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Are you keen to join the NCRS team as a RE Resource Developer in 2019? Check out the position description and application details. Applications close 28th September 2018.

NCRS in association with NZCEO have created a bank of over 50 small video clips for use in Catholic Schools with staff and students. The best place to view them is in the NCRS YouTube channel – Aotearoa Catholic – where they’re stored in playlists. Here’s an example:

Children consider the Paschal Mystery.

In line with the newly developed teachers’ course on teaching human sexuality in Catholic schools – Having Life to the Full. Jn 10:10 – Check out the bank of resources created to support teachers in your delivery of sexuality education in our Catholic Secondary Schools.

Check out a range of resources on the Reformation in the open “Classroom > Thematic Resources” section of this site.

This is a powerful Pasifika reflection on encountering grief. (It won the 2017 PBS On-Line Film Festival – Most Popular award.)

A simple response to secular understandings of Death from a general Catholic perspective. Certainly not an attack on any humanist friends just a tongue-in-cheek response to some of their understandings using their cartoon clip. (What should we think about death?)

Pope Francis gives a powerful TED talk emphasising the need for a “revolution of tenderness” and an awareness of the seductiveness of power. (NB. This is subtitled as he speaks in his native tongue.)

A very positive NZ Herald article on the reality of teens’ attitude to justice and ethics. NB. The key interviewee, Deborah Stevens, is one of the leaders/presenters for the New Zealand Centre for Science and Citizenship which is offering workshops around New Zealand and while not a Christian organisation their message has much synergy with Catholic teaching […]

As Pope Francis and the New Zealand Bishops encourage us to open our hearts to refugees Brian Bilston challenges us with his poem read from top to bottom, then bottom to top: