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A Place of Education & Pilgrimage T'r Pererin A Place of - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
A Place of Education & Pilgrimage T'r Pererin A Place of - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
A Place of Education & Pilgrimage T'r Pererin A Place of Pilgrimage 3,984 visitors 2013-2014 6,780 visitors 2014-2015 To date: 12,634 Learning from Christian Watching and Waiting Festivals & Celebrations Advent to
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Investigating Festivals Programmes Harvest Celebration Day Watching & Waiting: Advent Experience Easter Pentecost and the Arts
Watching and Waiting – Advent to Christmas
Each day during December up until the holidays. After a short introduction the children will Make a journey around the cathedral visiting different zones which explain why Advent is a time of waiting Engage and participate in creative ways with different parts of the story Be able to make something to take back home/to school (if full day visit)
Learning from Christian Festivals & Celebrations…
Religious Heritage in Wales Programmes Cathedral Church of St David Dewi Sant Treasure Chest Life of the monk Pilgrimage
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Explore the Cathedral to discover more about it and its history A series of interactive stations telling the story of the life of St David Activities and workshops in Tŷ’r Pererin Opportunities for dressing up, drama, art, music and literacy Linked to units of study for RE To provide the children with a special
- pportunity to discover St David’s Day in a new
and exciting way in the place where he lived and where he is still remembered in the Cathedral today.
Learning about beliefs and practices, in particular St David…
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Learning from Christian values…
Helping your pupils to ‘do the little things’ that make a big difference.
Bring your school council to explore how Christian values important to St David help build a brilliant team. Games
School Council Day
Sharing
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Learning even with short timetable…
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Suitability: Year 6 Transition Year Educational Foci: Religious Education links to and develops work from: Non-Statutory Skills Framework for RE Developing Thinking by exploring pilgrimage, asking questions raised by their experience and making a personal response Developing Communication by expressing their feelings and opinions and listen to others with increasing discernment Developing ICT by taking photographs/video to use later for expressing their ideas in a variety of ways Developing Number by ordering events in history and considering the significance of some numbers to the Christian faith Year 6 Leavers Pilgrimage ‘Moving On’ What will the visit programme involve? Pilgrimage Day This is a reflective journey (approximately 1 ½ miles) along field paths towards the coast and then
- n to the Cathedral. Pupils will consider issues
related to life journey . The pilgrimage day involves walking, talking, reflecting, playing and singing around 6 visual ideas, culminating in a joint worship and reflection time in the cathedral. School Pilgrimage Day
Reflecting on life using the tradition of pilgrimage…
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Reflecting on a local issue using the tradition
- f pilgrimage…
Suitability: Key Stage 3 & 4 Educational Foci: Religious Education links to and develops work from: Non-Statutory Skills Framework for RE Developing Thinking engage with fundamental questions and issues that relate to their individual needs by exploring pilgrimage and applying and evaluating their experience & beliefs. Developing Communication by expressing their feelings and opinions through active participation and being open to different interpretations
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Diocesan schools Pilgrimage for Year 6 leavers
A Place of spiritual connection…
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A Place to foster relationships…
"Fe gafodd y disgyblion a'r staff ddiwrnod gwerthfawr ac arbennig iawn. Yr oedd yn gyfle unigryw i gyfoethogi y berthynas sydd eisoes yn bodoli rhyngddom â'r disgyblion yn ein hysgol wrth ymgymryd â thaith ysbrydol o Eglwys St Llawddog i Eglwys St Barnabas". "The pupils and staff had a wonderful valuable day. It was an unique opportunity to enrich the relationship already fostered between ourselves and the pupils in our school by undertaking a spiritual journey together from St Llawddog Church to St Barnabas Church". Staff Ygol Penboyr
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A Place for integrated curriculum…
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Risen Christ
The concept of Risen Christ installation incorporating art from the community and family of schools in St Davids Cathedral
A Place of collaboration…
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The community join in… Willow Heart Making Evening
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Visualisation of atonement and resurrection
Introduction to Experience Easter
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The Risen Christ will hang from the ceiling in the South Aisle of the Cathedral
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A Place of Learning at … Post 16 studies
RE Today / NATRE The Diocese of St Davids The Saint Luke’s Foundation Dare2engage University of Swansea The RE Movement of Wales Lat Blaylock presents partnership activities to inspire new RE teachers and students aged 14-19 from November 2014
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Students at the PGCE day came from far and wide to explore some inspirational ideas from NATRE and RE Today about how to engage students, reflect on investigations and express ideas and arguments forcefully. Students say… “I thought it was a good idea to use the starting point of evil: pupils will be interested in this, perhaps more than in goodness. But they are actually thinking about both, of course.”
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The second day long event brought together young people 14-19 from St Davids with some
- f the PGCE beginning RE
teachers, using the amazing environment of St David’s Cathedral as our ‘classroom’ for the day.
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The conference used highly interactive and discursive learning to examine questions about God and evil: the longest speech was under 12 minutes, and activities in pairs, groups and so on took up most of the 5 hours of the conference.
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We used the Cathedral space as expansively as we could.
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Students all students shared their ideas through this strategy, called ’paper the wall with your wisdom’. Selecting 6 from a choice of twenty prompts, we gathered over 600 ideas in ten minutes from the group and everyone was involved.
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This prompt gathered more opinions than any other.
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The balance of views was that prayer is more effective than our politicians in reducing evil. Plenty to think about
- n both sides.
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Students answers were varied and some complex.
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New entrants to RE teaching used their experience from the day before to lead the ‘Evil Game’ discussion with groups of students.
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Opinion based starting points enabled young people to get further in their arguments and analysis through dialogue. Important skills for RE and for life.
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Students say… “This is my favourite (image of Job) because it shows you can lose everything in a matter of a day: how a life can fall apart…”
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Students say… “Job shows that faith in something sometimes helps people to overcome bad times”
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Students say… “…the most moving of the panels, symbolising the empathy and despair we feel at the suffering of
- thers…”
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Later in the day, creative work from the students produced peace icons based on a Christian aid project from Maputo in Mozambique
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Students say… “Everyone was invited, all the time, to say their own views. It was good that the day was a chance to think about
- ur own ideas without anyone
pushing their ideas onto us”
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Lat Blaylock led the day: “A super opportunity to work between students and new teachers on issues that really matter in the contemporary world. I’m very grateful to all who made it possible.”
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Guided Retreats 24 hours with staff & governors
A Place of Reflection, Rest & Refreshment
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A Place to Shape the Future
- Is there anything we could do to support the work of
WASACRE?
- Is there scope for us to develop something more to