Engaging Parents

Programme Update for Secondary Schools (LTTF)

New Year 10 lessons and videos, and changes to the programme structure

Made in God’s Image

What does it really mean?

Receiving God’s Hope this Lent

With Lent only a few days away, let’s take a more personal approach to the Jubilee theme of hope.

Human Dignity and the Protected Characteristics

What insights does the recent declaration on human dignity offer for teachers of RSE?

Pilgrims of Hope

“To all who read this letter may hope fill your hearts.”

Year 9 New Content

Over the past term, we have uploaded seven brand new Life to the Full sessions for Year 9.

The Heart of the Matter

What can Pope Francis’s encyclical Dilexis Nos teach us about Catholic RSE?

Statement from Ten Ten Resources

A recent negative assessment of our Life to the Full programme by the organisation Voice of the Family has prompted us to reflect again on our vision and mission.

Life to the Full

Changing Hearts and Minds with Creative Catholic Content

Let’s Talk About Smartphones

It’s hard to miss the numerous news articles, social media posts, documentaries and books discussing the impact of smartphones on the lives of young people.

AI and Education

What Artificial Intelligence means for schools and pupils

What’s new for 2024-2025 from Ten Ten Resources?

Read about the latest subscription news and updates

Pupil Voice on Screen

We’re developing Life to the Full Secondary!

Prayer and Liturgy: Loving Jesus

Find out more about the rebranding of our Collective Worship subscription and what exciting new features it will include!

New RSE Guidance for Schools in England

What does it mean for Life to the Full?

Misogyny and Life to the Full Secondary

Making sense of misogyny

How stories change the world

This month we are exploring one of Ten Ten’s key principles - the belief that stories have the power to change hearts and minds.

Themed Collective Worship Resources for Summer Term

…there’s 8 to choose from!

Praying with the Whole Church

Resources to Support the Year of Prayer

Blessings for Same-Sex Couples

What the recent Vatican Declaration says…

Gender Questioning Children in Schools and RSHE

Exploring the new draft Government guidance

Promoting Pupil-Led Prayer

Practical advice for developing pupil prayer leaders.

Gearing up for Inspection

How Life to the Full can help you get ready

Where to find resources that support safeguarding…

… in Life to the Full and Life to the Full Plus!

How to talk to your child about… pornography

A session for parents and carers

Growing in Prayer

Will 2024 be your Year of Prayer?

7 Key Areas For Consideration in Life to the Full Primary

Read more about how we have expanded our Key Decisions across the Life to the Full programme

Why is pornography a problem?

On Thursday 19th October 2023 Ten Ten Resources will be live-streaming a discussion session for parents and carers of children in KS2 and KS3 on the subject of pornography. Commissioned by the Catholic Education Service, this session is available free of charge and will be live streamed at 9.15am, 3.30pm and 6.00pm. Here, Ten Ten’s CPD Leader Nicola Sweetman tells us why parents should be encouraged to discuss pornography with their children.

What’s new in Collective Worship?

Discover our latest improvements for September 2023

What’s new for Life to the Full Primary?

Keep track of the latest changes in Life to the Full/Plus

What’s new for Life to the Full Secondary?

Useful updates and reminders as you begin the new term

1010.Academy is now live!

Bonus Material for Year 10 students now available

175 years of celebrating Education Sunday

Free resources to help you celebrate in school and connect with your local parish

Collective Worship resources for Autumn 2023…

…Autumn Overview and Music for Worship now available, plus a fantastic new CW resource on the way for EYFS!

Celebrating Two Great Feast Days of the Church

Check out our new resources to help you celebrate Corpus Christi and Saints Peter and Paul in your school

Subscription Packages and Loyalty Discounts for 2023/4

Discover how bundling your Life to the Full, CPD and Collective Worship subscriptions will give you amazing savings!

Life to the Full Plus – How it Fits

How our new add-on integrates with Life to the Full Primary?

