Nelson's Blood
2024-10-13 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | St Edmund’s Church, Acle, Norwich Rd, Acle, NR13 3BU, United Kingdom
A double concert with Norwich Community Choir and Village Voices Community Choir.
A varied programme with Sea Shantys to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the RNLI.
Donations will be split between RNLI and Access 4 Acle [a campaign to make the church step free and accessible for all]
Refreshments will be served – a drop of grog too!

Spirituality, Prayer and Reflection
2024-10-15 13:30 - 16:00
This half day practical workshop is aimed at school staff who are interested in developing spirituality with their pupils and wider school community. Based on extensive research and practical experience – the session will explore the three aspects of spiritual development, prayer and reflection. It will offer practical ideas to develop these in school and how we can make them inclusive, invitational and inspirational – to enable everyone to flourish. Spirituality is a key theme within the new SIAMS framework (September 2023). The session will also offer:
• Exploration of spirituality within the new SIAMS Framework for 2023
• Evidence based ideas and resources to support Spiritual development
• Ways to enable spiritual development to weave throughout your curriculum, how you express this and plan for it
Audience: All headteachers and senior leaders and staff interested in spiritual development of pupils and adults in Voluntary Aided, Voluntary Controlled, Foundation church schools and academies

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Spirituality, Prayer and Reflection
2024-10-15 13:30 - 16:00
This half day practical workshop is aimed at school staff who are interested in developing spirituality with their pupils and wider school community. Based on extensive research and practical experience – the session will explore the three aspects of spiritual development, prayer and reflection. It will offer practical ideas to develop these in school and how we can make them inclusive, invitational and inspirational – to enable everyone to flourish. Spirituality is a key theme within the new SIAMS framework (September 2023). The session will also offer:
• Exploration of spirituality within the new SIAMS Framework for 2023
• Evidence based ideas and resources to support Spiritual development
• Ways to enable spiritual development to weave throughout your curriculum, how you express this and plan for it
Audience: All headteachers and senior leaders and staff interested in spiritual development of pupils and adults in Voluntary Aided, Voluntary Controlled, Foundation church schools and academies

‘Being With’ course
2024-10-15 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-10-22 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-10-29 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-11-05 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-11-12 19:30 - 21:00 | St Peter’s, St Peter’s Church, Sheringham, NR26 8QS
Sometimes our greatest challenge is noticing where God is and has been at work in our lives.
St Peter’s is delighted to offer the ‘Being With’ course this year. Established by Revs. Samuel Wells and Sally Hitchiner from St Martin in the Fields, this course offers a fresh way to explore Christian faith.
Rather than focusing on academic Bible study or unpacking years of doctrine, the ‘Being With’ course works on the basis that all of us have already had a wealth of experience of God’s presence in our lives. Through topics such as: meaning, Jesus, sacrifice, church and the cross we’ll explore where God moves in our lives and everyday experiences.
In this course how you feel is just as important as what you think. It’s about sharing our stories and listening to the stories of others. It doesn’t matter where you are in your journey of faith. From decades of devoted discipleship to those who just have questions, all are welcome.
The course will run at St Peter’s on Tuesday evenings for 10 weeks, beginning on October 1st at 7:30pm. Refreshments will be available from 7pm.
If you would like to join us, or ask for more information then please get in touch with our office, by email or phone:
stpeterschurchsheringham@gmail.com or 01263 820040.

Developing Pupils to be Leaders of Change
2024-10-17 15:30 - 17:00
Creating a culture of social responsibility in your school is a key aspect of the SIAMS framework. Hoe we develop and encourage our pupils to be responsible citizens of the world is a challenge at times. The expectation of them becoming and growing into confident leaders of social change can be a big ask. This 90-minute course unpacks what we can practically, economically and effectively do to enable our pupils to become leaders of change in their school. How we can develop provision o collate impact evidence of their work and hold a confident conversation with a SIAMS Inspector as a result. Practical resources and examples will be provided as part of this course.
Cost: £50 to church schools and academies
Audience: All Collective Worship leads/ Senior Leaders of Voluntary Aided, Voluntary Controlled, Foundation church schools and academies

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The South Creake Lectures: Food for the mind and the soul
2024-10-18 19:00 - 21:00
Who do you think you are? A talk from John-Francis Friendship
John-Francis Friendship is a priest, spiritual director, pastoral supervisor and published author. He previously was professed to the Society of St. Francis. Then he was an Anglican priest for a decade. Today he is the author of Enfolded in Christ: The inner life of a priest, The Mystery of Faith: Exploring Christian belief, and What do you seek?: The Wisdom of Religious Life.

