A Place of Education & Pilgrimage. Tŷ'r Pererin

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1 A Place of Education & Pilgrimage Tŷ'r Pererin

2 A Place of Pilgrimage 3,984 visitors ,780 visitors To date: 12,634

3 Learning from Christian Festivals & Celebrations 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 Religious Heritage in Wales Programmes Cathedral Church of St David Dewi Sant Treasure Chest Life of the monk Pilgrimage 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)

4 Learning about beliefs and practices, in particular St David Linked to units of study for RE To provide the children with a special opportunity 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. 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

5 Learning from Christian values School Council Day 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 Sharing

6 Learning even with short timetable

7 Reflecting on life using the tradition of Year 6 Leavers Pilgrimage pilgrimage Moving On School Pilgrimage Day 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 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 on 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.

8 Reflecting on a local issue using the tradition of 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

9 A Place of spiritual connection Diocesan schools Pilgrimage for Year 6 leavers

10 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

11 A Place for integrated curriculum

12 A Place of collaboration Risen Christ The concept of Risen Christ installation incorporating art from the community and family of schools in St Davids Cathedral

13 Willow Heart Making Evening The community join in

14 Introduction to Experience Easter Visualisation of atonement and resurrection

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16 The Risen Christ will hang from the ceiling in the South Aisle of the Cathedral

17 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 from November 2014

18 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.

19 The second day long event brought together young people from St Davids with some of the PGCE beginning RE teachers, using the amazing environment of St David s Cathedral as our classroom for the day.

20 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.

21 We used the Cathedral space as expansively as we could.

22 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.

23 This prompt gathered more opinions than any other.

24 The balance of views was that prayer is more effective than our politicians in reducing evil. Plenty to think about on both sides.

25 Students answers were varied and some complex.

26 New entrants to RE teaching used their experience from the day before to lead the Evil Game discussion with groups of students.

27 Opinion based starting points enabled young people to get further in their arguments and analysis through dialogue. Important skills for RE and for life.

28 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

29 Students say Job shows that faith in something sometimes helps people to overcome bad times

30 Students say the most moving of the panels, symbolising the empathy and despair we feel at the suffering of others

31 Later in the day, creative work from the students produced peace icons based on a Christian aid project from Maputo in Mozambique

32 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 our own ideas without anyone pushing their ideas onto us

33 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.

34 A Place of Reflection, Rest & Refreshment Guided Retreats 24 hours with staff & governors

35 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 help schools deliver RE?