We have a high turnover of pupils and these “Boarding Passes” serve as assessments to identify gaps in learning new pupils might have. Pupils are encouraged to simply ‘have a go’ and leave blank any details they do not know. At the end of teaching the topic revisit the boarding pass and fill in/improve the answers. We have found these boarding passes are popular with all pupils. They also seem to create a desire to know more and an anticipation to learn the topic.

Excellent, engaging, visual posters (A3) that have proved to help students revise the themes that go across American West topic. These posters take the form of timelines. Migration; Law and Order; Relations with Indigenous peoples; Cattle Industry.