Low Furness School

This morning Sarah and I were at Low Furness School doing the assembly.  The theme was Respect.  So to start off we sang Be Happy then Sarah asked the children what Respect was as she introduced the theme for the term to the children.  We then showed a clip from Finding Nemo - the part when Nemo goes out to sea as his father shouts after him.  Nemo touches the boat which his father told him not to.  The clip ended just at that point.  Sarah then talked about what the children had just seen and asked them what Nemo was doing - he wasn't showing respect to his father.  She also reminded the children what happened next - Nemo was caught and taken away by the divers.  I then held up my Bible and explained that in it there are loads of examples of how people respect other people as well as stories about disrespect.  I then said that there was a really old guy who started to do his stuff when he was 80 years old when he became the leader and God gave him some very special rules or a code or a set of guidelines to follow - it was Moses of course and God gave him the 10 commandments.  One of them says Respect you father and mother so that you will live a long time in the landing I'm giving you Exodus 20:12.  I explained what the last part of the verse meant but also expanded it to say that we should respect everyone young or old.  Sarah then confirmed what I'd said by referring back to the Nemo clip and then introduced the final song - Shine.  at the end she finished the assembly with a prayer.