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Daily Act of Collective Worship 2014-15

Daily Act of Collective Worship 2014-15. Spring Term. Dydd Llun Monday 5.1.15 Thema’r Wythnos – Hawliau Dynol Theme for the week – Human Rights. Definition

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Daily Act of Collective Worship 2014-15

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  1. Daily Act of Collective Worship 2014-15 Spring Term

  2. DyddLlun Monday 5.1.15Thema’rWythnos – HawliauDynolTheme for the week – Human Rights • Definition • The basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled, often held to include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law. • What are the basic rights • of a human being? Look • carefully at the image

  3. DyddMawrth Tuesday 6.1.15Thema’rWythnos – HawliauDynolTheme for the week – Human Rights • As a young person, do you have any rights? • What are they? • How much will they change as you grow older?

  4. DyddMercher Wednesday 7.1.15Thema’rWythnos – HawliauDynolTheme for the week – Human Rights • In Germany, the Nazis first came for the Communists, and I did not speak up, because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak up, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak up, because I was not a trade unionist. Then the came for the Catholics, and I did not speak up, because I was not a Catholic. Then they came for me….and by that time, there was no one to speak up for anyone. • Martin Niemoeller. Luthern Church • Are our rights more important than our responsibility to others?

  5. DyddIau Thursday 8.1.15Thema’rWythnos – HawliauDynolTheme for the week – Human Rights • Name 5 people or organisations who have campaigned, or are still campaigning, for better human rights. • (You might like to mention: Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, the United Nations, Amnesty International…) • What do they stand for?

  6. DyddGwener Friday 9.1.15Thema’rWythnos – HawliauDynolTheme for the week – Human Rights • All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. • Article 1  The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 • What changes as people older?

  7. DyddLlun Monday 12.1.15Thema’rWythnosGwaithTîm Theme for the week – Team Work • The difference between a successful team and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of collective will. • Whether you support Man Utd or not, they were not successful in the 2013-14 season. How might this saying apply to their situation

  8. DyddMawrth Tuesday 13.1.15Thema’rWythnosGwaithTîm Theme for the week – Team Work • Many hands make light work. • How many times have you heard this, but what does it really mean?

  9. DyddMercher Wednesday 14.1.15Thema’rWythnosGwaithTîm Theme for the week – Team Work • Teamwork is the ability to work together towards a common vision, it is the fuel that allows common people achieve uncommon results. • There have been many disasters which have affected large numbers of people eg earthquakes/tsunamis, drought in East Africa, 9.11. How do the acts of people working together help to alleviate the problems some people may face?

  10. DyddIau Thursday 15.1.15Thema’rWythnosGwaithTîm Theme for the week – Team Work • Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is a success. • Henry Ford • As a form group pick your fantasy football (or other sports) team. • Why have you picked each player? • Is it sufficient just to have 11 good players, or do you need more than that?

  11. DyddGwener Friday 16.1.15Thema’rWythnosGwaithTîm Theme for the week – Team Work • Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together. • We all get excited when we see it starting to snow. It hold a promise of something special. • Think of something you have done as a team. What was the outcome? • Why was it a success?

  12. DyddLlun Monday 19.1.15Thema’rWythnos - GoddefgarwchTheme for the week - Tolerance • ‘Love one another and you will be happy’. It’s as simple and as difficult as that. There is no other way. • Does this mean a smoochy type of love? • What other types of love are there? • How does loving other people make you happy?

  13. DyddMawrth Tuesday 20.1.15Thema’rWythnos - GoddefgarwchTheme for the week - Tolerance • Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence. • Pervez Musharraf • Is this the impression of Islam that is portrayed by some of the press and media? • Why do they try to create a different impression than the one Pervez Musharraf gives?

  14. DyddMercher Wednesday 21.1.15Thema’rWythnos - Goddefgarwch Theme for the week - Tolerance • We the people of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war….to practise tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours. • UN charter • How might tolerance of other people and their ideas have prevented some of the atrocities of the second world war? • What is our collective responsibility to ensure that this doesn’t happen in the future?

  15. DyddIau Thursday 22.1.15Thema’rWythnos - GoddefgarwchTheme for the week - Tolerance • Anger makes you smaller’ while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were Cherie Carter Scott Having read this quotation do you think you are you a small person or a tall person? What do other people think? What makes them think that about you?

  16. DyddGwener Friday 23.1.15Thema’rWythnos - GoddefgarwchTheme for the week - Tolerance • In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. • Dalai Lama • What does this mean? • .

