Assembly:  safety

 

Aim:  to show how the Ten Commandments are there to help people live in safety, without being hurt.

 

Equipment:  “God’s safety rules” on paper: a toaster and instruction sheet (attached); an electric screwdriver (or some other implement) and “instruction sheet” (attached).

 

1.  Explain that you are very excited because you have just bought a couple of new things.  Show them the toaster.  Plug it in. Pretend to turn it on.  Show them the various parts, and eventually stick your fingers in to “show” them the inside.  Show that it hurts.  Now find the instructions you have brought.  Read them and show the pupils that it says  “Don’t stick your fingers in, stupid.”

 

2.  Show the pupils your electric screwdriver, and eventually do something silly with it and pretend you are hurt.  Find the instructions and read it out “Don’t eat it silly.”  Say how you obviously need to follow these safety rules so you don’t get hurt every day.

 

3.  Ask for ten volunteers.  Give them each a commandment but tell them not to show them.  Tell pupils that a long time ago God gave us a list of safety instructions which tell us how to live safely together.  If we follow these then we won’t get hurt and we won’t hurt each other.  Ask them if they know any.  When pupils suggest the right ones get the volunteers to reveal them.  If time, ask why following some of the rules is a good idea e.g.  “Why do you think he said “Don’t lie”?”  etc.

 

4.  Keep “Love God” till last.  Say the most important one is to love God because he is the one who can keep us safe.  Say some people call these the Ten Commandments, and think they are about stopping us from having much fun.  But you prefer to call them “God’s safety rules”.  They tell us how to live without getting hurt.

 

5.  Prayer:  Dear God.  Thank you that you want to keep us safe.  Help us to follow your safety rules for life.  Amen. 

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God’s safety rules

 

Love God

Look after your mum and dad

Don’t lie

Don’t steal

Don’t get jealous

Don’t murder

Don’t be unfaithful

Don’t make silly things important

Have a good rest

Don’t misuse God’s name

How to use a toaster

Don’t put your fingers in it, stupid!

How to use your NEW

Electric screwdriver

Don’t eat it, silly.