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- 1. Assemblies in the VbE Membership Resource Pack are free for member schools to use. We respectfully ask that you don’t share this material. Please feel free to adapt this assembly to the context of your school. Delete slides which are less relevant and add images etc of your setting. Some slides are more suited to EY/KS1/KS2 etc. Assemblies are designed so that much of the material can be explored in classes and lessons for the month after the initial assembly. Eg, films, songs, philosophical questions, scenarios etc. The images have all been purchased, or are copyright free or are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 License. If you have any feedback or suggestions for VbE, please get in touch: info@valuesbasededucation.com If you like an assembly written which isn’t in the pack yet, please let us know and we will write if for you (please give at least 30 days notice). Newsletters to accompany assemblies are in the Resource Pack and also some ideas for displays.
- 3. This month’s Values song is… ‘The Greatest Love of All’ by Witney Houston 1985
- 4. “A value is a principle that guides our thinking and behaviour.” Let’s reflect on how thinking about (enter previous month’s value) did this?
- 5. Let’s remind ourselves of all the values we have in our Values Toolkit so far…
- 6. Love Compassion Respect Kindness Responsibility Friendship Peace Equality Courage Hope Consideration
- 9. Love This month we will be exploring the value of …
- 11. These are some of the values we know so well
- 14. Think about signs of love you see around you every day
- 15. Who shows us love in our lives? Who else?
- 16. Love comes from within yourself. We all have love inside of us. If we love ourselves we can love others – but sometimes that’s really difficult.
- 17. ... the greatest love of all Is happening to me I found the greatest love of all Inside of me The greatest love of all Is easy to achieve Learning to love yourself It is the greatest love of all Written by Michael Masser and Linda Creed
- 18. ‘The Greatest Love of All’ Sung by Witney Houston 1985
- 19. What good things can you say about yourself? What makes you wonderful? “Insert something about yourself (ie, the presenter). Make it authentic.”
- 20. “I try really hard to listen to people and to respect their point of view – even if I don’t agree with it”.
- 21. “I am really kind to animals.”
- 22. “I do my very best to look after the world I live in”.
- 23. “I care very much about my home, my school and the community I live in”.
- 24. Some philosophical questions to make you think…
- 25. When you love what you have, you have everything you need. Is this true?
- 26. If you were to make a promise to someone you love, what would it be? How would they respond?
- 27. It isn’t how much we give, it’s how much love we put into giving. Do you agree?
- 28. You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. Is this true?
- 29. Is everyone deserving of love, trust and kindness?
- 30. Why do some people find it hard to love?
- 31. They may not have been loved. They may have been let down. They may be angry or feel bad about themselves.
- 32. Let’s have a moment of reflection... What do you love about yourself?
- 33. How can we show love?
- 34. Written by Sam McBratney Illustrated by Anita Jeram
- 35. Love can be very powerful. It can help to change people’s lives. It can make the world a better place. “It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put into the giving .” Mother Teresa
- 36. LOVE can be very powerful. It can help to change people’s lives. It can make the world a better place. “At the centre of non-violence stands the principle of love.” Martin Luther King
- 37. LOVE can be very powerful. It can help to change people’s lives. It can make the world a better place. “Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.” Mahatma Gandhi
- 38. LOVE can be very powerful. It can help to change people’s lives. It can make the world a better place. What can you say about love? ?
- 39. How does love do this?
- 40. A quiet moment of prayer or reflection... Love
- 41. A quiet moment of prayer or reflection... As we reflect, think about how love makes the world a better place to be.
- 42. When we reflect, think about what you love about yourself. Then think about someone you love? See them in your mind. How do you show your love? Do you ever take them for granted? How will you show your love in the future?
- 43. Here in our school Let us be peaceful at all times. Let our rooms be full of happiness and respect for each other. Let love be in our hearts With kindness and compassion for all. Let us remember In learning together, We grow together And succeed together. A prayer for all of us
- 45. What would a world without love look like?
- 46. What could be the CONSEQUENCES of not showing love to yourself?
- 47. What could be the CONSEQUENCES of not showing love to others?
- 48. How could love turn a negative situation into a positive one?
- 49. Lets think about how we can show love in the communities we belong to…
- 50. Thank you for listening so well to our Values Assembly.
Editor's Notes
- Click on heart to play - hyperlink to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYzlVDlE72w Lyrics film with Celine Dion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxAYqqWaDNc
- Time for a moment of reflection while children and staff think about how the value has shown in their lives during the last month. Encourage them to think of how it affected their own thinking and behaviour and also that of other people.
- Re-cap on previous values. Talk about building your ‘values toolkit’ and using them all the time. Delete those which haven’t been explored yet and/or replace with different values as appropriate. If you are in the second cycle, recap on all of the values from the first cycle.
- Re-cap on previous values. Talk about building your ‘values toolkit’ and using them all the time. Delete those which haven’t been explored yet and/or replace with different values as appropriate. If you are in the second cycle, recap on all of the values from the first cycle.
- Edit to add your school’s values
- Think of some other values or concepts which may not be amongst your school’s core values. It’s important for children to recognise that there are many other values.
