Paul Harris - Phase Hitchin

Relationships workshops

Recently we delivered workshops about Relationships in Hitchin Boys' School as part of the schools sex education course with year 9. The workshop starts by defining what relationships are, thinking about all the different relationships we have around us. We then move on to think about more intimate relationships. Thinking

Easter Cracked

Our journey through the year with year 6 students continued with a workshop focussing on Easter. With most of the workshops happening during Holy week it was the perfect opportunity to explore what happened over 2000 years ago. Starting with Palm Sunday we imagine being the disciples and the emotions

Time Trek

Time Trek Feb'16

We recently had our biggest Time Trek event ever with 71 children attending! Along with all the adult leaders we also had 8 teenagers helping as young leaders. Here is how one of them, Mary, found the day... Time Trek happens every half term on a Tuesday. As soon as

Young People

Daily worship in schools

Do you remember having daily worship at school? The secondary school I went to did this through having a 2 minute silence at 8.40 every morning during registration time. We were often given a thought for the day, probably to try and stop us from drifting off to sleep.

year 6

Christmas Unwrapped workshops

We are currently half way through delivering workshops to year 6 students in 8 different schools, all about Christmas! The workshop consists of a quiz, a few challenges, a video, looking at the Christmas story and a time for Q&A's at the end. By the end of next

Schools work training with Youth For Christ year out volunteers

This week I had the great privilege of spending a day with Youth For Christ's latest intake of year out volunteers. Youth For Christ works all over the country doing lots of different projects. A big part of their workforce are volunteers (usually straight out of school) that give a

Phase Quiz Night

On Saturday 14th November we are holding a Quiz Night to raise money for the valuable work that Phase is doing. The evening will start at 7pm at Christchurch, Bedford Road. The evening costs £10 that includes a choice of fish & chips, sausage & chips or veg pancake roll

6th form

6th form Introduction days

It was an instant start to the school year as we were in Hitchin Girls' School straight away at the beginning of term this year helping lead some Introduction days for year 12 students and then year 13 the following day. With year 12 it was all about them getting

year 6

On Your Marks

In the first few weeks of term we have been meeting new year 6 students as we start our programme of transition workshops. We have delivered 9 workshops in 8 different schools seeing over 250 students. The workshop gives students 3 key themes to think about that will help them

transition

It's Your Move

As the school year draws to a close we have been delivering workshops to year 6 students helping them prepare for their big move up to secondary school. This is the last of four workshops that we deliver to year 6 students. Following one of the workshops we asked one