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Engaging ideas for the end of term

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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

English Games & Activities Fun Freebie

English Games & Activities Fun Freebie

Creative Writing Board Game: Creative Dice-ing!

Creative Writing Board Game: Creative Dice-ing!

Christmas anagram activity worksheet

Christmas anagram activity worksheet

Quizmaster: The English Board Game

Quizmaster: The English Board Game

Poetry Bingo

Poetry Bingo

Upper secondary ks4 resources.

GCSE unseen poem - fun active way to investigate an unseen poem.

GCSE unseen poem - fun active way to investigate an unseen poem.

Christmas Unseen Poetry

Christmas Unseen Poetry

Decoding New Words - Strategies for figuring out new vocabulary KS3/KS4 English

Decoding New Words - Strategies for figuring out new vocabulary KS3/KS4 English

Poetry English Escape Room

Poetry English Escape Room

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13 of the best end-of-term resources to finish the primary year – Updated for 2022

Primary school pupils running outside

Round off the summer term and give your class a fond farewell with these free ideas and activities for KS1 & 2…

Lloyd Burgess

It’s the end of the school year!

Well, almost anyway. It’s that time of the year when things start to wind down and loosen up, but you still want the children to actually learn something.

So here are some great resources, ideas and activities to celebrate the school year, recap everything you’ve learned and send the kids off into the summer holidays in style.

1 | Oh, the Places You’ll Go

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Use Dr Seuss’ classic picturebook to cover literacy and PSHE in UKS2, with activities that would make the perfect project for Year 6 leavers, giving them a chance to:

Get all this here .

2 | Reflection questions

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Getting children to reflect on everything they’ve learned and achieved may be an obvious starting point, but that doesn’t mean you can’t save time by finding a pre-written list of questions to start yourself off. Like this one.

And you can also download them as task cards if you prefer.

There are 20 questions on this list which you’ll find here.

3 | End-of-year memory book

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If you’re looking for a free, printable scrapbook then this nine-page PDF should do the job nicely.

It’s free to download here.

4 | My School Superhero end-of-term writing activity

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Who’s been a real superhero in your class or school this term?

As the year draws to a close, this writing activity is an ideal way for children and adults to share positive feedback about each other, highlighting things they’ve learnt and the progress they’ve made together for a truly uplifting wall or corridor display.

Check out this resource here.

5 | Transition resources

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This activity sheet helps Y6 children think about their current school, and the new one that awaits them in six weeks, from similarities and differences between the two to things they’ll remember about primary and what they have achieved, and things they would like to know about their new school, and what they are looking forward to.

For other year groups these transition book templates can be used with a range of structures to match the age / ability of your class.

For the Year 6 activity sheets click here , or for the transition books here .

6 | Introduce secondary subjects

English at secondary school Powerpoint

During lockdown, teacher Emily Weston asked a range of secondary teachers to create a short presentation introducing their subject, a topic from it and a short activity children can complete.

Find all the secondary subject slides here and give Y6 pupils a comprehensive look at the Y7 curriculum.

7 | Class word clouds

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This end-of-year activity makes a great gift for kids to take away. Print out lists of everyone’s name in the class (yours included) and get everyone to fill the sheet out using one positive word to describe each person.

Then input those answers into a word cloud generator and print out each child’s personalised page of positive traits.

Get the instructions here.

8 | Movie and popcorn day

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No, we’re not suggesting you spend the last day handing the ‘teaching’ over to some DVDs!

This American resource has some great educational activities to go along with a fun day of turning the classroom into a cinema (only without the extortionate prices).

Get this resource here.

9 | Twelve effective activities

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If you’re just after a simple list of ideas to try out then this post features 12 effective lessons and activities to teach at the end of the school year.

Give it a look at Teachhub, here.

10 | End of year bingo

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This free printable game will have kids having fun out of their seats trying to get the information from their classmates to fill in their bingo card.

The rules are simple: children will find a classmate matching each description and write his/her name in the box. Kids can go ahead and fill in blanks they already know or they can wander around asking friends if they fit one of the characteristics.

The first person to fill 5 in a row wins.

Download the bingo cards here.

11 | Survey and photo activity

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It’s the end of the year, so the weather is hopefully nice and suitable for this activity. First, you get children to fill out this survey of their favourite things (which you can print off here).

Then you can all go outside and take a nice photograph of each of the children, before putting their survey answers over the pic on a computer.

Get all the tips and instructions here.

