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Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book - Wishing Your Life Away
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Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book
HOW TO LIVE
WISHING YOUR LIFE AWAY
By Helen Swain
Suitable for Key Stage Three
Aim
To encourage the sensible use of time.
Preparation and materials
• You might like to prepare the Latin inscriptions carpe diem and tempus fugit on a large sheet of paper or an OHP transparency.
• Bible reading: Ecclesiastes 3.1–8.
Assembly
1. Introduce the assembly by asking students what they did over the weekend. To encourage a varied response, you could make suggestions: went to the match, the pictures, perhaps to church, to a party, or maybe just stayed in and watched TV.
2. Now ask about what they are looking forward to doing next weekend.
3. Say that people often spend time discussing their plans for their days off, and you can understand this sort of conversation about days off work and days off school. School takes up a lot of time on weekdays. There’s the normal timetable, perhaps some sporting fixture or club after school and not much space for anything but homework between your evening meal and bedtime...
Taken from Secondary Schools Assemblies Resources Book edited by Stuart Kerner
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