For our AC+ subscribers: Here are some ideas and resources from our archives to help you engage students, teachers and families in your school community during Ash Wednesday and Lent.
What does it mean to be a steward and how do you do it? Explore the idea with these classroom questions and activities.
These questions and activities look at how students can be changemakers to fulfil their role as stewards in caring for creation.
The following questions and activities help students make connections between Catholic theology, social teachings and lived experience. In the early years, we start by taking a look at houses (ours, Jesus’ and God’s) as a way of building the knowledge and skills to do this.
These questions and activities teach students how to deal with change in their own lives and then explore how change interacts with Church teachings and belief.
Young people have a complex relationship with the Church. They are both developing and questioning their faith whilst being under enormous pressure from family, peers, school, society and the media.
The original superheroes were biblical and the hero’s journey is a story archetype found in most cultures across the world. There is so much we can learn from stories about working to be good and fighting for good.
Learning about fish ladders gives primary school students a unique entry into the importance of the environment.
The first hurdle in tackling the climate crisis is for human beings to look at how they manage change and relate to one another.
Questions are such a big part of education that there are a lot of cross-curriculum links in these questions and activities.
These classroom activities focus on themes of diversity, being kind, helping others and valuing difference against a background of encouraging inclusive behaviour at school and in future endeavours.
For our AC+ subscribers: This retreat resource guide can help students to see themselves as the social justice heroes of the next generation, and consider ways that they may be able to take social justice action within their own lives.