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This resource contains a fully editable and informative 90-slide PowerPoint presentation on the month of July. Never be stuck for an assembly in July again! It is an ideal for last minute assemblies or unexpected tutor group time! It could be used for a one-off assembly or series of assemblies/lessons/tutor based activities.
The PowerPoint focuses on:
How July got its name, things associated with July – flowers, Zodiac signs, birthstone, July quotes
July Folklore - Saint Swithin’s Day
Special Days - Dharma Day, Whitstable Oyster Festival, Swan Upping, Reek Sunday, Kilburn Feast, Canada Day, Tour de France, American Independence Day, Tynwald Day, World Population Day, Orange Men’s Day, Bastille Day, Pi Approximation Day, Saint Christopher’s Day, Saint James the Great Day
Notable Birthdays - Gerald Ford, Princess Diana, Carl Lewis, Thomas Cranmer, Tom Cruise, Lhamo Thondup, the Dalai Lama, Marc Chagall, Ringo Starr, Giorgio Armani, Julius Caesar, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Nelson Mandela, Brian May, Alexander the Great, Edmund Hillary, Ernest Hemingway, Robin Williams, Daniel Radcliffe, Amelia Earhart, George Bernard Shaw, Carl Jung, Mick Jagger, Beatrix Potter, Emily Bronte, Henry Ford, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Joanne K Rowling
Inventions, Discoveries, Launches - Sony Walkman, steam engine patented, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Salvation Army set up, Thomas Cook’s first package excursion, first BBC news broadcast, opening of Shard, first Wimbledon Tennis Championships, first parking meter in England installed, Big Ben chimed for 1st time, first FIFA World Cup, Dunlop patented pneumatic tyre
Notable Events and Happenings - Battle of Somme, Dolly the sheep born, Anne Frank went into hiding, Richard I and Richard III became King of England, Thomas More executed, Johnny Weissmuller’s 100 m swim record, Rolling Stones first concert, first Live Aid concert, Rosetta Stone found, Twitter launched, first nuclear bomb test, Disneyland in California opened, Nadia Comaneci first person to score perfect 10 in gymnastics, Armstrong’s walk on Moon, Temple of Artemis in Ephesus destroyed, world’s lowest temperature recorded, Wiley Post first person to solo fly round world, Presley’s debut
The resource contains hyperlinks to Whitstable Oyster Festival, Swan Upping, Reek Sunday, Battle of Somme, Carl Lewis’ races, Tynwald Day, Big Ben chiming, real-time population data, Live Aid concert, first nuclear bomb test, Nadia Comaneci’s perfect 10 performance, Neil Armstrong’s walk on Moon
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This resource contains 36-question PowerPoint quiz on American Independence Day which takes place on the 4th July. The quiz can be used for individuals or teams. There is a sheet for individuals/teams to record answers. The answers to the questions can be found by clicking on the flag image on the bottom right- hand corner of each slide.
Sample questions include:
On what day is Independence Day in the United States of America?
How many American colonies were part of the British Empire?
What was the name of the petition Congress sent to King George III to see if they could avoid going to war?
Who was the Commander-in-Chief of the colonists’ army?
On what date was the Declaration of Independence approved?
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This resource contains a fully editable and informative 50-slide PowerPoint presentation on the United States Independence Day.
It focuses on:
the key events leading to the Revolutionary War
the Stamp Act and The Tea Act
the Boston Tea Party
the setting up of Congress
the Revolutionary War
the United States of America Flag
the Declaration of Independence
the Statue of Liberty
Independence Day celebrations
The PowerPoint contains hyperlinks to a short video about American Independence Day, to Independence Day celebrations - parades and firework displays and to the United States national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner.
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This resource contains 11 fact sheets and reflective written tasks (8 worksheets) on Martin Luther King. It is an ideal resource for Martin Luther King Day in January and Black History Month (African-American Month) that falls in October in the UK and February in the USA and will help students’ Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) development by learning about the history and heritage of communities and the lives of those that overcame the challenges they faced.
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Martin Luther King Presentation
This resource contains a fully editable, 62 slide presentation on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior, the famous civil rights leader. The PowerPoint makes reference to his parents and family, his schooling and education, involvement and leadership in the civil rights movement leading campaigns, his impact upon civil right reforms. The PowerPoint also contains hyperlinks to some of his famous speeches - I Have a Dream, The Mountaintop and The Drum Major. There are links to a short video presentation of his life and the hymn sung at his funeral.
