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Supporting school staff, chaplains and families to communicate the Christian faith, so that children and young people can make informed choices about beliefs and values. Resources available include

lessons and assemblies, case studies, detailed advice and links to numerous other websites that support schools work. Training courses are provided throughout Scotland.

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Whether you’re an individual called to this ministry, or a church leader wanting to develop it in your community, we can help you.

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Anna Chaplains are named after the widow, Anna, who appears with Simeon in Luke’s gospel; both are good role models of faithful older people. Anna Chaplains are there for people of strong, little or no faith at all.

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Our vision is to see an Anna Chaplain in every small- and medium-sized community in the country, and for the Anna Chaplain name to become synonymous with spiritual care for older people.

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Let's help you find out about the Anna Chaplaincy way of supporting older people emotionally and spiritually.

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We have practical knowledge of developing Anna Chaplaincy in communities across the UK.

Whether you're an individual called to this ministry, or a church leader wanting to develop it in your community, we can help you.

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Anna Chaplains are named after the widow, Anna, who appears with Simeon in Luke's gospel; both are good role models of faithful older people. Anna Chaplains are there for people of strong, little or no faith at all.

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Our vision is to see an Anna Chaplain in every small- and medium-sized community in the country, and for the Anna Chaplain name to become synonymous with spiritual care for older people.

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Anna Chaplaincy | Offering spiritual care in later life

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Offering Spiritual Care In Later Life. Let's help you find out about the Anna Chaplaincy way of supporting older people emotionally and...

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A place to discover resources that support chaplaincy in primary and secondary schools...

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Here you will find our range of free resources to help you plan and deliver great sessions in schools! You can use these resources as individual activities or as part of your term time planning with our Schools Live Syllabus

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Download high-quality, tried and tested resources to explore key Bible stories at early, first and second levels. Must Know Bible Stories aims to help you, your primary school or nursery class discover the adventure and excitement of Bible stories, while giving great opportunities to teach literacy, numeracy, STEM,
health & wellbeing, and much more.

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Access free resources that help you and your primary school and nursery class discover the adventure and excitement of Bible stories while giving you great opportunities to teach literacy, numeracy, STEM, health and well-being, and much more.

New!

Did it Really Happen? Nativity Play

A downloadable nativity play that encourages deeper thinking and learning about the Biblical story of Jesus' birth.

Must Know Bible Stories

Download free high-quality, tried and tested resources to explore ten Bible stories at early, first and second levels.

With each must know Bible Story you will find:

PowerPoint presentations showing full Bible stories with notes to make telling the story easy

Bring the stories to life with our beautifully rendered image from the Bibleworld Book series of Bible stories.

Lesson plans that give children an understanding of Christian beliefs

Involving them as active participants, encouraging them to respectfully and thoughtfully discuss 'big questions' as they explore how faith and belief affect the world they live in. There are play-based and teacher-led ideas for early-level classes.

Story Trails

Get creative, get outdoors and get chatting with our 'Story Trails' - outdoor learning plans for each story. Each story has separate trails for Early, First and Second level classes.

All the resources reflect the Scottish Government's legislation and guidance on RME in school.

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As well as providing resources, we also offer training sessions for schools or chaplains. These training sessions will increase participants' knowledge of a Bible story and increase participant confidence in helping children explore the story.

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Help your primary school and nursery class to discover the adventure and excitement of Bible stories

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Are you a chaplain? Do you manage and support a chaplain in your GP practice or health setting?

Chaplains working in multi-disciplinary healthcare settings bring a wide range of much needed psychological and spiritual support to patients, families and staff. Yet this unique and varied role, has little bespoke training and wider support on offer.

Our resourcing offers a community of likeminded people and training in holistic health so that chaplains:

deepen the support they offer from theological, scientific and practical perspectives;

feel sustained and more confident in their unique role and contribution;

receive robust training on topics such as loss, trauma and pain;

find connection and support throughout the year.

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Are you a chaplain? Do you manage and support a chaplain in your GP practice or health setting?

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New ways of exploring questions of faith and spirituality

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NUA presents a fresh perspective on what it means to be a Christian through a series of eight short films. Each film engages with challenging arguments about faith and science, the reliability of the Bible, and the existence of suffering, and is punctuated with pauses for discussing questions.

NUA is an excellent resource for young people who are interested in learning more and asking tough questions about the Christian faith. If you’ve run a Youth Alpha course and are wondering what next, NUA is an ideal follow on, looking at similar questions but giving an opportunity to dig a bit deeper.

NUA was produced by Scripture Union Ireland.

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Discover and explore the ministry of chaplaincy including...

learning & development

stories & thoughts

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Discover and explore the ministry of chaplaincy

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Sparking conversations and exploring life-changing ideas around the big and not-so-big questions of life. We are a Christian charity that helps people of all ages discover how to live well and find meaning and purpose in life.

Discover how our resources make a difference in a wide range of contexts, and see some top recommendations for what might work well for you.

