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Faith Tutorials are back!

faithtutorials.co.uk is a bank of free-to-download, ready to use tutorial resources specially designed for FE Colleges, and created by the chaplaincy team at North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College over a number of years.

After a little gap, faith tutorials are coming back online, specifically in response to a growing number of requests from colleges looking for online material to use with students during the COVID-19 crisis.  There are 24 sets of material in all, covering major religious festivals, general moral/ethical topics, and designed for students of all faiths and none.

A new bespoke website will be launched later in the year, but for the moment you can access some of the materials from the St Peter’s Saltley Trust website here (with topics gradually being added, so keep watching the page).

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Integrating SMSC within Teaching and Learning in FE

Integrating SMSC within Teaching and Learning in Further Education is a new resource designed to giving FE teaching staff the confidence to draw out the spiritual, moral, social and cultural implications of their curriculum areas out of the content they cover.

Developed from a project involving three Midlands colleges, the centrepiece of the resource is a grid of discussion starter topics for many of the common curriculum areas colleges cover, along with a number of worked examples and a substantial introduction exploring how and why SMSC should be fully integrated within teaching and learning – not just left as a bolt-on extra for tutorial and enrichment time,

The resource has been written by Dr John Wise (former CEO of fbfe, the National Council for Faiths and Beliefs in Further Education), Dr Ian Jones (of St Peter’s Saltley Trust).  The discussion starter grid has been developed from an original idea by staff at Peterborough Regional College, and used with permission.

The report is available as a free download here.

 

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Our New FE Chaplaincy Films Launched!

We’re delighted to launch 5 short YouTube videos introducing Further Education and Chaplaincy. They’re ideal for showing to churches and groups of faith leaders interested in offering chaplaincy. Films 3 and 4 can also introduce to colleges what chaplains do.

The films have been produced by the talented people at Mazo Creative Agency, and have been made in partnership with 3 local colleges: North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College, Halesowen College and Burton and South Derbyshire College. We’re very grateful for all their help!

Watch all 5 films here:

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Check out our latest E-News Bulletin!

The November edition of our e-news is hot off the e-press! Click here to read.

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Plumbing the Depths – New Reflective Resource for Chaplains from WMCFEC

Plumbing the Depths is WMCFEC’s new resource for chaplains and others working in Further Education to aid reflection on their work, calling and ministry.  Based on the biblical story of Jonah, it’s available for a suggested donation of £9.

Plumbing the Depths has been written by former WMCFEC members Sarah Brush and Toni Coulton, with additional material by Chris Polhill and 24 original illustrations by Si Smith.  The resource contains everything you need to run a day gathering for large or small group or a series of reflective sessions for 1 to 1 use, including handouts, images, audio-visual presentation and how-to-use guides.

You can order Plumbing the Depths by emailing us, or from the St Peter’s Saltley Trust website.

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New Prayer Resource for FE/Sixth Form – could you help?

Our friend Lahna Pottle, 16-19s specialist at SchoolsworkUK (part of Youthscape), is looking for student volunteers to help create a new prayer resource.  If you know someone who can help, read on!  Lahna writes:

“Hello everyone! I am currently in the midst of making an exciting new resource for Sixth Form and FE Colleges. The resource is based on nearly a years worth of research into 16-19 year olds engagement with faith, God and religion. One of the key findings from this research is ALL of the young people interviewed; christian/muslim/non-faith, have prayed at some point. So we are starting to create an explorative exhibition resource on prayer, that will allow students to explore more of what prayer is and can be.
For this resource I need a group of 16-19 year old students to get involved and am therefore asking if any of you know of any students who might want to be involved! It would mean writing an honest and authentic prayer/ sending in one they have already written and being willing to be filmed sharing their thoughts on prayer!”

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Want to help pilot our new resource on Cultivating Identity, Inclusion and Belonging?

We’ve been hard at work developing ideas for a suite of new interactive, flexible-format resources for 16-19s in college, exploring different aspects of Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural development (SMSC).  With the help of talented local resource writer Simeon Whiting, we have a prototype resource on ‘Cultivating Identity, Inclusion and Belonging’ which is ready for trialling in college.  We’d love to hear from any colleges or chaplains who’d like to help us do this.

This week we also had good news that the St Christopher’s Educational Trust have made us a generous grant to help us complete a set of 6-8 resources on different topics, together with previous grants received from St Peter’s Saltley Trust, the Jerusalem Trust and the Friends Hall Farm Street Trust.  Watch this space for more details!

Picture: Still from ‘The New Lad’, part of our new SMSC resource on ‘cultivating identity, inclusion and belonging’, by Simeon Whiting.

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Mistaken Identities – Reith Lectures

The 2016 BBC Reith Lectures by Prof. Kwame Anthony Appiah are a gold mine for anyone wanting to develop their religious literacy or find raw material for discussion on SMSC.  The first three are on ‘creed’, ‘colour’ and ‘country’, exploring religion, ethnicity and nationhood.

From a sociology of religion perspective there is much to debate, as you’ll hear from the discussion following the lecture in each of the podcasts.  But there are some important insights.  The first lecture in the series (‘Creed’) explores how religious traditions and movements are as much about ‘practices’ (i.e., how they actually live) as ‘beliefs’ (statements of faith).  That’s an important insight into understanding how things work in the religious sphere, and indeed for any body of belief or practice.

For more see the BBC Reith Lectures website.

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Interfaith Education Workshops

Three Faiths Forum are currently establishing a base in the West Midlands.  The charity offers a range of interfaith education workshops.  Might one of these be valuable in your college?  Read more on their website: http://www.3ff.org.uk/schools/education-workshops.php

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All for One, One for All

If you’re interested in how Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development can be integrated into teaching and learning in vocational courses, take a look at the following video and report of a partnership project between Leicester College, the St Philip’s Centre and fbfe, with support from the SFA and NIACE, in 2013-14.