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Daily Act of Collective Worship 2014-15. Autumn Term. Dydd Llun Monday 8.9.14 Thema’r Wythnos-Ymgartrefu Theme for the week - Settling In. What do you hope to achieve this year? How can you improve on last year? Make list of 5 things and compare it with a friend.
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Daily Act of Collective Worship 2014-15 Autumn Term
DyddLlun Monday 8.9.14Thema’rWythnos-YmgartrefuTheme for the week - Settling In • What do you hope to achieve this year? • How can you improve on last year? • Make list of 5 things and compare it with a friend
DyddMawrth Tuesday 9.9.14Thema’rWythnos-YmgartrefuTheme for the week - Settling In What does settling in mean to you?
DyddMercher Wednesday 10.9.14Thema’rWythnos-YmgartrefuTheme for the week - Settling In • What do you hope to achieve this year? • How will you take advantage of the fresh start and new opportunities?
DyddIau Thursday 11.9.14Thema’rWythnos-YmgartrefuTheme for the week - Settling In • ‘A stitch in time saves nine’ • What do you need to do to get yourself organised now ? • How will this help you enjoy a smooth start to the new year and avoid the temptation to slip into bad habits?
DyddGwener Friday 12.9.14Thema’rWythnos-YmgartrefuTheme for the week - Settling In • There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. • Nelson Mandela • What does this mean to you? • Are you sometimes satisfied with achieving less than you are capable of? • What will you do to achieve your best?
DyddLlun Monday 15.9.14Thema’rWythnos- Bod ynBositifTheme for the week – Being Positive • Is this true?
DyddMawrth Tuesday16.9.14Thema’rWythnos- Bod ynBositifTheme for the week – Being Positive • You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination. • Ralph Marston • Do you believe in yourself and your abilities? • Do you sometimes talk yourself into NOT being able to do something. • How does being positive help you achieve what you want to accomplish?
DyddMercher Wednesday 17.9.14 Thema’rWythnos- Bod ynBositifTheme for the week – Being Positive • People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom? • NhatHanh • Watch this clip of Steven Sutton. • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27165726 • What was the impact of him being positive?
DyddIauThursday 18.9.14 Thema’rWythnos- Bod ynBositifTheme for the week – Being Positive • I hated every minute of training, but I said • “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion” • Mohammed Ali Boxer • We all have to do things we don’t like doing. Do you give up too easily?
DyddGwener Friday 19.9.14Thema’rWythnos- Bod ynBositifTheme for the week – Being Positive Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough. Richard M. DeVos When did you last give someone you know a positive push?
DyddLlun Monday 22.9.14Thema’rWythnos-CyfeillgarwchTheme for the week – Friendship An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.– Proverbs 24:26 True or false?
DyddMawrth Tuesday 24.9.14Thema’rWythnos-CyfeillgarwchTheme for the week – Friendship • An insincere and bad friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but a bad friend will wound your mind. • Is an insincere friend a friend at all?
DyddMercher Wednesday 24.9.14Thema’rWythnos-CyfeillgarwchTheme for the week – Friendship • “The road to a friend’s house is never long” • Danish proverb • Why is this a true statement?
DyddIau Thursday 25.9.14Thema’rWythnos-CyfeillgarwchTheme for the week – Friendship One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy – whether he knows or not O.A. Battista
DyddGwener Friday 26.9.14Thema’rWythnos-CyfeillgarwchTheme for the week – Friendship • The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love – you can never have too much. • Discuss this statement
Dydd Monday 29.9.14Thema’rWythnos-GwneudPenderfyniadau Theme for the week – Decision Making • Every decision creates ripples, like a boulder dropped on a lake. What ripples could your decisions make?
DyddMawrth Tuesday 30.9.14Thema’rWythnos-GwneudPenderfyniadauTheme for the week – Decision Making • Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. • Do you always adopt the correct attitude for each situation you face ?