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Inspiring people to find life in all its fulness. We are a Christian charity that helps people of all ages discover how to live well and find meaning and purpose in life.

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This course is made up of three workshops running from 10:30-12:30, on the 5th, 12th and 19th February with an optional follow up session on 26th February

Who is it for?

Chaplains in any sector or context, either paid or voluntary, experienced chaplains and those new to the work.

What will it cover?

The training explores Christian approaches to human flourishing in mind, body and spirit. The aim is to help chaplains deepen the support they offer from theological, scientific and practical perspectives. Key topics will include loss and trauma, why storytelling leads to healing and how to feel confident in the unique value of chaplaincy in a multi-disciplinary setting.

Who created it?

Crucially, the training needs were identified with significant input from active chaplains supporting people experiencing complex mental and spiritual health challenges, including trauma, suicidal ideation, adverse childhood experiences and homelessness.  The course was then designed by GoHealth in consultation with the YMCA* drawing on the skills of education professionals, trauma specialists, theologians, scientists and professional filmmakers. It is now piloted extensively and further improved since 2024. The content utilises leading research from a number of academic disciplines including science, medicine and psychology.

How will it be delivered?

The training will be delivered as a virtual gathering via Zoom. Each two-hour session will include professionally recorded teaching videos, reflective exercises, small group discussion and larger group feedback. It will be delivered by expert facilitators and trainers to ensure the highest possible standard.

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What we do with Schools -

Our main involvement in schools is through Religious Observance Assemblies. We have also led puppet and music workshops and RME classes. We have worked in over 70 primary schools leading assemblies with thousands of children all over Scotland.

We recently launched a brand new resource called ‘Intro Series’. The series has 8 downloadable episodes, with creative resources, lesson plans and additional content for teachers to use that will help children explore the Christian faith.

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Out of the Box | Inspiring children through performing arts | Inspiring children through performing arts

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Seasons for Growth has been helping children, young people and adults across Scotland since 2001. In that time we have trained over 9,000 Companions to deliver the programme in authorities across Scotland. Seasons for Growth is most often delivered in schools and through voluntary agencies.

– Over 5,500 children and adults attended groups in the last year.
– Seasons for Growth programme was evaluated for the 6th time in 2019.
– Evaluation confirmed the programme’s well-designed and well-delivered nature with high satisfaction levels.
– The programme is associated with positive change in children and young people who have experienced loss and change.
– Award-winning programme with valuable information on these pages for learning more about it.

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has been helping children, young people and adults across Scotland since 2001. In that time we have trained over 7,500 Companions to deliver the programme in authorities across Scotland. Seasons for Growth is most often delivered in schools and through voluntary agencies.

In the year leading up to the pandemic over 7,000 children and adults attended groups. Seasons for Growth was evaluated for the 6th time in 2019 confirming the programme is well designed and well delivered with high levels of satisfaction. It is associated with positive change in children and young people who have experienced loss and change. It has received a 'High' rating for impact by the Australian Research Council's engagement and impact assessment 2018-19 National Report Fact Sheet - Research Support for Children 2019 We hope that the information on these pages will help you to learn more about this award winning programme.

The promotion of health and wellbeing in schools underpins children and young people's attainment and achievement which subsequently improves their wellbeing now and in later life. However, significant change and loss experiences such as bereavement and parental separation can impact on children and young people's health and wellbeing. Supporting children and young people to make sense of their grief reactions can be a key factor in promoting their health and wellbeing.

This research used questionnaires developed by a group of researchers that measured perceptual changes in relation to children's health and wellbeing over the duration of the eight-week programme and corresponded to the Curriculum for Excellence Health and Wellbeing outcomes. To read the research please click here Seasons for Growth Study Inverclyde 2018

Scottish Study

Research published in Educational Psychology in Scotland, Winter 2017 looked at the impact of the programme.

Outcomes were measured against the Curriculum for Excellence (health and wellbeing). The study, which included 75 pupil participants, identified many positive outcomes including:

highly significant improvements reported by pupils, parents and teachers in all health and wellbeing measures

teachers reported young people able to concentrate more on their learning

parents / carers reported children being less angry, calmer, happier, more able to concentrate, and making more effort with homework.

pupils reported an increased sense of belonging and connectedness, emotional literacy, concentration, confidence and relationships. They also said they had fun!

To read the research please click here

Reference: Robertson, N., McPherson, K., Murray, D., Montgomery, A., Shaver, I., and Gardner, A. (2017) Improving health and wellbeing for children and young people who have experienced loss, change and bereavement. Educational Psychology in Scotland, Vol 18 pp 2-5.

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has been helping children, young people and adults across Scotland since 2001. In that time we have trained over 7,500 Companions to deliver the programme in authorities across Scotland. Seasons for Growth is most often delivered in schools and through voluntary agencies. In the year leading up to the pandemic over 7,000 children and adults attended groups.

