Our Lady's

This morning Sarah and I made our first visit of the new school year to Our Lady's in Dalton.  It was really good to see all the children again and the little ones from nursery joined us too.  We started our assembly time with Be Happy.  I then unpacked a bag full of rather odd items some I put on others got a laugh from the children I gave some of them to the children to wear.  All the items had a common theme though we had hard hats, cycle helmets, high viz jackets, life jackets, wet suits etc.  I asked the children what was common with the items - protection - they all help protect us in some way.  Sarah then read the storm of Jesus calming the storm and after I linked the items to the story in that in life we have ups and downs like in a storm and when we are down we might need someone to help protect us like the disciples did and Jesus was there to do that for them and he is still here today doing the same thing we only need to call to him.  I linked this also to Wonderful Lord which we sang to finish.