Bring excitement, collaboration, and critical thinking into your classroom with this Mission: Save the School Year! Escape Room Activity—a fully printable, ready-to-use resource designed to boost engagement while reinforcing key skills across literacy, problem-solving, and teamwork. In this immersive classroom escape room, students become “New Recruits” tasked with restoring the missing School Spirit. To succeed, they must complete six interactive missions, each building essential skills through fun, hands-on challenges and puzzles. Every completed mission reveals a code number, which students combine to unlock the final classroom code. This resource includes a wide variety of activity types to suit different learners and keep engagement high, including a Find Someone Who… speaking activity, classroom object riddles, a secret alphabet code, a team STEM-style tower challenge, a logic puzzle, and a reflective classroom promise task. The mix of physical, cognitive, and creative tasks ensures every student can participate and contribute. Perfect for upper primary classrooms, this escape room encourages collaboration, communication, and perseverance while being easy for teachers to deliver with minimal preparation. Simply print and go—no extra materials required beyond basic classroom supplies for the tower challenge. What’s included: 6 themed escape room missions Student recording sheet for code numbers Final escape challenge with combined code Teacher instructions and answer key Print-ready layout for classroom use Learning outcomes: Problem-solving and logical reasoning Teamwork and communication skills Literacy and decoding skills Active listening and classroom interaction Ideal for end-of-term fun, enrichment lessons, supply cover, or whole-class rewards, this escape room transforms your classroom into an interactive adventure students will remember.

This coloring page is perfect to assess initial writing abilities while also settling the children into their new setting using coloring as a calming method of integration. Perfect for the first week of having the children in the classroom.

For this you will need some bee bots or cutouts of animals with arrows children can use to learn directions and algorithms through instruction giving. Basic idea: Children develop clear instructions where the end result is successful.

Horror Writing lesson encouraging creative writing, questioning, scaffolding, and active listening. Children have a model to discuss, and then they are encouraged to create their own horror writing piece based on their own imaginative ideas.

Printable All About Me bunting. Perfect for September, new classes & every classroom. Perfect for getting to know new students and perfect for creativity and initial writing assessment.