PP Assembly: Materialism: Life+Money =Happiness?

Materialism still unfortunately very much an evil of our society today.
Personally I think every school year should include an assembly on this topic.
As of January 2018 it is the only TES assembly on Materialism!

**It covers the following; **
1. What is materialism?
2. What is the problem with materialism?
3. What is the solution to materialism?

It is aimed at Secondary school children but can be adapted to Primary children or used in an RE lesson.

It includes the following:

1. Suggested songs: the Flying Lizards 1979:Money That’s What I want
   Others could be Madonna’s ‘Material Girl’ , Spice Girls ‘Tell You What I Want’ or Lennon’s ‘Imagine’.

2. Video: an extract from ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ (Clean) to show the destructive powers of money on character.

3. A Bible reading

4. Prayer

5. Current research stats: an extract from the ‘Guardian’ of last year-2017.
   This is the beginning of a realisation that: if E= money then we don’t get to M C squared =happiness.

6. Final thought

7. Call to action

Clearly you can easily adapt this assembly to the post-Christmas period or your own requirements; e.g. stealing/lying.
Tell me what you use and why you chose this topic for an assembly.
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Positive feedback telling me how you used or adapted this assembly would be really nice!