  17. DyddLlun Monday26.1.15Thema’rWythnos - CynaliadwyeddTheme for the week - Sustainability • This weeks thoughts offers a daily statement for you to consider our role in ensuring that we live sustainably. In relation to each slide discuss how we could change our lifestyles to ensure we have enough resources fro future generations • In under 40 minutes the USA receives more energy in the form of sunlight that it does from the fossil fuels it burns in a year.

  18. DyddMawrth Tuesday 27.1.15Thema’rWythnos - CynaliadwyeddTheme for the week - Sustainability • The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives • Chinese proverb • Why is it not sensible to use up the resources on which you depend?

  19. DyddMercher Wednesday 28.1.15Thema’rWythnos - CynaliadwyeddTheme for the week - Sustainability • This weeks thoughts offers a daily statement for you to consider our role in ensuring that we live sustainably. In relation to each slide discuss how we could change our lifestyles to ensure we have enough resources fro future generations • London recycles only 9% of household waste compared with 25% in Barcelona and 50% in Seattle. • Why does this differ so much?

  20. DyddIau Thursday 29.1.15Thema’rWythnos - CynaliadwyeddTheme for the week - Sustainability • This weeks thoughts offers a daily statement for you to consider our role in ensuring that we live sustainably. In relation to each slide discuss how we could change our lifestyles to ensure we have enough resources fro future generations • Using a clothes line rather than a tumble dryer can save around £50 a year on the average family’s electricity bill and reduce carbon emissions by almost a tonne.

  21. DyddGwener Friday 30.1.15Thema’rWythnos - CynaliadwyeddTheme for the week - Sustainability • This weeks thoughts offers a daily statement for you to consider our role in ensuring that we live sustainably. In relation to each slide discuss how we could change our lifestyles to ensure we have enough resources fro future generations • The earth can provide for everyone’s need but not everyone’s greed. Sustainability is the key. • Do we really need as much as we use? • How much of the things we need do we actually waste and throw away? • Is that an ethical way of living?

  22. DyddLlun Monday 2.2.15Thema’rWythnos - GwrthdaroTheme for the week - Conflict • Don’t be afraid of opposition. Remember a kite rises against the wind; not with the wind. • Hamilton Mabie: • What does it mean the “kite rises against the wind”? • How will this sort of conflict make us grow stronger as a person? • What effect might the “wrong “ sort of conflict have on a person?

  23. DyddMawrth Tuesday 3.2.15Thema’rWythnos - GwrthdaroTheme for the week - Conflict • I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: “The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that’s fair”. In these words he epitomized the history of the human race • Bertrand Russell: • Is it fair if the bigs hit the littles ? • How does this reflect the world’s superpowers approach to the less influential countries of the world? • What can be done to overcome this

  24. DyddMercher Wednesday 4.2.15Thema’rWythnos - GwrthdaroTheme for the week - Conflict • People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies. • Miguel Angel Ruiz • How far do you agree with this statement?

  25. DyddIau Thursday 5.2.15Thema’rWythnos - GwrthdaroTheme for the week - Conflict • Many promising reconciliations have broken down because, while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven Charles Williams • What does it mean to forgive? • What does it mean to be forgiven? • In any conflict who has the right to forgive?

  26. DyddGwener Friday 6.2.15Thema’rWythnos - GwrthdaroTheme for the week - Conflict • Anybody can become angry- that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -that is not easy Aristotle Does resolving conflict with anger actually achieve anything?

  27. DyddLlun Monday 9.2.15Thema’rWythnos - CariadTheme for the week - Love • Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. • The Bible : 1 Corinthians • Is love the strongest of all emotions?

  28. DyddMawrth Tuesday 10.2.15Thema’rWythnos - CariadTheme for the week - Love • I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love Mother Theresa MotherTheresa set up and ran hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; dispensaries and mobile clinics; children's and family counselling programmes; orphanages; and schools. How would the paradox she describes above have helped her in her work?

  29. DyddMercher Wednesday 11.2.15Thema’rWythnos - CariadTheme for the week - Love • There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. • George Sand • Why does being in love and being loved make us feel so happy?

  30. DyddIau Thursday 12.2.15Thema’rWythnos - CariadTheme for the week - Love • Love is smiling on the inside and out. • Jennifer Williams • AND • Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds and warming your soul. • Unknown • How would you describe love?

  31. DyddGwener Friday 13.2.15Thema’rWythnos - CariadTheme for the week - Love • Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. • Bruce Lee • How and why does love change as you know someone longer?

  32. DyddLlun Monday 23.2.15Thema’rWythnos - TeuluTheme for the week - Family • What is a family? • Discuss what this means to you. What is the role of a the close family, the extended family etc.

