Diocese of Norwich

Teaching RE through the three disciplines of Theology / Philosophy / Social Human Sciences
2024-03-21 13:30 - 17:00 (Europe/London)
This half day session is designed to introduce staff to teaching RE in a multi-disciplinary way. It will cross reference the pillars of knowledge Ofsted considers builds an RE Curriculum. It will explore Substantive knowledge, Ways of Knowing and Personal knowledge through a multi-disciplinary approach. It will offer practical resources to support the delivery of a scholarly and academically rigorous RE curriculum. The afternoon session will spend an hour on each discipline and unpick what the expectations of each discipline looks like in the classroom. An invaluable training session to really get to grips with understanding what is expected in the teaching of effective RE.
Audience: Primary School Teachers / support staff who deliver RE in ALL schools (Community, Church of England and Academies)

Active RE - CANCELLED
2024-03-20 14:00 - 16:30 (Europe/London)
This afternoon session takes the Active RE Resource created by Diocese of Norwich Sports Factory and walks attendees through the three key resources of Active RE Lesson Plans, Active RE Games Booklet and Active RE Visual Aids. Schools attending will have electronic access to all three resources as part of the course fee. The resource offers physically active exploration of many Bible stories and key themes, starting with 6 lessons and active sessions on the Old Testament and then 6 lessons and active sessions on the New Testament. The course will be led by Tim Henery, who has created and developed the resource, which he and his team use with a number of schools across Norfolk to teach Christianity. The afternoon will provide an opportunity for you to see a lesson delivered to a class, followed up with a walk through the resources and a chance to ask questions. It is hosted in schools for you to see how the resource can engage and enliven RE teaching with children of all ages. It will also explore how you might use this resource as a way to grow stronger links with the your local church.
Venue: The Bishop’s Primary Academy, Thetford
Audience: PE Subject Leaders, RE Subject Leaders, PE Coaches / Church Youth Workers (Community, Church of England and Academies)

Songs + Supper on St Patrick's Day
2024-03-17 17:00 - 18:00 UTC | All Saints Church, Chedgrave, All Saints Church, Hardley Road, Chedgrave, NR14 6NQ
A concert performed by Libricini, an accomplished upper voice choir, at All Saints Church, Chedgrave. There will be folk, faith and fun songs all connected with Ireland in some way. Followed by a 3-course Irish-themed supper. Concert tickets can be bought on the day. Supper tickets must be bought in advance.
This is part of our fundraising to conserve our mediaeval stained glass which was vandalised in August 2023.

The High's Sheriff's Service for Youth & Hope
2024-03-17 11:45 - 12:45 UTC | King’s Lynn Minster, Saturday Market Place King's Lynn Norfolk, PE30 5DQ
Young people, carers and organisations providing services for young people are invited to The High Sheriff of Norfolk’s Annual Service for Youth & Hope at 11.45am on Sunday 17th March, at King’s Lynn Minster, followed by refreshments in the Town Hall.

King's Lynn Minster Spring Fayre
2024-03-16 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | King’s Lynn Minster, Saturday Market Place King's Lynn Norfolk, PE30 5DQ
Lots of new and exciting stalls. Why not pop along on Saturday from 10-2pm, have a browse, have a cuppa in our cafe and take home some beautiful crafts, all in the setting of our beautiful Minster church in King’s Lynn.

Little Known Treasures in Norfolk Churches
2024-03-15 18:00 - 21:00 UTC | St Andrew’s Church, Little Massingham, St Andrew’s Church Church Lane Little Massingham Norfolk, PE32 2JR
Drinks from 6.00 pm with the talk beginning at 6.30pm. The early evening talk “Little Known Treasures in Norfolk Churches”, will be given by author and Arts Society lecturer, John Vigar. John will be delighted to sign copies of his books which will be on sale. This is a FREE EVENT with a retiring collection.

