Like the Advent Calendar published by Culham last term, this Easter Garden is for pleasure but can also be used as a teaching resource, easily adaptable for age ranges from Key Stage Two upwards to create a new approach to a perennial story. All the pages are downloadable and you will find many unusual slants on characters in the Easter narrative such as Judas, Pontius Pilate and Joseph of Arimathea, together with some of the traditions and legends that have formed around them, and reflections on what the Easter story has to tell us. Perhaps some will be inspired to build their own Easter Gardens in schools, places of worship or at home.

It would be easy to adapt the material to create collective worships and to develop cross-curricular work with art, science and history.

This Easter has seen many troubles for the countryside, some probably directly attributable to mankind's lack of understanding of the natural world and good stewardship. We hope that this Easter Garden will be a focus for reflection.

HAPPY EASTER