Bonfire Night Assembly: Remember, Remember · Primary Slides + Script

A ready-to-run 11-minute Bonfire Night assembly for primary schools, built around one question: Why do we remember the fifth of November?

What’s inside

• PowerPoint, 17 slides (14 to present, plus 3 credits slides): real photographs and artworks alongside painted illustrations on the picture slides, and the video built into its slide, so it plays without leaving the deck.
• A word-for-word Word script: the SAY, DO and ASK lines for every slide, each with its timing, and a “won’t play?” plan for the video, so anyone can lead it.
• A poster in A4 and US Letter carrying the message, for a classroom or corridor display.
• In the script as well: 5 follow-up questions for class, a paragraph for the parent newsletter, and a five-minute prep checklist.

How it runs

• Opening and question: 0:42
• Hook: 0:46
• Story: 1:29
• Video: 2:43
• Story: 0:28
• Talk partners: 2:18
• Message: 0:21
• Quiet reflection: 0:53
• Prayer or quiet thought: 0:27
• Story: 0:20
• This week’s challenge: 0:24
• In total: about 11 minutes

Optional prayer: the prayer slide is optional, and the next slide gives a non-religious quiet thought to use instead of it, or as well.

Good to know

• The video plays inside PowerPoint and needs an internet connection. Google Slides and Keynote may not play it, so its slide also carries a short link and a QR code.
• Everything is fully editable.
• Picture credits are on the last 3 slides of the deck.