Bonfire Night KS1

Bonfire Night KS1 – PowerPoint Lesson + 3 Printable Activities

Introduce Years 1–2 to Bonfire Night with this colourful, pupil-facing lesson. Children explore why we celebrate on 5th November, hear a simple version of the Guy Fawkes story and learn about bonfires, fireworks, sparklers and staying safe.

The illustrated PowerPoint combines short explanations with vocabulary practice, actions, prediction questions and Talk Partners activities. Children retell the story, discuss celebrations and explain safe choices.

What’s included?

• 25-slide widescreen PowerPoint: 20 lesson slides, two teacher planning references and three printable activity slides.
• Three illustrated A4 PDFs: Bonfire Night Key Words; The Gunpowder Plot: Tell It in Order; Safe or Not Safe?
• Mild, Spicy and Hot tasks, offering colouring and labelling, drawing and caption writing, or sentence writing.
• Vocabulary checks, a missing-words activity, a confidence exit ticket and a lesson summary.
• Teacher planning references covering curriculum links and Rosenshine’s principles.

Support for TAs and pupils with SEN includes picture prompts, vocabulary repetition, word banks, oral rehearsal and a retelling frame using “First”, “Next”, “After that” and “In the end”. Printable self-checks encourage children to review their work.

A ready-to-use resource linking history, spoken language, early writing and PSHE. Open the PowerPoint and print the supporting activities.

NB. This lesson was designed and written by a teacher. The draft PowerPoint was made by Claude AI, the graphically enhanced version was then made by ChatGPT, and all editing was done by Copilot. Every stage was overseen, amended where necessary, and approved by a teacher. Total time approximately 8 hours.