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Truthfulness and Honesty Assembly Script

Aim:
• To understand the importance of truthfulness and honesty.

You will need:


• The PowerPoint presentation, ‘Truthfulness’.

Slide 1: Title Slide


Play some calming music as the children enter the assembly, to establish the mood and
behavioural expectations for the session.

Slide 2: What Is a Lie?


Read the question to the children – what is a lie? Ask children to think, pair, share ideas
with the group. Ensure that children understand that storytelling and imagining is not
a lie, it is pretending, which is part of play. Something can be ‘real’ in your imagination.

Slide 3: Are These Things True or Untrue?


Select some children to come and sort the true and untrue statements.

Slide 4: The Boy Who Cried Wolf


Introduce the story to the children. Has anyone heard this story before? Encourage
children to indicate if they are familiar with the story, but not to spoil the ending for
other children! Explain that this is a very old story, called an Aesop’s fable. Aesop was a
storyteller, about 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece. He loved to tell fables. These are
short stories with a moral, or a lesson to teach.

Slide 5-12: The Boy Who Cried Wolf


Read the story to the children.

Slide 13: What Did You Learn From the Story?


Discuss the questions. Emphasise that it is important to tell the truth so that people can
trust us. If we tell lies then that trust can be broken and sometimes this is hard to repair.

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Slide 14: What Should You Do?


Discuss the example shown in the illustration. What do you think has happened?
What would you do if you had kicked the football? How would you feel? Discuss
the responses with the children. Why might you feel tempted to lie? Make sure that
children understand that it might be tempting to lie, to avoid getting into trouble. What
would be the right thing to do? The right thing would be to tell the truth and say
sorry. Everyone makes mistakes, how you choose to react is the important thing.
The window can be fixed. Telling a lie is double trouble. You could be in trouble
for breaking the window AND for telling a lie. Bruce Lee says that “Mistakes are
always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”

Slide 15: What Should You Do?


Discuss the example shown in the illustration as above. Ensure the children understand
that sometimes it is embarrassing to admit that you have done something wrong, or
made a mistake.

Slide 16: What Should You Do?


Discuss the example shown in the illustration as per slide 14. Why would you push
someone? What could have happened? Why else might you tell a lie? Discuss other
motives for lying with the children, which may include not letting someone down, being
scared of the consequences, wishing they had not made the initial mistake.

Slide 17:
Has anyone ever told a lie and then admitted it? Ask children to close their eyes
and raise their hands, or show by touching their nose if they have so that they are not
influenced by their peers. How did it feel to tell the truth? It can be a massive relief,
or a ‘weight off the mind’. What do children think this phrase means?

Thinking Time:
Have a short silence for children to reflect on the theme of the assembly. Explain that
we are in charge of ourselves. We all have to make choices about our behaviour. We can
choose to tell the truth and be honest, or to tell lies. Share the following quote about
honesty:

“Being honest never hurts anyone. Being a liar hurts only you.”

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