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HMD08 Primary Assembly

An Assembly for Primary Students (Age 7-11)

Today we are taking time to think about sad things that have happened in our world. Sometimes we hear about floods, earthquakes or tsunamis. Everyone gets very upset when they hear about people who have lost their lives and their homes. Other times we hear about changes in the weather and how when rain does not fall people in some parts of the world cannot grow enough crops and cannot find enough to eat. This makes us sad too and sometimes we have collections of money to help people in need or we take toys we do not play with anymore and nice clothes we no longer wear to charity shops where they can be sold to help people in need. We call floods, earthquakes, tsunamis and changes in the weather natural disasters, although many people say that these events are caused by climate change. We are all trying very hard to prevent this by recycling and reusing things to save energy. This makes us feel better because we feel that we are doing something to help the world, even if what we do is very small.

Sadly some disasters happen when people are cruel towards other people. The most well known example of this was called the Holocaust. In this disaster millions of people were killed across Europe. Most of these people were killed by other people because they were Jewish. They were deliberately murdered because of the racist ideas of the people in charge. These people were the Nazis. They were cruel to other people too, such as disabled people, gay people, travellers and those who disagreed with Nazi ideas.

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