Expectations for the New Academic Year, First Assembly

I have used this assembly recently as the first assembly of the new academic year for my house.

I start the assembly by talking through how this time of year is a great time to reflect on the past year and to decide what needs to change or be kept the same to be successful for the new academic year.

I then show a definition of 'expectations' and that this is a strong belief that something will happen. I explain that I have a number of basic expectations for the house to ensure that we are successful on both an individual and house basis.

This then leads into expectations of uniform, behaviour, using a planner, being organised, not littering etc with pictures for each topic.

I then talk through what the house can expect from staff and the what I expect from them and that there will be no passengers this year with everyone contributing.

The section of the assembly is a trailer from a film called the yes man. I play this until half way through to the point where Jim Carey go to a conference and is told that he must so yes to every opportunity given to him. This then links into all the challenges/key school events that I have taken from the school calendar and I ask the group to not see these as negatives but to see these as opportunities to improve and achieve.

I finish the assembly by saying the success of failure of this year will be the students' attitude towards these challenges and that as a team supporting each other it is going to be a very exciting and successful year for the house.