Crosthwaite School

This afternoon we travelled over to Crosthwaite School for the assembly.  The assembly started by the vicar teaching the children a prayer which he encouraged the children to sign as they were led by a year 6 pupil.  We started the assembly then by singing So Many Ways to Praise the Lord.  Following the song we called out two girls who are best friends while I instructed one of them Sarah talked with the other then they shared a bar of chocolate together.  As they enjoyed the chocolate I spoke to the girl I had given instructions to saying that she had agreed to help clean the toilet when she had finished the chocolate and I invited her friend to join in as well.  There was a certain amount of hesitation but she said yes in the end.  Sarah then explained that when we have friends we should be willing to share the good bits along with the bad bits of our lives.  She then went on to tell the story of Ruth and Naomi.  Then we got the children to stand up and shake the hand of someone they thought of as a best friend saying thank you for being my friend.  I then rounded off the exercise and reinforcing what Sarah had said which led into us singing Shine.  Sarah then closed the assembly with a prayer.