This is a Secondary school assembly that covers the following: 1. How do we celebrate St Valentine's day? 2. Who Was St Valentine? 3. What is his message? Music for intro could be Bowie or the more recent Isakov's Valentine's Day or endless Beetles scores about love. Could even go upmarket and impress the Classists with a Shostakovich waltz. Soundtrack from the recent film about Romeo and Juliet with the camera sweeping the Italian Renaissance villas (wrong period of Italian history but very romantic) might be just a little too indulgent. Tell me the music you used.Inspire. Below is a basic outline of the Saint which you could use. The rest is done for you but can easily be slighly adapted. Enjoy and share your Valentine Day with me. He was a Roman Priest in Roman times when Claudius was emperor. He was persecuted the church at that time,He also had an edict that prohibited the marriage of young people. This was based on the hypothesis that unmarried soldiers fought better than married soldiers because married soldiers might be afraid of what might happen to them or their wives or families if they died.

Everybody knows who Gandhi is. Who knows Jesse Stone? Jesse Stone This assembly is based on the above quote and is aimed at Secondary school children. It covers the following; 1. What is materialism? 2. What is the problem with materialism? 3. What is the solution to materialism? It can be adapted to Primary children or used in an RE lesson. Opening song that is most obvious is Madonna's 'Material Girl' but Spice Girls 'Tell You What I Want' or Lennon's 'Imagine' are other possibilities. Tell me what you use and why you chose this topic for an assembly In defining and examining the history of materialism you could discuss the ideas of the ancient Greek thinkers as suggested or go down the modern route- summary on Wikipedia a quick way in. Or simply offer a basic dictionary definition of materialism as also given.

This assembly would suit Secondary children. Good opening music would be Star of Wonder by Tori Amos persephinae as an MP4 file- on youtube . It begins 'We three Kings......' It includes a You Tube link to a most beautiful and fresh reading of TS Elliot's The Magi. Reviewed as:This is the best narration of the journey of the Magi that I have ever heard! Beautifully paced, exactly right. I had seen a great narration of TS Eliot's poem on TV some years ago done by Timothy West, and was looking for it on You Tube when I came across Tim Martin's version which I think it is even better.Just love it. A nice review would be similarly most welcome.

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This resource would suit Y7 or an Introductory unit. It includes a PP, group work task, card sort exercise and self review criteria Bang up to date! Please leave me a review or feedback telling me how you used this resource and why

Suit mixed ability Y7 Includes self assessment and suggested film clips Please leave me a review or feedback telling me how you used this resource and why

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Lesson suitable for Y7 or 8 Thinking skills and essay structure One slide on PP is your pupil timeline/ living graph Film clip suggestions Assessment criteria and peer review Please leave me a review or feedback telling me how you used this resource and why

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