Engaging ideas for the end of term

Make the most of the last few weeks of term with this collection of engaging one-off lessons and activity ideas for secondary English classes

Tes Resources Team

Students having fun with end of term activities

Fun, skills-focused lesson ideas and activities to help you round off learning in style

If you're not quite ready for the end of the term yet but want to catch your students' attention with some one-off, engaging lesson ideas and have some fun with your subject, we are here to help. Have a look at these hand-picked resources, designed to inject some excitement into your lessons and help you - and your students - arrive at the end of term smiling!

Lower secondary KS3 resources

Stop the Bus/Scattegories
Mrs_costa

Stop the Bus/Scattegories

FREE
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A game that can be used as a plenary or to identify key terms for a lesson. I often use 'fun' categories, followed by a couple more serious ones. I have included a tutorial of how to play and a blank sheet to print out. Students are required to think of words for each category and as soon as th...
English Games & Activities Fun Freebie
BrilliantlyLit

English Games & Activities Fun Freebie

FREE
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When even your most academic students are thinking more about the weekend ahead than about the finer points of your brilliant lesson, then bring on these educational games! There are games for individuals, team games, mini writing activities, silly speeches and riddles to solve. If you and your stud...
Creative Writing Board Game: Creative Dice-ing!
BreathingSpace

Creative Writing Board Game: Creative Dice-ing!

£3.00
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Roll the dice and create something amazing! This is a roll the dice board game for Creative Writing. It consists of a vibrant grid full of images, words and phrases to provoke outside-the-box thinking and writing! Students roll the dice to choose a genre, then roll again moving...
Quizmaster: The English Board Game
MrWsTeachingEmporium

Quizmaster: The English Board Game

FREE
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Quizmaster is a really useful tool that has historically been used to support children who find English challenging in Years 7 and 8 but has also been used to provide a fun revision activity for Years 5 and 6. Included in the pack: * Game Cards - print double sided, trim the cards to size, stick th...
Poetry Bingo
TeachingWEase

Poetry Bingo

£3.00
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Challenge your pupils to recognise poetry themed definitions with this bingo game. There are 30 different boards; enough for every child in your class. Definitions: acrostic, alliteration, assonance, ballad, couplet, free verse, haiku, half-rhyme, internal rhyme, kenning, limerick, metaphor, na...

Upper secondary KS4 resources

Eduqas Poetry Anthology: revision game
MsLarkinsResources

Eduqas Poetry Anthology: revision game

FREE
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This is a game that is easy to set up and fun to play. It s very similar to Articulate or Don t Say a Word so it s interactive and entertaining. All you need to do is print off the cards and cut them up (a 5 minute job) and then it s ready to play. Once this is done, the cards c...
Creative Writing Games: Fun Fiction
BrilliantlyLit

Creative Writing Games: Fun Fiction

FREE
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These three creative writing quickies have stimulated some of the most fun times I have ever had with my pupils! Each takes about 20- 25 minutes to write; the sharing time afterwards will vary according to class size. Each of the activities will provoke both the imagination AND critical thinking. Th...
Poetry English Escape Room
Cre8tive Resources

Poetry English Escape Room

£4.00
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Poetry English Digital Escape Room for KS3 or KS4 English students. This escape room has taken between 15 -20 hours to create from scratch. The Escape Room follows a detective agency theme where students will have to solve a series of puzzles based around the English topic of Poetry. As well as...
Macbeth Quotations Game and Revision Worksheet
NovelTeachingUK

Macbeth Quotations Game and Revision Worksheet

£1.50
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Includes: * A worksheet with significant quotes from 'Macbeth'. *(My students stuck this in their books and revised it for homework in preparation for the lesson. It also has a colour-code key, so students can highlight the quotations in relation to each of the key themes of the play.)* * A pow...
End of Term Fun! Poetry Bingo
Miss Adams Teaches ...

End of Term Fun! Poetry Bingo

£1.00
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Revise poetry terms and your poetry anthology with this fun resource, perfect for end of term activities or a fun way to revise for exams. This resource includes a poetry bingo card with 20 terms and instructions to play. Suitable for any collection of poems your are using with students at Key Stag...
Romeo and Juliet Revision Game
creativesquirrel

Romeo and Juliet Revision Game

£2.00
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A fun and engaging A3 revision game that helps students to revise plot, themes, characters, quotations, context and more! Can be played with two or more players - all you will need is a dice and some counters. Students work their way around the board completing revision tasks and answering key quest...