Pennington School

On Monday afternoon I went to do the assembly at Pennington School.  It was our first visit this term, so I started by asking if the children had had a good Easter holidays and if they had had a good Easter weekend.  As a reminder of what Easter is about we sang Inright Outright.  I then explained what happened after the Friday and led into the story of The Sunday morning and the empty tomb  - this linked to asking about Easter eggs and chocolate and who had chocolate for breakfast etc on Easter Sunday.  I then told what happened later that day when Jesus was talking with the two followers on the road to Emmaus.  When Jesus met up with them they didn't see that it was him, to demonstrate this I had a few famous people who's face's I had made blurry and asked if the children knew who they were.  The followers only realised it was Jesus when he broke the bread.  I told the children that this was the next part of the Easter story which it is but I asked them how they could show Jesus or how could other people see Jesus in them by what they do - I had a number of great suggestions such as being kind, showing love, sharing things etc.  This linked to our final song Shine from the inside out.  After this I finished with a prayer.