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

World Heart Day Whole School Assembly PowerPoint is a slideshow that helps children learn about the heart and how to look after it, for the day marked each year on 29th September. The content includes 12 slides with teacher notes, covering what World Heart Day is, where your heart is, what the heart does, listening to your heartbeat, moving for a healthy heart, food and drink for the heart, rest and sleep, clean air, why World Heart Day matters, a heart-healthy challenge and follow-up activities. It links to science learning about animals, including humans, and PSHE learning about health.

How the Heart Works

Why the heart is a muscle about the size of your fist, how it pumps blood carrying oxygen and nutrients around the body and why it beats faster when we are active, with questions such as "When have you noticed your heart beating faster?"

Healthy Habits for the Heart

Moving in ways that feel enjoyable and safe, a balanced diet, rest and sleep and clean, smoke-free air, asking "What could you add to a balanced, heart-friendly lunch?"

Our Heart-Healthy Challenge

How small actions repeated each day can become healthy habits, ending with "What heart-healthy action will you choose today?"

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.