Who Do You Think You Are? won’t be a special edition of the popular BBC series but a chance to reflect on a question people have grappled with for millennia. The evening will explore aspects of the question – not least how we gain our identity and why religion can give a perspective to aid our understanding
Free Entry – No Booking Needed

ENCOUNTER Regional Youth Worship, King's Lynn
2024-10-19 08:00 - 17:00 | St John’s Church, King’s Lynn, St John’s Church, King’s Lynn,, PE30 1NT
Encounter is a termly youth worship event that brings young people together from across the region for worship, games, teaching and food. This is one of a range of events across the diocese run in collaboration with local Youth for Christ centres and other churches. There is also and annual Encounter Youth Camp.

Ryburgh October Market
2024-10-19 09:30 - 12:00 | St Andrew’s Church, Great Ryburgh, Mill Road / Bridge Road, Great Ryburgh, Norfolk, NR21 0DZ
Choose autumn plants and browse books and art works in the peaceful atmosphere of an unusual round tower church. Gifts, crafts, cards and heritage displays . St. Andrew’s Pantry open. For church funds.
Ample parking and WC with disabled access.

Choral Evensong
2024-10-20 16:00 - 17:00
Choral Evensong with The Corner Choir at St. Mary’s Church, Station Road, Hillington, PE31 6DE, followed by refreshments at The Old Rectory.

Taize Service
2024-10-20 18:00 - 20:30
A Service of contemplation, singing and rest, like a deep spiritual bath. Live music and refreshments afterwards. Provided by St Luke’s with St Augustine’s and Norwich Taize Group. Everyone is very welcome, 6pm to practice the music and 6:30 for start of the service.

Ways of Assessing RE – Substantive Knowledge and Ways of Knowing
2024-10-22 14:30 - 16:30
This session on ZOOM is designed to introduce staff to how we can assess in RE in a multi-disciplinary way. It will consider the pillars of knowledge Ofsted considers builds an RE Curriculum. It will focus on how we can assess Substantive Knowledge in RE in a meaningful way. The session will explore assessing the multi-disciplines in RE by building on the Ways of Knowing that forms the current Age-Related Expectations. It will also consider how we manage, challenge and begin to assess a child’s personal knowledge in RE. It will offer practical resources to explore how your school might assess substantive knowledge through the three disciplines as well as the ways to collect evidence to make firm judgements of pupil’s achievement and progress in RE. In undertaking this course, you will then be sent exclusive access to the moderation and exemplification resources to assess pupil’s Ways of Knowing and a NEW assessment suite that tests Disciplinary and Substantive Knowledge in RE.
Audience: Primary School Teachers / support staff who deliver RE in ALL schools (Community, Church of England and academies)
DofN.org/AssessingRE-Oct

Introduction to Monitoring in Church Schools and Academies
2024-10-22 16:00 - 18:00 | online

Single Friendly Church Network 5 Steps Online Webinar
2024-10-23 11:00 - 12:30
Single Friendly Church Network is a Christian charity helping churches to welcome and value single people at every stage of life. We are research-based and provide free resources and training for churches and leaders.
We run free webinars to help church leaders complete our Guided Audit. The training explores our 5 Steps in more detail, offering practical tips and the chance to discuss with others in a small group setting.
The next one is on Wed 23rd October 11am – 12.30pm. Please sign up to this free training here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/singlefriendlychurch/1224228
We have regular online training webinars and discussion-based network zooms across the year for church leaders and singles’ advocates – please click here for more details:
https://www.singlefriendlychurch.com/events-training

Gardeners Question Time Event
2024-10-25 19:00 - 21:00
Fun and frustration, challenges and joy. Gardening can mean many things. Fortunately we have a panel of experienced and knowledgeable gardeners with whom to share our thoughts and seek consolation and advice. Whether we are asking about allotments, window boxes, veg plots or wildlife spaces we should enjoy the evening in the company of enthusiasts.

