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The Time of Your Life Assembly part of Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book; Contributed by SPCK - Stuart Kerner

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The Time of Your Life Assembly

Taken from Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book

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THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE 

By Helen Hinxman  

Suitable for Key Stage Three

Aim
To reflect on the fact that time is a precious commodity that requires wisdom in its use.

Preparation and materials
• The computations for the school year could be accompanied by volunteers holding up large number cards and, to fit between them, three cards with minus, plus and equal signs.This will make a visual display of each new sum (see point
5).
• Bible readings: Psalm 90.1–10 and Ecclesiastes 3.1–8.

Assembly
1. Say that before he wrote The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien wrote a book called The Hobbit. In this book, Gollum and Bilbo Baggins have a contest in which they ask each other riddles. This is life or death for Bilbo. Here’s one of the riddles:

This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

2. The answer is, of course, time. Time is the most precious commodity we possess, but it moves on relentlessly and there’s no way we can stop it, slow it down or reverse it. All we can do is measure it, waste it or use it wisely...

Taken from Secondary Schools Assemblies Resources Book edited by Stuart Kerner

Published by SPCK

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