Fear Of Missing Out - Assembly

“FOMO- Fear Of Missing Out” assembly

This assembly has been put together by a Head of Year/Pastoral Leader and is designed to be delivered to a whole year group/house or used within tutor time/dinnertime club, or after school club etc.

Aims
To help students to:
• Understand what FOMO is (Fear Of Missing OUT).
• Understand how spending time on social media may be affecting you.
• Understand how spending time on social media may be holding you back

This assembly deals with/raises issues of:
• Social anxiety
• Mental health concerns associated with social media over-use
• Depression
• Peer pressure
• Cyber bullying
• Low self-esteem
• Gossip
• Telling lies/being fake
• Physiological problems associated with late night phone screen-viewing (effects of blue light)
• Sleep pattern disruption and effects on physical development
• Trolls and haters
• Internet connectivity v interconnectivity

The assembly has 52 slides, one video clip and outro music. It will last 15-20 minutes, depending on how much audience participation you encourage. It leads from FOMO to encourage JOMO (Joy Of Missing Out)

This assembly forms a series of assemblies (10-15 in total- which I will be adding in the near future) designed to build a positive year group identity, and to boost the resilience of the individual students.

Regards
Matthew Obee