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15th September 2022

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  1. good morning.
  2. I hope you're all having a wonderful day before I start the Assembly proper.
  3. I just got a couple of messages regarding playtime's.
  4. Um, I went out and spent some time on the playground yesterday lunchtime.
  5. Most of you were playing brilliantly. It was a really lovely, um, session.
  6. But there are a couple of things, Um,
  7. if you're playing with the ball, that's great. Lovely.
  8. But you know, I don't need to play near the Children that are doing other things,
  9. because if they get in the way, they can get hurt.
  10. And that's what happened yesterday, actually,
  11. So there's plenty of field space for you to take a ball, picket around,
  12. throw it around or whatever,
  13. but not near groups of Children who are perhaps
  14. on play equipment or reading or whatever else,
  15. Um, and skipping ropes again. Somebody was hurt yesterday.
  16. It wasn't intentional.
  17. Nobody meant to do it, But it was just not thinking,
  18. hooking a skipping rope around the neck
  19. to play a game. And, of course, it got pulled tight and hurt somebody's neck. So
  20. just you just don't hook and hook, uh, skipping rope around another child.
  21. Please use them for skipping.
  22. Okay. All right, so that's over and done with.
  23. So what I want to talk to you about today is the author, Roald Dahl,
  24. which I'm sure I'm hoping a lot of you will be very familiar with.
  25. Um, he has written lots of books throughout his life.
  26. Um, he wrote lots of short stories.
  27. He wrote poetry, he wrote screenplays, and he was also a fighter pilot in the war.
  28. So it was a pretty amazing man.
  29. Um, sadly, we lost him in 1990 but his legacy lives on through his amazing books.
  30. Um,
  31. he had a very unusual life. His father died when he was three.
  32. His mother was Norwegian,
  33. and she would tell him lots of Norwegian folk stories as he was growing up,
  34. and that sort of peaked his interest in in great stories.
  35. Um, he kept a diary from a very early age
  36. and lots of experiences that he had throughout his life, normal experiences,
  37. like visiting a sweet shop and choose looking at all the jars of sweets and choosing
  38. what he wanted he would use to weave into amazing stories that we all love today.
  39. Um, and of course,
  40. that one inspired that the visits to the sweet shop were
  41. part of the inspiration for Charlie and the chocolate factory.
  42. Um, so he wrote lots of books.
  43. I just popped down to our school library and grabbed a handful of Roald Dahl books.
  44. There were more than that.
  45. And I'm sure there are probably some of you that have
  46. a rolled our book out at the moment that you're enjoying.
  47. I hope so.
  48. I'm just gonna flash in front of you. Just some of the stories he wrote.
  49. Charlie and the chocolate factory. Uh, Danny, the champion of the world.
  50. Um, the B f g.
  51. I don't know what else we've got. Fantastic.
  52. Mr Fox, we've got George's marvellous medicine,
  53. James and the Giant Peach
  54. or the follow up to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
  55. Charlie and the Great Glass elevator, The witches, Matilda,
  56. all sorts of amazing stories.
  57. One of my favourites that I've read and I have
  58. enjoyed lots and lots of his was actually his autobiography.
  59. So the story of his own life, he wrote to actually this one.
  60. The first one called Boy, obviously his boyhood, his childhood.
  61. And then the second one was going solo.
  62. Both great books are particularly enjoyed, Boy and
  63. some very, very funny moments from his childhood,
  64. but lots of sadness and lots of unpleasant things that happened to him.
  65. Um, and you can see the characters he had
  66. that he met in his life. He's woven into his stories
  67. and and what amazing stories they are. So I'd recommend really any one of his books.
  68. They're all great in different ways.
  69. What would for me is one of the most
  70. interesting things about Rolled is that he was dyslexic.
  71. So some of you will be aware of dyslexia. Others of you won't.
  72. But dyslexia is when you have a difficulty with words,
  73. so it's not the same for everybody.
  74. With dyslexia, it can present in different ways,
  75. but often the words on a page or sort of dance around.
  76. It's difficult for a dyslexic person to perhaps read it takes them.
  77. It's much harder for them. They have to work a lot harder at it.
  78. Um, and Spellings
  79. very, very tricky to be able to spell often for somebody with dyslexia.
  80. So for rolled out to be such an amazing
  81. author with the complication of having dyslexia is amazing.
  82. But he just absolutely flipped it and used it to his advantage,
  83. so he would make up wonderful words.
  84. And, of course, if you make up a word, you can spell it However you like,
  85. you're not wrong, because it's your word.
  86. Um and there's all sorts of examples of that.
  87. The one I suppose for me, um,
  88. which is most memorable it's going to be at the bottom of my pile now is the B F G, where
  89. our hero, Sophie meets the giant.
  90. Um, and the giant has difficulties,
  91. some difficulties with language and makes up all sorts of words himself.
  92. And, um,
  93. he calls human beings human beings, which I really like.
  94. Um, and he has all sorts of things that he eats because he doesn't eat humans,
  95. of course.
  96. Or human beings, um, snows, Cumbers and all sorts of amazing,
  97. um,
  98. vegetables that he eats with all these amazing words. But that's a great story,
  99. that one. So, um,
  100. yeah,
  101. he overcame those additional challenges as a dyslexic
  102. to become one of the most famous authors.
  103. Um, we've ever known in this country. So if he can do that Wow, imagine what we can do.
  104. Of course about one in 10 people are diagnosed with dyslexia. So
  105. and ask or maybe around 12 people.
  106. So have dyslexia,
  107. Some people who are diagnosed and some people don't they just work through it.
  108. Um,
  109. and they were incredibly successful.
  110. There are lots and lots of successful people with dyslexia.
  111. We've had people like Richard Branson, who runs Virgin, the company Virgin.
  112. He's a multimillionaire. Um, incredibly successful businessman.
  113. Walt Disney had dyslexia.
  114. Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, amazing scientists.
  115. Three former presidents of the United States of America had dyslexia,
  116. and we've got people like Steven Spielberg,
  117. who film director Amazing film director Jamie Oliver,
  118. the chef on television all the time.
  119. Incredibly successful has written loads of cookery books,
  120. dyslexia, so many others as well.
  121. So, um, it doesn't have to be a hindrance,
  122. but I do think my admiration for Roald Dahl is
  123. increased by the fact that he struggled with dyslexia.
  124. Okay, so we're going to say a little prayer.
  125. So if you could put your hands together and bow your heads.
  126. Dear Lord,
  127. we give thanks for all tile and his amazing life and stories.
  128. May we use his struggles with dyslexia as
  129. an inspiration for the challenges that we will face
  130. in our lives.
  131. Amen.
  132. Okay, um,
  133. so have a wonderful day. Rest of your day.
  134. And I no doubt I will see you around being and I will be, uh,
  135. wandering through the school or outside and we'll see you, then.
  136. Have a lovely day. Bye.