Croftlands Junior School

Following our assembly at the Infants School we cross the car park to the Juniors and did the same assembly there.  We sang So Many Ways to Praise the Lord then we displayed the initials of famous sports people and asked if the children could guess who they were.  No clues were given and the children quickly got all 4.  Next we displayed the initials RtB and StP and asked who these people might be - we did say that they weren't sports people but historical people.  It wasn't long before someone said Robert the Bruce.  I then did a quick intro to his tale before Sarah read part of the story which changed his mind following watching a spider build a web.  I then recalled the story of Saint Paul - StP talking about his eagerness to spread the gospel message despite all the hardships and trouble he face on the way even being put in prison.  Then later on being shipwrecked and how he wrote to the people at Philippi expressing words of great encouragement to them. We linked back all the pictures to explain that people have a goal or an aim in life and we should all try to reach that target, and we can and do fail sometimes but what makes a gold medallist is not giving up.  If Paul had given up we perhaps might not have heard about Jesus.  Sarah also encouraged the children to keep going and as we do God will be there looking out for us.  This then linked to our next song Wonderful Lord during which Sarah said a prayer.