TISCA Updates

‘Anxious times for Christian Teachers?

Equipping Christians in schools to face the future with confidence’ Antony Spencer, CEO of Mill Hill School (and a TISCA Trustee), gave a keynote talk at the June 2021 TISCA Annual Conference. Here is a shortened version of his inspiring and challe…
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Top tips for Christian meetings in Schools

September is a great time to get a school CU back up and running - or off the ground for the first time!  But how do you get pupils to come along? Anand Singh from Bradfield College gives us five top tips for making a CU welcoming…
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Make A ‘Joyful Noise’ – Interview

Joyful Noise are a new British group who write contemporary Christian songs and hymns.  Brothers Tom and Sam Brewster tell us how it all began and how it could be a great resource for schools.    Hi Tom and Sam, tell us about yourselves.&…
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Choosing Themes for Chapel or Christian Assemblies

Choosing Themes for Chapel or Christian Assemblies Article by Rev Alice Monaghan, Chaplain, Westonbirt School This was written originally for our e-TNV publication in November 2020 On a recent visit to Westonbirt School, to speak at our Sunda…
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Top Tips for Trainee Teachers 

It can be a tough time training to be a teacher.  Here are a few Top Tips that teachers sent in to those in their first year of teaching.   Prefect's Training 2019 - Kingham Hill School Feedback from t…
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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 to support students in their SMSC dev…
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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 they benefited from their school having a Christian ethos. Anyone who atten…
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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 he has agreed. The first blog was written in late June 2020 a…
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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 for assemblies, chapels, forums and debates within schools of all types. If yo…
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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 with issues of racism, illuminated by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in the USA a…
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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 useful resources for online chapels and assemblies. We have had great response from our…
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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 is our daily thoughts for prayer. SUNDAY Assemblies, chapel services, special eve…
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