St Mary's RC Ulverston

On Thursday Sarah and I went to do the assembly at St Mary's RC School.  It was great to see the children all excited for Christmas.  Sarah started the assembly by asking the children about Christmas and what it means to them.  We had loads of very good answers ranging from getting presents to eating turkey to seeing family to getting presents and also it is about Jesus.  This led into our video about Christmas which we have been using this year from the Bible Society.  After the short video Sarah continued to talk to the children about Christmas pointing out that without Jesus there would be no Christmas - which came as a bit of a shock for a number of children.  I then introduced our Christmas song Rejoice With Us.  After the song I reminded the children what Sarah had said about Christmas and that Jesus is the reason for the season and in all the running around we do at this time of year we should stop and pause to remember what it is really all about.  I then finished with a prayer.