Sing Together, Grow Together - workshops for new fathers
2024-10-26 10:00 - 12:00 | St George’s Church, Colgate, St George's Street, Norwich, NR3 1DA, United Kingdom
Singing is a brilliant activity for you to do with your child.
It makes you happy, healthy, teaches communication skills, coordination skills and supports brain development.
The Sing Together, Grow Together project will provide music sessions for fathers of children two and under to give them ideas and examples of music to sing with their child throughout the day. The sessions will be in a friendly, easy going environment and includes a snack break as part of the session and a family music session for everyone attending to enjoy some music with fantastic musicians.
The sessions will be held at St George Church Colgate in central Norwich on a Saturday morning and will be free to attend.
For further details and booking information please go to:
tinyurl.com/stgtnorwich or email singtogethergrowtogether@gmail.com or revannieblyth@gmail.com
This project is funded by Norfolk’s Start for Life and Family Hub approach, which is funded through the national Government Family Hubs and Start for Life Programme.

Tea concert
2024-10-27 15:00 - 17:00
Join us for a concert with Chanters Jigge bringing ancient, traditional and modern instruments.

Reverse advent calendar
2024-11-01 08:00 - 2024-11-30 13:00
The people in the village of Aslacton have been asked by Saint Michaels church if they would like to participate in a reverse advent calendar during November. Each day, instead of getting something out of a Calendar you put an item of food in a box at the end of November, we are asking that the boxes are brought to church where we will collect them up and take them to our local food bank for distribution. The local school is also involved in this. Even if people can only give a couple of things every little helps.

Collective Worship Network
2024-11-04 15:30 - 17:00 | online
Collective Worship is designed to be the heartbeat of any school day and this half day network gives an opportunity to explore best practice.
This session offers the opportunity to network with other Collective Worship leads and keep up to date with the latest resources, considering the SIAMS Framework 2023. A golden thread throughout each session will be how we evaluate how adults and pupils flourish spiritually in your school as a direct impact of Collective Worship.
Audience: All Collective Worship leads, including clergy, of Voluntary Aided, Voluntary Controlled, Foundation church schools and academies
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Collective Worship Network
2024-11-04 15:30 - 17:00 | online
Collective Worship is designed to be the heartbeat of any school day and this half day network gives an opportunity to explore best practice.
This session offers the opportunity to network with other Collective Worship leads and keep up to date with the latest resources, considering the SIAMS Framework 2023. A golden thread throughout each session will be how we evaluate how adults and pupils flourish spiritually in your school as a direct impact of Collective Worship.
Audience: All Collective Worship leads, including clergy, of Voluntary Aided, Voluntary Controlled, Foundation church schools and academies

Understanding/Developing Collective Worship to Enable Spiritual Flourishing
2024-11-06 13:30 - 16:00
Collective Worship is a fundamental part of the spiritual development of pupils and adults in church schools. The expectation of SIAMS is that the impact of daily collective worship is everybody grows spiritually. How this is achieved and how this is monitored are two area that will be explored on this half day course. The course will unpack what is considered to be spiritual development in Collective worship and how this is different to spirituality in other aspects of school life. It will look at a range of resources to support the delivery of collective worship to enable spiritual development. It will also consider how to evidence spiritual flourishing for a SIAMS inspection in your school.
Cost: £90 to church schools and academies
Audience: All Collective Worship leads/ Senior Leaders of Voluntary Aided, Voluntary Controlled, Foundation church schools and academies

What is Happening to our Coastline?
2024-11-07 19:00 - 21:30
Come and listen to someone who knows about our coastline. Rob Goodliffe, Coastal Transition Manager at North Norfolk District Council, will give a talk and answer questions. All welcome. No tickets are required but donations will be much appreciated.
Light refreshments available during the interval.

