Key dates January – May 2023
New Year Assemblies:

• • • New Year Resolutions Assembly
    • New Year Assembly
    • Be Inspired New Year Assembly
    •  New Year Assembly based on Character: What it Takes to be Good!
    • Chinese New Year, Year of the Rabbit.

January 4,  Birthday of Jacob Grimm – a celebration of Fairy Tales

• • • A must-see, Snow White and the 22 Dwarfs and the panto, an extended version of the original Snow White script, plus alternative versions of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, with PSHE ‘slant’ i.e.scripts with a moral message included.

January 5 Twelfth Night

• • • Babushka (Twelfth Night, the night she still looks for Jesus)
      January 18 Martin Luther King Day
    • Black History Guided Reading Play Scripts and single script on Martin Luther King (6 speakers) or Whole-Class MLK Play

January 18 Birthday of A.A. Milne – creator of Winnie the Pooh.

• • • Great British Writers Assembly (including Roald Dahl, A.A. Milne, C.S. Lewis, Lewis Carroll and J.K. Rowling)

January 15 World Religion Day

• • • The aim of World Religion Day, held on the third Sunday in January every year, is to promote inter-faith understanding and harmony. Through a variety of events held around the globe, followers of every religion are encouraged to acknowledge the similarities that different faiths have.
    • Different World Religions – this is a small cast script.
    • Peace Freedom and Harmony Class Play This script was written following events in Paris (Jan 2015) and is intended as a ‘discussion piece’ – I have explained myself fully in the preview section.

January 22 (for 15 days) Chinese New Year – Year of the Rabbit

• • • Chinese New Year Assembly

January 25 Burns Day

• • • Burns Assembly
    • Scottish Assembly – St. Andrews Day

January 26th Australia Day

• • • Australian Assembly
      January 27th Birthday of Lewis Carroll
    • Great British Writers Assembly (including Roald Dahl, A.A. Milne, C.S. Lewis, Lewis Carroll and J.K. Rowling)
    • Alice in Wonderland Take II – an alternative script: The Trial of Alice

FEBRUARY

February 7 Safer Internet Day

• • • Online Safety Assembly

February 12 Darwin Day

• • • Evolution Assembly

February 14 Valentine’s Day

• • • Valentine’s Day Assembly.

February 20th Presidents’ Day

Feb 21st Shrove Tuesday

• • • Pancake Day Assembly.

Feb 22 – April 6 Lent

• • • Lent Assembly
    • Meet the Presidents

MARCH:

MARCH WOMEN IN HISTORY MONTH

• • • Amazing Women scripts in the Guided Reading (History) section

March 1 St. David’s Day

• • • Welsh Assembly – in celebration of St. David’s Day

March 8 Festival of Holi

• • • Holi Assembly

March 2 World Book Day

• • • Great British Writers Assembly
    • Roald Dahl Assembly plus numerous other scripts on literature in the Literature Section of the website, inc.
    • Take a Book: Different Genres of Writing.

March 6 – 7th Purim – Judaism

• • • Judaism assembly

March 8 International Women’s Day

• • • Amazing Women (Click on Catalogue – UK Catalogue – Guided Reading – History – then Amazing Women)

March 19 Mothers Day

• • • Mother’s Day Assembly

March 17 St. Patrick’s Day

• • •  St. Patrick’s Day Guided Reading Script

March 20th International Day of Happiness

• • • Scripts on Happiness/Feeling Good About Yourself – Featured scripts and Main category –Happy Scripts (Home Page) for March

APRIL

April – National Pet Month

• • • Pets for Key Stage I
      2nd April International Children’s Book Day
    • Great British Writers Assembly and Roald Dahl Assembly plus numerous other scripts on literature in Literature Section of the website, inc. Take a Book: Different Genres of Writing.

12th April Space Day

• • • Plays on Space – Science and Geography sections

Easter Sunday 9 April

• • • Lent Assembly cast of 30, duration around 10 minutes
    • Pancake Day Assembly Cast of 30, 15 – 20 mins
    • The Easter Story based on the biblical story, cast of 30
    • The Easter Egg Hunt – available in two versions, Key Stage I: Cast of 30, duration around 10 minutes; and Key Stage II cast of 10 or 30 (or any number in between); duration 10 – 20 minutes
    • The Missing Easter Eggs: this ‘mini assembly’ of around 5 minutes reading time would be ideally suited to PSHE work centred around ‘new beginnings’. Cast of 6 – Feisty Pheasant, Clumsy Chicken, Tactless Turkey, Grumpy Goose, Daft Duck and the Easter Bunny.
    • Chocolate Assembly – available in two versions: Key Stage I and Key Stage II plus a specially adapted version for Easter

April 21st Queen Eliz II’s Birthday

• • • see Queen’s Jubilee script plus other royal scripts

April 22 Earth Day

• • • Our Planet – available both as an assembly and as a set of guided reading play scripts – these cover 5 different habitats and the impact man has on them).

April 23 St. George’s Day

• • • Get a set of Guided Reading scripts (5 mini plays) on England Plus St. George’s Day guided reading play script plus Ode, Plus Assembly on England. All three are available as a ‘bundle’
    • plus Key Stage I St. George and the Dragon Assembly

April 23 Shakespeare’s Birthday (see plays in Literature section)

March 22 – April 21 Ramadan

• • • Islam Assembly

April 29th International Dance Day

• • • Dance Around the World in PSHE section

MAY

May 8th VE Day

• • • World War II Assembly and Guided Reading Scripts

May 11 Joan of Arc

• • • French Assembly Vive La France