Penny Bridge School

We went this afternoon down to Penny Bridge School, I don't think I have ever been there when it wasn't raining! But the rain didn't dampen our assembly, the children had not been out all day with the rain so were glad to sing a lively song at the start. The assembly theme was on God's love. Sarah started to talk about the different ways in which we talk to one another and communicate, then her phone text went off right on cue. The children thought it was a bit funny as Sarah read out the rather strange message. Thankfully some of the year 6 children could speak text and told her what it said. Sarah then went on to ask the children about other ways we communicate. I demonstrated Semaphore using a couple of flags and Sarah answered in Morse code. We reminded the children that last week it was Valentines day and that is when we send cards to say how much we love them. We then asked how does God communicate his love to us. The children made a number of responses then I showed a pattern of shapes and asked if the children knew what it was as the shapes slowly moved into place. Just before the cross shape was formed a few put up their hands. I explained that God showed his love for us by allowing Jesus to die on the cross. We finished with Inright Outright.

Pennington School

This morning we made our first visit of the year to Pennington School. We continued with the theme we had started before half term and talked about different ways in which we communicate. Sarah got a text message just as we started to speak, she read it out to the children who told her what it meant. She asked the children for other examples of communication. I then sent Sarah a semaphore message and she replied in Morse code. This led onto talking about how God communicates with us and how we can talk to him. As last week had been Valentines Day when we think about love etc we asked the children how God shows us that he loves us. On the screen there are some odd looking shapes which I tell the children show us about God's love. The shapes slowly move into place to show a cross. Just before the cross shape forms the children guess what it is and start to put their hands up to tell us. We enjoyed it and I think the children did too.

St Peters Ireleth

This morning we took the assembly at St Peters. The junior aged children were going on a school trip so we only had the infants. Sarah received a text from me at the start of the talk and couldn't read it as it was in text language. So I sent her another message this time in semaphore, Sarah replied in Morse code. The point was we wanted to demonstrate the different ways in which we can communicate which led onto how we communicate with God and how He communicates with us and shows us his love. I then showed a series of shapes that moved to form a cross. But before it was completed the children had already started to guess what it was.

Croftlands Infant School

Today we did an assembly on God's love and how that gets shown to us. We started off with Sarah getting a text message from me which was a bit in code and needed some one to help. Then I used Semaphore to say hello to Sarah and she responded with Morse code. The point was we can communicate in many different ways and the children gave us a few other examples. But we asked how does God communicate to us and in particular His Love for us. I took a sheet of paper and folded it a few times then tore a strip of it to show a cross. We finished the assembly with a prayer.

Low Furness School

This morning we went to Low Furness school again. We had an assembly theme of St Valentine - so we expanded on it a bit and did an assembly on love and in particular God's love. Sarah showed the children a text that I had sent her which was in a bit of code. One of the year 6 boys was able to understand it though. I then sent Sarah another message using two flags - semaphore which Sarah responded to by sending one back in Morse code. We talked with the children about how we communicate with each other before talking and thinking about how we talk to God and how He shows His love for us. Displayed on the screen were some random shapes which moved into the shape of a cross but after each move I asked the children did they see anything not until the last click did they see the cross - God's way of showing us his love.

Croftlands Junior School

This morning we took the assembly at Croftlands Junior School. We picked a topic from a new book we have bought from the Cornerstone Books and Gifts in Ulverston. Sarah received a text just as we started the assembly and it was all in text language so one of the pupils translated it for her. Then she sent me a message using Morse code so I sent her one back using semaphore. The children thought this was interesting and told us of different ways in which we can communicate with each other. Sarah then asked how do we communicate with God - and the answer came back as prayer - but Sarah continued how does or did God communicate his love for us. I showed a picture on the computer and asked them did they know what it said as the slides moved on it formed a cross which the children fully understood. Today to start we had sung Creator God and ended with Be Happy.

Crosthwaite School

Today we visited Crosthwaite School for the first time. It is the smallest school we go into with only about 43 pupils on roll. We started the assembly with a song the children knew - Our god is a Great Big God. Then Sarah asked someone to help her out front. We had two different kinds of seat; one was a bean bay the other a solid chair. Sarah asked them to pick one to sit on, so they picked the chair and not the soft bean bag. Meanwhile I tried out the bean bag and fell off it and couldn't get back up. Sarah then told the wise and foolish builder story from the Lion Storyteller bible and I showed some pictures. Sarah concluded the talk by saying that in life we sometimes need to decide what we choose like the two builders and we need to set our lives on something solid. We then sang Shine before Sarah finished with a prayer.