Blurt Poms Behaviour Management Resource

Simply print and laminate to set up Blurt Poms in your classroom to encourage your chatty class to settle.

After spotting the original idea of ‘Blurt Beans’ on Pinterest when I was looking for inspiration for quietening a very chatty class, I decided it to put my own spin on it as I didn’t like the thought of having beans lying about my class. I came up with the idea of Blurt Poms. I’m all for kids talking and discussing in class, but this is more about the children learning when it is time to listen to others.

Essentially, there are two glass jars and some pom poms. I got my little pom-poms are from Amazon where you can get a pack of 4000 for £6 and glass jars from IKEA. The children start the day with 5 pom-poms and if they are being too loud or interrupting someone else in the classroom, they lose a pom! It goes back into the teachers jar (which sits on my desk) as a visual for how many poms they could have collected if they hadn’t been distracting in class.

The second jar belongs to the children and at the end of the day they empty their pom-poms into the jar and watch them slowly build up. I have marked the jar so that the children are working towards smaller prizes rather than the whole jar. We all decided on a prize on the first day of school.

The kids are so on-board with their poms and it really helped set the standard for my new class. They will even point out to one another when they are not showing respect when someone else is speaking or they are being too loud in a group…I barely need to take any poms off anyone now! Good start of the year strategy. It was so effective I didn’t have to run it any longer than October from August.