St Mary's Catholic Primary School

This morning Lisa Smith and I did an Operation Christmas Child assembly for the children at St Mary's in Ulverston.  We started the assembly by singing God's Love is Bigger than a Burger, then Lisa did a talk about our emotions.  To help get the point over Lisa used the latest Sky Tv ad which has some of the characters from Inside Out the movie in it.  The girl is wanting to use the computer on the internet but it is too slow, the emotions all react in a different way, Worry stresses about it, Anger becomes angry, Sad looks on the dark side and is very sad however Joy looks for the brighter option - in this case Sky broadband.  This was linked to how we can sometimes feel when we face situations, and in some case's can't see how to get through them like bad stuff that happens in the world.  However we can bring Joy to someone by filling a simple shoe box with gifts for a child that might never have been given a gift.  I then explained how to go about it and what to put into a shoe box.  Then told the children what happens to them once we collect them, this does bring a laugh as they see elephants carrying packing cases of shoe boxes.  I then show the Love in a Box film and ask the children to see the Joy on the children's faces as they open their box.  To close Lisa prayed.