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Year 10 and 11

Form time and tutor time resources for Year 10 and 11. There are activities that work with an older group, lessons on budgeting, procrastination, banter and mental health, and check-in tools. The note under each one says where it lands best.

Key Stage 4 · Year 10 and 11 · 54 resources · all free

In the year Every date this year · First week of term · World Mental Health Day, October · World Kindness Day, November · Anti-Bullying Week, November · The New Year Values Week, January · Children’s Mental Health Week, February · The week mocks come back · Exam season · The last week

Start here for Year 10 and 11

Six resources that work especially well at this age, with everything else below by category.

Revision That Survives the WeekEach student plans one real week on a sheet, then the slides break the plan three times and they repair it each time. An hour, one sheet each.Open the lesson → After the MocksFor the week mock results come back. Students sort eight cards into facts and stories, then each writes their result as one line of fact and one first move. An hour.Open the lesson → It Was Just a JokeStudents sort six ordinary moments into joke, not a joke and cannot tell, then work out what separates them. An hour. By Year 10 the banter is sharper and “it was just a joke” gets said more often.Open the lesson → The Opinion LineStudents stand along a line from agree to disagree, then two or three explain why. Five minutes, with ten statements for Year 10 and 11, such as leaving school at sixteen and being talked about behind your back.Open the activity → Motivation Comes SecondEach student picks something they have been avoiding, cuts it down to five minutes, does it in silence, then scores again how they feel about it. An hour, built for the GCSE years.Open the lesson → What to Say When a Friend Is StrugglingThe PSHE lesson from World Mental Health Day: sort eight replies, learn four things that help, then rewrite the real replies. It works in any week of the year.Open the lesson →

Morning Registration Activities

Five-minute activities to run during the register.

The Opinion LineStudents stand along a line from agree to disagree, then two or three explain why. Five minutes, with ten statements for Year 10 and 11, such as leaving school at sixteen and being talked about behind your back.Open the activity → Today I WillEvery student names one thing they will do by home time, and you ask about it the next morning. It takes four minutes with no printing. By Year 11 the answer is usually an hour of revision.Open the activity → Weekly WonderPut up one big question with no right answer and give the form a minute of quiet before anyone speaks. Five minutes, with five questions for Year 10 and 11, such as what adults say to teenagers, or when trying hard looks like showing off.Open the activity → Questions for Open Evenings and Open DaysA week of practice before a sixth form or college open evening, ending in a mini open evening in the classroom. Its own slide set for Year 10 and 11.Open the activity → The Last Five MorningsFive cards for a form’s last week together, read out on the last morning. Written for Year 11.Open the activity → By Half TermStudents start one sheet in the first week of a half term and finish it in the last. In Year 10 and 11 the goal is nearly always a grade, and the sheet asks them to name what it depends on.Open the activity → Between the PagesA bookmark of six discussion questions that work with any book, including set texts. The labels match the ones used in English Language: character, setting, theme, values, language and structure.Open the activity → The Form Time QuizTeams answer ten questions: six on how revision really works or on spotting fake news, 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 questions on Christmas around the world, from Coca-Cola’s Santa to Sweden’s straw goat. Fifteen minutes, one sheet per team, for the last week of term.Open the activity → Team ChallengesFive team challenges of fifteen to twenty minutes, each ending with a talk about what the best team did differently. They suit a new form, or one that needs to start working together.Open the activity → BustedA claim that was once printed as true goes up as a newspaper front page and the form argues about it, then you show the evidence and the verdict. Ten minutes a morning for a week, nothing to print.Open the activity →

Also works at this ageThe Register ReplySmall Wins BoardMystery Fact of the DayThe Two-Minute InterviewThe Unfinished StoryCompliment Chain

Tutor Time

Hour-long lessons, plus two short series.

