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Most schools have norning assemblies. These vary from school to school as to how frequently they are heald. They usually consist of a convication of some sort and a Bible reading, commonly by one of the students. The Headmaster often has a motivation speech and sometimes addresses problems at the school. Announcements commonly include a range of successes or awards that the stuents have achieved. Also upcoming events are anounced. There often is a speaker from outside the school.

Assemblies

It was a Tuesday morning. I reluctantly stood up as the sfaff came in for assembly. It was then that I saw a female figure, dressed in a black and brown robe. It all became clear when Mr. Sharpe announced, "I would like to welcome Mrs. Hincks' sister, Sister Anne-Marie, to Queen's College Junior School." She began to answer some of our questions. In the First Form we found it easier to ask our questions when the Sister came to Room 11. Sister Anne-Marie is a Fransician Nun. She has three knots on a white robe representing obedience, poverty and chastity, which means not to get married. She is a vegetarian, meaning she does not eat meat. She keeps her hair very short, in respect for God. She is 53 years old.

Edward Weeks, Junior Wyvern Queen's College Junior School, 1989-90.

Reproduction from an Assembly Reading: John and His Mother's Hands

John's mother had cut and scarred hands, and John did not want his fiends to find out, so he stopped asking them around. His father noticed this and took him for a walk in the gasrden. "Why are you no longer having your friends round?" asked his father.

John did not reply, so his dad said, "Let me tell you this story. When you were little your mother took you for a walk in the garden. Whilst her back was turned for a moment, you craled into the house and took the fire guard away from the fire. The flames enveloped you and you were screaming. There was nothing else available to smother the flames, so she used her hands."

Some time later when John's friends came round and they asked about his mother's hands , he proudly said , "She saved my life with those hands, aren't they beautiful?"

David Lightning and Tom Fox, Form III, The Wheasheaf (Pownall Hall), 1980.

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