Appointment Prospectus 2021 - Ten Ten Resources
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Appointment Prospectus 2021
“I have come
that you may life,
life to the full.”
John 10:10
Introduction There are over 850,000 children and young people in Catholic education in the UK and over a million more pupils in other Christian-faith based schools. For 15 years, Ten Ten has been supporting the mission of these schools through workshops, theatre events, film production, online resources and programmes of study. Our name comes from the Scripture passage John 10:10 when Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life, life to the full.” Through our education programmes, media content, dramas and the stories we tell, we aim to help these children and young people to ‘live life to the full’: enabling school communities to grow in faith, love, understanding and compassion. The Ten Ten team is growing and we are looking for passionate and dedicated people to be part of our mission. Please consider whether you might invest your gifts to help Ten Ten enable many more children, young people, teachers and parents to live their lives to the full.
Our Values
Ten Ten Resources is led by the founding
directors, siblings Clare O’Brien and
Martin O’Brien.
We were inspired to start Ten Ten as a
response to the need for innovative ways
to communicate with children and young
people about issues that matter deeply to
them, and to help teachers and parents
overcome barriers to communication. We
discovered that drama and story could
speak into hearts and minds in a way that
textbooks and factual teaching could not;
by relating teaching content to personal
experience, particularly in the area of
Christian faith-based relationships education,
children and young people were able to
explore these topics and became more open
to moral teachings and discourse.
Almost 15 years on, Clare and Martin, in collaboration with a team of dedicated creatives, continue to
find imaginative ways to expand and evolve the mission.
In our organisation, we value:
Innovation in ministry The dignity of all
exploring creative means to speak into the engendering a culture of warmth,
culture of children, young people, teachers welcome and inclusivity in how we work
and parents to fulfil our mission of enabling with each other, how we work with our
them to ‘live life to the full’ (John 10:10). clients, and how this is manifested in our
education programmes.
Operational effectiveness Excellent customer service
delivering the very best in all we do, A commitment to integrity, fairness and
holding ourselves accountable for results, responsibility when communicating with
and striving for excellence. everyone who enters the world of Ten Ten.
If you feel that your values match ours, and if you have the skills for a particular role we are recruiting
for, please consider applying to join our team.
Our Past
We began life as Ten Ten Theatre - a theatre-in-education company working throughout the UK –
and Ten Ten Productions – our creative production arm producing a range of high-end productions
in theatre and on film.
At the peak of our output, we had 10 productions running concurrently or in development, employing
up to 50 freelance and permanent members of staff, and working face-to-face with more than
120,000 people over the course of a 12-month period.
Past projects include:
Theatre-in-Education tour of Catholic
secondary schools on the subject of
Relationship and Sex Education.
Theatre-in-Education tour of Catholic
primary schools on the subject of
Relationship Education.
A Confirmation Retreat Day programme
led by the Ten Ten team visiting parishes in
Greater London and beyond.
Multiple Projects in Young Offender
Institutions, mostly notably in HMYOI
Feltham over the course of many years and
other YOIs throughout the UK.
Kolbe’s Gift, a sell-out production at the
Leicester Square Theatre in London, playing
to over 3,000 people over the course of one
week.
This Is My Body, an award-winning play
Awards about human trafficking playing in schools,
BEST FILM - ‘Babies’, 32nd community venues and mainstream theatres.
International Catholic Film Festival,
Warsaw - Second Prize Cinema-in-Education, an innovative
evolution of our theatre-in-education
BEST PLAY - ‘This is My Body’, Anti-
programme, using film and setting up a
Slavery Awards 2017
cinema environment in schools
BEST PROJECT - Anti-knife crime
drama project with young offenders,
‘Fear or Fashion Awards’
Our Present
In 2017, Ten Ten Theatre evolved into Ten Ten Resources, a web-
based educational platform offering subscription programmes to
primary schools and secondary schools, predominantly Catholic-
faith schools. Keeping story and drama at the centre, this new
platform provided an opportunity for growth in areas of the school
curriculum, previously out of scope of the theatre productions.
