Our assemblies are a huge part of school life here at CJS, which we view as important 'family time'. They are delivered as engaging and interactive key teaching points on a range of topics. We carefully plan and link these to protected characteristics, current affairs, themes, British Values and school topics. We also have children presenting assemblies, such as school councillors and Clanfield Rangers. We all regularly discuss discrimination and celebrate being unique individuals- life would be so boring if we were all the same! Each day we have dedicated assembly time, and staff love to tap into their own interests or bring in special visitors. 

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
DHT assembly	HT assembly	Teacher assembly	Singing assembly	Stars assembly

Here are some examples of what we have covered this year:

Some of our assemblies have included learning about the brain structure, neurodiversity and how brains work differently.

Pupils discussed digital well being and the impact of being on devices on our mental health.

We have learnt about bullying and what it is actually is. Our children explored the difference between falling out and bullying, linked to power imbalance, and what to do if they felt they were being bullied.

We have enjoyed debating issues linked to topics such as equal pay for female footballers, discrimination linked to race, historic moments in time such as segregation, the right to attend school and where in the world this might not be the case and other issues.  We also looked at the charity 'Visible Differences' https://www.changingfaces.org.uk/about-visible-difference/what-is-visible-difference/ and discussed the impact of our own actions. 

One of our school values is Kindness, and is a big feature in our assemblies. We discovered the world 'altruism' and invited local legend Alan Knight to visit our school. Alan's impressive work in the community has inspired us to create our own CJS MBE award for next year!

One assembly which really impacted on our children, was about the amount of plastic left in our environment. We considered the Permaculture ethics and decided we needed to take swift action, starting with tidying our own school grounds. They were very upset to see the Gyres and would like to take further action next year to reduce single use plastic.