Product reviews for Amazing Assemblies for Primary Schools

We all remember assemblies from our school days. These were the times when the whole school came together in the hall for fifteen minutes. We all stood to say good morning to the head teacher, then sat on the floor without a sound. The head teacher then rose and announced the news for the week. A prayer was said, a hymn sung and off we went, class by class, back to our classrooms. Assemblies at Comber Grove were so far removed from this because of the brilliant headmaster Mike Kent.

Children filed into assembly quietly and you could see the enthusiasm on their faces as soon as Mike appeared. Every assembly was magical, whether it was scientific, language based or involved other areas of the curriculum. On numerous occasions children wanted to follow up ideas from the assembly in their classrooms and they were aware that they could go to Mike to show him how they had discovered something new or if they needed help with an assembly idea. More important was the effect these assemblies had on the staff. When topics were raised in assembly teachers often incorporated them into the curriculum.



Assemblies were a special occasion at Comber Grove and the whole school looked forward to these with great enthusiasm. I recently met an ex-pupil on the bus (now in his twenties) who said how much he loved being at Comber Grove and how much he enjoyed Mr Kent's wonderful assemblies.