You might find yourself doing an assembly next week on pancake day…...let’s share ideas that may be useful

I have a prayer focus weekend this weekend. It’s a 24/7 style idea.

The Love Life, Live Lent campaign began 3 years ago, and is back for another year…check out the site. The idea behind it is this: ‘Instead of giving up chocolate or going on a detox, it encourages people to undertake a simple act of generosity each day. The actions are small and fun to do, but make a real difference in homes, families and communities.’

Here’s what looks to be a cool blog to follow for Lent. It’s called give up, give out. Not sure if Lent will be a big thing for you in your schoolswork, but here’s an angle which might be useful for your students to engage with. (here’s the explanation from their blog) - ‘You provide for all you have made’ is a line from a song sung in churches all around the country. It reminds us that God has infinite resources and wants to give to his creation. We’re told this year is going to be one of the hardest economically in a long time. Anxiety levels increase as people consider how they are going to survive. But what would happen if we didn’t only sing about a mighty provider but lived out the world He imagines is possible? This blog is an attempt to stir our imaginations and give it up to God by giving out to the world.

Late last night I got an email from a head of year asking me to do an assembly tomorrow. This is fine, assemblies in this particular school are few and far between so I accepted gladly. In preparation for this, I took a cow’s tongue out of the freezer this morning (a normal object every schoolsworker should have in their freezer!) to use in my assembly. However, it only dawned on me this afternoon that it is in fact pancake day tomorrow. And, after all the excitement of the Lent Assembly (!), it hadn’t even occurred to me to use this assembly myself, until now.

Love this poem that I came across today. It’s the kind of thing that you could take one line of each day to meditate on. A fantastic focus to have during Lent.