Courageous Advocacy - How can you develop your pupil’s character and social action in school?
2024-03-14 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London)
This online briefing session will explore different tools and schemes to support you in character development and social action of your pupils. We will begin by unpacking what courageous advocacy is and look at a range of guidance available to support your school in understanding this concept. We will then explore several schemes that offer different ‘ways in’ dependent on what your school needs. These include Christian Aid’s Global Neighbours Scheme; The Archbishop of Young Leaders Award and the Dirt is Good Project. It will provide an overview to each scheme and the way your school can benefit. Courageous advocacy and character development are key themes within the SIAMS Framework 2023 and are an important element for all schools in developing their pupil’s understanding of the world around them so this session will be crucial to your school being judged as at least good in a SIAMS inspection.
Audience: Head Teachers, Senior Leaders, Governors in ALL schools (Community, Church of England and Academies)

Parenting Teens Course: online training event
2024-03-13 20:00 - 21:30, 2024-03-13 10:00 - 11:30 UTC | online
Come and learn all about our brand new Parenting Teens course! Whether you’re a youth leader wanting to engage parents, or a church leader supporting parents of tweens and teens, this training event will inspire you with what’s possible when we equip whole families for discipleship. We’ll go through the nuts and bolts of our exciting six-session course and answer any questions you have. By the end of the session, you’ll feel envisioned and confident to run a Parenting Teens course in your church or community.

Conversations around suicide
2024-03-12 10:00 - 15:00 UTC | Weston Room at Norwich Cathedral, Weston Room at Norwich Cathedral, 65 The Close, Norwich, NR1 4DH
A day dedicated to raising awareness on suicide prevention, support and creating hope.

Lived experience talks
Industry professionals
Networking

Aims:

Highlight available support
Educate to enable evevyone to be able to talk openly about suicide
Reduce stigma around suicide
Create a safe, supportive environment to reflect on all aspects of suicide

Coordinated by members of Norfolk &Waveney Suicide Bereavement Support Partnership
You are warmly invited to this event, a safe space to learn, reflect and discuss all aspects around suicide.
We are keen to extend the invitation to this event as widely as possible to anyone touched by suicide; please pass the information on to others.
To register interest email by 4th March – chriscopsey@btinternet.com
BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL

ENCOUNTER Regional Youth Worship, King's Lynn
2024-03-09 18:30 - 21:00 UTC | 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.

Geldeston gets literary - Awards Ceremony: Stories of mystery & imagination!
2024-03-09 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | St Micheal and All Angels, Geldeston, Old Yarmouth Road Geldeston Beccles, NR34 0LW
Award ceremony for short storey writing competition inspired by two replacement stone carvings on the exterior of the church
Listen to the short listed stories inspired by Geldeston monks.
• Enjoy tea & homemade cakes
• Visit the flower filled church yard
All welcome
The judge and author Lucy Lethbridge* will be giving the awards.

NCCL: Monuments in Norwich churches
2024-03-09 10:00 - 12:30 (Europe/London)
As is well known, Norwich is blessed with many medieval churches, a fine Norman cathedral, and several other distinctive places of worship such as the Octagon Chapel in Colegate. On this course Professor Christopher Joby discusses some of the many monuments and gravestones housed in these churches and the funerary inscriptions incised on them. A striking feature of these monuments and inscriptions is their diversity. Some depict the deceased recumbent, whilst others show them kneeling and in one case at least standing. The material from which they are made also varies. Professor Joby pays special attention to funerary inscriptions and explores questions such as who wrote them, why they wrote them, and why they are written in different languages. Some are in English or Latin, whilst others are in both. Monuments to Dutch Strangers are in Dutch, whilst the Suckling monument in St. Andrew’s has inscriptions in five languages. This promises to be a fascinating morning of discovery about Norwich’s rich collection of tomb monuments.
Led by Professor Christopher Joby, for Norwich Centre for Christian Learning (NCCL)

Ryburgh March Market and Book Sale
2024-03-09 09:30 - 12:00 UTC | St Andrew’s Church, Great Ryburgh, Mill Road / Bridge Road, Great Ryburgh, Norfolk, NR21 0DZ
Mothering Sunday gifts, flowers and crafts will be on sale in addition to a wide and varied collection of pre-loved books. There will also be the opportunity to see the church’s extensive heritage displays. St. Andrew’s Pantry will be open, a congenial and warm place to meet up with friends and enjoy home made cakes and scones. All proceeds will go to Church Funds.

