What's included in the New Year's Eve Around the World Whole School Assembly PowerPoint resource and why is it useful?

New Year's Eve Around the World Whole School Assembly PowerPoint is a slideshow that travels around the world to discover how different countries welcome a new year. The content includes 10 slides with teacher notes, covering why we celebrate the new year, traditions in the UK, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Italy, the Philippines and China, and time to reflect.

Why We Celebrate the New Year

New beginnings, new goals and new hopes, and how the UK celebrates with a countdown, fireworks and Auld Lang Syne, asking "What is one resolution that you might like to make this year?"

Lucky Customs Around the World

Temple bells rung 108 times in Japan, jumping seven waves in Brazil, 12 grapes in Spain, lentils in Italy, polka dots in the Philippines and red envelopes in China, with questions such as "Have you noticed any countries with any similar traditions so far?"

Time to Reflect

A reminder that a new year is a new beginning for all of us, ending with "What will you take forward into the new year?"

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.