This book is not just an addition to the pile of books about school assemblies. It is a serious attempt, possibly the first, to see assembly as Liturgy, as much as what is done in parishes every Sunday.
An assembly is "prayer", not a performance or a competition between classes and teachers. It is less complicated than busy teachers sometimes think, once basic concepts of liturgy have been explained.
Julie McCann, besides being a teacher, is a musician. She is much in demand to speak about liturgy in schools to gatherings of teachers:
"I have been a teacher in a large primary school in London for eight years. Over that time we have worked to change our practice in assemblies from class ‘performances’ to liturgies that reflect and form our identity as a Catholic Christian school."
