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

Lohri Day Whole School Assembly PowerPoint is a slideshow that introduces children to the Punjabi folk festival celebrated on 13th January. The content includes 10 slides with teacher notes, covering what Lohri is, the bonfire at the heart of the celebration, special foods, music and dancing, giving and community, farmers and thankfulness and what we can learn from Lohri.

What Is Lohri?

How Lohri marks the end of winter, welcomes spring and celebrates the harvest, and why fire is a symbol of warmth, light and hope.

Food, Music and Community

Popcorn, peanuts, jaggery and gajak, Bhangra and Giddha dancing around the fire and children singing Lohri songs door to door, with a clap-and-repeat rhythm for the whole school in the teacher notes.

What Can We Learn from Lohri?

Gratitude, community and new beginnings, with a moment of silent reflection and the question "How could we celebrate our school community?"

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.