Burlington School

This afternoon I went to do the assembly at Burlington School.  To start with we sang God's Love is Bigger than a Burger as the word love was a key point to the assembly.  I introduced the children to the theme which was Love in the Bible, then displayed several pictures of people from the Bible that showed love in some way either towards one person, a group of people or God as well as saying just how much God loves us.  We had Moses, David, Ruth, Esther, Jesus - I ended with words that Jesus spoke in John 15:12 Love one another as I have loved you.  I explained what Jesus meant by this and then said that we should try to do the same.  I asked for suggestions of how we might show love to others and the children responded in a really positive way from giving the clothes - to making them a cake to giving money so people can have clean water.  I tied this up by saying that when we show love in this way we Shine from the inside out - cue song.  After the song I closed with a prayer.

Low Furness School

This morning Sarah and I went to do our first assembly of the new year at Low Furness School.  It was great to see all the children again after the Christmas break.  We started by singing God's Love is Bigger than a Burger before talking about the theme for this half term which is Love.  Our assembly was on love in the Bible.  Sarah explained that there are loads of stories in the Bible and loads of examples of love.  I had pictures that represented a few of those stories:- such as Moses, David, Ruth, Esther then on into the New Testament Jesus.  As I displayed the picture I explained what the people did that showed love.  I used the words from John 15: 12 which says Love one another as I have loved you.  Sarah then expanded this idea further with the children.  She talked about showing love and how to do that and she suggested as we are at the start of a new year perhaps it might be a good thing to do.  We finished off with Shine before Sarah closed with a prayer.

Penny Bridge Academy

On Monday afternoon Sarah and I went along to Penny Bridge Academy for the assembly.  We started by talking about love and in particular 'Love in the Bible' I explained that in the Bible there are loads of stories - so many I don't know just how many.  There are long stories that take up pages and short ones that are just half a page long.  I added to this that a lot of these stories show love, so I displayed some pictures and asked the children if they knew the story, the first one was Moses walk through the Red Sea - he demonstrated love by leading the people for 40 years.  We also had David who showed his love in the many poems, songs and psalms that he wrote and he was the best king of God's people.  We had Ruth - which is a whole book and a love story, her love for Naomi is clearly evident.  We had Esther who risked her life before the king to save her own people.  We moved on to Jesus and the love Mary and Joseph had for him, the love Jesus had for others and God's love for us in giving us Jesus.  The last slide was John 15:12 which is Jesus talking to his followers (and us) Love one another as I have loved you.  Sarah then continued and explained that at the start of the new year it would be good if we all followed the words of Jesus and loved one another more.  To finish we sang Shine before Sarah said a prayer.

Church Walk School

On Monday morning Sarah and I went along to Church Walk school to do the first assembly of 2019.  It was great to see all the children and staff after the Christmas break.  After singing God's Love is Bigger than a Burger we introduced the theme of Love in the Bible.  I explained that in the Bible there are loads of stories - so many I don't know just how many.  There are long stories that take up pages and short ones that are just half a page long.  I added to this that a lot of these stories show love, so I displayed some pictures and asked the children if they knew the story, the first one was Moses walk through the Red Sea - he demonstrated love by leading the people for 40 years.  We also had David who showed his love in the many poems, songs and psalms that he wrote and he was the best king of God's people.  We had Ruth - which is a whole book and a love story, her love for Naomi is clearly evident.  We had Esther who risked her life before the king to save her own people.  We moved on to Jesus and the love Mary and Joseph had for him, the love Jesus had for others and God's love for us in giving us Jesus.  The last slide was John 15:12 which is Jesus talking to his followers (and us) Love one another as I have loved you.  Sarah then continued and explained that at the start of the new year it would be good if we all followed the words of Jesus and loved one another more.  To finish we sang Shine before Sarah said a prayer.

BX NT Lesson 1 St Pauls Barrow

This afternoon I was at St Pauls in Barrow teaching year 5 and then year 6 during their RE lesson the New Testament Bible Explorer.  I firstly explained a bit about the Bible and how there are some many different ways we can read it by showing them my collect of Bibles.  We then got onto looking at the Bible as if it is a library using my model Bible.  I then explained about the prophets from the Old Testament and how they had talked about a saviour and also why we need one referencing back to Adam and Eve story.  This set me up ready to start  to tell the story of Jesus.  To cover the main events of the Christmas story I used three short video clips, Mary and Josephs story, the shepherds and then the wise men.  I then placed markers in the room which located the places in the New Testament such as Bethlehem, Nazareth, River Jordan.  I covered the families trip to Jerusalem when Jesus was 12 and fast forwarded to his baptism by John.  To set up the John story I rewound to explain how and where he fitted in to the story.  I ended with Jesus in the wilderness having been tempted.  Next week we shall hear about his early teaching and the choosing of the disciples. 

OT Mini Lesson 1 St Peters

On Thursday afternoon I was at Ireleth St Peters School with the year 5/6 (Shark) class doing OT Mini with them.  All of us had a great time as I started the children off on the epic journey into the best book in the world - The Bible.  After showing the children some different Bibles and explaining to them that the Bible is a collection of books rather like a library we started the journey with the creation story.  Then we covered Adam and Eve, Noah, onto the mixing of the languages and the start of nations.  To Abraham, Isaac, Jacob before finally finishing with the Joseph story.  The children joined in as characters from the stories, with the hand signs too as well as loads of questions as well.  Next week Moses.

OT Mini Lesson 1 Burlington School

This afternoon I have been teaching OT Mini to the year 5 and 6 children at Burlington School.  We had a great time as we went through some of the stories and events in the book of Genesis.  We looked at Adam and Eve and the fall when sin entered the world.  Noah story and how afterwards the people spread out to populate the world because they had their language mixed up when they tried to build a glory tower.  We covered the story of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph to round the book of.  The children happily joined in the hand signs as well as the bits of play acting we did as well.  Next week Moses' story.