RE was a project CDEC and Cumbria SACRE ran with schools.

The VVRE project helps young people in schools across Cumbria to virtually meet different 'voices' who are connected to Cumbria and have something to say about their personal and shared religion and worldview. The project page is here

You can access the resources through a link on the project page

Some of our Teacher CPD Courses

Become a Member

Whether you are an individual, school or organisation that wishes to get the most out of our global learning and citizenship expertise, joining CDEC will open the doors to expert support and resources.

10% off our CPD courses

free use of our resource library

the opportunity to take part in our unique projects

Get Involved

By volunteering with us, fundraising for us, or working for us, you too can help shape the breadth of our influence within Cumbria's communities, as well as with our national and international partners!

Through donating your time and expertise, whether as volunteers or through fundraising, you are helping Cumbria to continue to be a beacon of global citizenship.

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CDEC is a small, Cumbria-based charity with a big heart, an established track record and big ambitions to influence and promote global citizenship throughout Cumbria, nationally and internationally.

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The Godly Play PowerPoint

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Imran Kotwal PowerPoint

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P4C PowerPoint

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Worship on a page

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Judaism PowerPoint

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Unpacking the Diversity of Jewish Life and Practice - Cumbria Oct 2025

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Humanism PowerPoint

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DBE PowerPoint

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Godly Play Website

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Godly Play UK - A Christian movement centered on childhood spirituality

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Godly Play begins with children's innate sense of the presence of God. It offers Christian language as a support for their ongoing spiritual formation. It teaches a process that aims to promote an inner working model for life-long Christian learning.

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Humanists UK website

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We advance free thinking and promote humanism to create a tolerant society where rational thinking and kindness prevail.

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The Board of Deputies of British Jews Website

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The Board of Deputies is the leading democratically elected, cross-communal, representative body in the British Jewish community. Established 1760.

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Muslim Learner Services website

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We offer both face-to-face and virtual Islam workshops for primary, secondary and college students. Our workshops are engaging and inspiring, covering a wide range of topics to support your R.E, Citizenship & PSHE curriculum. All sessions are delivered by Practising British Muslim Teachers.

Examples of some our workshops:

What does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain today?

An introduction to Islam and Muslim beliefs & practices.

The 5 Pillars of Islam

Ramadan

Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Adha

Tackling Islamophobia and radicalisation

Hajj - The Muslim pilgrimage

Qur'an - Holy books in Islam

Q&A workshop with a British Muslim

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Muslim Learner Services - Promoting a better understanding of Islam

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Promoting a better understanding of Islam in Schools and Colleges. 500+ School Visits, 1000+ Teachers Trained, 800+ Artefacts....

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Debbie Green Resourcing website

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New Christmas poster. A2, great quality and bold colours. Highlighting what the Bible has to say about this amazing celebration. £7.50 (plus p&p, see below)

Easter poster highlighting Holy Week in bright engaging colours and with Bible references. A2 with high quality silk finish for £7.50 (plus p&p).

Postage is £5.50 for up to three posters.

KS2 Educational A2 poster
"The Bible"
£7.50

A2 poster filled with interesting facts about the Bible for the Key Stage Two classroom.

420mm x594mm

KS2 Educational A2 poster
"Christians"
£7.50

A2 poster describing what a Christian believes for the Key Stage Two classroom.

420mm x 594mm

Email Debbie below to order your resources and sort payment. Thank you.

KS1 Educational A2 poster
"Prayer"
£7.50

KS2 Educational A2 poster
"Prayer"
£7.50

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D G Resourcing, Visual inspiration for the primary classroom | posters classroom Christianity primary resources

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Eye catching resources for teaching Christianity in your primary classroom. Posters and more to come. D G Resourcing

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RE Hubs website

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religious education resources religious studies support high-quality teaching materials

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RE Hubs is a one-stop shop for teachers and professionals of RE/RVE/R&W to find high-quality resources and support in your local area.

