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An assembly of promises for a Legacy of Hope (upper primary/lower secondary)

Instructions for Assembly Leader: As people come into the hall give everyone a large piece of card, a marker pen and a post it note. One of the students participating in the Assembly will need a whistle and a stopwatch. Make sure that everyone has these to hand before the leader speaks. By each exit display an HMD2010 candle poster. You can download this here.
Timings are crucial in this assembly and you will need to rehearse the presentation with students A, B, C, and D.

Leader

Good morning. Today we are going to create a special assembly together. We will need to listen to each other and think very carefully about our feelings. We are going to reflect together about something called the Legacy of Hope.

(Display power-point slide one- the Legacy of Hope logo on a yellow background.)

Leader
Let’s explore what it means. We conducted some research in our class and this is what we found.

Student A
A legacy could be a special promise which someone makes to pass on to the future.

Student B
We sometimes talk about people leaving a legacy as a way for people to remember them.

Student C
It is something they hand on to other people.

Student D
It could be a special gift that a person leaves in a will as a present to someone else.

Student A
It could be something a person has created…

Student B
Like a piece of music…

Student C
Or a painting…

Student D
Or even a prize in a competition or a scholarship awarded to a student to help them do something special like travel to a different part of the world or develop particular skills in sport, music or education.

Leader
A legacy is very important. It is passed on from one person to other people. It could be something for today but also something for tomorrow. Now let’s think about the rest of the phrase and what a Legacy of Hope might be.

Student A
We need to think very carefully about the word hope. Please will you all turn to the person sitting next to you and listen carefully to the instructions Ms/Mr……………….. gives us.

Leader
Please talk together about hope. What do you think it means? I am going to ask…………….(names student A) to set the stopwatch and give us five minutes (note this is a maximum time limit you may choose to use less time) to think of lots of ways we use the word hope and then write a sentence on your card which contain it. Here are some examples we prepared earlier. (Leader and students A B C and D hold up their own cards and sentences eg “I hope you are well.” “We hope and pray for peace at Christmas.” “We hope your birthday is happy.” “I hope my Dad comes home soon.”)…………….(name student A) will blow the whistle when we start and again when our time is up. When the whistle sounds the second time we have to hold our cards up for students B C and D to see. Ready student A?

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