This Reception Open Evening Presentation is a clear, engaging and informative resource designed to support communication with parents at the start of the school year.
It provides a comprehensive overview of life in Reception, including key information about the EYFS curriculum, daily routines, continuous provision, and how children learn through play. The presentation also highlights the importance of the Characteristics of Effective Learning, helping parents to understand how their child will develop skills such as independence, resilience and confidence.
The slides cover essential information such as staffing, school expectations, communication methods, transitions into Reception, and ways parents can support their child at home. It also includes sections on forest school, buddy systems, and practical routines, helping to build strong home-school partnerships from the outset.
If you’ve got an open evening coming up you might be wondering how to prepare or what you could offer to those prospective parents. You might already have some resources and be looking for extra activities to put out.
Here is my pack of open evening resources, which I’ve used for years. They always help me ensure prospective students are persuaded to take psychology.
I’ve included the resources i use for Sociology too as I know many people teach both but these are easily deleted if you don’t need them. Similarly you may need to change a year 2 module or two, if you don’t study the same three as our students do.
In the bundle is:
My door signs
Six interactive activities to put around your classroom (this always gives the room a real buzz and helps keep visitors interested and busy while they wait to speak to the teacher.)
A rolling ppt to put on the board for prospective parents and students to read. (you could amend this to add your dept results / entry requirements).
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, (who has examined and tutored), I have spent time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams. Now I want to pass these on to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
A highly engaging Sixth Form Business taster lesson built around real brand failure investigations. Students analyse why major brands such as Blockbuster, Nokia, Kodak and Woolworths collapsed using evidence boards, discussion tasks and structured verdict activities.
Perfect for:
Sixth Form taster days
Open evenings
GCSE to A-Level transition
Year 11 enrichment
Business department recruitment lessons
First A-Level Business lessons
Students investigate four brand case studies and decide whether failure was caused by:
Pricing
Trends
Marketing
Leadership
This resource helps introduce key A-Level Business concepts including:
disruptive innovation
strategic decision making
market positioning
leadership and organisational culture
competitive advantage
Includes:
Full editable PowerPoint
4 complete case studies
student worksheet
extension tasks
teacher notes
mark scheme
open evening cut-out takeaway cards
Ideal for AQA, Edexcel and OCR Business.
Designed to create strong discussion, high engagement and genuine curiosity about A-Level Business study.
A tried and tested(!) powerpoint that contains a range of activities including a world knowledge quiz and an interactive ‘map-the-world’ task that students can gradually add to as they move in and out of the classroom over the course of the evening.
The powerpoint slides contain lots of little sheets (e.g. flags, animals, boxes to write capital cities, mountain ranges, rivers etc) that can be printed out for students to colour and add information to, and then pin onto a larger world map to make a colourful display. A large map and atlases are required to carry this out.
This has worked really successfully as a way to engage students and talk to them about geography, and create something visually-exciting and meaningful.
This is aimed at new heads of subject or those preparing for an open evening or morning that need some new ideas or need support with planning it for the first time.
Ideas:
Demonstrations
Interactive Activities
Curiosity Stations
Other ideas and considerations
This gives you a base to start from - pick a few ideas from each section to build a great event.
This printable and editable leaflet is a great addition to your GCSE Open Evening/ advertisement of the subject.
The document includes information based on Edexcel GCSE Drama (but can be adapted easily for other exam boards/ subjects), covering:
Why study GCSE Drama?
Course Overview
Course Breakdown (units and weightings)
What skills studying the course develops
Contact information
Just print and fold to be a leaflet and its ready to go!
This printable and editable leaflet is a great addition to your A Level Open Evening/ advertisement of the subject.
The document includes information based on Edexcel A Level Drama (but can be adapted easily for other exam boards/ subjects), covering:
Why study A Level Drama and Theatre?
Course Overview
Course Breakdown (units and weightings)
Future Careers
Contact information
Just print and fold to be a leaflet and its ready to go!
Description
Make your PSHE Open Evening stand out with this complete, ready-to-use pack of 8 fun, interactive activities linked directly to the PSHE curriculum. Designed to create a buzz around your PSHE department, this resource is perfect for showcasing the breadth and importance of PSHE to Year 6 pupils, parents, and carers. Each activity is quick to set up, engaging, and comes with teacher guidance notes so your team can run a smooth and professional evening. Pupils collect reward stamps as they complete activities, with a small prize if they finish three stations, helping to keep them motivated and engaged throughout.
What’s Included:
• Teacher guidance pack with clear notes on how to run each activity, what props you’ll need, and which strand of PSHE it links to
• Reward cards for pupils to collect stamps at each activity station
• Activity title cards, recommended to laminate for easy reuse every year
• Printable resources including money, emoji templates, answer sheets, careers, and more
The 8 Activity Stations
Careers and Finance: Budget Biscuits, can you spot the real Jaffa Cakes from the Lidl version? Salary Match, match the job to the correct salary with printable careers, money, and answer sheet.
Staying Healthy: Sugar Shock, guess how much sugar is in popular drinks, includes title card and answers. CPR Practice, hands-on lifesaving skill with title card and instructions (CPR dolls required, not included).
