Burlington School

This morning following the assembly at St Peters School we drove over to Burlington School to do an assembly.  This is our first visit to the school following the transition assembly and lesson we did there for the year 6 children in the summer term. We decided as it is getting close to harvest time to do our harvest assembly, so we started by singing Creator God as we have done for the last few assemblies. Then Sarah did the talk today, she started by talking about time and we displayed some clocks with times on them one was set at 8 o'clock, one at 9 another at 12 and one at 3:15.  Each time she asked the children what happened at that time during the day. She then introduced the 1 minute game so I got the stop watch ready and told the children that they needed to stay seated and then stand when they thought a minute had gone by.  A number of the children did manage it some stood just before and others just after.  Sarah explained that a minute seems to take for ever to pass, she then displayed a picture of some apples one of which was cut open and reminded the children that an apple has a seed inside it and that seed when planted can grow into a tree which in turn will grow apples on them.  She then showed the life cycle of an apple from seed to fruit and explained that it is God who makes them grow and referred to three bible verses to help the children to understand -

Genesis 1:11Then God said, "Let the earth grow grass, plants that make grain, and fruit trees. The fruit trees will make fruit with seeds in it. And each plant will make its own kind of seed. Let these plants grow on the earth." And it happened. Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth continues, there will always be a time for planting and a time for harvest. There will always be cold and hot, summer and winter, day and night on earth."  Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 There is a right time for everything, and everything on earth will happen at the right time. There is a time to be born and a time to die. There is a time to plant and a time to pull up plants. I went on to say that at this time of year we start to think about all the good things that God gives to us it is harvest time.  Sarah continued to emphasis this point and said that God provides so much for us and is a great big God that holds us in his hands - cue song.  After the song I closed with a prayer.