DyddMercher Wednesday 1.10.14Thema’rWythnos-GwneudPenderfyniadauTheme for the week – Decision Making • Some decisions can be made in a second, others need to be thought about carefully. Who can help us decide?
DyddIau Thursday 2.10.14Thema’rWythnos-GwneudPenderfyniadauTheme for the week – Decision Making • Decisions we have to make become more difficult as we get older. Hopefully with age comes the wisdom to make the correct decision, however difficult that may be. • In what way do decisions you make as you get older become more difficult? • How do life experiences help you to make those decisions?
DyddGwener Friday 3.10.14Thema’rWythnos-GwneudPenderfyniadauTheme for the week – Decision Making • There are many influences that shape our decisions. Remember that every decision could have a consequence. • Who or what could affect your decisions?
DyddLlun Monday 6.10.14Thema’rWythnos- Dinasyddiaeth Theme for the week – Citizenship • Freedom, equality and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of people, brave people, honest people, determined people.
DyddMawrth Tuesday 7.10.14Thema’rWythnos- DinasyddiaethTheme for the week – Citizenship What do you think is happening in this picture? It is a refugee camp in Darfur As global citizens how can we help
DyddMercher Wednesday 8.10.14Thema’rWythnos- DinasyddiaethTheme for the week – Citizenship • Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up. • People often say this about their career. Why is it more important in our general lives to be nice to the people we meet, what ever their background?
DyddIau Thursday 9.10.14Themau’rWythnos- DinasyddiaethTheme for the week – Citizenship • If you want happiness for an hour take a nap. • If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. • If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. • If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody. • - Chinese proverb • How would following this proverb make the world a better place?
DyddGwener Friday 10.10.14Thema’rWythnos- DinasyddiaethTheme for the week – Citizenship • Be kind to each other, sympathetic, forgiving each other as God has forgiven you through Christ. • Ephesians 4:32 • If nations bear a grudge for something that has happened between them in the past, will the world ever be truly at peace?
DyddLlun Monday 13.10.14Thema’rWythnos - HiliaethTheme for the week – Racism • No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. Nelson Mandela
DyddMawrth Tuesday 14.10.14Thema’rWythnos - HiliaethTheme for the week – Racism • Watch the attached clip. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASsZ-u9YV3c • Whose responsibility is it to put a stop to racism? Is it everyone’s, should it be down the governments or organisations eg FIFA? Or should it be ignored? • What is your opinion?
DyddMercher Wednesday 15.10.14Thema’rWythnos - HiliaethTheme for the week – Racism Racism springs from ignorance. Mario Balotelli What does this quotation mean?
DyddIau Thursday 16.10.149Thema’rWythnos - HiliaethTheme for the week – Racism • “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the sort of persons they are”. • Martin Luther King influenced the way black people were treated in America in the 1950s and 1960s. Is there a need for us to follow his teachings in today’s society?
DyddGwener Friday 17.10.14Thema’rWythnos - HiliaethTheme for the week – Racism Why is it important to stamp out racism? As a class make a list of 5 reaons why we should stamp out racism. Will this be an easy thing to achieve? Why do you think this is?
DyddLlun Monday 20.10.14Thema’rWythnos - CyfathrebuTheme for the week – Communication • England and America are two countries divided by a common language. - G Bernard Shaw • Why does using different words for the same thing be confusing to people?
DyddMawrth Tuesday 21.10.14Thema’rWythnos - CyfathrebuTheme for the week – Communication • In the modern world communication is so easy, email, twitter, facebook, mobile phone and so on. We use all of these so quickly. How often do you check what you are posting to make sure that the right message is being sent?
DyddMercher Wednesday 22.10.14Thema’rWythnos - CyfathrebuTheme for the week – Communication • ‘Most people on earth were born to speak a different language than mine, and I would not understand their words. • But I can understand that they are people, like me, with thoughts and hopes like mine’. • Why is it important to learn different languages?
