St James's goes high tech

We enjoy taking assemblies every Wednesday at both sites of St James School and this year we are going high tech with the help of Kevin Mayhew's Karaoke Assembly DVDs which are going to help us learn new child-friendly worship songs in a child-friendly manner.

In true Karaoke style, the words are synchronised with the music and that makes it easy to learn new songs.

The kids enjoyed Karoake Assembly's first outing and I happened to be in the (junior) school again today and heard them singing again yesterday's new song Father God I Wonder with great enthusiasm.

We chose that one because of our opening words at assembly: 'Good morning Gary/Penny/Paul, Good morning everybody, Good morning Father God.'

We're also using some new Powerpoints to include some simple responses each day. At the beginning

The Lord is here
His Spirit is with us

Lift up your hearts
We lift them to the Lord

Let us give thanks to the Lord our God
It is right to give him thanks and praise

And at the end:

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord
In the name of Christ. Amen.