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Easter Project 2004

This is a resource based at All Saints Church, Dedworth set up in September 2002 specifically to serve the 5 schools situated within Dedworth. In September 2004 it expanded to include the schools in the parish of Clewer: -

First Schools

What is it?

Festivals Calendar

Assembly Planning

Links

RE Roadshow

Faith Week Exhibition

What is it?

The RE Resource Centre is based at St Agnes Music and Faith Centre, St Leonard's Road, Windsor, SL4 3DX. It dedicates itself to supporting the nine schools in the two parishes, six “First” and two “Middle” schools, and one "Upper" school:

First Schools:

o Alexander

o Hilltop

o Dedworth

o Homer

o Clewer Green

Middle Schools:

o Dedworth

o St Edward's Royal Free (Aided)

Upper School: Windsor Girls

It aims to support these schools in their drive to encourage pupils to explore the Christian faith and develop a moral framework for life, in line with the National Curriculum and SACRE.

The Resource Centre intends to: -

o Offer opportunities for staff to meet personnel from the resource centre for practical help and

encouragement.

o Offer opportunities for schools to come to the Resource Centre for festive presentations and to

learn about Christian ceremonies.

o Provide personnel to go into schools to take assemblies, RE Roadshows and RE lessons, and give

on-site presentations as required.

o Run seminars where local teachers of RE will be able to meet together, and learn from visiting

speakers.

o Offer resource material on loan

o Introduce staff to people who can fulfill requirements which the Centre staff are not able to meet.

For details please contact Rev. Louise or Ruth Norris (Tel. 01753 869787 or email

info@allsaintschurchwindsor.co.uk

Festivals Calendar

The information for this table was taken from the RE online website http://www.reonline.org.uk/festivals.php and the

BBC website on http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/tools/calendar/.

It is based primarily on the six major religions, but includes some other notable dates.

If you want to know what any one of them is about please contact the Resource Centre and ask.

Christianity V, Judaism Y, Islam Z, Hinduism \, Sikhism ¢ , Buddhism {

Month	Date	Religion	Festival
	Sept/Oct	V	Harvest – thanking God for his goodness
September	5th	Z	Laitat-Ul-Qadr – Night of Power – Qu’ran revealed
	8th	V	Birthday of the Virgin Mary
	9th	Y	Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year’s Day)
	10th	Z	Eid- ul- Fitr – feast at the end of fast of Ramadan * Lasts 3 days
	11th	\	Ganesh Chaturthi – birthday of Lord Ganesh
	18th	Y	Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) fasting
	23^rd (until 1^st Oct)	Y	Sukkot (Feast of Tabanacles – Harvest Festival)
	29th	V	St Michael’s and All Angels (Michaelmas)
	30^th/1^st Oct	Y	Shemini Atzeret – rejoicing in the Torah
October	8^th – 16th	\	Navaratri /Durga Puja/Dusserah – start of 9 nights symbolising the triumph of good over evil and the start of autumn
	9th	¢	Birthday of Guru Ram Das (Nanakshahi calendar) 4^th Sikh Guru 1534
	10^th – 17th		Inter Faith Week of Prayer for World Peace
	13th	V	St Edward’s Day – the Confessor and King
	17th	\	Dussera – celebrates Lord Rama’s victory over the evil demon Ravana
	22nd	{	Pavarana or Sangha Day – ‘to invite’ to reprove
November	1st	V	All Saints’ Day (also called All Hallows’)
	2nd	V	All Souls’ Day – remembering those who have died - since 998AD
	5th	\ ¢	Diwali (Deepavali) festival of lights Rama & Sita return. 6^th guru released from prison
	5th	{	Kathina Day (Theravada Buddhism) marking the end of 3 month Rains Retreat for monks **
	11th		Armistice day for those who have died in recent wars, Marks the end of WW1
	14th		Remembrance Sunday
	16^th/17th	Z	Eid-ul-Adha – Festival of Sacrifice, end of Hajj*
	21st	¢	Birthday of Guru Nanak (1^st Guru - 1469) Gurpurb
	24th	¢	Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur (9^th Guru - 1675)
	28th	V	Advent Sunday – preparation for Christmas waiting
	30th	V	St Andrew’s Day – patron saint of Scotland
December	2nd – 9th	Y	Hanukkah – rededication of Temple -8 candles
	6th	V	St. Nicholas Day
	7th	Z	Al-Hijira – Islamic new year (1425 AH)
	8th	V	Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic tradition)
	8th	{	Bodhi Day - celebration of enlightenment
	13th	V	St. Lucy’s Day – patron of the blind
	16th	Z	Ashura – Shi’ite day of mourning
	17th		End of Term
	24th	V	Christmas Eve carol services, Christingles and Midnight Mass
	25th	V	Christmas Day – birth of Jesus Christ
	26th	V	St Stephen’s Day / Feast of Stephen

* Please note that the Islamic dates are subject to the visibility of the moon at Mecca.

** Please note that the date varies according to when the rainy season arrives in different countries.

Islamic dates subject to visibility of new moon at Mecca

Assembly planning

This is always difficult and tends to be rushed so why don't you ask us for help? Also here are a few websites

which may be of use to you:

http://re-xs.ucsm.ac.uk/ Follow the links for Teachers' Cupboard and then Collective Worship

www.assemblies.org.uk

http://www.culham.ac.uk/cw/index_fsc.html

http://www.schoolswork.co.uk/resourcetoolkit/category/assembly/

RE Roadshow

The News - This is a new venture for 2010.

Five of our local First schools have been invited to take up the opportunity of having the Roadshow team come into their schools and take a day of cross-curricular Religious Education. All have accepted and have asked to work with our team. This maximizes the staff: pupil ratio for the day and means that groups are rarely larger than 8 children to an adult. The first three were highly acclaimed. The children had a good day filled with fun and a wide variety in activities. The staff enjoyed a reduction in pressure and a chance to spend more time with individuals. The Roadshow team all enjoyed the chance to spend time taking to the children about their faith in a highly structured and non-pressurized day.

From the advertising leaflet: The Roadshow is a new venture for 2010 for the RE Resource Centre which has served the schools in the parishes of Dedworth and Clewer for eight years. It builds upon the successful exhibition held at St Agnes Music and Faith Centre in St Leonard’s Road in June 2009, by offering to work with our schools, in our schools in bringing the Bible to life.

Each of the suggested Roadshows offers different activities and experiences, and opportunities for pupils to encounter religion through visitors to the school. The Rose Report encourages schools to be flexible in planning their curriculum to meet the national entitlement and yet to adapt it according to their local circumstances and resources. Our careful planning ties each of the Roadshows to the Attainment Targets in the SACRE Agreed Syllabus.

Roadshows offered in this series: -

· Consider the lilies of the field

· Jesus at the door

· Mary washes Jesus’ feet

· Feeding 5000

· The wedding at Cana

· Jesus heals by touch