12 | Art activities

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Hands-on, fun art activities will always go down a treat at the end of a school year, and this list has a nice selection for you to choose from.

Click here to see this list of arty ideas.

13 | Maths ideas

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Or, math ideas (it’s an American blog).

There are some fun learning activities for inside the classroom and out here, from STEM challenges, a paper aeroplane contest and parachute testing (not real ones, thankfully) to a pirate escape test and making a fractions chart.

Give them all a look here.

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Primary Texts English Resources for KS1 and KS2

Vocabulary, Grammar & Punctuation

Spag powerpoints.

PowerPoint Lessons linked to the vocabulary, grammar and punctuation objectives for each year primary group which are set out in National Curriculum Programmes of Study. Lessons include explanation, discussion activities, written exercises and an opportunity for students to reflect on what they have learnt. All PPTs are fully editable. Below, you will find a free sample lesson for each year group. Click item to access details.

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Individual SPAG PPT Lessons for Year 1

Click the lesson to access resource details on TES.

Individual SPAG PPT Lessons for Year 2

Individual SPAG PPT Lessons for Year 3

Click the lesson to access resource details on TES

Individual SPAG PPT lessons for Year 4

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Individual SPAG PPT lessons for Year 5

Individual SPAG PPT lessons for Year 6

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The Key Stage 2 English grammar, punctuation and spelling test features questions linked to year 6 objectives plus topics covered in previous years. This resource contains 30 detailed no-prep PPT lessons providing comprehensive coverage of the content students need to revise to succeed in the Key Stage 2 SPAG tests.

Each lesson includes explanation, exercises and discussion prompts. All lessons are accompanied by assessments which contain five SATs style questions linked to the objective and an answer sheet. Click here to access resource details on TES.

SPAG Posters

Illustrated posters which exemplify the vocabulary, grammar and punctuation objectives for primary year groups 1 to 6 as detailed in the English National Curriculum Programmes of Study. Great for classroom display and reference throughout the year.

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Parts of Speech PowerPoint Lessons

Free lesson.

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Try using a classic poem to help students revise the nine parts of speech. This resource includes a PPT which contains the poem and activities. Also included is a copy of the poem which students could use if needed for reference during the activities. Teachers might also choose to give the students a copy of the poem to learn off by heart to help secure their knowledge of the purpose of different parts of speech.

Click here to download this resource on TES.

PowerPoint lessons based on parts of speech

Click the images to find details of these PPT lessons on TES. These lessons include explanation, practice exercises and discussion activities. All PowerPoints are fully editable.

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The UK’s most successful children’s story writing competition, 500 words, is relaunching at the BBC this September.

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Assessment for Learning activities

Here are some AfL activities to try with your learners.

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They include ideas on collecting information, the strategic use of questioning, giving feedback, and introducing peer and self-assessment.

Collecting information

Draw a face

At the end of an activity or lesson, ask learners to draw a face to show how confident they are about the topic. Smiley face = ready to move on,  neutral face = fairly confident,  sad face = not confident, need to review.

Summary sentence

Ask learners to write one sentence to summarise what they know about the topic at the start or end of a lesson. You could focus this by telling them to include e.g. what or why or how etc.

At the end of a lesson learners share with their partner:

Traffic lights

Give learners red, yellow and green cards (or they can make these themselves at home). At different points during the lesson, ask them to choose a card and put it on their desk to show how much they understand (red = don’t understand, yellow = partly understand, green = totally understand).

Use post-it notes to evaluate learning. Give to groups, pairs or individuals and ask them to answer questions. For example:

Draw a square

When a learner has finished a worksheet or exercise, ask them to draw a square on the page. If they do not understand well, they colour it red, if they partly understand, yellow and if everything is OK, green.

At the end of an activity or lesson or unit, ask learners to write one or two points that are not clear to them. The teacher and class discuss these points and work together to make them clear.

Check class understanding of what you are teaching by asking them to show their thumbs. Thumbs up = I understand; thumbs half way = I understand some; thumbs down = I don’t understand.

At the beginning of a topic learners create a grid with three columns – what they know; what they want to know; what they have learned. They start by brainstorming and filling in the first two columns and then return to the third at the end of the unit.

Most ……. thing

Ask learners what was the most, e.g. useful, interesting, surprising, etc. thing they learned today or in this unit.

A, B, C, D cards

Give learners four cards: A, B, C, D (or they can make these themselves at home). Ask questions with four answers and ask them to show you their answers. You could do this in teams too.

