Special Assemblies - Primary School Assemblies

Expensive but useful

Special Assemblies:
Primary School Assemblies
By Michael Dew
Eagle Publishing. 113 pages. £19.95
ISBN 0 86347 222 2

'What can I do for next week's assembly?' This nagging question often lies in the back of a teacher's mind or the mind of the visiting speaker who has been invited to take a school assembly.
Resources that provide a fresh approach to this weekly challenge are always very welcome, especially material that tackles issues from a Christian perspective.
The author of this book is a retired headteacher, who provides a range of thoughtful approaches to the potential minefield of taking school assemblies. The book lists a variety of resources such as poems and songs that could be incorporated into an assembly. There is also a helpful collection of assembly starting points. The book includes some useful pictures that are intended for use on an OHP.
The main chapter of worked examples is written in script form and isn't very user-friendly. The aims aren't clearly communicated. This makes the essential ideas of each assembly difficult to grasp.
Overall, this book could be used for reference, but is quite an expensive resource.

Clive Westall
Sandfield School, Guildford

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Main Articles

• An exciting future
  An interview with Stephen Gaukroger
• Theology and Mo/Po (modernism and post-modernism)
  An interview with Ranald Macaulay
• Narnia's man
  Reflections on the literary writings of C S Lewis and their relationship to evangelicalism
• A post-modern scandal
  Truth and relativism in the post-modernist era (with illustrations from the current White House scandals) (reprinted from World Magazine)
• Mission field - Clapham
  The background and future plans of Courland Grove Baptist Church
• God is love
  The relationship between the holiness, righteousness and love of God
• Praying with Vijay
  Prayer - in conclusion (Part 4 of Series)
• Speaking personally . . . (Bulldog for April)
  Speaking personally to individuals about our Christian lives
• God's TV station?
  An account of the Christian Channel Europe (CCE) - a British-based satellite channel - and the heretical teaching appearing on this channel
• Second thoughts from a cloning society
  An imaginary review in the year 2060 of the results of cloning humans (adapted and reprinted from the New Zealand Baptist)
• Young people in the cells?
  The positive value and the dangers of introducing cell groups among young people in churches

Other articles

• Romanian Rescue - An account of a Christian family's adoption of an orphan from Romania
• A Godward Life - 120 Daily Readings
• Evangelicals in Exile
• What They Didn't Teach Me in Sunday School
• Unnatural Enemies - An Introduction to Science and Christianity
• Special Assemblies - Primary School Assemblies - Resources for taking school assemblies that tackle issues from a Christian perspective
• Amistad
• William Grimshaw of Haworth
• The Promised Child - Bible stories retold for children to bring out foundational truths about God
• The Big Sister's Secret - Bible stories retold for children to bring out foundational truths about God
• God's Miracle Man - Bible stories retold for children to bring out foundational truths about God
• Our Loving God - Bible stories retold for children to bring out foundational truths about God
• To Know and Serve God - A Biography of James I Packer
• Contemporary Worship Music - A Biblical Defence