Translating Scripture: Engaging Children With the Bible in School

Primary teachers, RE leads, and collective worship planners are invited to a morning conference to help you engage children with the Bible.
About this Event

Translating Scripture: Engaging children with the Bible in school.
Blackburn Diocese Board of Education, in partnership with Blackburn Cathedral, invites primary teachers, RE leads, and those who plan collective worship to a morning conference at Blackburn Cathedral helping you engage children with the Bible.

The morning will give you classroom-ready ways to open Scripture with children: collective worship ideas, RE that goes deeper, approaches for SEND, and tested ideas you can use.

Bishop Graham Tomlin will give the keynote, and Rachel Gardner will introduce Youthscape's research into how children and young people actually encounter the Bible.

This October marks 500 years since William Tyndale first published the New Testament in English. Tyndale famously said that he wanted a ploughboy to read Scripture for himself. Five hundred years on, the task remains the same: to put the Bible within reach of the children you teach.

Tyndale 500

Blackburn Cathedral will host an exhibition during September and November 2026 to mark 500 years since William Tyndale’s English New Testament was first printed. Displaying an original edition of the first Bible to be printed in English, on loan from the British Library, the exhibition will focus on translation and Tyndale’s use?of technology.

Learn more at blackburncathedral.com/tyndale

Useful Information

This event takes place at Blackburn Cathedral and entry is via the main West Doors at the front of the Cathedral which is opposite BBC Radio Lancashire on Darwen Street, BB1 5AA.

Blackburn Cathedral is two minutes from the bus interchange and railway station. Please note that there is no onsite parking however there are a number of public car parks close by.

Although there are some old, uneven surfaces and care should be taken, the Cathedral is fully accessible and wheelchair friendly. There is level access into and around the building.

Ticket price includes resources and refreshments

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