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This resource contains a simple text, 90-slide, PowerPoint presentation on the month of November. Never be stuck for an assembly in November again and improve your pupils’ general knowledge. It is ideal for a last minute assembly or unexpected tutor group time.
The PowerPoint focuses on:
How November got its name
Special Days – Advent, Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, The Lord Mayors Show, Anti-Bullying Week, Road Safety Week, US Presidential Elections, All Saints’ Day, All Souls’ Day, Bonfire Night, Armistice Day, Saint Cecilia’s Day, Saint Andrew’s Day
Notable Birthdays - Earl of Sandwich, Adolphe Sax, Abraham Lincoln, Marie Curie, Edmond Halley, Edward VII, Leonardo DiCaprio, Nadia Comaneci, Anders Celsius, Robert Louis Stevenson, Prince Charles, Claude Monet, Danny DeVito, Indira Gandhi, Robert F. Kennedy, Voltaire, Charles de Gaulle, Billie Jean King, Boris Becker, Miley Cyrus, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Tina Turner, Bruce Lee, William Blake, C S Lewis, Jonathan Swift, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain
Inventions, Discoveries, Launches - first regular TV service launched by BBC, The tomb of Tutankhamen discovered, Monopoly Game went on sale, London Gazette first published, x-ray discovered, computer mouse patented, Nintendo Gamecube, Nintendo Wii, and Xbox 360 released, British pillar boxes introduced, first episode of Dr Who
Notable Events and Happenings – The Gunpowder Plot, Lord Nelson’s statue in Trafalgar Square completed, Henry VI crowned, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy elected US President, Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Physics Prize, Berlin Wall opened, Henry Morton Stanley found David Livingstone, first Harry Potter film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Queen Elizabeth I became Queen, Duke of Wellington’s state funeral, Alfred Lord Tennyson became Poet Laureate, Pele scored his 1000th goal, Mayflower, arrived in America, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip got married, Lyndon B. Johnson became President of USA, Toy Story 1 premiered, Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, Lady Astor became first female MP, Crystal Palace burned down.
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This resource contains a short presentation on Christmas around the world and how it is celebrated in several countries.
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Christmas Around the World
This resource contains a fully editable, 55-slide PowerPoint presentation on Christmas celebrations, customs and traditions in different countries around the world. The countries featured include Argentina, Belgium, Australia, Iceland, Spain and Russia.
The presentation concludes with asking the pupils the question, which country they would like to visit at Christmas and why?
This is an ideal assembly for the Christmas period and will contribute to the pupils’ ‘spiritual, moral, social and cultural’ learning (SMSC) and will help to actively promote the British Values of mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
Christmas Around the World 2
This presentation focuses on Christmas in Austria, Brazil, Ethiopia and France.
Christmas Around the World 3
This focuses on Christmas in Bulgaria, Germany, Ghana and Greece.
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Add a little bit of interest to addition with this worksheet using Chinese symbols for numbers, ideal for use during the Chinese New Year period. The symbols could be used by pupils to make up their own Chinese sums.
This resource is appropriate for Key Stage 1 and older SEN students.
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Chinese New Year Activity Pack - Word Searches, Crossword, Anagrams, Chinese Riddles, Word Making
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This is a Christmas themed coordinates in the first quadrant. Pupils have to find what Christmas items are located at points in the first quadrant.
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Set of 5 Christmas Themed Co-Ordinates in the First Quadrant Worksheets
This resource contains a set of 5 Christmas themed worksheets containing a variety of tasks and exercises on
locating coordinates
plotting coordinates
Answers are included. This resource is appropriate for primary aged children and older, SEN students.
Christmas Maths Battleships Game
This resource is a Christmas themed battleships game to introduce and reinforce the teaching of coordinates in the first quadrant. There are 10 grids which can be used to play with a partner. These could be laminated and used time and time again. There is also a coordinates record sheet and a score sheet.
Christmas Battleships PowerPoint Game
This resource contains a Christmas themed battleships team game on an interactive PowerPoint. It is a fun way of reinforcing coordinates in the first quadrant. There are three different grids to provide hours of fun! It can be administered to a whole class. It includes team score sheet. It is a great resource for reinforcing coordinates in the first quadrant.
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This resource contains two posters on Hanukkah.
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Hanukkah Presentation
This resource contains a fully editable and informative 36-slide PowerPoint presentation on the Jewish Festival of Hanukkah (also known as the Festival of Lights) which is celebrated for eight days, usually between the end of November and the end of December. Hanukkah commemorates the re-dedication of the second Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and the miracle of the menorah lights.
