Starters and plenaries
With this extensive collection of starters and plenaries, from games and challenges to peer and self assessment tools and exit tickets, you can reinvigorate your lesson planning and ensure that you have checked your students' progress and consolidated their learning.
Starters
Get lessons off to a flying start and engage students with this exciting collection of starter ideas including register re-caps, brain training, bingo, code breakers and bell ringer ideas.
Register Recaps - Lesson Starter Activities
**5 Great lesson starter activities that can be adapted for ANY subject or curriculum. Activities are fun and focus on pupil choice for theory and literacy recap!** Download the PowerPoint to use or adapt to suit your subject area. Brightly coloured with a simple layout: 1) Knowledge Wheel: Studen...
Boggle puzzle
This resource includes 20 different 3x3 Boggle puzzles, one per Powerpoint slide with instructions for students on how to play and how to earn points as well as some suggested solutions for teachers underneath each slide (viewable when not in present mode). This activity is perfect to use as either...
50 Short Literacy Tasks / Starters
This PowerPoint contains 50 short activities based around punctuation, grammar and spelling. This includes: * Word sorting * Spelling rules * Plurals * Tenses * Punctuation * Sentence structure * Much more! Perfect for lower ability, SEN, EAL or intervention group and could also be used as a ban...
Codebreakers template
A blank template that can be used to create codebreakers. A great way to introduce key words or teachings. Works well as a challenge to see who can crack the code first.
Over 100 KS2 New Curriculum Morning Starters
A PowerPoint with starters suitable for KS2. Starters based on riddles, maths and English questions. Number, logic, problem solving, grammar questions. Based on the New Curriculum. These can be used daily during registration or as starters before lessons. These can be worked out ...
99 Lesson Starters - Riddles to get students engaged and thinking at the start of your lesson!
Are you looking for some gripping ways to settle your students really quickly at the start of your lesson? Here are 99 of the best riddles out there that you can use as starter activities! I have done all the hard work for you and gathered the best riddles into one neat PowerPoint that you can ...
Starter and Plenary T&L
11 Page Activity Booklet containing a variety of different classroom-ready settling activities, student work sheets that will enthuse and engage students, and ensure they get the most from their studies. FUN/C8F/TL/01 Perfect for settling students or recapping the learning or even as a plenary at t...
Vocabulary Builder Lesson Starters
These lesson starters were made for a Higher class who struggled with the vocabulary used in Higher Reading for UAE/Close Reading papers Each PPT has six words with jumbled meanings and the right answers on the following slide
Word Wheel Challenge / Competition
I use this with my form group once a week. Get them in pairs and make a competition for class dojo points. Can be used for students learning to read or write, and also to expand vocabulary by picking up on words that other students have made. It's really easy to edit. You can even add more...
Starter Activities
A series of starter activities that can be used for KS3, KS4, KS5, FE and HE learners.
Mixed practice starter ENTRY TICKET
Three 'entry tickets' designed as a warm up for the start of a lesson. Three tickets getting slightly more difficult, with answer sheet provided. Aimed at KS3 pupils or high ability KS2/low ability KS4 - will need to have studied averages/area/percentages and fractions of amounts.
Plenaries
Consolidate learning and finish lessons in style using this fun and engaging selection of plenary ideas including minesweeper, plenary dice, treasure hunt, team games and much more.
Plenaries
Christmas Plenaries! Always be prepared with this back to school Plenary kit. This has a fantastic range of mini activities for back to school and can even be used for distance learning via Teams or Zoom. Contains the original Plenary Generator and our CHRISTMAS version. This is a fully INTERACTIVE ...
Reveal the Picture Powerpoint Template
A template for a reveal game. Students pick a number that they want to see behind, and you click. A good warmer to check last week's vocabulary. All you need to do is add the pictures and send them to the back - simple.
Plenary Activities
A range of plenary activities. The Plenary wheel rotates when pressed. The plenary chooser will light up one of the activities. The ometer acts as a class meter reading on a debate question, students vote by clicking agree or disagree button and the needle will move with each vote till the last...
Treasure Hunt Plenary Game
A fun plenary or starter game for any subject or topic that doesn't need any preparation. On each slide there are 16 squares with five treasures hidden behind them. Students answer a question and if they get it right they choose a square and get a point/sweet/sticker if they find a treasure. There...
Plenary Triangle
Print two to a page and you have a ready-to-go plenary for any lesson Learners write down three things they learnt in the lesson, two ways they learnt it (what task taught them the knowledge - metacognition) and one thing they knew before the lesson that helped them (skills or knowledge based). The...
Times Tables Bingo
Creates a complete times tables bingo game (2x to 12x). Generates a list of random questions and a set of 33 bingo cards randomised each time. UPDATED: Now ensures no repeated numbers in the cards or in the answers to questions.
Plenary Ideas
Quickly assess pupils' learning through this range of plenary ideas. These can easily be displayed on an interactive whiteboard at the end of a lesson.
Minesweeper Plenary Game
Minesweeper is a very popular game where players have to avoid exploding hidden bombs in the sea. Do the same in school and end your lessons with a bang ! Use this game as a plenary activity. This can be used for any subject and any year. E.g. MFL translation of vocabulary Maths answers...
Exit Ticket - One thing i thought about today
An exit ticket sheet asking one thing that i thought about today but had not considered before - Ideal for PSHE, Citizenship or Religious Education lessons. 4 tickets per sheet. For **FREE** tutorial resources as well as support and guidance on making the most out of form / tutorial time sessio...
Times Tables Bingo Game
A game of Bingo for practising time tables (1 - 12 inclusive) and making maths fun, with a competitive edge. The game comes with 144 calling cards covering all of the times tables from 1x1, through to 12x12. It also comes with 12 pre-prepared Bingo cards and additionally a blank Bingo card template ...
Football starter or plenary
Great simple game to get boys engaged. use it a lot for T/F quizzes usually girls v boys for competition