June Assembly

This resource contains a fully editable and informative 95-slide PowerPoint presentation about the month of June. It could be used for a one-off assembly or series of assemblies or lessons/tutor based activities.

It includes:

How June got its name, things associated with June – flowers, Zodiac signs – Gemini and Cancer, birthstone – pearl, June quotes.

June Folklore – lucky month to get married in, Summer Solstice traditions - Stonehenge.

Special Days in June – Pentecost, Feasts of Saint Peter and Paul, St Alban, Saint John the Baptist, D- Day, Queens Official birthday, Trooping the Colour, Wimbledon, Fathers Day, Well Dressing, Henley Royal Regatta, Ramadan, Jewish festival of ‘Shavuot’, Armed Forces Day, The Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwu), World Environment Day, World Ocean Day, The Rochester Dicken’s Festival, Oxford and Cambridge boat race, The Day of the African Child, the longest day of the year - Summer Solstice, festival of Golowan in Penzance.

Notable Birthdays – Morgan Freeman, George V, Tony Curtis, Rafael Nadal, George III, Tom Jones, ‘Prince’ Rogers Nelson, George Orwell, Johnny Depp, John Constable, Jacques Cousteau, Anne Frank, Donald Trump, Boy George, Edward I, Paul McCartney, James I, Prince William, Lionel Messi, Helen Keller, Henry VIII, Michael Phelps.

Inventions, Discoveries and Launches – discovery of magnetic North Pole, publication of Ninety Eighty-Four, SOS signal used for first time, first ATM in London.

Notable Events and Happenings – Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, Guinness Book of Records broke a world record itself, first public flight of Montgolfier hot air balloon, Charles Dickens died, first European Cup final, The Magna Carta (Great Charter) signed, Statue of Liberty arrived in USA, Amelia Earhart first woman to fly airplane across Atlantic Ocean, Winston Churchill “Finest Hour” speech, Battle of Waterloo, first policemen (Peelers/Bobbies) set up, IOC founded, Francisco de Orellana and the naming of the River Amazon, Elvis Presley’s last concert, Muhammad Ali retired from boxing, Coronation of Queen Victoria, signing of Treaty of Versailles, Globe Theatre destroyed by fire, Blondin tight-rope walk across Niagara Gorge.

The PowerPoint also contains hyperlinks to Churchill’s Finest Hour speech and to the Rochester Charles Dickens’ Festival .

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