The PowerPoint explains what Hanukkah is and why and how it is celebrated. It focuses on:
Why Hanukkah is commemorated - the story of King Antiochus IV, Mattathias, Judah and the Maccabees.
The restoration and re-dedication of the Second Temple.
The miracle of the menorah and its significance.
Hanukkah food - fried food cooked in oil eg latkes and doughnuts
Hanukkah Games - the dreidel, gelt (chocolate coins)
The PowerPoint also contains a hyperlink to a short and lively 5-minute video about Hanukkah.
This resource will help to contribute to the pupils’ ‘Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural’ learning (SMSC) and will help to actively promote the British Values of mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
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This resource contains two ready made, interactive templates for an advent calendar. All you need to do (or get your pupils to do) is populate the slides with ideas / activities appropriate to the needs of your students.
Suggestions:
Thought for the day
Christmas images
Christmas quotes
Literacy starter activities
Maths starter activities
Photographs of your pupils with a job to do, or a challenge, or a reward or treat
Christmas photograph
News for discussion
Random Acts of Kindness
To return to calendar 1 click on the Santa image. To return to calendar 2 click on the Christmas tree image.
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This is a Christmas- themed PowerPoint lesson on making plurals with regular words. The presentation is delivered by the expert deliverer - Santa!
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The PowerPoint includes how to make the following nouns plural:
- common nouns - adding ‘s’
- nouns ending in ‘ch’ , ‘sh’, ‘x’ ‘ss’ and ‘s’
- nouns ending in ‘f’ and ‘fe’
- nouns ending in ‘y’ preceded by a consonant
An accompanying set of Christmas themed worksheets and revision sheet is also available:
Christmas-Themed Making Plurals - Set of 5 Worksheets
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These resources are appropriate for primary aged pupils and older SEN pupils.
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This is a seasonal worksheet that involves pupils making as many words as possible from the longer word ‘reindeer’ to help improve their spelling, writing and reading skills . The resource is appropriate for Years 1-6 as pupils and older SEN students. Different degrees of challenge can be set. For example more able pupils could be limited to 5, 6 letter words, a greater number of words to be found, a timed challenge etc . It could be a team activity too.
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This resource is an awesome Advent Calendar – jam packed full with fun and educational activities. Appropriate for Year 1-6 and older SEN students. All activities can easily be adapted to suit the needs of learners as the PowerPoint is fully editable. There are 14 days to open – all the school days in December before Christmas. The activities can be used as starters, main lessons or plenaries. Also great Christmas armoury for supply teachers, large groups etc. The resource contains a fully editable, colourful and interactive PowerPoint with many literacy based activities including:
- Word making activities
- Anagrams
- Elfabetical – oops sorry – alphabetical order!
- Word searches / Crosswords
- Santa Stop The Sleigh
- Memory Game - word game
- Adjectives
- Parts of Speech – verbs, adverbs, nouns, conjunctions,
- Christmas jokes / riddles
- Compound Words
- Antonyms
- Capital Letters and full stops
- Carols and lyrics quiz
Most activities contain accompanying worksheets, many with extension activities.
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This resource contains a fully editable, 26 slide PowerPoint presentation on the origins of the awe-inspiring Christmas carol Silent Night (Stille Nacht). Silent Night is one of the most bought, downloaded and recorded songs in all musical genres.
The presentation focuses on:
The first performance of Silent Night at Oberndorf, Austria
Joseph Mohr and Franz Xaver Gruber who together composed the carol
The Silent-Night-Chapel
The significance and impact of the carol
The PowerPoint also contains hyperlinks to Bing Crosby’s rendition of the carol, the Christmas Eve performance in Oberndorf, a trailer to the movie Silent Night, the World War I truce and the story of Silent Night.
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This resource contains a 70-slide, simple text presentation on the month of December. It is ideal for when you have a last minute assembly to do or unexpected tutor group time. The resource also contains suggestions for use and a set of worksheets for follow up activities. The follow up activities include:
reflective and evaluative tasks
a research task
the creation of a quiz based on the PowerPoint
The presentation focuses on:
How December got its name, things associated with December – flowers, Zodiac signs, quotes.
