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• Once the assembly has ended, and if time permits, the Role Model can sign somebooks, visit some classrooms, or have morning or afternoon tea with your staff.• Please be aware that some Role Models (especially travelling Role Models) maynot be able to stay after the assembly as they will have to travel on to the nextschool in their schedule.Ideas to make your Role Model assembly special• Include the giving of the Kids at Home books to the younger siblings.This gets the parents and the younger siblings into the school, as well asmaking the older student a ‘hero’ alongside the visiting Role Model.• Treat your Role Model to the school choir or kapa haka group performing for them• Invite your sponsors, local press and parents along.• Take lots of photos. Send some to Duffy Books in Homes for our newsletter!Please send these by the end of term if possible and please make sure theyare of a high enough quality to publish.• Decorate the stage area, or front of hall, in a theme.• Wrap up the boxes of books – either by the class, or by another class as a gift.It is not necessary to use fancy wrapping paper – children’s artwork is great.One school took the phrase ‘read it’ and interpreted it as a frog’s croak.All the boxes were decorated in green – as frogs and sitting on lily pads.• Have children at the gate or entrance to meet the Role Model – they thenbecome the ‘minders’ for the visit.• Please acknowledge the sponsors and their contribution whether they can bethere or not.• Where there is room in the hall and each class has received their box ofbooks at the assembly, get each class to go to an area of the hall and havethe teacher give out the books there and then. This allows the excitement andbuzz to continue in a special space. Also the Role Model can move aroundfrom class group to group.• Visitors always appreciate singing by the school, not just the Duffy song.Invite guests to do the actions with the kids.• Some schools have pupils, and sometimes teachers, up the front doingactions to the Duffy song.• Please be aware that where questions for the role model are allowed, thistime can get repetitive and lengthy. Some schools get children to write outtheir questions beforehand – the questions are both chosen from a box orread from the front or a pupil stands up in the hall and reads one out.It isn’t as spontaneous but does allow for vetting and variety and worksin a large school.• A teacher reads the beginning of a book, stopping at a crucial point to whetthe appetite.• Host a morning tea for the Role Model with a selected group of students fromeach class.• Set the day aside as a ‘dress-up’ day – everyone comes as their favouritebook character, play games etc.April, 2008