“Year- Group Assembly” lesson plan: Success

One innovative approach to Assemblies/Religious Observance/Time for Reflection is to organise the year group into small discussion groups. This facilitates pupil voice/pupil engagement through a much more interactive approach. It also readily integrates RO with topics and themes that one or more classroom subjects are currently using as contexts for learning.

This Year-Group Assembly was delivered by a team of Chaplains – several ministers, a church based Community worker, a Scripture Union schools worker. The brief was to produce an interactive ‘values-based’ event, as part of the Senior Phase Health and Well-Being Programme. The team of Chaplains met together to plan the lesson and then sent the lesson plan to the School’s Depute Head-Teacher for comment a week ahead of the lesson.

Using a mixture of small group discussion and ‘from-the-front’ delivery, this lesson encourages pupils to evaluate definitions of success, to consider goals, and the steps needed to reach them, and to reflect of Jesus’ words related to success.

Uses a PowerPoint presentation and the following YouTube clips:
Derek Redmond Barcelona Olympics
Perseverance – Faith’s New Shirt
Kielder marathon runner cheat

Designed for S4, S5, S6.

Download as Word file.

Download other Small Group Assemblies: Christmas, Ideal Society, Remembrance, Anxiety and Fear, Rights and Justice.

Rationale Success (Word Document)
“Success” Presentation (Powerpoint)
Response sheet (Word document)