What's included in the Bastille Day Whole School Assembly PowerPoint resource and why is it useful?

Bastille Day Whole School Assembly PowerPoint is a slideshow that explores France's national holiday on 14th July and the start of the French Revolution. The content includes 10 slides with teacher notes, covering what Bastille Day is, the history of Bastille Day, the storming of the Bastille, the French values of liberty, equality and fraternity, how Bastille Day is celebrated in France and around the world, and a reflection. It links to history learning about significant events.

The Storming of the Bastille

Why the French people were unhappy with King Louis XVI, how the attack on the Bastille prison in 1789 began the French Revolution and how France became a Republic, with questions such as "Why do you think the French people wanted to get rid of their king?"

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

The three values that are still France's official motto today, asking "What values are important to you?"

Bastille Day Celebrations

Street parties, the military parade along the Champs-Élysées, fireworks at the Eiffel Tower and a festival in Franschhoek, South Africa, with background in the teacher notes.

How do our whole school assemblies work?

Our whole school assemblies are PowerPoint slideshows that follow a similar structure: an introduction, questions to get children thinking, the key points of the topic and reflection time. They're paced to suit a primary school assembly and work best on a whiteboard, projected out to the hall. You can use them:

• as a whole school assembly, from EYFS up to KS2
• as a class assembly
• as a teaching PowerPoint when you want to cover an event or topic in your own classroom

The majority of our assemblies include teacher notes and guidance to support delivery, and because they're pacey, you can adapt them to however long your assembly lasts.

Adapting the Assembly for Your School

Every assembly is editable, so you can add, remove or change slides to suit the needs of your school. We cover religious events, seasonal topics, values such as kindness, friendship and tolerance, science, history, PSHE, music, significant people and sporting events, so you can choose the assemblies that fit your school year.

Supporting Learning at Home

Families can carry the conversation on at home by asking children about their assembly: what they heard, how it made them feel and what they think about it.

You can explore more of our whole school assembly resources here.