This is a highly practical guide to developing creative school assemblies and a strong sense of community for staff and pupils. Presented in a format that is amenable to busy teachers this book provides assembly ideas that will appeal to all pupils.This practical guide to developing creative assemblies provides ideas on: developing a sense of community in the school and pacy, bite-sized assemblies for those with short attention spans. Using every day resources to create great assemblies, this book is a must for every teacher who has ever been stressed out by the thought of planning an assembly.This highly practical series contains a wide range of books of importance to teachers, trainees and NQTs. Each book is packed with ready-to-use activities to be used in the classroom. They are quick and easy to dip into: each technique is presented on the left-hand page, and the facing right-hand page shows a practical activity to put that technique into practice.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Ideas in Action .

There are 112 pages in this book. This book was published in 2008 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .

Brian Radcliffe is a writer and teacher who has specialised both in the delivery of innovative assemblies and the use of drama techniques to promote active learning. For 12 years he was minister of a Baptist church, focusing particularly on culturally relevant communication. Since 1998 he has been a part-time member of staff at Fallibroome High School, a high achieving specialist performing arts school in Cheshire. Brian writes extensively for Optimus Education, both as a team writer for the Secondary Assembly File and Teaching Expertise's topical web based assemblies, and as sole author of a number of books of assembly scripts. Assemblies for Special Days KS 3 and KS 4/5 were both published in 2003. Secondary Assemblies for SEAL was published in 2008 specifically to support schools in implementing Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning. In the same year Network Curriculum Education published Creative Assemblies in their Ideas in Action series.