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Parishes and Schools Working together
Twenty Five Ways for Parishes and Schools to work together
HOW TO USE THESE MATERIALS
We hope that the twenty five suggestions in these materials will set you thinking about how parishes and schools currently work together and how they might consider working together in the future for the benefit of all.
Share these 25 suggestions with a group of people, this could be your Ministry Team, PCC, ministerial chapter or your board of governors if you have a church school in your parish.
You could start by asking people to tick just the five most obvious things that they know your church or school does already (there will probably be more than five!)? See if people agree on the five!
Then try to identify five more things that they think your church and school community could helpfully do and sustain. Try to choose the five that are most appropriate or valuable in your situation. It might be best to do this in pairs or small groups. When you come together again, list all the suggestions and then prioritise them. Agree to work on the top five. Spend some time then working out what each might mean in practice and agree on who will do what to implement them. Or you might think of better things not in the 25! Talk to your school about the possibilities you have identified.
Make sure that you agree together when you will review progress and, perhaps, consider five more things to do!
Why not encourage all the parishes in your Deanery to do the exercise, and then set aside time at your Deanery Synod to share what everyone is doing and planning to do – especially where some schools serve more than one parish?