Special Days – Advent, Human Rights Day, St Nicholas’ Day, Bodhi Day, Christmas day, Saint Stephen’s Day, New Year’s Eve, Hogmanay
Notable Birthdays - Walt Disney, Johann Christian Bach, Mary, Queen of Scots, John Milton, Frank Sinatra, Edvard Munch, Taylor Swift, Nostradamus, Gustave Eiffel, Paul Getty, Ludwig van Beethoven, Jane Austen, Steven Spielberg, Joseph Stalin, Giacomo Puccini, Maurice and Robin Gibb, Alexander I, Sir Isaac Newton, Mao Tse-tung, Louis Pasteur, William Gladstone, Rudyard Kipling, Tiger Woods, Henri Matisse, Anthony Hopkins, Ben Kingsley
Inventions, Discoveries, Launches - Dr Pepper served for first time, The Ford Motor Company introduced first moving assembly line, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 launched in Europe, first Sunday newspaper the Observer published, first episode of Coronation Street broadcast, first Nobel Prizes awarded, Titanic movie premiered, premier of Gone with the Wind, first colour television went on sale, Dickens Christmas Carol published, Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales, first edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica published
Notable Events and Happenings - Napoleon Bonaparte became Emperor of France, new Saint Paul’s Cathedral opened, the world’s first heart transplant completed, UK’s first motorway opened, first traffic lights installed, Muhammad Ali fought last boxing match, Francis Drake set sail around the world in Golden Hind, Wilbur and Orville Wright made first powered aeroplane flight, first performance of Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker, BBC World Service began broadcasting, nuclear power was first used, Mayflower Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, Charles de Gaulle elected President of France, Lech Walesa became Poland’s first elected president, Silent Night composed by Franz Xaver Gruber, Thomas Becket assassinated.
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This resource contains a fully editable, 45-slide PowerPoint presentation on Guy Fawkes and his role in the Gunpowder Plot and how this has resulted in bonfire night.
The content includes references to:
Guy Fawkes’ religious background
The intolerance of James I towards Roman Catholics
The Plot
The anonymous letter
Guy Fawkes arrest, trial and execution
The conspiracy theory
The Act of Thanksgiving
The PowerPoint ends with questions for discussion.
In 2002 in a poll conducted by the BBC, Guy Fawkes was named the 30th Greatest Briton. What do you think about Guy Fawkes and his planned role in the gunpowder plot? Was he a hero or a terrorist?
Do you think Guy Fawkes and the conspirators should have been sentenced to death and hung, drawn and quartered?
What do you think about James I and his treatment towards, and intolerance of, Catholics?
The PowerPoint also contains hyperlinks to two videos about Guy Fawkes and Gunpowder Plot.
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This resource contains four winter posters.
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This resource contains a short presentation on Winter Days.
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This is a fully editable, 45 slide PowerPoint presentation on the theme of Winter Days containing stunning pictures of Winter flora, fauna, weather and landscapes. It is an ideal assembly during the winter months. The slide images could also be used for display purposes, creative writing and discussion.
The PowerPoint focuses on:
seasonal changes in weather
the effects of the weather
how animals adapt to the weather
hibernation
food for animals
what children do in winter
Winter Days - Set of 50 Posters
Winter Days - Set of 24 Posters With Captions
Winter Days Presentation
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This resource contains a fully editable, simple text, 45-slide PowerPoint on Guy Fawkes and his role in the Gunpowder Plot and how this has resulted in Bonfire Night.
The presentation focuses on:
Guy Fawkes’ religious background
The intolerance of James I towards Roman Catholics
The Plot
The anonymous letter
Guy Fawkes arrest, trial and execution
The PowerPoint ends with questions for discussion and contains hyperlinks to two videos about Guy Fawkes and Gunpowder Plot.
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These are sample slides /posters taken from a resource on collective nouns.
Collective Nouns - Amazing Photographs
Although the subject of the PowerPoint is collective nouns, this resource could be used for displays, as a starter activity to promote discussion, as part of a tutor group activity and / or to introduce pupils to the richness of vocabulary in describing groups of things. It also contains examples of collections of images of inanimate objects such as arrows, onions and more.
This resource contains two worksheets with answers on common nouns and collective nouns.
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Nouns - 24-Page Workbook
This resource includes two information sheets and twenty two worksheets on nouns. Tasks include identifying and using all the types of noun at word, sentence and text level. These resources would be particularly useful for SATS revision and are suitable for primary aged pupils and for older SEN students who will benefit from the visual nature of the PowerPoint.
