To ask if non-British schools have assemblies?

The high school life depicted in television bore no resemblance to any experience I had in high school. We started the day in homeroom (like my daughter does here in Scotland) and the home room teacher would tell us things like upcoming sports events or prom or whatever but there were no school wide announcements. Once or twice a year there’d be a pep rally for football homecoming but that was optional.

British assemblies are strongly linked to the legacy of the church of england in founding primary schools.

You will notice in c of e schools they will refer to it as "collective worship" and increasingly these days the local church will be involved in presenting, because in all honesty they get very little other opportunity to have an audience of impressionable children - very few are taken to church services. You will see references to "open the book" teams who do bible stories etc.

I actually like the bringing together of a whole school or secondary year group, singing is good for children and they do need to practise sitting quietly, paying attention and listening. I am less keen on the increasing pushing of religion. In most places parents have not "chosen" a c of e school, its just the local one or the one the council allocates them a place at.

You do you understand that there various ways in which the Harry Potter books differ from real life?

My experience is from two Scandinavian countries and two Central European countries. No assemblies at any schools - and no school uniform and no traffic jams outside schools as the kids get themselves to school either on foot or by bus.

@scalt that's a strange view of assemblies (the humiliating pupils thing).
I have never ever known that happen.

We had one a week in Canada, but it was a smaller school (secondary). They were quite enjoyable because they were partly student-led. Kids would do comedy sketches (pre-rehearsed), musical performances or speeches. If you wanted help with your club or fundraiser, you'd get up and ask. It was seen as more of a school community-building exercise - a view my DCs' UK schools don't appear to share.

That's quite a jump from fact to fiction.
I taught in The UK and Melbourne for 40+ years and never encountered or heard of an assembly where students were humiliated at all, either singly or in groups.

I taught in Melbourne: year level assemblies and whole school assemblies twice a term. Too many UK schools to trawl through.

Another BIG difference, is that there is no streaming, and far less planning and reporting for teachers. The class has a textbook per subject, the teacher has the additional teacher’s book that goes with the class book, and the planning is already done, so the teacher can focus on teaching and correcting.

They don't seem to have assemblies in Sweden and even the big gatherings a couple of times a year as mentioned by Lunde splits the school in to 2 groups (younger years and older years) at my sons' school, maybe that varies by size of school though? They are more celebrations than boring old assemblies. They do have class samling same as in Denmark.

Sweden - no regular assemblies although the whole school gathers around twice a year - usually
Saint Lucia's Day in mid December
Last Day of Summer Term in the second week of June

(US) Not so much in elementary middle school and high school. More like a pep rally. A couple of times each semester the whole school gets together..They are upbeat with music and usually a t- shirt gun!. They let the kids know of upcoming events, sports meets, trips fundraisers all sorts. They are really aimed at promoting school spirit and community. Whenever there is a home game there is usually a good turn out of students and parents and the principal will usually do a quick talk.

We didn’t have them regularly when I was at school in Italy. There would be assemblies for a guest visitor on occasion. I presume in the U.K. they stem from the requirement to have a daily act of broadly Christian worship, and in most cases it was logistically easier for that to be everyone assembled in the hall for a story and a hymn or whatever.

No assembly in USA primary. About 4 times a year in secondary. It isn’t exactly sedate affair though. Sometimes there are speeches if there are student elections. Often the band plays or the cheerleaders perform. Sometimes another activity does a performance. They are loud, raucous events. My ASD teen hates them and finds a way to get out of them whenever possible.

Such an interesting question. It's such a fixed feature in English primaries (and perhaps other parts of the UK) that I find it hard to imagine the school day without it. Although I do think assemblies tend to work better in separate infant and junior schools or if your school is big enough to separate by Key Stage.

In Germany there are no assemblies as far as I am aware of (and no school uniforms either).

Never had those in Italy, but maybe that’s changed now

I'm in Australia we mainly had them at primary school 😊 highschool we didn't have them too often

Only primary school children, monthly in Ireland.
As a child it was weekly, we had to sing the national anthem. The singing has stopped too.

We never had any, no. No uniform either.

Not a thing in Ireland. Might have like a annual celebration but not daily. And might have class mass but again not regular.

Whole school assemblies, every morning across West Africa.

In France there is no assembly in state school

Yep. Daily. In Asian country

My kids school has a whole school assembly once a week. We are in Canada. Private.