Fifty cracking good primary school assemblies A4, 64 pages

The search for the elusive egg of the legendary Waloo Waloo bird is going nowhere, until our hero bumps into the chief of the Nenenananananoonoo tribe in his local store. What a breakthrough! The chief reveals that the egg has been concealed in your school for many years, so it is within your pupils’ power to help bring the search to an end. What joy! What excitement! And what a mess - when our hapless leader finally makes the all-important discovery.

Ashley Guest’s collection of assemblies has a refreshing, pacy quality that gives everyone something to take away. Each has been tried and tested in primary schools and there are clearly indicated links to the National Curriculum.

The assemblies have an enduring quality, too, because the author finds adults stopping him in the street to recall the time he did ‘The Jam Sandwich’ assembly in their primary school. What better testimony to the relevance of this book to a gathering of young people?