August Assembly

Give your pupils something to think about during the summer with this assembly on the month of August. This is an informative and fully editable 115-slide PowerPoint presentation. It could be used for a one-off assembly, series of assemblies or for lessons/tutor activities.

The PowerPoint focuses on:

How August got its name, things associated with August

Special Days - Lammas Festival, Coracle Regatta, Ramadan, Notting Hill Carnival, Marhamchurch Revel, Plague Sunday Service, Edinburgh International Festival, Festival Fringe, Reading Festival, Glenn Miller Festival, rush-bearing, National Eisteddfod, Burry Man’s Parade, Yorkshire Day, St Oswald’s Day, Glorious Twelfth, Left Handers Day’, Summer Olympics, Assumption Day, VJ Day

Notable Birthdays – Claudius, Shelley, Obama, Queen Mother, Neil Armstrong, Federer, Dustin Hoffman, Whitney Houston, Alex Haley, George IV, Pete Sampras, Alfred Hitchcock, Castro, Bonaparte, Walter Scott, Ben Affleck, James Cameron, Madonna, Robert De Niro, Swayze, Virginia Dare, Robert Redford, Orville Wright, Willie Shoemaker, Clinton, William IV, Bolt, Claude DeBussy, Gene Kelly, Ivan The Terrible, Sean Connery, Mother Teresa, Tolstoy, Michael Jackson, Mary Shelley, Cameron Diaz, Richard Gere

Inventions, Discoveries, Launches – oxygen, www launch, Singer sewing machine, T-Rex skeleton, stainless steel, helium, potato chips, Galileo’s telescope, turbojet aircraft, Pepsi-Cola name

Notable Events and Happenings - New London Bridge opened, Anne Frank final diary entry, Gulf War, Columbus, World War I, first woman to swim Channel, Houdini’s underwater stunt, bombing of Hiroshima, Chimney Sweeps Act, Great Train Robbery, Tower of Pisa, Sistine Chapel opened, Jesse Owens 4 Olympic medals, Louvre Museum opened, Magellan set sail round the world, Alcatraz prison opened, Model T Ford on sale, Berlin Wall built, Pakistan formed, Mayflower set sail, Panama Canal opened, Kittinger’s skydive, Presley died, National Fire Service set up, Hồ Chí Minh took power, Gorbachev removed by coup, Mona Lisa stolen, Battle of Bosworth, East and West Germany unite, Vesuvius erupted, Amelia Earhart’s flight, Schumacher’s Formula 1 s Chichester’s sail round the world, Luther’s I have a Dream speech, Spitz 7 Olympic gold medals, Atahuallpa executed, Princess Diana died.

The resource also contains hyperlinks to Burns song The Rigs O’ Barley, Coracle Regatta, Edinburgh International Festival, Festival Fringe, Glenn Miller’s In the Mood, Armstrong’s walk on moon, Jesse Owens, Kittinger’s sky dive, Bolt’s sprints, DeBussy’s Clair de Lune, Gene Kelly’s Singin’ in the Rain, I have a Dream speech

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