December Assembly

This resource contains a fully editable and informative 85 slide PowerPoint presentation on the month of December. Never be stuck for an assembly in December again and improve your pupils’ general knowledge. It is ideal if you have a last minute assembly to do, or unexpected tutor group time. It could be used for a one-off assembly, series of assemblies or for lessons/tutor activities.

The resource also contains suggestions for use and a set of worksheets for follow up activities. The follow up activities include:

reflective and evaluative tasks
a research task
the creation of a quiz based on the PowerPoint

The PowerPoint includes sections on:

How December got its name, things associated with December – flowers, Zodiac signs, quotes
Special Days – Advent, Human Rights Day, St Nicholas’ Day, Bodhi Day, Christmas day, Saint Stephen’s Day, New Year’s Eve, Hogmanay

Notable Birthdays - Walt Disney, Johann Christian Bach, Mary, Queen of Scots, John Milton, Frank Sinatra, Edvard Munch, Taylor Swift, Nostradamus, Gustave Eiffel, Paul Getty, Ludwig van Beethoven, Jane Austen, Steven Spielberg, Joseph Stalin, Giacomo Puccini, Maurice and Robin Gibb, Alexander I, Sir Isaac Newton, Mao Tse-tung, Louis Pasteur, William Gladstone, Rudyard Kipling, Tiger Woods, Henri Matisse, Anthony Hopkins, Ben Kingsley

Inventions, Discoveries, Launches - Dr Pepper, The Ford Motor Company first moving assembly line, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 launched, first Sunday newspaper the Observer published, first episode of Coronation Street, first Nobel Prizes awarded, Titanic movie premiered, premier of Gone with the Wind, first colour television went on sale, Dickens Christmas Carol published, Hans Christian Andersen published first book of fairy tales, first edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Notable Events and Happenings - Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of France, new Saint Paul’s Cathedral opened, the world’s first heart transplant, UK’s first motorway opened, first traffic lights installed, Muhammad Ali fought last boxing match, Francis Drake set sail around the world, Wilbur and Orville Wright first aeroplane flight, first performance of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, BBC World Service began, nuclear power first used, Mayflower Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, Charles de Gaulle President of France, Lech Wales Poland’s first elected president, Silent Night composed by Franz Xaver Gruber, Thomas Becket assassinated

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