Great Big Live Assembly: Black History Month 2025 (Secondary Schools)

This is an invitation to all secondary schools to join us for a special assembly to celebrate Black History Month!

🌍 Great Big Live Assembly – Celebrating Black History Month (For Secondary Schools)

📅 Live on YouTube | 🕙 10-Minute Assembly | 🎓 Suitable for Secondary-Age Pupils

Join us for a special Great Big Live Assembly to celebrate Black History Month—a fast-paced, fun, and inspiring 10-minute event designed especially for secondary school children across the UK!

🎉 WHAT TO EXPECT:

✨ Hosted by:

• Gemma Hunt – BAFTA-nominated CBBC presenter
• Jeriah Kibusi – BAFTA-winning 13-year-old presenter
• Dr Krish Kandiah OBE – Award-winning author and speaker on diversity and inclusion

🌟 Featuring:

• Inspiring Black role models and guest contributors
• A spotlight on this year’s Black History Month theme:“Standing Firm in Power and Pride”
• A special focus on Rosa Parks and the 70th anniversary of her historic act of courage

🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️ Plus:

• Live Q&A opportunities for pupils
• Simple, practical ideas to help students build inclusive, welcoming communities
• A downloadable teacher resource pack with follow-up activities

🎥 The assembly will be streamed live on YouTube. Can’t make it live? No problem! Sign up and we’ll send you a link to watch on catch-up.

🎫 Only one ticket per school is needed – feel free to share the event link with your colleagues.

Let’s inspire the next generation with stories of courage, community and change. Register your school now and join us live for this unforgettable event!

Dr Krish Kandiah

Dr Krish Kandiah is a social entrepreneur with a vision to help solve some of society’s seemingly intractable problems through building partnerships across civil society, faith communities, government and philanthropy. He led the Afghan Welcome and UKHK initiatives which have worked with government and civil society to welcome newcomers from Afghanistan and Hong Kong to the UK. He is the director of Sanctuary Foundation, a foster carer, a host in the Homes for Ukraine scheme and sits on the government’s Core Delivery Group. He is the author of over 15 books, including two welcome books for resettled Hong Kong and Ukrainian children.

Gemma Hunt

Gemma has been working in TV since 2003 when she graduated with her First Class Media Performance Degree from The University of Bedfordshire. Gemma started working exclusively for CBBC in July 2003 before going freelance in 2007. 2013 saw Gemma join the CBeebies family on BAFTA award winning pirate gameshow ‘Swashbuckle’. Gemma also presents ‘Together’ – a BBC Learning School Radio show downloadable for school assemblies.

You can see Gemma presenting live at Festivals around the UK, including Big Church Day Out. Also, from April 2016 Gemma is co-presenting the new Alpha Film Series for alpha.org. Gemma also runs workshops in presenting skills and enjoys working with children, leading storytelling sessions and birthday parties. In 2017 Gemma was hugely honoured to be nominated in the “Presenter” category at the Children’s BAFTA’S.

Jeriah Kibusi

Jeriah is BAFTA’s very first Young Presenter to win the 10-14 competition category. Since becoming a BAFTA Young Presenter in 2022, Jeriah has interviewed cast and creatives behind Nickelodeon’s Transformers: EarthSpark and interviewed on the red carpet of the BAFTA Children and Young People Awards And TV Awards. Jeriah is also a regular reporter on Sky Kids’ FYI and has appeared in Sky Kids’ Original series Ama’s Story.