Mini-whiteboards

Ask learners to write their answers on mini-whiteboards or pieces of paper and show it to you (or their peers).

Observe a few learners every lesson and make notes.

The strategic use of questioning

Questioning helps teachers identify and correct misunderstandings and gaps in knowledge. It gives teachers information about what learners know, understand and can do.

Use open questions

Closed questions only ask learners to recall. Use open questions to encourage the use of thinking skills, communication and eliciting more information. Examples of good question stems:

Use ‘might’

When questioning, use the word ‘might’ to encourage learners to think and explore possible answers. For example, ‘Why do teachers ask questions?’ and ‘Why might teachers ask questions?’ The first question seems like there is one correct answer known by the teacher, but the second question is more open and suggests many possible answers.

Use higher order thinking skills (HOTS)

Don’t ask, e.g. ‘Is flour uncountable?’ Ask, ‘Why isn’t flour countable?’ Then learners don’t only recall, they reason too.

Prompt for more information, e.g. ‘Why do you think that?’ ‘Persuade me!’

Ask learners to build on each other's answers. E.g. ‘Maria what do you think about Javier’s answer?’

Giving feedback

Comment-only marking

Only write comments on learners’ work, and don’t give marks or scores. This helps learners to focus on progress instead of a reward or punishment. They will want a mark, but encourage them to focus on the comments. Comments should make it clear how the learner can improve. Ask if they have any questions about the comments and make time to speak with individual learners.

Feedback sandwich

Use a feedback sandwich to give comments. An example of a feedback sandwich is:

Time in class to make corrections

Give learners time in class to make corrections or improvements. This gives learners time to focus on the feedback that you or their peers have given them, and make corrections. It also tells learners that feedback is valuable and worth spending time on. And, it gives them the opportunity to improve in a supportive environment.

Don’t erase corrections

Tell learners you want to see how they have corrected and improved their written work before they hand it to you. Don’t let them use erasers, instead tell them to make corrections using a different colour so you can see them, and what they have done to make improvements.

Introducing peer and self-assessment

Share learning objectives

Some examples:

A useful activity to use when introducing peer or self-assessment for the first time is ‘two stars and a wish’:

- ‘Ah this is a really nice poster – I like it!’ (Thank you)

- ‘I really like it and I think you included most of the information.’

- [Look at the success criteria on the board]

- ‘Hmm, but there is no title for your poster so we don’t know the topic.’

Feedback sandwich  (see above)

This is a useful activity when learners are more confident in peer and self-assessment. Model how to give feedback first.

- I like... because

- I think next time you should... because...

- ... is good because...

"The poster gives all the necessary information, which is good but next time you should add a title so we know the topic. The presentation is good too because it is clear and attractive."

Learning wall

Make a ‘learning wall’ where learners can post positive feedback about others.

Ask learners to read each other’s written work to look for specific points, such as spelling mistakes, past tense verbs, etc. During speaking activities such as role plays and presentations, ask learners to give each other feedback on specific points, e.g. how interesting it was, whether they understood what was said and any questions they have.

Self-assessment prompts

Three things

At the end of the lesson, ask your learners to make a list of two things they learned, and one thing they still need to learn.

I have a question

At the end of the lesson, ask your learners to write a question on what they are not clear about.

Ask your learners to keep a learning journal to record their thoughts and attitudes to what they have learned.

Ask learners to keep a file containing samples of their work. This may include work done in class, homework, test results, self-assessment and comments from peers and the teacher.

Reflection time

At the end of the lesson give learners time to reflect and decide what to focus on in the next lesson.

Setting goals

After feedback, encourage learners to set goals. Tell them they have identified what is good, what is not so good, and any gaps in their knowledge. Now they need to think about their goal and how they can reach it. Ask them to work individually and answer the questions:

Personal goals

Ask learners to set personal goals, for example: ‘Next week I will read a short story’.

Self-assessment forms

Work with learners to create self-assessment forms or templates that they can use to reflect on an activity or lesson. For younger learners, something like the form below would work: 

Below is an example for higher level or older learners:

I can write an email giving news and information

How true are these? Circle the best number (3 = true, 2 = partly true, 1 = not true)

How true are these? Circle the best number(3 = true, 2 = partly true, 1 = not true)

Some of the activities listed here are taken and adapted from: www.tes.com/teaching-resource/assessment-for-learning-toolkit-6337093

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