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Children and young people are innately curious about life. Growing up raises lots of questions, some to do with their experience, both the good and the bad, and some to do with their sense of wonder at the universe we live in and whether there’s more to life than meets the eye. Many have an interest in the non-material aspects of life, the spirit or soul, and want to explore how these ideas and experiences help them to develop their own sense of identity, self-worth, personal insight, meaning and purpose.

Prayer spaces in schools enable children and young people, of all faiths and none, to explore these life questions, spirituality and faith in a safe, creative and interactive way.

Taking a broadly Christian perspective as a starting point, prayer spaces give children and young people an opportunity to develop skills of personal reflection and to explore prayer in an open, inclusive and safe environment.

The approach does not proselytise and purposely allows pupils to make their own meaning and to draw their own conclusions.

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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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The award-winning Cheeky Pandas is one of a kind: a British-made Christian TV series for kids on YouTube. It is Bible-based, fun, free, friendly and full of music, for children and parents looking for faith-based content. There are also stacks of extra resources to serve parents, schools and churches. This is what you’ve been looking for!

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The songs, music videos, episodes and devotionals are fun, bright, professionally written and produced. Churches and ministries around the world are using the videos in their online services while parents can directly download resources for their children at home.

100% of all donations given to Cheeky Pandas are ploughed into creating online resources. There are currently no staffing costs for the Pandas, or overheads!

Cheeky Pandas is a project of Swell Revolution, a charity that commissions and produces artistic and educational content (music, literature and film) to promote the Christian faith.

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Cheeky Pandas™ provide free online resources to help children and families grow in their faith. The songs, music videos, episodes and devotionals are fun, bright, professionally written and produced. Churches and ministries around the world are using the videos in their online services while parents can directly download resources

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Sports Chaplaincy Scotland currently has around 200 chaplains supporting the mental, emotional and spiritual well-being of sportspeople in a number of settings all over the nation.   You can find the latest news and useful resources related to Sports Chaplaincy Scotland on this page.

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Our Scottish resources are designed to support both teachers and students to make learning about Christianity fun, relevant and exciting.

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Explore Easter comes with a complete school resource pack, featuring a TEACHER'S GUIDE  and cross-curricular reflection activities, plus a bonus pack for churches and sessions outlines for SU Groups.

Join Nathan and Maria as we explore Easter together in this fun and creative retelling of the Easter story!

Episode 1 – Palm Sunday: In this episode, we’re dropped into the bustling streets of first-century Jerusalem! Why is there a big parade happening, and who’s at the centre of all the excitement?

Episode 2 – Good Friday: This episode dives into how and why Jesus gets “cancelled” on everyone’s first-century socials. How did the celebrated teacher go from being cheered in the streets to being arrested in less than a week?

Episode 3 – Easter Sunday: Our hosts—and everyone in first-century Jerusalem—are in for a big, wonderful surprise. How does this good news spread across the city and around the world?

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EXPLORE EASTER is an exciting new video series designed to help children aged 8–11 dive into the Bible in a fun and engaging way. This series comes with a comprehensive resource pack for teachers, packed with creative, cross-curricular activities. We’ve also developed additional resources for churches looking to adapt and use the materials. Watch the trailer below for a sneak peek!

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Great Big Live Assemblies are a resource from Sanctuary Foundation who "exist to provide compassionate service to vulnerable people through catalytic partnerships between government, churches, civil society groups, the media and individuals."

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Resources for Schools - Sanctuary Foundation

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We are delighted to share our resources for schools Great Big Live Assemblies This fast-paced, child-centred, interactive broadcast featured:- a celebration of the inclusion of refugee families in our schools and communities- art and poetry from some of the shortlisted entrants to our national schools Art and Poetry competition– a short inspirational and interactive presentation […]

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Who is Jesus? is fully aligned with the Scottish RME curriculum, making this resource also ideal for learners in Support for Learning units in mainstream schools. It explores where Christians get their beliefs and practices through sensory, tactile experiences where learners develop their opinion, assess, evaluate and have fun.

A Teacher’s Guide is provided, outlining the Experiences and Outcomes and Milestone opportunities relevant to this learning. There are seven easy-to-use lesson packs in total, each including: a lesson plan, PowerPoint presentation including original illustrations, and a range of engaging activities

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New free RME resource for ASN Secondary Schools | Scripture Union Scotland

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SU Scotland is thrilled to be launching its first series of RME resources designed specifically for young people with additional support needs (ASN) in secondary education. The ‘Who is Jesus?’ lesson series was written by teachers and successfully piloted in ASN Secondary Schools and refined to ensure that it offers adaptability for teachers to meet the needs of all their early and first level learners.

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Easy-to-use
PowerPoints, scripts and videos all ready-made for teachers

Curriculum Enhancing
Supports collective worship and pupils’ spiritual development

Creative & Engaging
Storytelling, animated videos and craft activities

Free for all schools
Fully funded by Philo Trust

Adaptable
Editable resources to suit your own school context

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Equipping schools and churches with free and ready-to-use resources to bring Bible stories to life.