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Prayer Spaces in Schools Website

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Creating space in schools where pupils can pause to reflect or pray

The Prayer Spaces Sessions

Join us for our next online training to help you organise and host great prayer spaces. We offer various events that you can join in with. Upskill and learn more about creating effective spaces.

Join us online

New Prayer Activities

Christmas is coming and with that in mind new for 2023 we have a series called Light in the Night!

These new prayer activities can be used both in school and at home, together or stand alone.

Prayer Activities

Saturday Stories

Check out our latest stories and be inspired!

This week we hear from Fiona in Sheffield on an Advent themed prayer space in school.

Latest Stories

Prayer spaces in schools around the world

The first few prayer spaces in schools were in Great Britain. Since then this simple idea has spread to many other nations.

Find your nation

Planning and running your prayer
space is easier than you think...

What are prayer spaces?

Prayer spaces give children and young people a way to explore personal reflection and prayer for themselves using a selection of engaging and creative activities.

Learn more

How to run a prayer space

From how to recruit and train a great volunteer team to choosing the right location for your prayer space, we've got detailed step-by-step guidelines to help you get started.

Plan your Prayer Space

Explore our Resource Library

Our growing library of resources includes prayer activities, lesson plans and good practice guidelines. We've got everything you need to host a fantastic prayer space.

Resource Library

The resources in our library are all tried-and-tested. Choose what's right for your prayer space, whether it's in school or at home.

Prayer activity

Forest Hope

This activity encourages pupils to think about their hopes and dreams.

View

Forest Hope

Prayer activity

Pray for Ukraine

This activity helps pupils to pray for the war in Ukraine.

View

Pray for Ukraine

Prayer activity

Forest Rubbish

This activity encourages pupils to consider when they've said or done 'rubbish' things

View

Forest Rubbish

Comfort Blanket

Forest Thanks

Peace Maker

More Prayer Activities

Inspiring stories that show the different ways people have run prayer spaces and the impact they've had on pupils and their schools.

All Stories

What people say...

"The prayer space has been brilliant for my students. A personal, spiritual and peaceful experience for all groups: I highly recommend it."

Head of R.E.

"I've never seen prayer displayed or experienced like this before. It's made me realise how many different ways prayer can be appreciated. It's opened up religion into my life again. Thank you!"

6th Form pupil

"I loved this place, it was so relaxed. It gave me a chance to say how I really felt as I don't really talk with my family"

Year 6 pupil

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Prayer Spaces In Schools - Helping Children and Young People to Reflect and Pray. Prayer spaces enable children and young people, of all...

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P4C website

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Resources from P4C.com

We are a subscription website for resources and guides to help people philosophise with children. During the Covid-19 pandemic, we decided to offer some links, ideas and free resources to visitors to this site. We felt that we could provide some modest support to people isolated at home.

Now that the worst of the pandemic is over, we are continuing to offer free access to these resources to everyone who visits our site.

Why not explore the section boxes further below on this page? Click on the green buttons to access the resources.

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We are a subscription website for resources and guides to help people philosophise with children. During the Covid-19 pandemic, we decided to offer some links, ideas and free resources to visitors to this site. We felt that we could provide some modest support to people isolated at home.

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Picture News: Inspiring Children to Learn Current Affairs

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Picture News for Schools: Teaching Resources for Assemblies

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Bring current events to life in classrooms with Picture News. Engage students using creative resources, thought-provoking stories, and tools to inspire curiosity and critical thinking.

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"This is such a helpful, well-thought out, biblically sound, and beautifully practical book... It invites us to become 'whole life' worshippers - those who don't simply lift up their song, but those who lay their lives down for the sake of the King and Kingdom." Kathryn Scott - songwriter, worship leader

"#WholeLifeWorship by engageworship is getting my juices flowing. Seriously challenging me but the possibilities & ideas are really exciting!" Pete Butland, Twitter

Order your copy

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"This is such a helpful, well-thought out, biblically sound, and beautifully practical book... It invites us to become 'whole life' worshippers - those who don't simply lift up their song, but those who lay their lives down for the sake of the King and Kingdom."