A simple text version of the above PowerPoint is also available:
Martin Luther King Simple Text Presentation
Martin Luther King Quotes Posters
This resource contains a set of 5 inspiring Martin Luther King quote posters. There are four versions of this resource; one set on a black background, the other on a white background with two different fonts.
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This resource contains an editable, 110 question PowerPoint quiz. It is an ideal back to school resource, ideal for an assembly, for tutor time and as an ice-breaker. Each school-themed question has three possible answers, with varying degrees of challenge.
The quiz can be administered in a variety of ways - to individuals or teams. The answers can be found by clicking on the question mark image on each slide. Answers can be given either as you go through the quiz or at the end. An answer sheet is also provided to allow individuals / teams to record their answers.
Sample questions:
What is the fear of school known as?
What is the fear of scraping your nails on a blackboard known as?
Which king founded Eton College in 1440 as a charity school to provide free education for 70 poor boys?
Which group of animals collective name is described as a school?
When was the school leaving age raised to 16?
What is the French word for school?
Which footballer started a campaign to end child food poverty and to extend the free school meal voucher scheme which MPs originally voted against?
The quiz also contains hyperlinks to:
the world’s oldest teacher (102)
Marcus Rashford and his campaign to extend school meal vouchers
the biggest school in the world with approximately 52,000 pupils and 2,500 teachers
a boat school in Bangladesh
Abo Elementary school - an underground school in New Mexico
a school in Antigua Guatemala made from recycled plastic bottles
A version of the quiz without the hyperlinks is also included.
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This resource contains a fully editable, 45-slide, simple text PowerPoint presentation and a 50-question PowerPoint Quiz on Halloween.
Halloween Presentation
The PowerPoint focuses on:
The Origins of Halloween - All Hallows’ Day, All Souls’ Day and the rituals, traditions and customs surrounding these feasts.
The Origins of the Jack O’ Lantern
The Origins of Trick-or-Treat
The Origins of Apple Bobbing
The PowerPoint illustrates how, over time, Samhain, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day have merged to create the Halloween we know today. It ends with some questions to promote discussion. It also contains hyperlinks to Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in New York City - the world’s largest Halloween parade and a link to a short video of the history of Halloween.
Halloween Quiz
This resource contains a 50 question PowerPoint quiz on Halloween and all things spooky! It is ideal for use with a tutor group or for an assembly during Halloween. Can you spot the trick question?
There are 3 multiple choice answers. The quiz can be administered in a variety of ways - to individuals or teams. Answers can be given either as you go through the quiz or at the end. An answer sheet is provided to record answers.
Sample questions:
What date is Halloween celebrated on?
What do pumpkins grow on?
In Scotland, what vegetable was traditionally carved into a jack-o-lantern?
Why did people put lanterns outside of their homes?
What is the name given to a ghostly light seen by travellers at night, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes?
What is the name for the fear of Halloween?
What does a real-life vampire bat live on?
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This resource contains a 100-question PowerPoint quiz on the 2022 FIFA Football World Cup tournament. Each question has three possible answers. The quiz can be administered in a variety of ways - to individuals or teams. The answers can be found by clicking on the ball image on the bottom right-hand corner of each slide. Answers can be given either as you go through the quiz or at the end. An answer sheet is provided to allow individuals/teams to record their answers. The quiz is divided into 6 categories:
Past World Cups
World Cup Records
Miscellaneous
Picture Round
World Cup 2018
World Cup 2022
Sample questions:
How many times have England won the World Cup?
Who has played the most games for England at a World Cup?
Who scored the infamous ‘hand of God’ goal in 1986?
Which is the only country to have taken part in every World Cup tournament?
Which country has won the World Cup the most times?
The PowerPoint also contains hyperlinks to Pele’s 5 top World Cup goals, news report on the stolen world cup in 1966 and Pickles the dog, the World Cup Willie song, the highlights of the 1966 World Cup final, Maradona’s controversial ‘hand of God’ goal against England and the 2022 World Cup mascot - La’eeb.
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This resource contains a fully editable and informative 72 slide PowerPoint presentation on Christmas celebrations, customs and traditions in different countries around the world. This presentation focuses on Christmas in Austria, Brazil, Ethiopia and France.
It concludes with asking the pupils the questions:
Some of the countries’ Christmas traditions and customs are very different from the UK’s. Which countries have very different customs? What are they?
Some of the countries have similar Christmas traditions and customs as the UK. Which countries have similar customs? What are they?
