Description: Elevate your Catholic Primary School Curriculum with this comprehensive resource on Human Dignity, a core principle of Catholic Social Teaching. This engaging resource is tailored for teachers searching for meaningful materials to explore this vital concept with their students. With a focus on two inspiring saints, Maximilian Kolbe and Oscar Romero, this resource offers an enriching learning experience that combines faith, history, and reflection. Key Features: Understanding Human Dignity: Our resource provides a clear and accessible explanation of what Human Dignity means in the context of Catholic Social Teaching. Saintly Biographies: Delve into the lives of two remarkable saints, Maximilian Kolbe and Oscar Romero. Discover their devotion to Human Dignity and how they lived their faith. Interactive Activities: Students can engage with the content through a hands-on z-fold brochure activity. They choose one of the saints and complete a mini project, deepening their understanding of the concept. Critical Thinking: On the reverse of the z-fold brochure, challenge your students with thought-provoking questions about Human Dignity encouraging meaningful discussions. Collective Worship: Foster spiritual growth with three dedicated pages for collective worship. These pages include a leader’s guide, a prayer, and a meditation, all focused around Human Dignity. Personal Expression: Encourage your students to connect with their faith on a personal level by inviting them to write their own prayers about Human Dignity. This resource is thoughtfully designed to support teachers in nurturing a profound understanding of Human Dignity in the context of Catholic Social Teaching. Empower your students to live out their faith and make a positive impact on the world with this invaluable resource. Elevate your teaching and inspire your students today! More content being added regularly - check back for more principles of Catholic Social Teaching.

Included are Collective Worship resources: St Patrick’s prayers Mindful colouring (including Prayers of St Patrick and The Holy Trinity which can be used as a collective worship resource with appropriate background music.) Writing frame for a prayer Frame for child to draw symbolic picture of St Patrick.

This resource is designed to encourage pupils to discuss Biblical Artwork to enhance their understanding of The Parable of the Good Samaritan. The session should have three parts: a. Reading the Scripture so that children are all familiar with the parable. b. Looking at various artworks one at a time and discussing what is noticed in each picture. I usually do this on PowerPoint. ie) What has the artist included? Why? What has the artist left out? Why? Why is this colour used? Is the picture modern? Why? etc. What is good about the picture? What do they feel it would benefit from adding or changing? What surprised them about the picture? What question would they ask the artist? There should be a lot of discussion generated. c. Children should choose one image to discuss further in their work. The worksheet aims for meaningful understanding of the parable and how it is relevant to their lives today. Teaching points: When answering written questions about the Biblical Art, children must answer the questions demonstrating their Biblical Knowledge. eg) What did you like about the painting? I liked the colours because it’s my favourite colour. I liked the how the artist has included the people who ignored the man. One of the people is turning their head around, showing that they knew they should have helped. What question would you ask the artist about this painting? How long did it take you? What inspired you? Why did you choose to make this a modern day picture and changing the gender of one of the people who ignored the man? Answer 1 in these examples shows no understanding. Answer 2 demonstrates knowledge of the parable and careful thought about their understanding of it. I hope you find this resource useful. If you do, please could you leave a review? Feel free to make requests for future resources.

These resources aim to support Christian schools (I designed this for a Catholic School) to guide their children in creating and leading meaningful collective worship or prayer and liturgy within their classrooms or year groups. The model uses the GATHER, LISTEN, RESPOND, GO FORTH format. It is colour-coded, memorable and extremely easy to follow. You will need to cut and laminate the smaller picture resources to allow children to manipulate them and decide on how they can best deliver their collective worship by adding them to the larger colour coded sheet (best printed and laminated on A3) Also included is an informative support booklet for the children when it is their turn to lead. It guides them to decide on a theme and how to consider what to do in each aspect of the service. There are some helpful pages how to select Scripture, with verses included, depending on their theme, rather than starting with nothing. I know many teachers in Christian schools have found this to be a really useful resource for their class and I hope your class enjoy using it.