- Click on arrow to play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UWGKzqMwso Soul Pancake – What Is Love 0-100 People aged 0-105 are asked what does love mean to them
- Add you own photos as appropriate
- Click on heart to play - hyperlink to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYzlVDlE72w Lyrics film with Celine Dion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxAYqqWaDNc
- Presenter – insert your won authentic thought(s) about what makes you wonderful. Be a great role model for the children. Examples on next slides
- Philosophical questions to think about or start P4C type enquries
- Philosophical questions to think about or start P4C type enquries
- Philosophical questions to think about or start P4C type enquries
- Philosophical questions to think about or start P4C type enquries
- Philosophical questions to think about or start P4C type enquries
- Philosophical questions to think about or start P4C type enquiries
- This is a wonderful book to read in a KS1 assembly.
- Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje*, Macedonia, on August 26**, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work. On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order, "The Missionaries of Charity", whose primary task was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after. In 1965 the Society became an International Religious Family by a decree of Pope Paul VI. Today the order comprises Active and Contemplative branches of Sisters and Brothers in many countries. In 1963 both the Contemplative branch of the Sisters and the Active branch of the Brothers was founded. In 1979 the Contemplative branch of the Brothers was added, and in 1984 the Priest branch was established. The Society of Missionaries has spread all over the world, including the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries. They provide effective help to the poorest of the poor in a number of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and they undertake relief work in the wake of natural catastrophes such as floods, epidemics, and famine, and for refugees. The order also has houses in North America, Europe and Australia, where they take care of the shut-ins, alcoholics, homeless, and AIDS sufferers. The Missionaries of Charity throughout the world are aided and assisted by Co-Workers who became an official International Association on March 29, 1969. By the 1990s there were over one million Co-Workers in more than 40 countries. Along with the Co-Workers, the lay Missionaries of Charity try to follow Mother Teresa's spirit and charism in their families. Mother Teresa's work has been recognised and acclaimed throughout the world and she has received a number of awards and distinctions, including the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971) and the Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace and understanding (1972). She also received the Balzan Prize (1979) and the Templeton and Magsaysay awards. From Nobel Lectures, Peace 1971-1980, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Irwin Abrams, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1997 This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family. In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank. In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure. At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement. On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated. Selected Bibliography Adams, Russell, Great Negroes Past and Present, pp. 106-107. Chicago, Afro-Am Publishing Co., 1963. Bennett, Lerone, Jr., What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Chicago, Johnson, 1964. I Have a Dream: The Story of Martin Luther King in Text and Pictures. New York, Time Life Books, 1968. King, Martin Luther, Jr., The Measure of a Man. Philadelphia. The Christian Education Press, 1959. Two devotional addresses. King, Martin Luther, Jr., Strength to Love. New York, Harper & Row, 1963. Sixteen sermons and one essay entitled "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence." King, Martin Luther, Jr., Stride toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. New York, Harper, 1958. King, Martin Luther, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience. New York, Harper & Row, 1968. King, Martin Luther, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? New York, Harper & Row, 1967. King, Martin Luther, Jr., Why We Can't Wait. New York, Harper & Row, 1963. "Man of the Year", Time, 83 (January 3, 1964) 13-16; 25-27. "Martin Luther King, Jr.", in Current Biography Yearbook 1965, ed. by Charles Moritz, pp. 220-223. New York, H.W. Wilson. Reddick, Lawrence D., Crusader without Violence: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York, Harper, 1959. From Nobel Lectures, Peace 1951-1970, Editor Frederick W. Haberman, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1972 This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above. * Editor's note: This biography uses the word "Negro". Even though this word today is considered inappropriate, we have chosen not to change the original text to adhere to the copyright owner's wish to keep the original version as a historical document. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 1964 TO CITE THIS PAGE: MLA style: "Martin Luther King Jr. - Biography". Nobelprize.org. 2 Feb 2013 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
- Synopsis Born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India, Mohandas Gandhi studied law and came to aggravate for Indian rights both at home and in South Africa. He became a leader of India's independence movement, organizing boycotts against British institutions in peaceful forms of civil disobedience. He was given the holy name Mahatmas and oversaw a diverse ashram. He was killed by a fanatic in 1948. Contents Synopsis Profile Quotes "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." – Mahatma Gandhi Profile Indian nationalist leader. Born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, Kathiawar, West India. He studied law in London, but in 1893 went to South Africa, where he spent 20 years opposing discriminatory legislation against Indians. As a pioneer of Satyagraha, or resistance through mass non-violent civil disobedience, he became one of the major political and spiritual leaders of his time. Satyagraha remains one of the most potent philosophies in freedom struggles throughout the world today. In 1914, Gandhi returned to India, where he supported the Home Rule movement, and became leader of the Indian National Congress, advocating a policy of non-violent non-co-operation to achieve independence. His goal was to help poor farmers and laborers protest oppressive taxation and discrimination. He struggled to alleviate poverty, liberate women and put an end to caste discrimination, with the ultimate objective being self-rule for India. Following his civil disobedience campaign (1919-22), he was jailed for conspiracy (1922-4). In 1930, he led a landmark 320 km/200 mi march to the sea to collect salt in symbolic defiance of the government monopoly. On his release from prison (1931), he attended the London Round Table Conference on Indian constitutional reform. In 1946, he negotiated with the Cabinet Mission which recommended the new constitutional structure. After independence (1947), he tried to stop the Hindu-Muslim conflict in Bengal, a policy which led to his assassination in Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu fanatic. Even after his death, Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and his belief in simple living--making his own clothes, eating a vegetarian diet, and using fasts for self-purification as well as a means of protest--have been a beacon of hope for oppressed and marginalized people throughout the world. © 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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