Penny Bridge Academy

Today we did our first assembly of the new school year at Penny Bridge Academy.  It was also our first Operation Christmas Child assembly of the season and Lisa Smith our co worker came along with us too.  After saying hello and singing God's love is bigger than a burger, Lisa introduced the idea of putting items into a shoe box by showing the SKY tv advert which features the characters from the movie Inside Out.  The characters represent a child's different emotions and depending upon how they react to situations will determine how the child reacts.  There is Angry, Joy, Sad, Worry etc.  The one that Lisa wanted to focus on was Joy.  This is the emotion that we feel when something good happens like receiving a present from someone, it is the same with the shoe box when a child in a far off country gets a box filled with goodies joy is what they feel.  After Lisa had finished I then explained what to put into the shoe box and explained what happens to it on it's journey to a child.  We then sang another song and Sarah closed the assembly with a prayer.