What's included in the Christmas Eve Traditions Whole School Assembly PowerPoint resource and why is it useful?

Christmas Eve Traditions Whole School Assembly PowerPoint is a slideshow that explores how families get ready for Christmas on 24th December in different countries. The content includes 11 slides, covering what Christmas Eve is, Christmas Eve traditions in the UK, Germany, Mexico and Japan and a reflection. It links to RE learning about Christianity.

Christmas Eve in the UK

Preparing food, hanging stockings, new pyjamas, carol services and Midnight Mass, with questions such as "What does Christmas Eve look like in your home?"

Christmas Eve Around the World

Presents opened on Christmas Eve in Germany, Nochebuena and the seven-pointed star piñata in Mexico and cakes decorated with strawberries and cream in Japan.

Reflection

Why Christmas Eve is about community wherever you are, ending with "Out of all the Christmas Eve traditions you have heard about today, which is your favourite?"

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.