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Welcome to the Archbishop Temple Multi Academy Trust Ethos website.

Our Trust website is designed to be a central place for our Ethos work. Here you will find ideas and activities to support children and adults in developing Ethos activities in your school. There are activities relating to spiritual development, worship, Ethos to Go and general Ethos activities. Most of the activities can be downloaded as a resource card in PDF format. We hope you find our website useful and would love you have your feedback.

Love and prayers

Ethos Group leaders and Canon Pilling

Together with God

Church of England Vision for Education

There are fundamental reasons, rooted in the Bible, which have motivated centuries of Christian involvement in schooling in this country and around the world. The God of all creation is concerned with everything relating to education.

This is a fresh articulation of the Church of England's vision for education as we meet the challenges and take the opportunities offered by the present situation. It is not simply for Church schools but, recognising the Church of England's involvement in education over many centuries, seeks to promote educational excellence everywhere, for everyone. In Church schools the deeply Christian foundation for this vision will be seen explicitly in the teaching and learning both in RE and across the curriculum, and also in the authentically Christian worship and ethos of those schools. In other schools which are not rooted in an explicit Christian ethos, our vision for education can still be expressed and promoted as one of human flourishing that can inspire what the schools is and does.

The vision is deeply Christian, with the promise by Jesus of 'life in all its fulness' at its heart. It encompasses schools, colleges, further and higher education, but in this initial articulation our focus is on schools; other work will follow relating more specifically to collages and universities as well as exploring the connections with our Going for Growth work with children and young people in the church.

Our vision embraces the spiritual, physical, intellectual, emotional, moral and social development of children and young people. We offer a vision of human flourishing for all, one that embraces excellence and academic rigour, but sets them in a wider framework. This is worked out theologically and educationally through four basic elements which permeate our vision for education:

Wisdom

Hope

Community

Dignity

The vision, in line with the Church of England's role as the established Church, is for the common good of the whole human community and its environment, whether national, regional or local. It is hospitable to diversity, respects freedom of religion and belief, and encourages others to contribute from the depths of their own traditions and understandings. It invites collaboration, alliances, negotiation of differences, and flourishing of a healthy plural society and democracy, together with a healthy plural education system.

Find out more

Meet our Schools

Bishop Bridgeman C.E. Primary School

We Work, We Play, We Care, We Pray

Archbishop Temple Multi Academy Trust

"Jesus said: Love God, Love yourself, Love your neighbour"

Luke 10:27

Visit School Website

St James C.E Primary School

Dream * Believe * Learn * Achieve

Archbishop Temple Multi Academy Trust

"With God there is no limit to what you can do.

There is no obstacle you can't overcome.

Through Him all things are possible."

Matthew 19:26

Visit School Website

St Maxentius C.E Primary School

Believing and Achieving Together

Archbishop Temple Multi Academy Trust

"And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbours together and says "Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep"

Luke 15: 5-6

Visit School Website

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Ethos at Archbishop Temple Multi Academy Trust

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Welcome to Ethos at Archbishop Temple Multi Academy Trust

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To create beautiful, inspirational and thought-provoking resources to support collective worship, spiritual development and values education in primary schools.

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The key purpose of this project is to help all teachers support pupils in developing their own thinking and their understanding of Christianity, as a contribution to their understanding of the world and their own experience within it.

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The UK's largest independent producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK.

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Theos Think Tank - Understanding faith. Enriching society.

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Theos Think Tank - Understanding faith. Enriching society.

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Theos stimulates the debate about the place of religion in society, challenging and changing ideas through research, commentary and events.

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Cullham St Gabriel's is an endowed charitable foundation. We are committed to providing teachers of religion and worldviews and other professionals with the support, connections, challenges and professional development they need. We want all partners, such as parents, school governors, faith/belief communities and policy makers, to be positively aware of the benefits of a high-quality study of religion and worldviews.

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RE Today supporting Religious Education in schools

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Supporting teachers of religious education with training, reosources and subject knowledge

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Questful RE is an enquiry based, balanced RE Curriculum for primary schools and academies.