Open the Book

Open the Book is a project which offers primary school children an opportunity to hear the major stories of the Bible, presented chronologically, during one school year.

Open the Book in the Diocese of Truro

There are currently 10 teams active in the Diocese of Truro and numbers are growing all the time. A couple of our teams have been going for three years but many are in their first or second year. The teams are often all lay people with a passion for ‘passing the Story on' to a new generation but clergy are often involved too!
Training is regularly available to any parish considering using Open the Book as part of their outreach. Please click here to send an email to register your interest.

For further information through the Children's and Youth office, please call us on 01872 247211.

What is Open the Book?

Open the Book is a project which offers primary school children an opportunity to hear the major stories of the Bible, presented chronologically, during one school year. It is a free service given to each school by a team of Christians from local churches, who take a team approach to delivering Collective Worship, presenting 33 stories each year. Each presentation takes a maximum of 10 minutes and can be incorporated into a wider school assembly, or can stand alone.
All the year one stories are taken from the Lion Storyteller Bible written by Bob Hartman, and give an overview of the Bible from Creation to the Ascension. There is a further two years of themed material for those schools (and teams) who wish to continue. It is a mark of Open the Book's popularity that most schools continue with the programme!
Open the Book fulfils both OfSTED and Church School Inspection requirements for Collective Worship, RE curriculum and working with the community and has been successfully used in a multi-faith context.
Open the Book is now a registered charity and is active in a large number of Dioceses in England. For further information about Open the Book and how it can help you visit their website http://www.openthebook.net

‘Open the Book'

Like to get involved in your local school telling bible stories, but don't know where to start? Come for a taster session to find out what it is all about. Please click here to register your interest.