Setting cover work at secondary

Make secondary cover lessons both engaging and worthwhile with these specially selected lesson ideas, activities and booklets for class and supply teachers

Tes Resources Team

Teacher planning for their secondary cover lessons

Take the stress out of devising cover lessons with these ready-to-use activity ideas for a range of subject areas

Making sure that cover lessons are both valuable and interesting can be time-consuming, whether you’re a supply teacher or a teacher having to set work. To make the process simpler, we’ve hand-picked some of the best resources to make sure your students remain stimulated and engaged.

Whole School

Tutor Toolkit (form time activities for year 7-11)
OllieMFL

Tutor Toolkit (form time activities for year 7-11)

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**TES keep listing this on their featured pages but I haven't updated this resource since 2019 so it's very much in need of a refresh.** 365 days of knowledge for year 7 - 11, **completely editable and free**. This resource is for use starting September 2019. It includes: - 52 word of the weeks in ...
Activity Bank: Tutor Time
Amy Banks

Activity Bank: Tutor Time

FREE
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A completely editable bank of tutor time activities in the following categories: * Podcasts * Games and group activities * Meditation and motivation * Discussion and debate * Videos and documentaries + a blank slide for staff and students to share their own recommendations The bank includes: 15 d...

English and Humanities

English Home Learning Packs KS3
Sarah Graham

English Home Learning Packs KS3

FREE
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Here are two 30+ page English work packs I made for my SEMH Y8 and Y9 students who are self-isolating. It has sections on SPaG, reading and writing, with an extras section at the back with some fun creative tasks. They will easily suit upper KS2 though. They might look a bit wonky in the preview...
English Cover KS3
EnglishGCSEcouk

English Cover KS3

£3.00
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English cover for KS3 lessons that includes: 2x Analysing fiction texts (English Language Paper 1 Q1-3) 2x Analysing non-fiction texts (English Language Paper 2 Q1-3) 2x Descriptive/narrative writing (English Language Paper 1 Question 5) 2x Non-fiction writing (English Language Paper 2 Question 5) ...
History Cover Lesson - Black Death
EC_Resources_EXTRA

History Cover Lesson - Black Death

£1.00
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Easy to use source work history cover lesson. All you need to do is print it out and leave it with the cover teacher - all the instructions are on the worksheets. This doesn't contain any of our previous material so you don't need to worry about students having already completed any tasks, **The pa...

Maths, Science and Computing

Emergency maths cover lesson? Enrichment materials
Jon O'Neill

Emergency maths cover lesson? Enrichment materials

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Ready-to-go, standalone enrichment activities. These are NOT simply colouring-in or wordsearch activities! Rather they are an attempt to productively use any spare curriculum time, perhaps when a colleague's lesson needs cover and it is not practical to organise suitable work. Can use as whole class...
KS3 Chemistry homework tasks
amcooke

KS3 Chemistry homework tasks

£3.00
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Leveled tasks on various chemistry topics suitable for KS3. Each presentation has 3 slides. Slide 1 is the pupil sheet, slide 2 contains the mark scheme and slide 3 has suitable comments to use give a target on how to improve scientific knowledge. Taken by an OFSTED inspector to give to a schoo...

Creative

Facial features cover lesson
k_saara

Facial features cover lesson

FREE
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Cover lesson to develop core drawing skills using facial features including a challenge task and a section for student/teacher feedback.
Blues performance worksheets and cover lesson
russwilliams

Blues performance worksheets and cover lesson

£1.00
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This is a pack of worksheets to be used as part of a Blues scheme of work at KS3 or KS4. The contents include: 1\. Improvising using the Blues Scale 2\. The Blues scale for transposing instruments and guitar tab 3\. The 12 Bar Blues structure for keyboard/piano 4\. The 12 Bar blues for gu...

Languages

KS3 MFL GENERIC COVER WORK
hazjazmaz

KS3 MFL GENERIC COVER WORK

FREE
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A set of activities for a cover lesson or series of cover lessons. Or for extension work for those students who have finished the tasks set in class. The idea is that students are offered an element of choice, and can work on easier or more complicated tasks. Hope it's helpful.
Cover lesson - Jobs - Empleos - Trabajo - Family
-myrtille-

Cover lesson - Jobs - Empleos - Trabajo - Family

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Cover lesson on Jobs. Aimed at Y8 Set 3. They had already completed Linguascope vocab sheets for cover last lesson so had done a lot of words but nothing towards building up sentences. Translation. 3rd person. Answer sheet included for cover teacher.