Bach and Britten cello recital in Salthouse Church
2024-03-08 19:30 - 22:00 UTC | St. Nicholas Church, Salthouse, St. Nicholas Church, Church Lane off Cross Street, Salthouse, Holt, NR25 7 XH
The well known professional cellist, Orlando Jopling, will be returning to St. Nicholas Church, to give a performance of the 2nd and 3rd Cello Suites by J.S.Bach, also the First Cello Suite by Benjamin Britten. This will be his third concert, having previously performed all six Bach Cello Suites in St. Nicholas Church.

Leadership Forum - CANCELLED
2024-03-05 13:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London)
An opportunity for all church school and academy Headteachers, Deputy Headteachers and Heads of school to contribute to the implementation and further development of the Diocese’s Education Strategy. This forum is where we can ‘do business’ together! As a family of church schools there will be a particular focus on aspects related to Christian distinctiveness. Additionally, there will be a range of invited guests to share their experiences and introduce opportunities that might be of interest to our schools.
Audience: Headteachers, Deputy Headteachers and Heads of school (or their nominated substitute) working in church schools or academies

Changemaker’s Conference
2024-03-02 10:00 - 14:00 UTC | The Weston Room, The Weston Room, Norwich Cathedral, 65 The Close, Norwich, NR1 4DH, United Kingdom
Our annual virtual Changemaker’s Conference is taking place on Saturday 2 March and together with the Norwich Christian Aid Committee we are hosting a watch party at Norwich Cathedral. The conference will be live-streamed and we are gathering to watch the broadcast and share lunch and fellowship afterwards.
It’s a chance to encourage and inspire local people and churches that so faithfully support Christian Aids work. It’s also a great opportunity for newer supporters to find out a bit more about Christian Aid and how they can give, act, and pray with us during the year.
As well as meeting and sharing ideas with other local supporters, the conference will be an opportunity to hear about Christian Aid Week and the stories of people and partners in Burundi that will be the focus of this year’s appeal. We will hear from Patrick Watt, our CEO, and from Phillip Galgallo, our Country Manager in Burundi, and from other CA staff, who will talk about how you can get involved with fundraising during Christian Aid Week and beyond.

Understanding Humanism – A Curriculum Resource in RE -CANCELLED
2024-02-28 14:00 - 16:30 (Europe/London)
This session is designed to support RE teachers in delivering Humanism units of work as part of their school curriculum. The Norfolk Agreed Syllabus expects religion and organized non-religious world views to be taught in schools. In the session, we will explore some of the Agreed Syllabus units that focus on Humanism. We will look at the Understanding Humanism resource, we will consider the main elements of Humanism to be taught, the resources available and creative ways to gain the most from pupils in the classroom.
Audience: Key stage 1 / Key stage 2 teachers (church schools, academies and community schools)

Lambeth Calls – Being Anglican
2024-02-27 19:30 - 20:30 UTC | online
What does it mean to be Anglican? How do Anglicans use scripture? How are we in communion through mission?
Bible study and discussion on this important theme from the recent Lambeth Conference
Led by Revd Dr Peter Doll – Canon Librarian and Vice Dean of Norwich Cathedral
The Zoom link details are below.
https://dioceseofnorwich-org.zoom.us/j/87823143582?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 878 2314 3582 Passcode: [REDACTED]

