School Club Session Basic Outline

If you’re thinking of starting a lunchtime or after school club in a local primary school, here’s a basic outline for a 30 minute session which you might find helpful as a guide:

5 mins Introductory activities e.g. colouring/ board games while you are waiting for everyone to arrive
5 mins Game
2 mins Song
10 mins Story and short talk (as interactive as possible!)
10 mins Craft or other activity
3 mins Game

For loads of game ideas, click here.

If you want to sing songs, action songs are good.  Click here for some helpful videos!

Telling Stories with Story Stones

Story stones are a great way of telling stories with small groups of children.  Paint stones yourself or print out some pictures (click here) and glue them to stones.

Use the pictures on the stones to tell your Bible story and then let the children play with them and retell the story themselves if they want to!

Here are some examples…

The Feeding of the 5000

Lost sheep/ Good Shepherd

Jesus calms the storm

Sorry Prayers

Here are 3 easy ideas for helping children to say sorry to God which will also help them to understand something of the forgiveness He gives.  For ‘sorry’ prayers it is important for the children to know that what they are saying is between them and God only if they want it to be. children can use letters, pictures or symbols to communicate to God alone what they are saying sorry for.

Chalkboard sorry prayers

Use plain water to paint prayers onto chalkboard.  The water will dry and disappear to symbolise God’s forgiveness

Whiteboard sorry prayers

Write or draw prayers with whiteboard pens onto whiteboards or laminated paper.  Rub off as a sign of forgiveness.

Sorry ‘bin’

Write or draw prayers onto paper, say sorry to God and then screw then up and put them in the bin as a sign of them being dealt with.