The Parable of the Good Samaritan is probably the most well-known story Jesus ever told and is a staple for primary and secondary schools when looking at the life of Jesus. What I love about the parab...  Read More

Imagine Joel dressed in traditional Nigerian clothes, playing a Djembe Drum, Hopscotch and other games dotted around the room for the students to explore. John taught the class to do a Hakka, celebrat...  Read More

Back in January I wrote a latest news about the first Youth Alpha in Townsend since 2019. Jane, Shannon and I have been running the latest course across this term. On Tuesday we had our last week on t...  Read More

It has been a fantastic week for Step at Loreto – we have been there Monday, Tuesday and Thursday doing so many different things.Monday was the Snug, where we set up the projector and lap top and sat ...  Read More

Over the last 10 weeks of termtime, a treasured volunteer - Joel and myself had a unique opportunity to present a Big Questions session to a group of 8 Katherine Warington School students in year 8 wh...  Read More

This week I’ve been challenged with having to distill and present Step to a new employee. ...  Read More

At Beaumont Explore Club, we like to begin our time together by sharing our likes, lemons and lightbulbs of the week.In case you’re not one of the Beaumont Explorers, let me explain that ‘likes’ are t...  Read More

I have always wanted to be able to use the word inaugural before, but haven’t really had the opportunity, until recently! And that is because Step had the pleasure of hosting its “inaugural” Leadershi...  Read More

This is just one statement that emerged from the most recent Step Day. During a Step Day students experience a day out of school to retreat. We believe a retreat is an opportunity to reposition so as ...  Read More

Last Tuesday we began our first Youth Alpha course at Townsend since 2019! Due to the pandemic it’s a course that has had to be put on hold for a number of years. But with the opportunity to run a tas...  Read More

About twelve years ago, I remember sitting in queue after queue after queue on the M25 on a Friday evening with the Step team on our 6-7 hour journey to get to the Youthwork Conference in Eastbourne. ...  Read More

Twelve students joined the course team this week. It was the first time we are running the Leadership Course in St George’s School.As one of the facilitators I met the group of 4 students I will be wo...  Read More