Mark is married to Jo and is a 23 year old youth and schools worker based in South Cave (near Hull). Mark spent 4 years as a youth worker in Peterborough whilst studying for a degree in youth work & ministry with Oasis.
Today’s the first day that I just haven’t known what to blog on, nothing in particular has jumped out at me and it’s been a busy today!
This afternoon I taught my first lesson in South Hunsley…whilst I am not a teacher I’d been hoping for some RE opportunities and today the first of 2 opportunities came to pass.
I had the pleasure of teaching year 13 RS on the Amish Christians…a bit of a bizarre topic for a schools worker but it was funny how it came about. I’d spent a while trying to gain contact with the RS department with no real fruit and then happened to bump into the right person at the right time, met them for lunch and happened to mention that I was reading ‘Amish Grace’ and it turned out that the sixth formers were going to be looking at fundamentalism.
So a couple of months on I’m here at the end of a week have spent the majority of my time planning lesson 1 of 2, trying to make it vaguely engaging and nicking videos off YouTube and all in all the lesson seemed to go well. A nice small group and some good discussion so all in all other than a very dry throat afterwards it was a success!
