Low Furness School

This morning Sarah and I went to Low Furness School for our first visit of the new school year.  The theme for the assembly was compassion as that is the schools Christian value at the moment.  So to start with we introduced them to a new song Help Me Be Your Eyes Lord Jesus.  We played the video with actions so the children could see them.  Sarah then taken about how we can use our eyes to look around and see where we might be able to help other people.  She linked it to the story of Jesus feeding the 5000.  I then used pictures to tell the story.  I repeated several times the word hands as this is mentioned in the song too and the school has a bag with things in it about compassion and the outside of is has hands on it!  Linking everything together Sarah and I said we should look around and see where help is needed and use our hands to provide that help if necessary.  We gave them a number of examples how they could do that.  We then sang the song again but this time we displayed the words.  To finish Sarah said a short prayer.