Handy guide for how to use the Harvard System.

A lesson encouraging students to decide on immediate, short, id and long term goals for their start in a new school. Students use the Taget shaped worksheet to record these and decorate for a wall display. These can be refered back to throughout the year to check progress. Numeracy task included: How many learning oppertunities in one school year?

Useful 1 hour lesson for new form groups. Warm up: Wink Murder Task 1: Student Bingo Task 2: Walk a mile in my shoes - a student information sharing task.

Lesson aimed at Y7 students on their worries and fears about moving to a new school. Includes circle time and writing of poetry.

Lesson introducing the concept of an ideal student. Includes group work and the creation of posters to sum up the findings. Group task would be best completed with roll of paper for one student to lie down on to be drawn around. Alternatively you can draw in drywipe marker on a group of desks!

Lesson to help students consider what things would make a school 'Ideal'. Followed up with a numeracy activity of shopping for the 'ideal classroom'.

Resources for setting up/training a body of Student Librarians. Items included: Short plan for an induction session for Student Librarians. Student handbook for library systems (adapt as needed) Quiz (multiple choice) for consolidation of knowledge.