Build Others Up

Find out more about our new anti-bullying resource for Life to the Full…

An Interview with… Rod Isaacs

How to get the most out of Life to the Full for Post-16 pupils

Summer Term Collective Worship

Find out what’s coming up in Collective Worship after Easter!

Change in age for marriage and civil partnerships

What has changed in the law and how is it reflected in LTTF Secondary?

Looking Ahead to Lent

Christmas feels like yesterday, but Lent is just around the corner!

New Year Opportunities for CPD

Last chance for 50% discount on CPD…

Pupil-presented drama

Have you ever wondered how to get the best out of pupil presented drama? Check out our top tips!

New content: ‘FGM’ and ‘Death and Grief’

Find out more about our new resources ‘FGM’ and ‘Death and Grief’ for Life to the Full, along with important guidance for SLT and class teachers…

Collective Worship archive

“Help! I can’t find that assembly from last summer that talked about…?!” Now you can, via our new Content Library!

“How many times do you need to be reminded?”

What is a spiral curriculum and how can the Life to the Full programme be considered one?

Collective Worship Parent Portal – Available Now!

Find out how we are further supporting prayer at home…

The Jesse Tree Journey Has Begun!

Thank you to the amazing children who helped to create this resource…

CPD for December and Beyond

A Time for Prayer and Reflection

Our Pilgrimage to the Manger – Part 2

The Truth About Christmas

The Jesse Tree: From Creation to Christmas

We’re producing our very own Jesse Tree resource for Advent 2022 - and we’re very excited about it!

Too busy for Christmas?

Make time to pause - come and join us for our Advent Retreat!

Our Pilgrimage to the Manger – Part 1

A Season of Getting Ready

CPD – Watch again

Did you know that we now have a ‘watch again’ function for our CPD sessions?

One Million Children Praying the Rosary

On Tuesday 18th October, you are invited to join a worldwide community of prayer!

World Mental Health Day

How to talk about feelings with children and young people

Sycamore Conference

Do you use Sycamore Resources with your Year 12 and 13 students?

Collective Worship – Links to Home

Share with parents the joy of praying with their children…

October CPD

Find out what CPD sessions we have coming up this month…

A rubbish dump, a beautiful lady and some old bones…

What do these three things have in common?

Life to the Full Primary: Is it PSHE?

We are often asked: “Does ‘Life to the Full’ cover the national curriculum for PSHE?” This is a question which doesn’t have a simple yes/no answer!

Is Your School In Wales?

If the answer is ‘yes’, then you may be interested to learn how we are working with the Catholic Education Service Wales to help you implement the new statutory Guidance and Code for RSE.

St Bernadette Relics Tour and Ten Ten Resources

We are delighted to be an official partner of the St Bernadette Relics Tour…

Should Schools Consult With Parents About RSHE Every Year?

Let’s have a look at what the DfE says and how you can fulfil this through your ‘Life to the Full’ subscription…

Our Pilgrimage to Walsingham: ‘England’s Nazareth’

One small ‘yes’ can change the course of history…

The Real Mo Farah…

…and how you can explore the real issues of human trafficking with students.

Have You Noticed Our New Collective Worship Icons?

Have a read to find out what these icons mean for you when you’re leading prayer with your pupils…

CPD Sessions for the Start of the New Academic Year…

Whether you need to familiarise returning staff with programme updates or you need to get new staff up to speed, we’ve got sessions for you starting on 1st September...

LTTF Primary – Programme Coordinator Manual

Find out more about the document updates…

New Year, New Website

Watch our series of video tutorials to help you get started…

Hub Highlights

Looking back over this academic year, we’ve had so many great articles to share with you through the Teacher Hub that we’ve decided to compile some of the most popular to share with you again in case you missed them the first time round!

What’s New For 2022-23?

The first thing you will notice at the start of the new academic year is that we will have a new website. We have been working with some wonderful website designers and developers to address some of the key issues that our users have fed back. We hope that our new website will improve your user experience and the way you access the content.

