Tuesday 31 January 2012

Crosthwaite School

Today we visited Crosthwaite School for the first time. It is the smallest school we go into with only about 43 pupils on roll. We started the assembly with a song the children knew - Our god is a Great Big God. Then Sarah asked someone to help her out front. We had two different kinds of seat; one was a bean bay the other a solid chair. Sarah asked them to pick one to sit on, so they picked the chair and not the soft bean bag. Meanwhile I tried out the bean bag and fell off it and couldn't get back up. Sarah then told the wise and foolish builder story from the Lion Storyteller bible and I showed some pictures. Sarah concluded the talk by saying that in life we sometimes need to decide what we choose like the two builders and we need to set our lives on something solid. We then sang Shine before Sarah finished with a prayer.

Low Furness School

Today we started the assembly with a song then as it was book week at school I talked a little about the Bible and showed the children a very old copy of the Bible and also the Bible model that I have. I pointed out that there are some great stories in the Bible and that I was going to tell one of those stories.I asked someone to help out front. We had two different kinds of seat; one was a bean bay the other a solid chair. They were asked them to pick one to sit on, but it had to be strong and reliable so they picked the chair and not the soft bean bag. Meanwhile I tried out the bean bag and fell off it and couldn't get back up there was much laughing at this point. I then told the wise and foolish builder story from the Lion Storyteller bible and I showed some pictures. I concluded the talk by saying that in life we sometimes need to decide what we choose like the two builders and we need to set our lives on something solid. I pointed out that a wise decision to make might be to read the stories from the Bible. We then sang Shine before finishing with a prayer.

Monday 30 January 2012

Penny Bridge School

This afternoon we visited Penny Bridge School for the first time this year. As with all the first visits we have done in 2012 we did the story of the wise and foolish builder. However we started with a little demo about making a good decision, we took a bean bag and used a chair and asked one pupil to decide which would be best for them to sit on, and which would be more long lasting etc. They picked the chair which is what we hoped they would. Then I tried to sit on the bean bag which brings about quite a bit of laughing from the children. Sarah read the story from the Loin Story Teller Bible about the wise and foolish man. She then made the point that in life we should always try to make wise decisions and not foolish ones. The wise ones may be harder to do but in the end they are the ones that are best. We sang Shine to conclude the assembly and Sarah said a prayer.

Church Walk School

This morning we made our first visit of the New Year to Church Walk Ulverston Infants School. As always the children were delighted to see us and sang their hearts out singing Our God is a Great Big God. We did the assembly about the wise and foolish builders that we have done in several other schools already. Much to the amusement of the children as I tried to sit on the bean bag we had taken as a demonstration of something soft and unstable. Sarah read the story from the Lion Storyteller Bible and I flicked up a few pictures for the children to see. The point of the assembly was to show that we all need to make good choices in life and sometimes they are the harder ones to make. We concluded with Shine and then a prayer.

Wednesday 11 January 2012

Ireleth St Peters

This morning we went to the little school of Ireleth St Peters. Before we started the assembly we felt up lifted because during the Christmas holiday an artist had been in a painted the Lord's Prayer on the wall and it looks fantastic. We did the assembly we have done in a few places already this week. We sang 'So Many Ways to Praise the Lord' before Sarah invited someone to the front and asked them to choose a seat - it was either a bean bag or a chair. Today they did pick the bean bag but then Sarah added that the seat had to be secure and strong etc. They soon changed their mind. As before I went to sit on the bean bag and with much laughter from the children rolled off it. Sarah then read the wise and foolish builder story and then talked about making good and bad decisions. We concluded the assembly with 'Shine' before saying a prayer and then finished with the children saying the Lord's Prayer.

Tuesday 10 January 2012

Croftlands Infants

This afternoon we paid our first visit of 2012 to the infants school on Croftlands. The children get so excited when they see us and whispers go along the line as the children file into the hall "Sarah and Mark are here...." As we started the assembly we sang 'Great Big God' as the children love it. Then Sarah asked for a helper with the story. We had set up two different types of seat at the front. Our helper picked the solid chair instead of the soft bean bag. She sat down and felt quite safe. Meanwhile I tried sitting down on the bean bag and ended up in a heap on the floor, which the children thought was so much as the laughed out loud. Sarah then told the story about the two builders. At the end she then pointed out that the wise man decided to think about what he was doing and build on a solid foundation, which is what we should do. So when we have a choice to make between two things we should think about it and try to decided the best way of doing it - which might not always be the easy option. We finished with 'Shine'

Our Lady's Dalton

We visited Our Lady's this morning at Dalton. The infants arrived at the assembly hall first and sat down they were very good as well as a bit excited as we were there to do the assembly. We started off with 'So Many Ways to Praise the Lord' then Sarah asked someone to come and try one of two seats. There was a bean bag and a chair. The soft bean bag looked great and easy to sit on while the chair was hard. However they tried them both. Sarah encouraged them to sit on the strong chair while I sat on the bean bag and then in a comic sort of way fell off it and tried to get back on it and fell off it again etc this did bring a lot of laughs from the children. Then Sarah read from the Lion Storyteller bible the story of the wise and foolish builders. The point was made at the end that in life we have choices to make, the wise man decided to build on a firm rock solid foundation while the foolish one built on soft sand with no real strength to it. Sarah then said that at the start of this New Year we should try to think about some of the things we do and try to make the right decisions about things. We finished with 'Shine'

Monday 9 January 2012

Croftlands Junior school

Today we started the assembly with a song then Sarah asked someone to help her out front. We had two different kinds of seat; one was a bean bay the other a solid chair. Sarah asked them to pick one to sit on, so they picked the soft bean bag and not the chair. Sarah asked them to try the chair out to discover how strong it was. Meanwhile I tried out the bean bag and fell off it and couldn't get back up. Sarah then told the wise and foolish builder story from the Lion Storyteller bible and I showed some pictures. Sarah concluded the talk by saying that in life we sometimes need to decide what we choose like the two builders and we need to set our lives on something solid. I finished with a prayer.