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

Twelfth Night Whole School Assembly PowerPoint is a slideshow that explores the Christian festival that marks the end of the Christmas season. The content includes 7 slides with teacher notes, covering what Twelfth Night is, taking the decorations down, the night before Epiphany, Twelfth Night in history, wassailing and time to reflect. It links to RE learning about Christianity.

The End of Christmas

Why Twelfth Night falls on 5th January, why many people take their decorations down and how it leads into Epiphany, with a discussion prompt in the teacher notes for every slide.

Feasts and Wassailing

How Twelfth Night was once a time for feasts, costumes and games, and how people in parts of Britain still visit orchards to bless apple trees and sing songs.

Time to Reflect

A reminder to look forward to what is coming next, with the question "What new beginning could you make as Christmas ends?"

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.