Low Furness Transition Morning

This morning Sarah, Vic, Andre and myself were at Low Furness School for the whole morning working with the year 6 pupils.  The morning started with an assembly for the whole school which was followed later with a 1 hour lesson for the year 6 pupils.  Following an introduction from us all as to who we are and what our best and worse memories were of secondary school we split the children into 4 groups.  Then each of us taking a group went through issue that might come up in the first year of a secondary school.  Three of the stations had a video clip to watch one was on homework, another on getting lost in school and the other was on bullying.  The final station was about moving on.  However as the children got to the station they had a jigsaw to make which had a bible verse on it from Joshua 1:8 'Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid, for God is with you wherever you go'  Once the children had completed that they then watched the video clip then had a discussion about it then did something practical in the homework station they built a tower of truth with Jenga bricks, in the lost station they wrote a worry onto a plaster and put it in a first aid box, for the bullying station they make a friendship bracelet and in the moving on station they looked at the Moving on booklet and made a paper plane and flew it thinking as they did how hard it can be to let go of things.  At the end we did a quick question and answer sessions drew the lesson to a close and said a prayer.