School Assemblies


The Irving family participated in a great Veteran’s Day assembly this week, and from my vantage point – some important points to unpack.
Irving has talent -
  • Sam – you are one of the big time organizers!  Your planning behind the scenes and throughout – invitation templates, reach out to teacher to encourage participation, agenda planning, sharp patriotic program, visual displays, outreach to community veterans, and execution to set the table for the entire school to gather and celebrate our veterans.   Thank you – thank you – thank you for all the time and attention to detail. You have talent!
  • Mike – you have the ability to zero in on an event and breathe energy into it through music.  You selected the right music that set the tone for celebrating our veterans. Hearing our students sing such patriotic songs left all of us feeling more patriotic.  Your music  - and your ability to showcase our students’ musical abilities raised the assembly experience to a true celebration. Mike, it’s obvious you have found your passion.  And, you have talent!

It is no small feat to gather some 500 students together in an all school assembly.   But school assemblies dhave benefits when they are done well.  And our Veteran’s Day assembly was done very well.
How about students?  What do they gain through this experience?
  • We gave students the feeling of what it means to belong to the bigger Irving community.
  • We showcased letters written to veterans by our students
  • We heard students speak in front of the entire school on the meaning of this holiday.
  • We gave all students the training and opportunity to exhibit good social behavior in public life.
  • We honored the time our family/community veterans gave to our country.
Thank you to all of you for your support and participation with the Veteran’s Day assembly.




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