Getting Ready for Christmas: Creative Ideas for Assemblies, Drama and Cross-curricular Activities - Softcover

This book explores themes within the Christmas story through National Curriculum subjects such as art and design, design and technology, geography and history, science, maths, drama and literacy. It gives ideas for assemblies as well as individual class activities. The clean design with an easy-to-use format combines storytelling with core literacy and numeracy activities. It includes an easy-to-perform Advent play. It is suitable for primary school teachers working with 7-11s (KS 2), as well as to clergy and children's work leaders with primary school links leading assemblies. This book contains a wealth of ideas for cross-curricular teaching designed to give a host of fresh ideas for the last few weeks of the Christmas term. The material includes a mix of practical, literary and academic tasks, all linked to the National Curriculum and comes complete with a nativity play and three structured literacy hours, based around a specially written story "The Last Customers". There are also ideas for Advent assemblies, drama workshops and things to make, including a class Advent calendar, Advent candles and St Nicholas Day biscuits. The material includes class worksheets with full photocopy permission where appropriate.

Meg Harper is a well-known author of children's fiction, including the Saint Jenni and My Mum and Other Horror Stories series for Lion. Alongside her work as a writer she is a trained teacher. She currently teaches youth theatre and conducts a variety of workshops in schools. She also runs a children's book group.