The Christmas Truce

Share the exceptional tale of the 1914 WW1 Christmas truce with your students using these wonderful resources

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It's this most wonderful time of the year! Discover the magic of Christmas through this collection of resources featuring a heart-warming wartime story

The 1914 Christmas truce was a unique day of camaraderie and peace between opposing armies during the First World War. Share this exceptional Christmas tale with your students through these spectacular resources.

History resources

Challenge your students to explore this monumental world war event and analyse different sources of historical information.

Christmas Truce 1914 - First World War
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Christmas Truce 1914 - First World War

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**This lesson allows students to use a wide range of sources to investigate the events of the Christmas truce during 1914. Students will use evidence from the diaries and letters of soldiers from both sides who experienced the ceasefire and build a picture of what happened. They will then use th...
World War One: The Christmas Truce
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World War One: The Christmas Truce

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Complete lesson, designed for Key Stage 3, on the Christmas Truce during World War One. This lesson includes reading, many different activities and a number of educational videos.
The Christmas Truce
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The Christmas Truce

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KS3 History lesson examining the Christmas Truce. Features a variety of activities based upon source text and images and also the Sainsbury's 2015 Christmas advert. The final slide can be printed as a plenary worksheet.

Cross-curricular

Delight students in any subject with the chronological series of events surrounding the Christmas truce.

Football Remembers Education Pack
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Football Remembers Education Pack

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British Council has joined forces with The FA, Premier League + Football League to commemorate the 1914 Christmas Truce. The pack includes photos, eye-witness accounts + letters from soldiers. Perspectives from British, French, Belgian, German + Indian witnesses are included with activities for Eng...
KS2 Assembly - Christmas Truce 1914
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KS2 Assembly - Christmas Truce 1914

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This [assembly framework](http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/9qWjq7PL4QmbS9vnG6tQG8/christmas-truce-1914) is one of a set of KS2 assemblies from [BBC Teach](https://bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio). A short story (approx. 6 mins duration), available here, is used as part of this assembly. A boy ...
The Man He Killed Thomas Hardy
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The Man He Killed Thomas Hardy

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War poetry lesson that looks at The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy. We explore what happened during the Christmas Truce of 1914 and how the soldiers on opposing sides viewed each other. We then use this as a way in to Hardy's poem, looking at how the speaker feels about the soldier he has killed and ...