  33. DyddMawrth Tuesday 24.2.15Thema’rWythnos - TeuluTheme for the week - Family • We are all part of the family of humankind. We may have different skin colour, beliefs, traditions or cultures, but we still belong to the same family. • How do we show each other the kind of love and respect a family should show one another?

  34. DyddMercher Wednesday 25.2.15Thema’rWythnos - TeuluTheme for the week - Family • Good friends are like a family you choose yourself. If they are truly good friends they will never expect you to choose between them and your family. • Why would friends never expect to come before your family • Is this true of your friends?

  35. DyddIau Thursday 26.2.15Thema’rWythnos - TeuluTheme for the week - Family • You don’t choose your family they are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. • Desmond Tutu • Do you treat your family as something special or do you take them for granted? • How often do you say thank you for the things they do for you?

  36. DyddGwener Friday 27.2.15Thema’rWythnos - TeuluTheme for the week - Family • My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ''You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.' • Harmon Killebrew • Why is this Dad’s point of view important?

  37. DyddLlun Monday 2.3.15Thema’rWythnos - GwladgarwchTheme for the week - Patriotism • Patriotism is a kind of religion. It is the egg from which wars are hatched. • Guy de Maupassant • What do you understand by Patriotism? Why might patriotism lead to war?

  38. DyddMawrth Tuesday 3.3.15Thema’rWythnos - GwladgarwchTheme for the week - Patriotism • I have no country to fight for. My country is the earth and I am a citizen of the world. • Eugene V. Debs • Do you consider yourself Welsh. British, European or something different? Can you explain why?

  39. DyddMercher Wednesday 4.3.15Thema’rWythnos - GwladgarwchTheme for the week - Patriotism • The love of one’s country is a splendid thing, but why should love stop at the border? • Pablo Casals • If you moved to live in Australia would you feel any less Welsh? • Might you feel less Welsh the longer you spent there

  40. DyddIau Thursday 5.3.15Thema’rWythnos - GwladgarwchTheme for the week - Patriotism • I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. • Edith Cavell • Is there a place for patriotism in today’s world?

  41. DyddGwener Friday 6.3.15Thema’rWythnos - GwladgarwchTheme for the week - Patriotism • The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy -Patriotism also involves service to one’s country • Too many times in the last century men and women were asked to fight for their country. Would you be prepared to do that if you were asked?

  42. DyddLlun Monday 23.3.15Thema’rWythnos – YrAmgylcheddTheme for the week - Environment • We must look after our environment as it cannot look after itself. • Do you agree?

  43. DyddMawrth Tuesday 24.3.15Thema’rWythnos – YrAmgylcheddTheme for the week – Environment • “We strive to protect what was built by man, but give little thought to protecting what was made by God” • Isn’t it our duty to look after both the buildings AND the environment? • Why? • Caernarfon Castle - a CADW site

  44. DyddMercher Wednesday 25.3.15Thema’rWythnos – YrAmgylcheddTheme for the week - Environment • “Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine” • Why is clean air so important?

  45. DyddIau Thursday 26.3.15Thema’rWythnos – YrAmgylcheddTheme for the week - Environment • “If we can’t reuse or recycle it, we shouldn’t be making it” • Try to make a list of things we wouldn’t have if we were unable to reuse or recycle it. • How would that change your life?

  46. DyddGwener Friday 27.3.15Thema’rWythnos - YrAmgylcheddTheme for the week - Environment • Advice from a Redwood • Stand tall and proud • Sink your roots into the earth • Be content with your natural beauty • Drink plenty of water • Enjoy the view. • What message can we take from the • Redwood living in it’s environment?

  47. DyddLlun Monday16.3.15Thema’rWythnos – DeallEraillTheme for the week – Understanding Others • Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven Yiddish Proverb

  48. DyddMawrth Tuesday 17.3.15Thema’rWythnos – DeallEraillTheme for the week – Understanding Others • In silence, think of a time in your life when you had to consider the feelings of others. • What happened? • Now, think of a rime when you only thought of yourself and ignored those around you. • What happened? • Which was the better experience? • Why?

  49. DyddMercher Wednesday 18.3.15Thema’rWythnos – DeallEraillTheme for the week – Understanding Others • To the optimist a glass is half full. To the pessimist a glass is half empty. To the realist it is half a glass of water. To an economist you need a smaller glass. To a scientist you need more water. To a chemist it is merely crystallised silica with H2O in it. • We are all different things to different people. Think of about ten different people and then decide what your relationship is to them. • Do they all understand you in the same way?

  50. DyddIau Thursday 19.3.15Thema’rWythnos – DeallEraill Theme for the week – Understanding Others • I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen • Ernest Hemingway • How often do you REALLY listen to what is being said to you?

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