St Peters

This morning I was at St Peters school doing the assembly.  I started off by asking if the children had enjoyed half term and then asked if they had enjoyed fireworks over the weekend.  This led me to say that I was feeling happy today and asked if the children could think of a song we might sing - Be Happy was the one I was thinking about.  After the song I explained that I had a word in my head and an idea that kept coming back to me the word was kindness - I then said that there are loads of examples of kindness in the Bible and today I was going to show them a short video story of one such story.  The video was about King David's kindness to Mephibosheth.  After the video I explained that as a small child Mephibosheth had been dropped and had damaged both legs so he didn't walk, he was part of the old king's family that is King Saul and what David did was to show great kindness to him and treat him with respect. I encouraged the children to go out of their way to do similar things and show kindness to each other.  I also said that every action they do can cause a reaction from others - so if we show/act kind then that will have a good reaction. Bu doing this we can shine from the inside out -cue for a song.  After the song I closed with a prayer.