Flookburgh CE Shool

This morning Sarah and I took a lovely early morning drive through the mosses to Flookburgh School.  It was only our second visit to the school and the first of this new school year.  As the children came into the assembly hall we played I Love You.  Some of the children recognised us from before the summer so when Sarah said good morning a few were unsure what to say.  The last time we visited the school someone had been looking at our song list and seen a song called God's Love is Bigger than a Burger, and the head asked if we could sing it during our visit.  So we started off with that song.  Then I introduced the children to Scruff the Dog, who was feeling a little down.  So following some questions and things I discovered that he had some funny feelings when I further questioned him he replied that he was feeling a bit lonely and a bit scared.  Again I needed to know why and he told me that he had just recently moved to a new dog grooming parlour where there were bigger dogs and he missed the smaller dogs at his other parlour.  So after giving him a doggie treat he went back into his bag and Sarah picked up the points and suggestions the children had come up with to help Scruff.  She linked this to starting at a new school or moving up a class and how we can all feel a bit lonely and scared at times.  She mentioned about a passage in the bible from Matthew 25:35ff and I paraphrased the passage for the children.  Jesus was talking about being hungry, thirst sick etc and people asked him when that was and he replied that whenever you do something for others like helping them out it is as if you do it for Jesus and to Jesus.  Sarah then summed up what we had said and explained that when we do help people out we Shine from the inside out - which was our final song.  After the song Sarah closed with a prayer.