Assembly Objective:
- Who can we ask for help? This assembly explores the role of the emergency services and the help Christians draw from their belief in God.
Black Widow: How the Christian faith responds to modern slavery and human trafficking
Learning Objectives:
- Students will examine a Christian perspective on human trafficking and exploitation.
- Understand the Bible’s teaching on the protection of vulnerable people and the role of Christians in campaigning and working with survivors of trafficking and exploitation.
Luca: Where is our true home?
Assembly Objective:
Where is our true home? This assembly explores the meaning of ‘home’ and Christian ideas concerning heaven.
Cruella
Assembly Objective:
When someone hurts us, how do we choose to respond? And if we choose revenge, do we end up hurting ourselves? This assembly invites students to consider their responses when someone offends or hurts them. Through Jesus’ teaching on revenge, students will reflect on the challenge of forgiveness.
The Tide Going Out
Assembly Objective:
- How can we help young people talk about death? This assembly invites students to think about what the Bible teaches about life and death, reminding them that God’s love is unchanging. It aims to help engage with this timely subject with pastoral sensitivity, opening a conversation that offers hope to young people who are suffering from grief or loss.
Frozen II: How can we cope with change?
Assembly Objective:
- How can we cope with change? This assembly explores different responses to change and offers the biblical view of God as unchanging and as a faithful guide.
The Peanut Butter Falcon: What makes life valuable?
Learning Objectives:
- Explore Christian ideas about sanctity of life.
- Consider why Christians might have differing views about abortion.
- Understand the views of abortion campaigners.
- Give a personal response to the question of what makes a life valuable.
The Tiger Who Came to Tea: What Makes us Different From Other Animals?
Assembly Objective:
- What makes us different from other animals? This assembly explores behavioural norms to which animals are not subject and considers the uniqueness of humans from a biblical perspective.
Film:
- The Tiger Who Came to Tea (Universal, 2019) certificate U, click here to buy the DVD online.
Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw: Who decides what’s right and wrong?
Learning Objectives:
- Students will reflect on their values and where they come from.
- Explore Nietzsche’s ideas about morality and the Superman.
- Consider what it means for Christians to live according to the values taught by Jesus.
- Give a personal response to the moral philosophies of Nietzsche and Jesus.
What Should I Do?
Assembly Objective:
- What do we do when we feel ashamed? This assembly helps students consider that shame is an emotion that cannot easily be dealt with, particularly in a contemporary culture where people are quick to blame. Christians believe that the death of Jesus on the cross brings forgiveness and freedom from shame through the costly sacrifice of God’s son. This assembly is also suitable for use at Easter.
Ethos Education 