All Year Round - Assemblies for Special Days and Celebrationsis a unique collection of over 50 assembly ideas focusing on special days in the school calendar year. A full assembly calendar with primary school assembly ideas for each day, you can turn to this resource time and time again.
Benefits
Reliable and easy to use – suitable for the entire primary age range, these assemblies are presented in an easy-to-use format. Each one can be used with very little preparation.
Summary of contents
All Year Round Assemblies will:
Provide valuable background information – a teacher’s introduction to each assembly gives valuable background information on the events, explaining their origins, significance and how they are celebrated.
Help you to deliver relevant and meaningful assemblies – sometimes touching, often humorous and always thought-provoking, these assemblies contain stories that have been especially written to be relevant and meaningful to primary-aged children, with an awareness of multicultural and gender issues.
Chapter breakdown
Jan New Year
Eid ul-Fitr
Martin Luther King Day
Burns Night
Holocaust Day
Chinese New Year
Feb St Valentine’s Day
Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day)
Ash Wednesday
Lent
Mar St David’s Day
Holi
St Patrick’s Day
Spring Equinox
World Day for Water
Mothering Sunday
Purim
Palm Sunday
Apr April Fool’s Day
Easter
Vaisakhi
Pesach (Passover)
The London Marathon
St George’s Day
May May Day
Wesak (Festival of Lights)
Comic Relief (Red Nose Day)
Shavuot
National Tests
FA Cup Final
Jun D-Day
Muhammad’s Birthday
Queen’s Birthday Honours List
Refugee Week
Father’s Day
Jul Hajj
Last day of school
Sep Starting new school/class
International Literacy Day
Day for International Peace
Navaratri (‘Nine Nights’ festival)
Harvest Festival
Yom Kippur
Oct Sukkot
Divali
Guru Nanak’s Birthday
Nov All Saints’ Day
Guy Fawkes/Bonfire Night
Remembrance Day
Winter
State Opening of Parliament
Children in Need
St Andrew’s Day
Dec Advent
Hanukkah
Christmas
Day of school Christmas dinner
Christmas carol service
Ramadan
Details
Include 240 pages of ready-to-use, fully photocopiable assemblies – and OHT masters for the whole year’s major religious and secular festivals
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