You may wish to ask the children to make up some verses of their own!Īsk the children to think about their favourite activities and about which adults join in with these activities or enable the children to carry them out. Show the following new verses to the Mary Poppins song and, if possible, sing these with the children. Remind the children that, as well as kite flying, there are many other activities we might enjoy with other people. At the end of the film, the family goes off to have some fun together flying a kite.Īsk if any of the children enjoy flying kites and ask them to share some experiences of this. When she first arrives at the children's house, she flies in on an umbrella! Following this, all sorts of magic seems to happen around her, and eventually Mary even works her magic on the children’s parents. However, Mary Poppins is no ordinary nanny. The children’s mother is a very busy lady who is involved in all sorts of projects, but particularly in campaigning for women to have the right to vote in elections. He has a very important and stressful job at the bank and some very severe bosses. The children’s father is quite a severe man who doesn’t stand for any nonsense and has never had much time for fun.

It is about a nanny who is employed to look after two little children whose home is a very busy one. Sometimes we only have this quality time with adults who are close to us when we are all on holiday.Īsk how many children have seen the film, Mary Poppins. Sometimes they have little time to stop and play. Often, they have to do work in the evening. They sometimes come home late because they have to travel a long way to work. They have many responsibilities at work and at home. Are there certain things that they enjoy doing most with certain people?Īdults can be very busy people. (You may wish to sensitively tie in this assembly with Father’s Day on 19 June.)Īsk the children what they enjoy doing most in the world.

Optional: you may prefer to have the extra verses of ‘Let’s go fly a kite’ displayed for the children and ask someone to play the music. It is available at and is 2.50 minutes long.

Have available the song ‘Let’s go fly a kite’ from the film, Mary Poppins, and the means to play it during the assembly.

You will need a way to record the answers that the children give in the first part of the assembly. To celebrate the many things we enjoy doing as recreation.

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