Emotions and Wellbeing: Design Your Own Emoji with printable emoji templates. Periodic Table of Emotions, great for discussion (sourced online, not original creation).
Staying Safe: Online Body Image, spot which celebrity image is real vs photoshopped, includes printable cards and title card. Drunk Simulation, use simulation goggles (not included) to complete challenges, includes title card.
Citizenship and British Values: Have Your Say Voting Activity, highlight democracy in action, includes title card. Needs tokens for voting and a polling box (not included).
Respectful Relationships: What Makes a Good Friend? An interactive activity with printable title card.
Teacher Tips
Why You’ll Love this Pack
• Tried and tested at real school Open Evenings, guaranteed to impress pupils and parents
• Activities showcase a wide range of PSHE strands, from careers to health, safety, relationships, and values
• Quick to set up, engaging for pupils, and memorable for families
• Designed for reuse year after year with minimal effort, simply laminate the resources
Ideal For:
• PSHE Open Evenings
• Transition events for Year 6 into Year 7
• School fairs or careers evenings
• Showcasing PSHE to parents, governors, and SLT
Create a buzz around your PSHE department and show how vital, exciting, and engaging PSHE can be. Pupils love the activities, and parents will leave impressed with the creativity and range of topics covered.
AQA GCSE Sociology Open Evening Display
Includes:
25+ posters (course breakdown, entry requirements, books, destinations etc.)
Header
Life chances game (paper ball and bin required)
Percentages guessing activity
Spot the feminist activity
All posters are PDFs. If there is somthing you need to change for your center please drop me an email and I will be happy to help :)
**French Open Evening Resources **
**Make your own French Passport **
Set up a passport making station in your classroom with the sign. You will need a few student helpers, pens/pencils, the instruction sheet and plenty of copies of the passport template, ready folded into a little book. You might want a tape measure too as not many know how tall they are.
Once they have finished, you or your student helpers can stamp their new passport (if you have a stamp)
**Make your own French Weather Vane **
Set up a Weather Vane making station in your classroom with the sign. You will need a few student helpers, pens/pencils, brass fasteners, the instruction sheet and plenty of copies of the weather vane template and cut out arrows. Student helpers help your visitors to copy the correct French phrase onto their weather vane. They can also help them to assemble it with the brass fastener and arrow in the middle.
Includes a couple of resources I use on open evenings for promoting Psychology.
Serial Killer or Psychologist - I made these into cards with a photo on the front and descroption of who the person is on the back them laminated them. The idea is that the students have to sort the cards into two piles based on appearance alone. I then discuss things like lombroso theory, nature nuture of offending, biological causes (because if there are similarities in faces of criminals it could mean similarities in DNA etc), and offender profiling with them.
True or false statements - I put these in a jar and they pull out one and we discuss it.
A display poster of the topics we cover
Interesting Conditions - just some more unusual conditions that can be discussed
A mirror task shapes - if you buy a couple of small mirrors (the small mirror tiles work well from Ikea) then the students have to do the mirror task done by HM. Draw a line in the small 1cm gap between the lines of the shapes by only looking in the mirror. I do this by blocking their vision to their hand using another sheet of paper (or can use a card board box cut out.
A display I created for open evening for my school for the RS department. It shows a brief symmary of what the students are studying in Year 7. Could be adapted to suit your needs based on the topics you are teaching.
Perfect for putting on a screen during Science open evenings or assemblies. A presentation containing animated gifs showing the wonder (and humour) of science. Always a big hit, especially with young audiences.
Name The Disney Movie and Rate Its Historical Accuracy!
Bring history to life in your classroom with this engaging and interactive activity that combines the magic of Disney with critical thinking about historical events!
This resource invites students to test their knowledge of Disney movies based on historical events and then dive deeper into discussions about historical accuracy. Through a fun and educational game, students will:
Guess the Disney Movie: Each team is presented with a short description of a movie. Using clues from the description, teams must guess which Disney film is being referenced.
Rate the Historical Accuracy: Once the movie is revealed, students discuss how historically accurate they think the movie is on a scale from 1 (Not Accurate) to 5 (Highly Accurate). This opens up a lively discussion about what really happened versus how Disney portrays it, helping students to differentiate between entertainment and historical fact.
Detailed Instructions: Easy-to-follow guidelines for setting up and facilitating the activity.
Printable Scoring Sheet: Ready-to-use for teams to record their guesses and ratings.
Perfect For:
as an end of year activity
activity for Open Evening
Get your copy today and watch your students’ excitement for history come alive!
This printable and editable leaflet is a great addition to your GCSE Open Evening/ advertisement of the subject.
The document includes information based on AQA GCSE Dance , covering:
Why study GCSE Dance?
Course Overview
Course Breakdown (units and weightings)
What skills studying the course develops
Contact information
Just print and fold to be a leaflet and its ready to go!
A PowerPoint to show at open evening, it covers basic information for EDUQAS exam board and interesting topics which can be discussed with students and parents.
Leaflet contains all the information needed for the new specification good to hand out to parents.
This is a fun idea I designed for the school open evening for Year 6 students to attend for History.
It is a simple exercise of de-coding who the murderer is by answering comprehension questions regarding Historic events, Roman Numerals and Morse Code.
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