DyddIau Thursday 23.10.14Thema’rWythnos - CyfathrebuTheme for the week – Communication A little boy with a big heart: A little boy lived next door to an old man who's wife had just died. The boy saw the old man crying, he climbed onto his lap and just sat there. Later, his mother asked the boy what he had said to their neighbour. “Nothing” said the child “I just helped him cry” Sometimes we don’t have to say anything. The best thing to do can be to sit quietly and hold their hand. Discuss this statement
DyddGwener Friday 24.10.14Thema’rWythnos - CyfathrebuTheme for the week – Communication • Say what you mean, and mean what you say, but don't say it mean! • Can you think of examples when you would have liked to give someone this message? Why is it an important message?
DyddLlun Monday 3.11.14Thema’rWythnos - CyfrifoldebTheme for the week – Responsibility • It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. • What responsibilities do you have now? How will they change in the future?
DyddMawrth Tuesday 4.11.14Thema’rWythnos - Cyfrifoldeb Theme for the week – Responsibility • Today, take pride in carrying out your responsibilities. Remind yourself that one person can make a difference. • Is that one person you?
DyddMercher Wednesday 5.11.14Thema’rWythnos – CyfrifoldebTheme for the week – Responsibility • What does this mean?
DyddIau Thursday 6.11.14Thema’rWythnos – CyfrifoldebTheme for the week – Responsibility • Freedom of thought, which all truly independent thinkers have carries with it an awesome responsibility. It means that I can blame nobody else for what I choose to think and believe and do. • Do you agree with this?
DyddGwener Friday 7.11.14Thema’rWythnos – CyfrifoldebTheme for the week – Responsibility What is meant by this quotation?
The Soldier's Cross is a representation, of a fallen soldier/marine/sailor/airman, that we display during a memorial. DyddLlun Monday 10.11.14Thema’rWythnos – CofioTheme for the week – Remembrance • The gift of memory enables us to recall the good and the bad in our lives, and the good and the bad we have caused for others. • It is only because we can remember the past that we can now use our freedom to choose?
DyddMawrth Tuesday 11.11.14Thema’rWythnos – CofioTheme for the week – Remembrance • There is no honourable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war except its end. Anon Why should be all, especially today, work towards war comes to an end?
DyddMercher Wednesday 12.11.14Thema’rWythnos – CofioTheme for the week – Remembrance • Look at this picture • Bow your head for a few minutes and think of the meaning of the image. • Think of all the millions of people who have lost their lives in order to secure our freedom. • Are we grateful for their sacrifice?
DyddIau Thursday 13.11.14Thema’rWythnos – CofioTheme for the week – Remembrance • Watch this clip which shows soldiers leaving a landing craft on Sword Beach on D day. (The sound has been added later and you may want to switch it off) • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U_RC-SrV-Q • Imagine you were on that craft. How would you feel? • Would you have had the courage to do what these men had to do knowing that they may be killed? • For a moment reflect on what we have to be grateful to these men for
DyddGwener Friday 14.11.14Thema’rWythnos – CofioTheme for the week – Remembrance • Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organised his society. What man has made, man can change. Frederick Moore Vinson
DyddLlun Monday 17.11.14 Thema’rWythnos – Tyfu i fynuTheme for the week – Growing up • Growing up happens in a heart-beat. One day you’re in nappies, the next day you’re gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. • What are you best memories of childhood? Who do they involve?
DyddMawrth Tuesday 18.11.14Thema’rWythnos – Tyfu i fynuTheme for the week – Growing up • Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. If you’re not failing you’re not growing. • What lessons have you learned by failing?
DyddMercher Wednesday 19.11.14Themau’rWythnos – TyfuifynuTheme for the week – Growing up • Youth is a mask, it does not last, Live it long and live it fast. • Discuss this statement in your form. Try to understand what it means and say why you agree or disagree with it
DyddIau Thursday20.11.14Thema’rWythnos – Tyfu i fynuTheme for the week – Growing up • We do not remember days, we remember moments CesanePareso What happened yesterday? Can you remember every single thing about it? Why do you think we remember some things but not others?