A Prayer for Father’s Day

For better or worse, a father’s influence on their child is profound.

Life and Death in Rome

Everywhere you turn in Rome there are joyful signs of life and sobering reminders of death! Rome: a bustling city, with rich architecture, art, history and open-air opera. Delicious aromas of espresso and the flavours of pizza and gelato – a feast for the senses! Here in the midst of all this hustle and bustle of life, lies the home and much history of Catholicism.

Have You Seen Our New CPD Package?

Due to the amazing success of our CPD events this year, we are delighted to announce…

The Feast of Pentecost

Getting To Know The Lesser Known Person of the Holy Trinity

Ideas For Funding Your Ten Ten Resources Subscription

Is renewing your Ten Ten Resources subscription a difficult decision because of financial challenges?

Now Is The Time To Resubscribe

Find out how to renew your subscription here… Did you know that most Life to the Full subscriptions expire on 31st July 2022? It is the same case with the majority of Combined Collective Worship and Life to the Full subscriptions. To maintain access and to prepare for the new academic year in September, schools need to renew.

Iron Sharpens Iron

A skills sharing forum for teachers of Life to the Full.

Natural Family Planning: Myths and Misconceptions

What might a Catholic say to the argument that Natural Family Planning (NFP) is still a couple ‘playing God’, albeit in a more natural way than using contraception?

Deaf Awareness Week and Beyond

‘Deaf Awareness Week’ and how we’re working to remove barriers to access across our programmes…

Many Routes, One Destination: Our Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela

Holy smoke! It’s a long way to Santiago de Compostela!

A Round of Applause for Our Pilgrim Guides

There were so many enthusiastic teachers who applied for their children to have the opportunity to be Pilgrim Guides for our Ten Ten Year of Pilgrimage – but only three could be chosen…

A Prayer for SATs Season

PANIC STATIONS! The SATs are here!

The Law and DIY Abortions

The phrase ‘DIY abortion’ might conjure up tragic images from times before abortion was legalised; characterised by fear, judgement of ‘unfeeling’ or ‘promiscuous’ women and a lack of understanding or communication about changing attitudes towards sex. A particularly harrowing episode of ‘Call the Midwife’ involving a backstreet abortion springs to mind. Now, more than 50 years on, have things changed?

Film Your Eastertide “Alleluias!”

‘We are an Easter people and “Alleluia” is our song!’

‘It is love that has explained everything to me’

‘It is love that has explained everything to me,’ is a quotation from St John Paul II, but what did teachers from around the country think about learning about his Theology of the Body?

Communicating with Parents About RSHE

What does the Government and the Church say about engaging with parents about RSHE and how does Ten Ten Resources enable schools to support parents?

Our Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

During our Ten Ten Year of Pilgrimage there will be many experiences and encounters but perhaps none so dramatic as Holy Week: Our Pilgrimage to Jerusalem – the final leg of Our Pilgrimage to the Cross. To use a fairground analogy, it’s a rollercoaster!

Sculptures, Dragons and Planets: Other Resources in April

April might be disrupted by the school holidays, but we still have lots of ‘Other Resources’ to share with you…

Local Pilgrimages

What holy sites, shrines and inspiration are on your doorstep?

Keeping Children Safe in Education – Secondary Schools

In January we shared an article for primary schools on ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’. We’ve since had requests for an article for our secondary school colleagues, so here it is…

Other Resources: Does What It Says On The Tin

In March, we have a plethora of ‘Other Resources’ to share with you…

Our Pilgrimage to the Cross

Making the most of the season of Lent…

#PrayforUkraine

In response to the ongoing situation in Ukraine, we have created a prayer resource freely available for use in schools across the country.

Spot the Difference: Two Versions of our Daily Prayers!

Hint: There are 5 differences in the pictures below. Can you spot them all?

Warning Children About Pornography

How young is too young to warn children about pornography?

Map Your Journey

Do you know where we’re travelling to on our virtual Ten Ten Year of Pilgrimage?