Which country would you 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.
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This is a 62-slide presentation featuring the following countries - Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Iceland, Russia and Spain.
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This 58-slide presentation focuses on Christmas in Bulgaria, Germany, Ghana and Greece.
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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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This resource is about the Jewish Festival of Passover / Pesach and the Seder meal and its symbolic significance in Judaism. It contains three resources:
1. A set of five texts and comprehension worksheets about the Seder meal, the different foods on the Seder plate and their symbolic meanings and the rituals that take place during the meal.
2. The Seder plate - this resource is about the foods used during the Jewish Festival of Passover / Pesach at the Seder meal and their symbolic significance in Judaism. The resource contains information on the different foods and their symbolic meanings and differentiated worksheets/templates that involve filling a Seder plate with the different foods. One worksheet involves cutting and pasting the foods onto the plate. The second worksheet involves labeling the foods on the Seder plate.
3. A fully editable, 70-slide PowerPoint presentation about Passover. The presentation focuses on:
Why Passover is celebrated and how it got its name – the ten plagues, the exodus of the Israelites from Egyptian captivity across the Red Sea led by Moses.
The Seder meal – the Seder plate and the symbolic significance of all the foods on the plate, other foods at the meal, including matzah, the four cups/glasses of wine and the extra wine goblet for the prophet Elijah.
The rituals followed at the Seder meal – breaking the matzah, reading from the Haggadah, the Seder cushion, the tradition of the youngest child asking four questions, the spilling of drops of wine onto the plate.
The PowerPoint also contains hyperlinks to a 4-minute animated version of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt and a 4-minute rap about the Seder meal which should appeal to teenagers.
A simple text version, for younger and SEN pupils, of the Passover presentation is also available:
Simple Text Passover Presentation
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This is a fully editable, simple text PowerPoint presentation on Armistice Day and the Armistice Day Centenary commemorations that marked one hundred years since World War I ended that took place on Sunday, 11th November, 2018.
The PowerPoint focuses on:
World War I
The armistice
Remembrance Day
Armistice Day Centenary Commemorations around the world
Danny Boyle’s 'Pages of the Sea’ project
The resource contains hyperlinks to:
Danny Boyle’s sand portraits project
The UK’s service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph in Whitehall
A short interview with World War 1 veteran with Harry Patch - the last surviving member of the World War 1 from any country
The song ‘The Green Fields of France’ by John McDermott
‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ movie trailer
The 100 gun salute in Wellington, New Zealand
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A more detailed version of this presentation, more appropriate for older pupils, is also available. Click on the link below for details.
Armistice Day Presentation
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This resource contains a fully editable, 65-slide PowerPoint presentation on the life of Rosa Parks, the famous civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat to a white person on the Montgomery bus. This was the catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycott and subsequent civil rights campaigns that eventually led to major civil rights reforms for African -Americans in the United States.
It is an ideal resource for Black History Month (African-American Month) that falls in October in the UK (February in the USA) and for Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day.
This resource will help students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development by learning about the history and heritage of communities and the lives of those that overcame the challenges they faced.
The PowerPoint focuses on:
Her parents and family
Her schooling and education
Her refusal to give up her seat to a white person on the Montgomery bus
Her arrest and its significance on civil rights movement/legislation
Her civil rights activities
Her awards and tributes
The PowerPoint also contains hyperlinks to Rosa receiving the Congressional Medal from President Clinton, a short video on her life and achievements.
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This resource contains three, fully editable and informative 50+ slide PowerPoint presentations on Easter celebrations, customs and traditions in 18 different countries around the world.
