Summer 2 - Week 4

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Good morning everyone, welcome to a new week of collective worship. It’s Miss Bailey here with you this morning. I hope you had a lovely weekend.

Have a lovely day everyone!

Good morning everyone. It’s Miss Bailey here with you today. I hope you had a lovely Monday and are ready for another great day.

Think About...

During the next part of today's assembly you are going to read, or listen carefully to a story. It isn't a true story, but like all good stories, it has a special meaning...

Shakira was eight years old and was usually given everything she wanted: in fact, Shakira was rather spoiled. She desperately wanted a puppy for her birthday. She already had a hamster, but, although she played with it, she did not really think about looking after it. It was her mum who fed the hamster. It was her mum who gave it water. It was her mum who cleaned out the cage.

‘This is your hamster, Shakira,’ her mum would say, ‘but you do nothing to help look after it. How on earth can you expect to have a puppy when you do so little to care for your hamster? A puppy is not a toy and just playing with it is not enough. I think you need a lesson in helping!’

Shakira’s mum decided to show Shakira what helping really meant. She continued to play games with Shakira and took her to the park, and they still had lots of fun together. But her mum stopped helping Shakira in a few ways. When Shakira’s clothes were dirty, her mum did not put them in the laundry basket. She did not make Shakira’s bed or tidy her room. Her mum didn’t make any meals especially for Shakira, so instead she had to eat food that she really didn’t like very much.

At first, Shakira didn’t mind too much, but after a few days, she longed for her mum’s delicious cooking and she certainly didn’t like putting on dirty clothes. She didn’t like getting into an unmade bed. She couldn’t find anything among the mess in her bedroom. Shakira was not at all happy. Eventually, she said to her mum, ‘Please help me again. I do miss all the help you give me. I really do understand how important it is to help now.’

Shakira’s mum felt that Shakira had learnt her lesson. It had been hard for her to stop helping, but the experiment had certainly worked. Shakira changed completely. Now she was always helping with jobs around the house. Most of all, she was looking after her hamster all by herself.

A few months later, on her ninth birthday, Shakira got a wonderful surprise. ‘Now that you know how important it is to help,’ said her mum, ‘I think we can manage to take on another pet.’ Shakira was thrilled when her dad came in carrying a basket with a small black puppy inside.

Although she learned the hard way, I think Shakira eventually deserved her puppy, don’t you?

What lessons do you think this story encourages us to learn? Talk about your answers with someone at home or school.

Think about something that you could do today to help:

- in school

- in the playground

- at home

Can you do at least one new helpful thing today?

Have a lovely day everyone!

Good morning everyone. It’s Miss Godsell here with you again today. I hope you are ready for a wonderful Wednesday. Did you know that today is National Writer's Day? Today we are going to think about someone we all know who has written a special prayer. But first, lets sing our hymn.

If you said Father Andrew - well done! Father Andrew is the Dean of Southwark Cathedral and we are lucky that he sometimes visits us at school. Recently Father Andrew wrote a special prayer and shared it with the community. You can find it below. Read it quietly to yourself, thinking about what Father Andrew has written.

Have a lovely day everyone!

Good morning! It’s Father Michael and I’m really pleased to be joining you for Collective Worship this morning. Over the past few weeks the clergy have been sharing their favourite prayer with you. Today I’d like to share mine. There’s a clue in the hymn that I’ve chosen to begin our collective worship.

Some of the words are a bit difficult.

· I wonder what it means for us to be instruments of God’s peace?

· How might we sow love in our lives each day?

· What does it mean to console someone?

Francis was born in the town of Assisi in Italy in 1182. At the age of 20 he devoted himself to a life of prayer. Three years later, Francis decided to give away everything he owned and to follow God and to look after God’s people.

Francis was a lover of nature. He took long walks through the countryside and studied its plants and trees. Francis felt that all plants and animals were part of God’s kingdom. He is the patron saint of those who care for plants and animals and his special feast day is celebrated on October 4.

I wonder how we might follow the example of Francis and care for our beautiful planet and the neighbourhoods where we live?

I hope you have a lovely day. Take care and be kind to one another.

Good morning everyone, it's Miss Bailey here for the last collective worship of the week.

Today we are going to be thinking about how we all have a responsibility to look after the world, and that all jobs and tasks have value in the eyes of God.

Everyone at school has an important role. Can you name some of the jobs that take place in school?

Think of Steve's role at school. He is the 'care taker'. What important jobs does Steve do around the school to take care of it?

As well as Steve, we are all 'care takers', because God wants us to take care of the world that he created.

Genesis 2.15 says:

'Then the Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and guard it.'

Have a lovely day everyone!