Lunar New year
Celebrating Lunar New Year One of the biggest celebrations in the world began this week: Lunar New Year is on Tuesday (1st February 2022) with celebrations typically starting the night before. …
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Resources – Birmingham City Mission
‘Birmingham City Mission is a Christian charity that serves the disadvantaged and marginalised through various social projects. BCM’s youth team seeks to teach students about Christian beliefs and practices and…
TISCA Chaplaincy Survey – Open
This month, TISCA is launching a survey of the impact of chaplaincy on past pupils of independent schools. The short survey is designed to explore how alumni would say that…
TISCA Guest blog – Lockdown new normal and Summer Holidays
TISCA Guest Blog We have asked one of our Chaplains, Alex Aldous of Prestfelde Preparatory School, Shrewsbury, if we might occasionally publish his regular 'thoughts for the day' - and…
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School policy responses to Black Lives Matter
Advice from schools re racism and Black Lives Matter We trust that the resources on this website on this topic will be helpful to those looking for idea and approaches…
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‘Black Lives Matter’ – resources
(If you have no time for anything else then try the last resource listed – an interview between a white and a black pastor in London) As our schools grapple…
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Resources for chapels and assemblies
updated 11th May 2020 - Ed. One of the things we at TISCA have been doing during our 'lockdown' situation is to work with school Chaplains and others to provide…
TISCA Prayer – Summer 2020
Every term we send our our TISCA Prayer calendar - a resource you can use weekly or daily to pray for the work of The Independent Schools Christian Association. Below…
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Locked Down but not Locked Out
Our recent post on Succeeding as a VC – Virtual Chaplain – has led to an unprecedented number of ‘hits’ on our website and from the TISCA Chaplains’ WhatsApp group.…
Succeeding as a "Virtual Chaplain"
Sharing ideas and innovation in these extraordinary times Ever since the announcement from the UK Government that schools would close to help combat the spread of Covid-19, our TISCA Chaplain's…