Top tips on engaging with and supporting your local schools, uniformed organisations and other community groups and societies.
This toolkit gives ideas, lessons and resources to help build a full cross-curricular day of learning within your local parish church. It will empower and enable both schools and churches to fully realise the learning opportunities that exist within these ‘Inspired Classrooms’.
The lesson and activity suggestions here will challenge, engage and inspire pupils and in the process enable them to develop a range of essential key skills.
This page includes:
1. Engaging with the Community
Top tips on engaging with and supporting your local schools, uniformed organisations and other community groups and societies.
2. Lesson Plans and Challenges
Ask the visiting school which lessons and quick challenges they have chosen to use in your church and familiarise yourself with them here – Lesson Plans and Challenges. If the lesson plans or quick challenges require QR Codes, then let the school know if the church has wifi. If not, remind them to download our offline Web App, which still enables the QR Codes to be used on their visit.
3. Risk Assessment
If possible, the lead teacher will visit your church before the day of the visit and check through the risk assessment. Here is a model example.
4. Recording a Schools’ Visit
Here are some ideas on recording a schools’ visit to your church.
5. Press Release
You may wish to inform local press of the school visit. If so, here is an example Press Release for you to use.
6. Church Equipment List
Please liaise with the school on the equipment that they will bring and / or need during their visit. Here are some ideas.