Our Lady's

This morning we were at Our Lady's school for our first assembly of the year.  After saying good morning and happy new year we started by singing God's love is Bigger than a Burger.  We decided to continue our theme of assemblies on jealousy using the example of Joseph and his brothers from Genesis 37.  So I took on the role once again of Joseph and told his story ending it as he went into Egypt and as the brothers returned to their father with the blood stained coat.  Sarah then quizzed the children about the story asking what type of emotion or feeling the brothers had had towards Joseph.  The word jealousy came out very quickly, then exploring the idea a bit more asked what kind of feelings can that lead to, we had anger, sadness, envy and other bad emotions.  Sarah then referred to Christmas and the gifts people get and how sometimes we can become jealous of what others have like new trainers or an Ipad etc.  But God doesn't want us to be like that, he would want us to be happy and to celebrate what people have because we are all special to God - which linked with the song Touch a finger.  At the end I closed the assembly with a prayer.