Monthly column for youth leaders
New Year is when we think about new starts and spring-cleaning. 'Out with the old and in with the new' is the battle cry. Since it is time to think about the year ahead it seems reasonable to ask what we will be teaching our young people.
Roger Fawcett
Before we think about the content of a 'syllabus' we could ask why we actually need one? Doesn't a syllabus give too big a hint of school? Why not just use the material available? The danger with this approach is that we might just drift. Planning begins to become something done on a weekly basis, without considering the wider picture. There is the danger that important points of Bible knowledge get missed out. There is the equal danger that the same stories get taught repeatedly.