Understanding Christianity - CANCELLED
2024-02-27 09:30 - 16:00 (Europe/London)
Understanding Christianity was launched in 2016-17. SIAMS reports frequently emphasise the impact of this resource on pupil outcomes, the quality of teaching and increased teacher confidence and subject knowledge. The Norfolk Agreed Syllabus also promotes the use of this resource as a significant element of the theology lens aspect of a multi-disciplinary approach to RE.
This one-day course offers schools and academies (both church and community) who have not undertaken the training before or wish to refresh their training the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the theology and pedagogy which underpin the teaching of Christianity.
All delegates will receive a resource pack (if they opt for the higher cost below) which includes units of work, a wall frieze and RE Today Picturing Christianity. Also, each school will get unique access to the online resources that support Understanding Christianity.
In addition, schools who want to ‘refresh’ their expertise can join this course at a reduced fee if they already have the resource.
Cost: £225 (includes resource pack) / £160 (excludes resource pack)
**Sandwich lunch included
Audience: Teachers and RE leaders in ALL schools (Community, Church of England and Academies)

Collective Worship Network
2024-02-26 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London)
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 of Voluntary Aided, Voluntary Controlled, Foundation church schools and academies

Book Sale at St Mary Magdalene Church
2024-02-24 10:00 - 15:00 UTC | St Mary Magdalene Church, Silver Road, Norwich, Norwich, NR3 4TF, United Kingdom

NCCL: Intimations of the Creator from the science of time
2024-02-24 10:00 - 12:30 (Europe/London)
In the mental landscape of a Christian, the believer must negotiate a range of difficult issues concerning time and timeliness – such as providence, election, and prayer – while also grappling with concepts of an afterlife, and the immutable nature of an eternal God. The curious connection between space and time, revealed by Einstein’s theory of relativity, cannot resolve such issues, but an inference of higher dimensions sheds interesting light on temporal themes in Christian theology.
The session is led by David L. Andrews, Professor of Chemical Physics at the University of East Anglia. It is held in Norwich Cathedral Library.
Cost £15 for the two if both ‘Intimations of the Creator’ sessions are booked together (the first is on 18 November 2023).

Growing Good Workshop
2024-02-12 13:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London)
Attendees are invited from churches of any denomination across the region who are interested in finding out more about how their church and community might benefit from the research and resources. Contributors will include the Bishop of Lynn, the Bishop of Thetford, members of the Church Urban Fund (CUF) team who have developed Growing Good, and leaders of local churches.
The Growing Good workshop will be held on 12 February at St Luke’s Church, starting at 1pm with a free buffet lunch and finishing at 4pm. Booking is essential.
Growing Good is a community of people and churches who are committed to growing fruitful churches and flourishing communities. To support the Growing Good movement, CUF has developed the Growing Good Toolkit. This includes a six-module course to help churches connect the dots between social action, discipleship, and growth. The toolkit combines biblical reflection and practical insight to equip churches to grow in faithfulness and fruitfulness.
The toolkit is based on three years of research by Theos and CUF. The research looked at over 60 churches all across England, to better understand how social action, discipleship, and growth fit together on the ground. In developing the toolkit content, CUF involved church leaders, ministry training coordinators, and community workers.
Booking is essential.

Practical ways to explore Racial Justice in RE
2024-02-08 14:00 - 16:30 (Europe/London)
This session on ZOOM is designed to explore what racial justice means in a theological, philosophical and social context within RE. How we can challenge viewpoints using practical resources within RE and expand pupil’s ideas and concepts. A range of resources and framework of ideas will be provided to schools to take away and try. Wider issues such as local. Regional and global diversity will also be explored along with ways to decolonise your RE curriculum content to make it racially just. It will also showcase the excellent Black History Month resources and Collective Worship resources developed by Sarah Claflin and the racial Justice Network as well as links to other providers in Norfolk.
Audience: Primary School Teachers / support staff who deliver RE in ALL schools (Community, Church of England and Academies)