It Was Just a JokeStudents sort six ordinary moments into joke, not a joke and cannot tell, then work out what separates them. An hour. By Year 10 the banter is sharper and “it was just a joke” gets said more often.Open the lesson → Bystander to UpstanderStudents look at one moment in a corridor, learn the five roles people in a group take, and write the words they would really use. An hour, and it works best with a form that has seen this happen.Open the lesson → PaydayEach group takes a job and plans one month on one wage, then ten things happen that nobody planned for. An hour, and rent and bills mean more to students at 15 than at 11.Open the lesson → Motivation Comes SecondEach student picks something they have been avoiding, cuts it down to five minutes, does it in silence, then scores again how they feel about it. An hour, built for the GCSE years.Open the lesson → Movement and Mental HealthThree lessons on what five minutes of movement does for your mood and focus: predict it, measure it, then plan four weeks of it. Doing something small on a bad day helps most in the exam years.Open the series → Revision That Survives the WeekEach student plans one real week on a sheet, then the slides break the plan three times and they repair it each time. An hour, one sheet each.Open the lesson → After the MocksFor the week mock results come back. Students sort eight cards into facts and stories, then each writes their result as one line of fact and one first move. An hour.Open the lesson → Question the HeadlineFive lessons of 45 minutes to an hour: a real claim on a recreated front page, four rounds of evidence cards logged on each student’s own sheet, some numbers to work out, and a front page to rewrite.Open the lessons → Made to Look RealStudents sort eight things seen online into real, made and can’t tell yet, learn five checks for deepfakes, then take a case in pairs, from a voice note asking for money to a fake news clip. An hour, with a fixed answer for what to do about a fake sexual image.Open the lesson → The Week SheetA one page revision timetable for a single week, with a spare slot already printed on every day so a missed session can be moved instead of ruining the whole plan. One sheet each, on paper or as a spreadsheet.Open the printable →

Also works at this ageThe ApologyFuel and Focus

Pastoral Projects

Projects that run over several weeks or a whole term.

How Does Screen Time Affect...?Three sessions across a term on what screen time does to sleep and concentration, and a weekly tracker of the whole form. It suits Year 10 and 11, who have the phones and the late nights it looks at.Open the project → The First Half TermA plan for your first seven weeks with a Year 10 form, with a reset after Year 9, an early look at attendance in September and a clear routine for Monday mornings. Four pages, and its own pack for Year 10 and 11.Open the plan → Tutor Time TakeoverA student teaches the form about something they love for thirty to forty-five minutes: why they love it, some background and an activity they designed. Nobody has to take part, and the sign-up sheet does the organising for you.Open the project →

Also works at this ageThe Planting ProjectValues in Action

Wellbeing Check-Ins

Printables and tools for one-to-one conversations.

Conversation StartersTwenty-four cards for a one to one, chosen by the student, so a Year 10 who will not start the conversation does not have to.Open the printable → Self-Care MenuThree single sheets of small resets, kept in a planner, for the run up to mocks and exams.Open the printable → Tell Me LaterA slip and a box for asking to talk. From Year 10 the things students need to say get bigger, and harder to say in front of the form.Open the printable → Check-In Record SheetEvery student across six half terms, with amber for anyone you have not seen. In Year 11 the quiet students are the easiest to miss.Open the tracker → Before You Go InCards for the ten minutes before an exam, with what to say to yourself and to a friend, and a slip for the friend who is more than nervous.Open the printable → The Repair SheetA sheet filled in with you after something has gone wrong: what happened, what they were thinking, who it affected and what they will say. Ten minutes. By Year 10 it is usually about how they treated someone.Open the printable → The Quiet WordThe five minutes of a one to one, written for the tutor: how to open it, what you must not promise, and when to pass it on. Five pages, printed once. By Year 10, what a student tells you is more likely to be something you have to pass on.Open the guide →

Also works at this ageMood Scale

Displays and Recognition

Certificates, postcards and posters to print and put up.

Praise PostcardsA printable postcard for passing on praise, teacher to student or student to anyone. Students hear praise less often after Year 9, so it is worth keeping a stack in a drawer.Open the printable → The Shout-Out BoardA board header and a stack of slips for what somebody else did that week. Two minutes on a Friday. After Year 9, students often take praise better from each other than from you.Open the resource →

Also works at this ageCertificate TemplatesDisplay Board PackValues Posters

Assemblies and Events

Assemblies, plus whole-school days and weeks.

The Assembly Calendar 2026 to 2027Every awareness day and UN day worth marking this year, each with a five minute idea and a value. The days that work best with Year 10 and 11 are the ones about rights and fairness.Open the calendar → Anti-Bullying WeekAn assembly and four themed lunchtimes, 16 to 20 November 2026. Year 10 will run a lunchtime if you ask them.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, a week of lunchtimes or a wall of anonymous cards, and a PSHE lesson on what to say when a friend tells you they are struggling. The lesson is written for Year 10 up.Open the day → World Kindness DayAn assembly built on four real studies, from a hot chocolate experiment to thank-you letters, then a week of five-minute form time that ends on 13 November.Open the resource → The New Year Values WeekAn assembly built on four real studies, from gym visits to habits, then a week of five-minute form time and one small goal to keep until half term.Open the resource → Children’s Mental Health WeekAn assembly on why other people’s worlds are harder to see than we think, built on four studies, then five low-prep lunchtimes.Open the resource → What to Say When a Friend Is StrugglingThe PSHE lesson from World Mental Health Day: sort eight replies, learn four things that help, then rewrite the real replies. It works in any week of the year.Open the lesson →

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