Currently, Ten Ten provides three main subscription programmes:
• Life to the Full - primary schools
• Life to the Full - secondary schools
• Collective Worship - primary schools
Life to the Full
The challenges faced by children, young people, parents and teachers are changing at a rapid pace.
This is no more evident than in the area of Relationship, Sex and Health Education (RSHE).
When Ten Ten started producing theatre-in-education resources for schools in 2007, social media
wasn’t really a ‘thing’. By 2011, we had to produce a play for secondary schools about sexting in
response to the needs of schools and young people. Times change quickly.
In the academic year 2020/21, RSHE became a statutory subject. A number of years prior to this, Ten
Ten recognised that the dawn of the new curriculum would present significant challenges for Catholic
schools, and so we set about creating a fully-resourced online programme in Relationship, Sex
and Health Education specifically for Catholic schools.
We saw this as an opportunity; an opportunity to help parents, teachers, children and young
people look afresh at the Christian vision for marriage and family life and bring alive the
beautiful vision of Church teaching for many who may not have heard it before.
Building on over 10 years of delivering RSHE resources in Catholic education in England,
Wales and Scotland, we developed a new programme for Catholic primary and secondary
schools called Life to the Full.
At Ten Ten, our approach is never to force an ethic – our mission is to inspire an ethos. This ethos
is rooted in the wisdom and teaching of the Catholic Church and delivered in a language which is
accessible, pastoral and inclusive.
Life to the Full aims to inspire parents, teachers, children and young people by teaching
about God’s call to love; about how God’s design for creation, especially the human body,
reveals insight into His great plan for human relationships as a sign of heavenly unity.
Speaking into the culture of children and young people, we continue to use the vehicle
which is at the centre of Ten Ten’s methodology: story. For it is through story – fictional, real
and personal – that our work can speak into hearts and minds, and help to inspire the ethos.
Collective Worship The vision of Collective Worship is to help school communities grow in faith, love, understanding and compassion. We do this by creating a wide-range of unique media-rich resources, inspired by our Catholic faith. The 5 Strands of Collective Worship are: • Weekly Assemblies – rooted in the Sunday Mass readings, each assembly includes an easy- to-follow teacher script with differentiated guidance alongside original, creative content such as film, story, song and animation, always leading to prayer and reflection. • Daily Classroom Prayer – five daily prayers (Monday to Friday) to be led in the classroom by staff or child prayer leaders, rooted in the Sunday Mass readings. • Links to Home – a one-page monthly newsletter for parents which shares articles inspired by the assemblies; the newsletter can be sent home as an email, a printout, or the articles can be used as part of the school newsletter. • Staffroom Prayers– resources to support all staff within the school community including, for example, staffroom prayers, input on vocation, support for non-Catholic teachers and INSET on how to use Ten Ten Resources. • Other Resources – including teacher training materials, guided meditation, the Examen for children, liturgies, resources for special occasions, etc During the lockdown in 2020/21, our Collective Worship programme discovered an entirely new audience through our additional resource Prayers For Home, a new strand offered free-of-charge during the time of school closures.
Our Future Over 15 years, we have witnessed the evolution of Ten Ten through many phases of development and growth. Prompted by the Holy Spirit, we have responded to the changing needs of children, young people, teachers and parents, rooted in the vision of the leadership team and the creativity of staff and freelancers who have been part of our story. We undertake to continue to listen to Jesus as the author of our work and to respond to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. There are many areas of potential growth for Ten Ten Resources, including: • Further programmes in Catholic schools • Expansion into Church of England and other schools • Expansion into parish networks • Expansion into other territories beyond England and Wales • Development of our filmmaking capacity If a role we are recruiting for as part of this evolution stimulates your passions, skills and interests, we hope to hear from you.
To see our latest recruitment opportunities, visit:
www.tentenresources.co.uk/recruitment
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