We want to equip school chaplains so that you can help the students, staff and families that you work with to engage with the Bible.
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Resources for primary schools include our Open the Book programme as well as ones specific for different events that take place throughout the year.
Open the Book
Open the Book (OtB) offers primary school children an opportunity to hear key Bible stories told by a team of Christians from local churches, who present the stories during assemblies or acts of collective worship.
Platinum Jubilee competition
To celebrate 70 years of service of Her Majesty the Queen, Open the Book would like to invite you to take part in our Platinum Jubilee competition.
Journey with us through Lent, Easter and Pentecost
This Easter session, journey with Jesus on his path to the cross and celebrate his resurrection. We have a host of resources to help you reflect and celebrate, including our new children’s Easter booklet The Greatest Miracle of All.
Psalm 23 Garden resources
Have fun with learning and get children outside. We have easy-to-use plans to create a Psalm 23 garden at your school, but also lots of fun activities and an assembly to help you bring the psalm to life for children.
Religious Studies resources for schools
Get Religious Studies resources for Key Stage 3 and GCSE (9–1) secondary school education.
Catholic schools
Scripture tools and Chat-echesis to help nurture faith in Catholic schools.
Good News Bible – Youth Edition
This interactive youth Bible for young people has been created in partnership with Youth for Christ. Go deeper into the Good News Bible text with hundreds of elements encouraging space for writing, doodling and drawing.
Key features:
Inside Out: Connecting word to life
Inside Out: Connecting word to life is a new youth resource created in partnership with The Salvation Army. Inspired by The Salvation Army’s survey Listen Up, for young people and those who work with them, this exciting new guide to the Bible tackles the questions and challenges facing young people today, including what the Bible says about who we are.
It features:
Lyfe
Our selection of Lyfe resources help individuals and small groups to discover a deeper life with God. Each spiritual formation resource draws deeply on the Bible and spiritual practices that have inspired and sustained Christians throughout the centuries. Sessions are based around six key themes including prayer, social justice and the Bible. The sessions are easy to lead and highly relational. They’re suitable for groups of mature Christians as well as those new to the Christian faith.
Daily reflections
Bible Society's Daily Reflections follow the M'Cheyne Bible reading plan, designed for those who want to read the whole Bible in one year. Each reflection focuses on one of its four daily chapters.
Bible Trek
Through a series of short films, join Andrew Ollerton (author of The Bible Course) as he treks through the Holy Land and beyond. Visit Jerusalem, Galilee, Ephesus and other locations. Discover the sites where famous Bible events took place, from Hezekiah’s Tunnel to the home town of Jesus. With added historical notes and reflections, experience Bible stories and see why they matter today.
#Shetoo podcast
We talk to six theologians from both faith and non-faith backgrounds about their academic and personal approaches to texts that include violence against women in the Bible , and what they might have to say to 21st-century readers.
The Old Testament Journey in 3 ½ minutes
The Old Testament Journey in 3 ½ minutes is a free video resource giving you a snapshot of Israel’s journey through the Old Testament in – yes you’ve guessed it – 3 ½ minutes!
Journey of Jesus in 3 ½ minutes
To say Jesus did a lot of stuff would be like saying Mount Everest is a bit of a climb. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John total some 89 chapters, each one filled to the brim with all things Jesus. But we’ve created The Journey of Jesus in 3.5 minutes, a free video resource written and narrated by Dai Woolridge.
The Early Church Journey in 3 ½ minutes
Picking up where we left off in The Journey of Jesus in 3 ½ minutes, we're looking at the beginnings of the Church in The Early Church Journey in 3 ½ minutes, a free video resource written and narrated by Dai Woolridge.
Bible Trek
Through a series of short films, join Andrew Ollerton (author of The Bible Course) as he treks through the Holy Land and beyond. Visit Jerusalem, Galilee, Ephesus and other locations. Discover the sites where famous Bible events took place, from Hezekiah’s Tunnel to the home town of Jesus. With added historical notes and reflections, experience Bible stories and see why they matter today.
Eden
What springs to mind when you think of Eden? The freshest fruit and lushest leaves? A slippery snake, or a guy and a girl swapping their birthday suit for some fig leaves? Maybe you think of the separation, the ‘do not enter’ sign put up when Adam and Eve didn't choose God's way. Eden was a place where God strolled through the garden with us. And while it all went south, the Bible tells us of God’s restoration plan, fulfilled through our Saviour Jesus, with the promise of a fully restored relationship in an eternal new Eden creation. From creation to fall, redemption to new creation – this is the story of Scripture in four phases.