Nouns - 100 Slide PowerPoint Lesson
This is an editable, 100-slide PowerPoint lesson on nouns. All the different types of nouns are explained and examples are givengiven.
The PowerPoint contains three activities to reinforce and consolidate the pupils’ understanding of nouns.
A sorting activity that requires sorting different types of nouns into the appropriate category.
A timed noun challenge where pupils have to think of nouns in all categories beginning with a certain letter. A worksheet is provided for this on the PowerPoint.
Pupils have to identify all the nouns in the poem ‘Daffodils’ by William Wordsworth. A worksheet is also provided for this.
The PowerPoint also contains a link to a short video on nouns.
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This resource contains three engaging and eye-catching A3 size posters to remind pupils of the formula for calculating the circumference and area of a circle.
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Pi and Pi Day Presentation
This resource contains a fully editable, 68-slide PowerPoint presentation on pi and Pi Day which falls on 14th March. It is also a useful resource for Pi Approximation Day on July 22nd.
The PowerPoint focuses on:
The history of pi - Babylon and Egypt - Rhind Papyrus
Archimedes calculations - Pythagorean Theorem
Origin of pi symbol – William Jones and Leonhard Euler
Pi formulas for the circumference and area of a circle
The infinite nature of pi
World record-holders for memorisation of pi digits
Piems and mnemonics for pi digits and formulas
Pi Day
Different ways Pi Day is celebrated
How hat size is determined by pi
Albert Einstein sharing his birthday with Pi Day
Pi dingbats
Suggestions and ideas for Pi Day activities
The PowerPoint also contains hyperlinks to:
Display of the first million digits of pi
Pi rap ‘Lose Yourself In The Digits’
Math Antics - circles, area and circumference of circle, pi
Pi-search page - search the first 200 million digits of pi
Pi domino spiral
Pi Dingbats
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Pi Day Party Pack
Pi Day Puzzle Pack
Pi Themed Coordinates Partner Game]
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This resource contains a set of 11 Easter themed worksheets containing a variety of tasks and exercises on locating coordinates in the first quadrant. Answers are provided for all the worksheets. It is suitable for primary pupils and older SEN students who will benefit from the highly visual nature of the resource.
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This resource contains an Easter-themed word search.
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Holy Week and Easter Puzzle Pack - Set of 14 Differentiated Word Seaches, Anagrams, Cryptograms and Crosswords
The resource contains:
- 4 differentiated word searches
- 4 differentiated anagram worksheets
- 3 differentiated crosswords
- 3 differentiated cryptograms
Holy Week and Easter Presentation
This resource contains an informative and fully editable 39 slide PowerPoint on the Easter Story and the events of Holy Week. It includes:
- Palm Sunday
- Maundy Thursday and the ' The Last Supper'
- Judas' Betrayal
- Good Friday
- The Crucifixion
- The Resurrection
- The appearance of Jesus to Mary Magdalene and the disciples
- Easter Sunday
The PowerPoint also contains a hyperlink to a short animation (4 minutes) about the key events during the period of Lent and Holy Week.
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This Saint Patrick's Day puzzle pack contains differentiated word searches, anagrams and crosswords on the theme of Ireland's Patron Saint - Saint Patrick. There are 8 worksheets in total.
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Saint Patrick's Day - Set of Four Information Texts and Comprehensions
This resource contains a set of six information sheets and comprehension questions with answers on Saint Patrick's Day which is celebrated on the 17th March.
The texts focus on:
- The life of St Patrick
- His contribution to the spread of Christianity in Ireland
- How Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated in Ireland and Irish communities around the world
Saint Patrick's Day Presentation
This resource contains a fully editable, 50-slide presentation on the life of Saint Patrick and Saint Patrick's Day celebrations. The content of the presentation is the same as for the information texts. The PowerPoint includes hyperlinks to a short video about Saint Patrick and to the Saint Patrick's Day parade in Dublin.
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This resource contains a variety of PowerPoint presentations suitable for assemblies throughout the year. Never be short of an assembly again!
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This resource contains:
1. An informative and fully editable 50 slide PowerPoint on Saint Patrick and Saint Patrick's Day. The PowerPoint focuses on:
the life of St Patrick
his contribution to the spread of Christianity in Ireland
how Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated in Ireland and by Irish communities around the world
the significance of the shamrock
the traditional Saint Patrick's Day meal
2. A set of Saint Patrick themed puzzles containing differentiated word searches, anagrams and crosswords.
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