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 through the school year. It is a free service
given to each school by a team of Christians from local churches. Each
presentation takes a maximum of 10 minutes and is based on story scripts
written by Bob Hartman, who also wrote the Lion Storyteller Bible. Open the
Book fulfils OFSTED inspection requirements for Collective Worship and has been
successfully used in a multi-faith context.

Hucclecote Methodist
Church takes Open the Book into Dinglewell Infant School every week. Most weeks
there is an opportunity for several children to dress up and take part in the
action and there is never a shortage of volunteers! The adult "actors"
and prop makers thoroughly enjoy the challenges involved in creating characters
such as the giant Goliath, storms at sea, doves, lions and whales. We have
developed ingenious ways of hiding the lines we never quite manage to learn.
The children are very accepting of our limited skills and seem to enjoy our
presentations and, above all, it is seeing the reaction of the children that
makes it worth the effort.