Resources - Jumping Fish

Jumping Fish

Jumping Fish ® Ltd publications support RE teaching, spiritual development and Collective Worship in schools and promote church-school links. More recently all-age worship materials have been produced, many of them linking to the Experience Festivals series.

Publications List

Leading Worship
This course is designed to train lay people in leading worship.

It is written and edited by members of worshipping communities of various sizes, types and church styles.The resource offers a structured and exciting way to train lay people to lead worship responsibly while following Church guidelines. A CD-ROM contains all of the material required for six 90-minute modules, including a teaching plan, PowerPoint presentations and handouts to facilitate discussion and group work.
Cost £10

Creating a Multi-sensory Spiritual Garden in your school
This new publication, researched and written by Shahne Vickery, offers a host of practical ideas and advice for schools to create a spiritual garden in their grounds.
It includes several hundred high-quality photographs school gardens throughout the UK as well as many fresh ideas for outdoor prayer and reflection activities.

Each chapter focuses on one of the five senses and considers how planting, hard landscaping, art installations and wildlife habitats can be used to foster children's spiritual development, encourage them to appreciate the peacefulness of natural surroundings and enjoy the space interactively.
Cost £23.00

Values for Life - Teaching Christian Values in Primary Schools
An exciting and established resource to teach 18 carefully selected values over 3 years and promote Christian values and understanding throughout all aspects of school life.
Each unit includes:

* whole school rationale for teaching values
* collective worship plans
* practical classroom activities and cross-curricular links
* Bible stories and stories from different religions
* suggested literacy texts
* some links to SEAL resources
Cost £62.00
See bottom of page for a downloadable extract from Values for Life

Pause to Reflect on Values

Intended to support the "Values for Life" resource, this pack gives details for creating interactive areas focusing on each of the 18 values. Modelled on the very successful "Pause for Reflection", this resource is a helpful tool in promoting spiritual development throughout the whole school community.
Cost £28.00

Pause for Reflection

15 ideas for creative, interactive displays to promote spiritual development in the primary school. Each display is fully explained with instructions for assembling the reflective corner, questions to ask the children and follow up discussion ideas.
Cost £21.00

Using Persona Dolls in Religious Education

Detailed plans for teaching in the Foundation Stage and Year 1 about the five major faiths, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam and Sikhism, using persona dolls. Each section comprises four units: Being Special, Special People, Special Places and Special Times. An accompanying CD shows the 'dolls' visiting their place of worship.
Cost £32.00

Exploring Holy Communion in Primary Schools

A developmental approach for teaching about the Holy Communion (or Eucharist) in Church of England Primary Schools from Reception to Year 6. Accompanying resources for schools considering holding a Eucharist service provide a discussion aid for staff and governors, facilitator to help prepare the whole school community in planning for a Eucharist service and a suitable liturgy.
Downloadable resource - see bottom of page

Mark's Family
This resource features Mark, a Year 6 boy from a Christian family living in South West England. Using photographs of different aspects of his family life, taken over a 12-month period Mark explains the customs, beliefs and values that are special to him.
The PowerPoint presentation comprises five parts: Together as a family, Together as a Church, Worshipping Together, Celebrating Together, Values Shared Together. It is self-explanatory and includes suggested tasks devised to help pupils explore the material, develop appropriate skills and reflect on issues raised.
Cost £5.00

Christian Symbols

20 colour, A4 size pictures of "special things that help Christians to worship" seen in and around Anglican churches. The photographs illustrate crosses, doves and fish, candles and chalice & paten sets. Each symbol is created from different materials. Suitable for KS1 and lower KS2.
Cost £7.00

Experience Festivals series
An exciting way for churches to share the festival stories with children
This is an imaginative approach to help children experience the Christian festivals through the year using, on each occasion, six easy to assemble, interactive stations set up in different parts of the church.
In the series are Experience Easter, Experience Christmas, Experience Pentecost and Experience Harvest, each priced at £11.00.

Classes from the local primary school will be invited by the clergy to visit the church where in small groups they will be guided by a leader from the school around each station. Using a similar format to Pause for Reflection, with which schools are already familiar, the pack gives detailed instructions to church members to enable them to create the stations. Also included are careful instructions to help the school group leaders introduce and reflect on each part of the story.
The ideas offer a superb opportunity to strengthen church-school links.

Resourcing Festivals series
All-age worship and activity materials to provide a link between the suggestions in the various 'Experience Festivals' packs and regular church worship. Priced at just £5.00 per pack, service ideas can be adapted for use in Eucharistic and non-Eucharistic services. Resourcing Easter gives worship ideas for Lent, Mothering Sunday, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Easter Sunday; Resourcing Christmas for Sundays in Advent, Crib services, Christmas Day & Epiphany; Resourcing Summer for Sundays in August and for start of new school year. All packs also include an outline for an activity morning.
Resourcing November suggests worship ideas for All Souls and All Saints Days, Remembrance Sunday, Christ the King Sunday, Advent Sunday and St Nicholas Day. It also includes workshop ideas for Halloween and Advent.

Prayers for Life in a Church Primary School
contains over 100 prayers for every occasion in the life of the school community - for major celebrations in the school and church year, welcoming a new Headteacher, remembering a child in hospital, opening a governors' meeting and many more occasions.
Cost £5.00

Glimpses for Young People

Glimpses for Young People is designed to help young people develop their spirituality. It follows the highly acclaimed Glimpses that focused on helping youth workers make spirituality an integral part of their work. Cost £10
See below for more details

Experience Easter Outside

This latest addition to the Experience Festivals series has been produced especially for 2011 and the celebration of the bicentenary of the establishment of Church of England schools by the National Society. Experience Easter Outside will help churches and schools work together to explore the Easter story, utilizing one of the great amenities that churches have - outdoor space. Suitable for KS1 and KS2 children.
Cost £11

Living Values

Living Values is the latest title published by Jumping Fish ®. It has been especially written by Shahne Vickery, Primary Schools Adviser to the Diocese of Gloucester, to complement the popular Values for Life resource which takes eighteen Christian values as themes for a three-year rolling programme for collective worship.

Living Values supports the strong values education focus that is now part of the SIAS process. It also shows how values can underpin every aspect of school life, including: policy development; the whole curriculum; the work of the governing body; and spiritual development. Each chapter is packed full of examples of excellent practice in schools across the UK and, like all Jumping Fish ® publications, is hands-on and practical.
Cost £24

See below for a downloadable sample chapter

All publications can be ordered from:
Diocese of Gloucester Resource Centre,
9 College Green, Gloucester GL12LX
Tel: 01452 835560
Email: jumpingfish@glosdioc.org.uk

Downloads

Jumping Fish order form 2012 (394 KB)

Living Values Sample Chapter (703.37 KB)

Pdf document for download

Exploring Holy Communion (1.58 MB)

A resource providing schools with materials to support a developmental approach to learning about Holy Communion, information about planning a school Eucharist and a Liturgy for a Service of Holy Communion. Published by Jumping Fish Ltd, this resource can now be downloaded.

Glimpses for Young People (347.75 KB)

Glimpses for Young People - more details

Downloadable extract from Values for Life (93.83 KB)

Downloadable extract from Values for Life in PDF format.

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