Year 7 to 9

The Register ReplyStudents answer a question on the board instead of saying “here” when you call the register. It takes no longer than the register already does, and there are ten questions to start with.Open the activity → The Opinion LineA statement goes up on the board and students stand along a line from agree to disagree, then two or three explain why. Five minutes, with ten statements written for Year 7 to 9.Open the activity → Today I WillEvery student names one thing they will do by home time, and you ask two or three how it went the next morning. It takes about four minutes, with no printing.Open the activity → Small Wins BoardStudents add something they are proud of to a board that grows all year. It takes five to ten minutes with next to no setup. Year 7 to 9 fill it quickly, while older forms can be shyer about it.Open the activity → Mystery Fact of the DayYou read out a strange fact, the class votes true or false, then you reveal the answer. Five minutes, with a deck of ten facts and ten more in the pack.Open the activity → Weekly WonderPut up one big question with no right answer, give the form a minute to think quietly, then see where the discussion goes. Five minutes, with five questions written for Year 7 to 9.Open the activity → The Two-Minute InterviewStudents pair up, ask each other one question from a card and listen for a full minute before swapping. It takes five minutes and one sheet of cards, and works best with a form that does not know each other yet.Open the activity → The Unfinished StoryA story told in five weekly chapters of five minutes each, and every chapter ends on a choice for the form to argue about. All five chapters are included, written for Year 7 to 9.Open the activity → Compliment ChainEveryone writes one honest anonymous compliment for someone else in the form, and reads their own the next day. It takes five minutes over two mornings and works best in Year 7 and 8.Open the activity → By Half TermEach student writes on a sheet one thing they want to be true by half term, then turns it over and finishes it in the last week. It takes two short registrations and one sheet each.Open the activity → Between the PagesA bookmark of six discussion questions for whatever students are already reading: character, setting, theme, values, language and structure. Pick one question to talk about, and a different one next time.Open the activity → The Form Time QuizTeams answer ten questions on a printed answer sheet: six on healthy habits or animal myths, depending on the volume, then four of general knowledge. Fifteen minutes, one sheet per team.Open the activity → The Form Time Quiz: Christmas EditionTeams answer ten Christmas questions, from Catalonia’s log that poos sweets to KFC in Japan. There are four fact or myth questions, three with options and three to write. Fifteen minutes, one sheet per team.Open the activity → Team ChallengesFive team building challenges to run one at a time: rank what would save you at sea, build a paper tower, solve a puzzle from split clues, draw a picture from a partner’s description, and line up without a word. Each takes fifteen to twenty minutes.Open the activity →

It Was Just a JokeStudents sort six ordinary moments into joke, not a joke and cannot tell, then work out what separates them. It takes an hour, and most forms need this lesson by Year 8.Open the lesson → Bystander to UpstanderStudents count how many people were part of one moment in a corridor, learn the five roles people in a group take, and write the words they would use themselves. An hour.Open the lesson → The ApologyStudents sort real apologies from the ones that only sound like it, learn the four parts of a proper one, then rewrite a bad one. It takes an hour and works best in Year 7 to 9.Open the lesson → Fuel and FocusThree lessons on what a snack needs to get you to lunch: the science, making one, then designing their own. Making a snack in tutor time works best with Year 7 to 9.Open the series → Movement and Mental HealthThree lessons on what five minutes of movement does for your mood and focus: predict it, measure it on themselves, then plan four weeks of it.Open the series → Made to Look RealStudents sort eight things seen online into real, made and can’t tell yet, learn five checks for AI-made images, video and voices, and write a card of advice for a Year 7. It takes an hour, and Year 8 and 9 are already coming across this online.Open the lesson →

How Does Screen Time Affect...?Three sessions across a term on what screen time does to the brain, sleep and concentration, plus a weekly tracker of the whole form. It needs a form that meets every day.Open the project → The Planting ProjectStudents grow a herb from seed in pairs, look after it together for six weeks, then cook with it at home.Open the project → Values in ActionEach student chooses a role model, names two values that person shows, lives them for a week, then gives the form a two-minute presentation. Written for KS3.Open the project → The First Half TermA plan for your first seven weeks with a new form, with one new routine a week and one printing list for the whole half term. Week four deals with the friendships from week one that start to come apart. Four pages, with its own pack for Year 7 to 9.Open the plan → Tutor Time TakeoverA student teaches the form about something they love, starting at twenty minutes in Year 7. Students sign up on a shared spreadsheet and plan their session on a sheet, and the rest of the form fills in exit tickets.Open the project →

Conversation StartersTwenty-four cards for a one to one. A student picks one and you talk about whatever it asks.Open the printable → Mood ScaleA printable scale a student points at when words do not come easily, and the conversation starts there. One sheet, for a one to one.Open the printable → Self-Care MenuThree single sheets of small resets that students keep in their planner, picking the ones that suit them.Open the printable → Tell Me LaterA slip and a box for a student who wants to talk but cannot say so in front of the form.Open the printable → Check-In Record SheetA tracker with every student down the side and six half terms across the top, showing amber for anyone you have not seen.Open the tracker → The Repair SheetA restorative sheet for the ten minutes after something has gone wrong, written in words a Year 7 can use to put things right.Open the printable → The Quiet WordA guide for the tutor to the five minutes of a one to one: how to open it, the sentence to say before they tell you anything, and when it must go to your safeguarding lead. Five pages, printed once. Most tutors do this for the first time with a Year 7 form.Open the guide →

Praise PostcardsA postcard for passing on praise, in either direction. They fill a form room wall quickly.Open the printable → Certificate TemplatesEight certificates, one per value, so the right one is to hand when a student earns it.Open the printable → Display Board PackBanners, section headers and something to write on for every one. Display boards are used most in KS3 form rooms.Open the printable → Values PostersEight A4 posters, each with a plain definition and three examples of the value in a form room.Open the printable → The Shout-Out BoardA board header and a stack of slips. Anyone in the form can write down something somebody else did that week, and the slips go up on the board. Two minutes on a Friday, and you print it once.Open the resource →

The Assembly Calendar 2026 to 2027Every awareness day and UN day worth marking from September to July, with a five minute idea for each and the value behind it. One printable page per term.Open the calendar → Anti-Bullying WeekAn assembly and four themed lunchtimes, 16 to 20 November 2026. The lunchtimes are popular with Year 7 to 10.Open the week → Sweet NotesA Valentine’s hot chocolate and an anonymous kind note, delivered on the fourteenth. For the whole school.Open the fundraiser → World Mental Health DayAn assembly for the Friday before 10 October, a week of lunchtimes or a wall, and a PSHE lesson.Open the day → World Kindness DayAn eleven-slide assembly on what research says about small kind acts, then five minutes a morning: a compliment, a postcard and a shout-out, ending on 13 November.Open the resource → The New Year Values WeekAn eleven-slide assembly on goals that last, then five minutes a morning on gratitude, ambition, resilience and courage, with a goal sheet to half term.Open the resource → Children’s Mental Health WeekAn assembly that starts with a song-guessing game, then something different every lunchtime, from a bingo card to guessing which teacher is in the photo.Open the resource →