Description
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book
THROUGH THE YEAR
ST VALENTINE’S DAY
By Stuart Kerner
Suitable for Whole School
Aim
To consider what love really means.
Preparation and materials
• Prepare a large photocopy, OHP transparency or PowerPoint slide of the statue of Eros: some good places to find a picture on the internet include: www.coe.uncc.edu/~sherlock/Personal/Summer2000/523517/Medium12.jpg
www.mjausson.com/2002/img/25Jun02_London/11eros_sky.jpg
• Some Valentine’s Day cards with pictures of Eros/Cupid.
Assembly
1. Find out from the students how many of them either sent or received a Valentine card. Tell them that nobody can say for sure who St Valentine was; and there is nothing to connect him to the custom of sending anonymous cards to our sweethearts – although many different theories exist. Comment that it is funny how facts and myths get confused.
2. Now ask if anyone has ever been to Piccadilly Circus in London. At the very least, they will probably have ‘bought’ Piccadilly while playing Monopoly. Say that in the centre of Piccadilly Circus there is a statue of a winged man wearing only a loincloth. He’s standing on one leg above a bronze fountain and is firing a bow and arrow. This figure, made of aluminium, is usually known as ‘Eros’: show the
picture of the statue...
Taken from Secondary Schools Assemblies Resources Book edited by Stuart Kerner
Published by SPCK
THROUGH THE YEAR
ST VALENTINE’S DAY
By Stuart Kerner
Suitable for Whole School
Aim
To consider what love really means.
Preparation and materials
• Prepare a large photocopy, OHP transparency or PowerPoint slide of the statue of Eros: some good places to find a picture on the internet include: www.coe.uncc.edu/~sherlock/Personal/Summer2000/523517/Medium12.jpg
www.mjausson.com/2002/img/25Jun02_London/11eros_sky.jpg
• Some Valentine’s Day cards with pictures of Eros/Cupid.
Assembly
1. Find out from the students how many of them either sent or received a Valentine card. Tell them that nobody can say for sure who St Valentine was; and there is nothing to connect him to the custom of sending anonymous cards to our sweethearts – although many different theories exist. Comment that it is funny how facts and myths get confused.
2. Now ask if anyone has ever been to Piccadilly Circus in London. At the very least, they will probably have ‘bought’ Piccadilly while playing Monopoly. Say that in the centre of Piccadilly Circus there is a statue of a winged man wearing only a loincloth. He’s standing on one leg above a bronze fountain and is firing a bow and arrow. This figure, made of aluminium, is usually known as ‘Eros’: show the
picture of the statue...
Taken from Secondary Schools Assemblies Resources Book edited by Stuart Kerner
Published by SPCK
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