Human Trafficking – Sixth Form Resource

It’s hard to believe that slavery exists in our modern world…

Packing for Pilgrimage

What would you pack if you were going on a pilgrimage?

Religion Is Booming On Social Media

Two thousand years before social media was a ‘thing’ Jesus was trend setting and getting people to follow Him!

The Forgotten Feast of Christmastide

A Feast Definitely Worth Celebrating!

Keeping Children Safe in Education

Many of our colleagues in primary schools have been keen to know …

Ten Ten Year of Pilgrimage

Over the past 18 months, the journeys that we might normally have made have often been thwarted…

A Time To Be Born And A Time To Die

To coincide with ‘National Grief Awareness Week’ (2 – 8 December) we are releasing two new bereavement resources for use in primary schools.

Saints and Sinners

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” Oscar Wilde

A Day for Everything: International Day for Persons of Disability

Did you know that 15th November is ‘Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day’? Or that 25th August is ‘Kiss and Make Up Day’? Or that the whole of April is dedicated to ‘Straw Hat Month’?!

(The Pope’s) Sex Education

No, this isn’t the Pope’s exclusive review of the popular Netflix series ‘Sex Education’.

Ten Ten’s Guidance on Protected Characteristics

Ten Ten has published guidance which provides a summary of the expectation on schools to teach about the Protected Characteristics and guidance on how we support Catholic primary and secondary schools in this teaching through our programme, Life to the Full.

The Unexpected Guest

You all know that Advent is a season of waiting and preparation but what is it exactly that you’re waiting for?

Standard vs Super

If you came here expecting an in-depth character analysis of Clark Kent and Superman across the entire franchise, I’m afraid you’ll be sorely disappointed. (Sorry-not-sorry about the deliberately misleading picture and title).

One Kind Word

Bullying is not funny, I think we’d all agree on that. Therefore, I was quite surprised to find that bullying related humour is a thing!

My Three Confessions…

My friends and family sometimes say that I share too much too soon, so maybe it’s too soon to share these confessions after only working with Ten Ten Resources for four months.

‘And He Saw That It Was Good’

What do you think about the sentences below?

The Power of Stories

Have you seen the new Bond movie yet?

Pandemic Prayer Increase

Parents might be more interested in prayer than you think …

Addressing Gender Stereotypes

“Hmmm… it looks like a tampax advert!” This was the response of my male friend (on more than one occasion!) when we were discussing the colours on a poster for events we were organising at university.

Finding the ‘Hallow’ in Halloween

On the eve of All Hallows or as most of us know it, Halloween – children and adults dress in skeleton, witch or ghoul costumes, surrounded by cobwebs, images of graveyards and terrifying accessories to celebrate the seasonal trick or treat fest with sugar highs and scary frights!

Key Decisions

In creating the Life to the Full programme we have tried to pitch the resources at an age-appropriate level for children within each learning stage.

New CPD Courses

We are delighted to announce that we have created a number of exciting new CPD opportunities for both subscribers and non-subscribers in the areas of Collective Worship and RSHE.

New Year 11 Programme

Starting with ‘Self Worth’ on Monday 6th September, our new Year 11 resources are ready for gradual release over the coming weeks.

Sharing Faith With the Whole World

Did you know no matter what country you are in, the readings from Scripture will be the same in every Catholic Church throughout the world?

Relationship Watch

There’s something in us all that is intrigued by human relationships - how they work, how they don’t, and how they thrive or nose-dive under certain pressures of life.

Progression of Skills Documents & More

All around the world this week, people have been amazed and inspired by Zheng Tao, arguably one of the most skillful athletes to walk the face of the earth.

When Does Statutory RSHE begin?

The Protected Characteristics

The Year of St Joseph

On Saturday 1 May 2021, we celebrated the second Feast Day for St Joseph, which focuses on his inspiring qualities as a worker. This is especially important this year, as Pope Francis has proclaimed this year ‘The Year of Joseph’.