Year 2 Class Assembly: The Importance of Being Truthful

Year 2 entertainingly performed two Bible stories, The Golden Calf and Zacchaeus the Tax Collector, to illustrate the importance of always telling the truth, their Habit of the Week.

In the first story, Theodore, Rapha and Lucas took the parts of Moses, his brother Aaron and God, while the rest of the class played the Israelites waiting with Aaron in the camp for Moses to return from speaking with God. Frustrated with waiting (‘perhaps they needed to learn our Whole School Habit of being patient!’) Aaron tells the Israelites to bring him all their gold jewellery, which he melts down and forms into a Golden Calf. The pupils showed how the Israelites bowed down and worshipped this idol, angering God and Moses. In a helpful “freeze frame” Year 2 acted out what should have happened: Aaron telling the truth and saying sorry. Then they acted out what actually happened: Aaron denied making the idol (which was met with big gasps from the Israelites). Though God forgave him, the consequence for Aaron was that he was never trusted to lead the camp again.

The class had also thought about the sorts of lies, like exaggerating: ‘I never get to…’, ‘You always get to…’, and truths: ‘I broke a train track and admitted to it’, that children might tell in school. In class they had made posters of some examples they had seen, which they held up at the front as they explained.

To finish, Samson and Isaac took the parts of Zacchaeus and Jesus and acted out the story of the dishonest tax collector who learned the importance of telling the truth and changed his ways after spending time with Jesus.

Thank you Year 2 for an amusing and thought-provoking Class Assembly on being truthful!