'In concert sing': choral music for All Saints and All Souls
2024-11-09 19:30 - 21:00 | St John the Baptist’s, Timberhill, Timber Hill, Norwich, NR1 3LA
On the eve of Remembrance Sunday, ‘Cantilena’, directed by Gordon Pullin, presents an evening concert of beautiful choral music for the Saints and the Holy Souls.
Music performed will include works by Deering, Victoria, Harris, Byrd, Walford Davies, Schubert, Blytheman, Schutz, Lassus, Naylor, Greene, Goss and Parry.
‘Cantilena’ is a choir comprising some of Norwich and Norfolk’s fine singers, and their previous concerts at St John’s have been very warmly received.
Admission is free, with a retiring collection. Wine, beer and soft drinks follow.

Deepening Christian Distinctiveness in your school
2024-11-12 13:30 - 16:00
This half day practical workshop is aimed at school leaders who want to review, refresh and reinvigorate their school’s vision. SIAMS expects a school’s vision to be reflective of the current needs of the school community and to be the driving force for everything the school undertakes. This half day course will cover the following ‘hot topics ‘in SIAMS at present:
· What is the ‘why’ of your school’s vision?
· How to build better relationships with Home, School and Church.
· Developing meaningful global diversity in Christianity in RE and Collective Worship.
· What is your school’s footprint in your local community?
· How can we develop pupils being the leaders of our church school?
Cost: £90 to church schools and academies
Audience: All headteachers and senior leaders and staff interested in spiritual development of pupils and adults in Voluntary Aided, Voluntary Controlled, Foundation church schools and academies
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ECO FORUM - Changing Perspectives: seeing creation differently
2024-11-12 18:30 - 19:45 | Norwich Cathedral, The Close, Norwich, NR1 4DH, United Kingdom
You are warmly invited to a creation pilgrimage around Norwich Cathedral. In the stillness of the evening come and discover how this ancient building can help us get a fresh perspective on our present day environmental challenges. Come and see the building in new and unusual ways and leave with a refreshed view of God’s wonderful creation.
The creation pilgrimage takes place on Tuesday 12th November and will begin at 6.30 by the Pelican Lectern under the tower of the Cathedral.
Parking is available in The Close. Please enter the Cathedral by the South Door – the door nearest the car park with a clock over the door. The pilgrimage will last approximately 75 minutes. Please note: we will be accessing some of the spiral staircases within the Cathedral.
In preparation for the creation pilgrimage you are welcome to join us for Choral Evensong at 5.30; let the music and words of the evening office calm and inspire you, preparing your mind and soul to see creation differently.

Interfaith event - social drop in
2024-11-13 18:00 - 20:00 | St Giles-on-the-Hill, St Giles-on-the-Hill Church, 75 Upper St Giles St, Norwich, NR2 1AB
The week of 11th November is Interfaith Week. This annual event marks the rich diversity of different faiths and beliefs in our society and is an opportunity for people from different faith and belief backgrounds to come together, connect and deepen their understanding of each other.
This year the national charity Faith & Belief Forum has teamed up with St. Giles-on-the-Hill to organise a Drop In at St. Giles Church for people of all faiths and beliefsWe would love it if you, and members of your community, would join us.
This will be a very informal space to meet, share some light refreshments and find out more about each other.
It will hopefully provide a foundation to build on for Interfaith Week 2025.

Soulshaper Youth Weekend 2024
2024-11-15 17:30 - 2024-11-17 14:00 | The Horstead Centre, Rectory Road, Horstead, Norwich,, Norwich, NR12 7EP, United Kingdom
A residential activity and discipleship weekend at The Horstead Centre for youth groups or individuals who do not have a regular church youth group.
Pack your bags for a fun packed weekend! Meet with other young people, hang out with friends and make new ones. The weekend will include fun, food, friendship, adventurous activities, seminars and creative worship.
Groups accompanied by a youth leader are encouraged and individuals who are not part of a group are welcome, but please contact us on 01603 882354 before booking.
Final booking deadline midnight, Sunday 3rd November 2024!