Easter Around The World 1
The PowerPoint focuses on the following countries:
Ethiopia: Easter meal, Easter services, White Clothing, Germany: Decorating trees and branches, Passion Play, Easter Rabbit, Passion Play
Greece: Red eggs, Osterfeuer - the lighting of bonfires
Italy: Pope's Easter Mass in Saint Peter's Square
Cyprus: Easter services, decorated candles, fires and bonfires
Israel: The Via Dolorosa, the Palm Sunday procession, lighting of the 'Holy Fire' in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Easter Around The World 2
This PowerPoint focuses on:
Brazil: The Mardi Gras, Easter symbol - macela flower
Mexico: 'Pascua', woven plams, bonfires, passion plays - Iztapalapa
Spain: 'Dance of Death' in Gerona, tronos, the nazareno, 'La Mona' cake, torrijas
Sardinia: Procession of Sorrowful Mysteries
Sweden: The Easter Wizard
USA: The Whitehouse egg roll, the Easter Bonnet Parades
Easter Around The World 3
PowerPoint 3 includes:
France: 'Cloche Volant’ ( Flying Bells), chocolate fish, 'Poisson d'Avril' 'Osterlammele' (lamb-shaped biscuits)
Lithuania: spring cleaning,' verbos', the 'Easter Granny’ (Velykų Senelė), sharing of hard-boiled egg custom, egg rolling game
Norway: Korsvandring (Cross Wandering), the ‘Riddu Riđđu’ Sami culture festival
Bermuda: Kite Flying Festival
East Coast Blues and Roots Music Festival, Gospel Music Festival
South American egg game - 'Cascarones'
All three PowerPoints contain hyperlinks to some of the traditions and festivals that take place in each country.
These resources will help to develop the pupils' 'Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural learning (SMSC) and 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 a fully editable and informative 50-slide PowerPoint presentation on Easter celebrations, customs and traditions in different countries around the world. The countries featured in this resource are Brazil, Mexico, Sardinia, Spain, Sweden and the USA.
The PowerPoint also includes hyperlinks to:
The Rio de Janeiro Mardi Gras Carnival
Passion Play in Mexico City
The Easter tradition in Alghero, Sardinia
The Dance of Death in Verges, Gerona
The Easter Egg Roll at the White House with President Obama
The presentation concludes by asking the pupils which country they would like to visit at Easter and why.
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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Easter Around the World Set 1 - Cyprus, Ethiopia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy
Easter Around the World Set 3 - Australia, Bermuda, France, Lithuania, Norway, Switzerland
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Mardi Gras Presentation
This is a fully editable, 55-slide PowerPoint presentation on Mardi Gras. It makes reference to:
the meaning of Mardi Gras
how and why it has evolved
the different ways countries celebrate Mardi Gras
The PowerPoint contains hyperlinks to the Rio Carnival, the New Orleans Carnival, the Nice Carnival, the Belgium Carnival, the Venice Carnival and the Quebec Carnival. There is also a link to Paul Simon’s ‘Take me to the Mardi Gras’ on slide 1 which could be used before the start of the presentation.
Puzzle Pack
This resource contains three differentiated word searches, three differentiated anagram worksheets and a crossword.
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This resource contains an interactive PowerPoint Advent calendar on acts of kindness. Each day an act of kindness is suggested.
Acts of kindness include:
Pick up ten pieces of litter in your school playground or in your home area this week. Remember to wear some gloves!
Hold the door open for someone.
If you see someone alone with no friends on the school playground go and talk to them and ask if they want to chat or play.
Tell a teacher how much you enjoyed their lesson.
Let someone else go first in a queue that you are in.
Give a Christmas card to someone you would not normally give one to.
Tell someone how much you love them.
Give someone a compliment today.
Donate your unwanted books, toys or games to a charity.
Sit with someone at lunch that looks lonely or that doesn’t have very many friends.
Do a chore or job at home that you would not normally do.
Do something nice for someone but don’t tell them or anyone else that you did it.
Say thank you to the school caretaker for the things he / she does.
Write a note to someone who has lit up their house with amazing lights and decorations to say thank you for lighting up their house for you to see and enjoy.
(You could personalise some of these suggestions to make it applicable to your school or local community).
After all the days have been opened, the calendar contains some reflective and evaluative questions to promote discussion and reflection.
Did you manage to complete the suggested acts of kindness?
Did you manage to complete an act of kindness and keep it secret from that person and not tell anyone?
How did being kind to others make you feel?
How do you think these acts of kindness made others feel?
It concludes with the suggestion that maybe pupils could do an act of kindness every day making it their New Year’s resolution.
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This resource contains a fully editable, 52 slide PowerPoint presentation on the life of Saint David and Saint David’s Day celebrations.
The PowerPoint focuses on:
the life of St David
his contribution to the spread of Christianity in Wales
how Saint David’s day is celebrated in Wales and by Welsh communities around the world
the symbols of Wales - the daffodil, the leek, the National Welsh flag, Saint David’s cross
The presentation also includes hyperlinks to a short video about Saint David (7 minutes), the Saint David’s Day parade in Cardiff. (5 minutes) and the Welsh national anthem.
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This resource contains a fully editable, 80-slide PowerPoint presentation on the month of March and some follow up activities. It could be used as an assembly or series of assemblies during the month of March or for tutor based activities.