Grandparenting for Faith webinar
2024-02-08 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | online
Grandparents play a significant role in the lives of their grandchildren. How can Christian grandparents use their position to nurture faith in the next generation? How can church leaders support and empower the grandparents within their communities to help the kids and teens in their life meet and know God?
This event, celebrating the launch of Grandparenting for Faith by Becky Sedgwick, is for all who are grandparents, church leaders or both. During the morning, you will be equipped with research, statistics, inspiration and real-life examples from those who have been working with grandparents in church settings. You’ll come away motivated and excited by all that God is doing through grandparents!
Booking details here Grandparenting for Faith launch and training morning – BRFonline

An introduction to the RE Quality Mark (REQM) - CANCELLED
2024-02-07 15:30 - 17:00 (Europe/London)
REQM is a nationally recognized quality mark for RE. From September 2020 new criteria has been released to assess schools and federations. This briefing session will consider the new criteria, explore examples of best practice in preparing for REQM assessment and action plan next steps in achieving the quality mark for your school. It will also provide a further option of coaching and mentoring for schools to complete the application process from a REQM Assessor as well as the possibility of a school-based workshop to write your application (additional cost)
Audience: RE Leaders, Headteachers in ALL schools (Community, Church of England and Academies)

Eco Church Forum guided reflection and prayer time
2024-02-06 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | online
Join us at our next Eco Church Forum, where we’ll be spending time reflecting on our journeys so far with a guided meditation and prayer space.

Join us at our next Eco Church Forum, where we’ll be taking a break from our usual content of information and signposting to resources.
Instead we’ll be spending time reflecting on our journeys so far with a guided meditation and prayer space, led by Canon Susanna Gunner.
Come to reconnect with the underpinning of God’s call to care for creation, wherever you are at in our Eco Church journey. Please invite along any and all who may be interested.
Please use the following Zoom link to join the forum:
https://dioceseofnorwich-org.zoom.us/j/83023916299?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 830 2391 6299
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Church Administrators Local Group Gathering
2024-02-06 13:00 - 14:30 UTC | Oak Grove Community Church, Oak Grove Community Church, NR3 3NT
Supported by UCAN (UK Church Administrators Network)
An opportunity for church and parachurch administrators/office workers to meet together to encourage and support one another and share resources. This session is focusing on the role of volunteers.
Sign up here https://ucan.churchsuite.com/events/uw5sglhe
Any questions or for more information, contact Becca: becca@oakgrovecommunitychurch.co.uk

Unlock Unearth – a new production from Bergh Apton Arts
2024-02-04 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | St Peter and St Paul’s, Bergh Apton, St Peter and St Paul’s, Bergh Apton, Norfolk, NR15 1BX, United Kingdom
An evening of stories, music, magic and light, with stories told by Hugh Lupton and others. Choir led by Clare Pastorius.

Centuries slip by in the wink of an eye when Hugh Lupton with his friends, the Onlie Begetters, Wordsmiths, Readers, Singers, Rude Mechanicals, Gate Keepers, Lantern Painters, Makers of Masks, Dragon Dreamers, Grass Dolly Weavers and Portrait Painters lift you out of the everyday and into some magic.
The past is fragile as bones grown brittle with age, as faint as a glimpsed ghost. We live in islands of secret and sacred ways, islands where giants raised their barrows and standing stones. The earth and the rivers embrace thumbed shards of pottery, a sword its jewelled hilt clasped closely by roots, a bunch of keys, a velvet cap, a clay pipe, a handful of coins. Scratch your name on the land’s face but below and below is a lost alphabet and lost words. A land with tales to tell and songs to sing, a land of mysteries and riddles.
In writing workshops with Hugh Lupton we unlocked our word hoards then rifled through, juggled with words and phrases to bring you stories. Hugh foraged through our writings and has produced six stories of Bergh Apton from the invasion of the Romans, to Saxon celebration of harvest, to Non, Neb and Luck who keep watch over the door of the church, to those sailing away to the New World, to a blacksmith setting off to his new world and Hannah who wins £1,000 on the Lottery! Connecting them all are woodpecker feathers and a flint tool curved like a young moon.
Listen and watch my people for who knows what dreams and tales will come.
Warm clothing and outdoor footwear recommended
For late bookings, call the number given at the bottom of the page
