Many church members have interesting hobbies and interests about which they are passionate. Football, painting, bird watching, bee keeping, spinning, car mechanics, quilting, bell ringing are all good examples. Schools may well be interested in people sharing their expertise with pupils, adding interest to the taught curriculum or through running a school club out of hours.
Other possible contributions arise when people have a story to tell about an interesting country they have visited or grown up in, and about unusual life experiences. Schools welcome visitors to come and share with small groups of children when this fits in with the curriculum. It helps to bring subjects to life and also can bring variety to what is being taught.
Visits to school by church members could be enhanced if the visitor is able to put together a 'resource bag' filled with artefacts and activity ideas related to the visit, to leave with the teacher to use at a later date.
Religious education lessons are an obvious place where church members have much to contribute. Many areas of the Christian faith form part of the RE curriculum, so a 'real live Christian' able to visit school to talk relevantly about what they believe and how that affects their lives can help the teacher provide a stimulating lesson.
As with any visitor into school, church members offering to help in this way would need to be CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) checked. The school can facilitate this.