Sunday School

Church of Scotland, Geneva offers Sunday School classes every Sunday during our worship services held from 11:00 to 12:00. The Sunday School programme follows the Swiss (Geneva) public school calendar. In terms of content, it follows the circle of the Christian Year.

Children from age five to twelve attend Sunday School. The approach followed for Sunday School is the Montessori method. This involves Godly Play sessions during which children are told stories from the Bible with the use of natural materials and art works.

Used worldwide, the Godly Play approach helps children to explore their faith through story, to gain religious language and to enhance their spiritual experience though wonder and play. Each Godly Play session held in a dedicated area of the Church building (sacred space) is followed by creative playtime and the children sharing bio-certified snacks and water to drink.

Godly Play helps children learn how to listen well, to hear what God is saying to them and then to make an authentic and creative response. The approach is based on Montessori principles – we respond to the child’s request to ‘help me do it by myself.’ This puts the storyteller in the role of a spiritual supporter or guide who fully accepts that each child has his or her own relationship with God already. The teaching takes place in different ways at the same time: it is multi-modal and multi-sensory.

The Godly Play sessions are presented by members of our Sunday School team, storytellers accompanied by doorkeepers. Many of these are parents themselves, accompanying their children and those of others in getting to know the Bible and faith in an imaginative and creative way.

The sessions are small in size, normally attended by five to ten children. Storytellers adapt their presentation based on the dominant age group of the children present. Newcomer children of parents visiting from elsewhere are welcome to attend.

Our Sunday School Coordinator is Cornis van der Lugt. You can contact him by email or use our Contact form.

Safeguarding

Lyndsey Bochaton is our Safeguarding Coordinator. You can contact her using our Contact form.