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Need activities and ideas for primary RE, collective worship, church home groups, children’s and families work or for faith in the home?

The BRF Resource Hub is your one-stop shop for free tried and tested ideas from over 20 years of working in primary RE (through Barnabas in Schools) and in resourcing churches.

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Speaking in tongues

01.06.2021

A selection of words for ‘hello’ and ‘peace’ in several different languages. This activity gives…

Games Peace Pentecost

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St George's Day - Parade service talk idea

01.06.2021

An idea for use on or around 23rd April for worship with children (including uniformed…

Drama Storytelling

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St Luke's Day

24.02.2021

The following outline is for a collective worship focus on Luke the doctor with a…

Apostles Compassion Disciples Saints Teaching of Jesus

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Standing up: a story about creating friendship, forgiveness and peace

01.03.2021

A retelling of the story of Zacchaeus the tax collector. It explains a little of…

Forgiveness Friendship Honesty

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Staying on task - Jesus in the wilderness

01.03.2021

The story of how Jesus met temptation in the desert – and thinking about learning…

Easter Lent Responsibility

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Step into the picture of Good Friday

01.06.2021

An outline for a Good Friday Service for the whole church family, using works of…

Craft Easter Good Friday Lent

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Storm at sea

01.06.2021

A poem retelling the story of Jesus calming the storm

Drama Miracles

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Story Circles

01.06.2021

A Story Circle is a way of involving children in acting out a story

Drama

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Talents and pounds

01.06.2021

The Parable of the Talents and the Parable of the Pounds

Parables Reflective Storytelling

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Talking about Christmas - a Special Birthday

01.03.2021

Remembering and celebrating Jesus’ birth at Christmas.

Advent Christmas Nativity

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Talking about Easter: Easter eggs and new life

01.03.2021

This idea aims to help children identify and talk about signs of new life, respond…

Discussion Easter Lent

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Talking About Easter: The Cross as a Symbol

01.03.2021

The intended learning outcomes for this piece of work would be that the children should…

Discussion Easter Lent The Cross

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Talking about Harvest: saying thank you

01.03.2021

This is an outline for a series of RE lessons for a Foundation class on…

Discussion Environment Feelings Harvest

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Telling the Easter Story using one sheet of paper

01.03.2021

This paper-cutting approach to explain the key moments of the Easter story can be adapted…

Easter Lent The Cross

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