It includes:
How March got its name, things associated with March - daffodils, Zodiac signs, birthstone, Equinox, Spring, sayings ‘as mad as a March hare’
Special Days in March - Easter, St Patrick’s Day, Saint David’s Day, Saint Piran’s Day, Saint Joseph’s Day, Women’s History Month, Simnel Sunday, Mothering Sunday / Mother’s Day, World Maths Day, the Jewish festival of Purim, International Women’s Day, World Water Day, Lady Day, Oranges and Lemons Children’s Service, World Book Day
Notable Birthdays – Will I Am, Albert Einstein, Frederic Chopin, Dr Seuss (Theodor Geisel), Alexander Graham Bell, Vivaldi, Michelangelo, Nat King Cole, Steve McQueen, Robbie Coltrane, Wilfred Owen, Fernando Torres, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ronaldinho, Alan Sugar, Harry Houdini, Vincent Van Gogh
Discoveries, Launches, Inventions – Twitter, Barbie Doll, Coca-Cola, discovery of Uranus, the first elevator, Rolls Royce, first internet domain name, English football league, telephone patented
Notable Events and Happenings
It also contains hyperlinks to:
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Spring (La Primavera)
Bach’s ‘Air on G String’
St Clement’s bells ringing ‘Orange and Lemons’
Chopin’s Etude Op.25 No.11 ‘Winter Wind’
The Beatles ‘Please, Please Me’
Hares ‘boxing’
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A simple text version of this presentation, more appropriate for younger / SEN pupils, is also available:
Simple Text March Presentation
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This resource contains a fully editable and informative 120-slide PowerPoint presentation on the month of October. Never be stuck for an assembly in October again! It is ideal for last minute assemblies, unexpected tutor group time and for supply teachers. It could be used for a one-off assembly, series of assemblies or for lessons/tutor activities.
The PowerPoint focuses on:
How October got its name, things associated with October
Special Days
Notable Birthdays
Inventions, Discoveries, Launches
Notable Events and Happenings
The PowerPoint also contains hyperlinks to John Lennon’s “Imagine”, Bob Beaman’s long jump, Sputnik 1 and Apollo 7 launches, Pavarotti’s “O Sole Mio”, Pauls Simon’s “Gracelands”, James Hines sub 10 second 100 metres and the “War of the World’s” broadcast.
It also contains some follow up activities that include a reflective task and worksheet, a further research task and a question and answer quiz preparation task which could formthe basis for a whole class quiz.
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This resource contains a set of thirteen fact sheets and comprehensions about the life and work of Queen Elizabeth II who sadly died on the 8th of September 2022 at the age of 96.
Queen Elizabeth II was the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, celebrating seventy years of service. She became Queen on 6th February 1952 when she was just 25 years old. The Queen continued to carry out her Royal duties right up until her death and was a truly inspirational person.
The texts focus on:
The Queen's interests and hobbies
The Queen's education
The Queen's family
The Queen's residences
The Queen's tasks and duties
The Queen's Coronation
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This resource contains a fully editable, 45-slide PowerPoint presentation and a 50-question PowerPoint quiz about Halloween.
Halloween Presentation
The PowerPoint focuses on:
The Origins of Halloween - All Hallows’ Day, All Souls’ Day and the rituals, traditions and customs surrounding these feasts.
The Origins of the Jack O’ Lantern
The Origins of Trick-or-Treat
The Origins of Apple Bobbing
The PowerPoint illustrates how, over time, Samhain, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day have merged to create the Halloween we know today. It ends with some questions to promote discussion. It also contains hyperlinks to Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in New York City - the world’s largest Halloween parade and a link to a short video of the history of Halloween.
Halloween Quiz
This is a 50-question PowerPoint quiz on Halloween and all things spooky! It is Ideal for use with a tutor group or for an assembly during Halloween. Can you spot the trick question?
There are 3 multiple choice answers. The quiz can be administered in a variety of ways - to individuals or teams. Answers can be given either as you go through the quiz or at the end. An answer sheet is provided to record answers.
Sample questions:
What date is Halloween celebrated on?
What do pumpkins grow on?
In Scotland, what vegetable was traditionally carved into a jack-o-lantern?
Why did people put lanterns outside of their homes?
What is the name given to a ghostly light seen by travellers at night, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes?
What is the name for the fear of Halloween?
In Harry Potter when does Remus Lupin become a werewolf?
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