Church Walk School

This morning for the first of our  three assemblies today we were at Church Walk.  We started by singing Be Happy as it was such a lovely day it needed to be sung.  Sarah then opened with a Dr Seuss story about Yertle the Turtle.  He was the king but wanted to be better than everyone else so he got other turtles to stand on top of each other as he made for himself a tall throne to sit on.  In the end he ended up in the mud.  This linked with a story from the bible that Jesus told about the tax collector and the Pharisee.  I told this story to the children and afterwards asked who they thought might be in heaven - the tax collector because he had said sorry to God.  The key theme here was humility and so I displayed a picture of Jesus washing the feet of his followers the night before he died and explained that he came to serve and we too should serve as he did.  Sarah concluded with a prayer before we sang Shine.