Welcome

Welcome to the Assembly Line


As a priest, minister, youth worker or teacher the task of sharing the gospel with young people is in your hands yet it is something that many people shy away from, and for many different reasons!  The Assembly Line provides assembly and homily ideas for use throughout the year and places into your hands simple yet imaginative ways to share the message of Jesus with young people.  Each idea, of course, needs to be delivered in your manner and using your own personality and gifts and, as such, they should be used as an outline.

Many of the ideas may be used with little or no preparation.  Although some assemblies suggest visual aids to prepare beforehand, many of them are available in most homes or may be picked up along the way to school or church--at the local shop or petrol station!

I hope this website will develop over the next few months to include more assembly outlines and ideas for use by form teachers and others (designed to involve pupils in planning and delivering their own assemblies).  Also, in the pipeline...various liturgies for use throughout the school year as well as resources for the celebration of the Eucharist which will be most useful, perhaps, for Church Schools.  PLUS, new assemblies will be added as frequently as possible so keep visiting to check out on the latest resources!

Anyway… I do hope that you will find something here to help you.  It would be great to have feedback so please feel free to get in touch!

Fr Dean Atkins
Diocese of Llandaff Youth Chaplain

What age group are the Assemblies aimed at?

The Assemblies on this website are, at the moment, aimed at pupils in
Secondary Schools.

Most of these assemblies have been delivered to all year groups in various
secondary schools and as such there is no Key Stage or Year Group recommendations for particular assemblies.

However, each assembly obviously needs to be adapted and delivered in
different ways, according to the age group of the young people involved.  This website, therefore, assumes that some common sense is being used in the
choice, presentation and delivery of the assemblies!

Contact

If you would like to offer feedback, have any questions or queries, or notice any errors, incomplete pages or broken links then please do get in touch!

Email: frdean@theassemblyline.co.uk

Welsh Language

Please bear with me if you are looking for assemblies in the Welsh Language.  I hope that much, if not all, of this website will be
translated at some stage.