Getting to know you

A selection of activities to help tutor groups or classes get to know each other.
There are a range of tasks and challenges which require students to talk to each other in order to complete.
Some challenges are especially useful as ‘ice-breakers’ such as ‘Sorting ‘ and ‘Find someone who’ (see below).
Others are more suitable when the students have begun to get to know each other such as ‘Discussion Points’ and ‘Dilemmas’ .

Sorting activities – getting children moving and engaging with each other such as by first name or date of birth.

‘Find someone who ‘ – they have to find someone who can do a particular task or who likes something particular or who has (done) something.

Discussion points - a set of questions to get small groups talking about issues (we have tried to avoid any controversial topics)

Dilemmas – a different type of question for groups to discuss their response to certain situation (again we have tried to avoid any controversial topics)

Ten miscellaneous challenges including ‘think outside the box, number association and ‘tell the time’ and an 'A-Z ’ of categories -which are suitable for use at either stage.

A set of visual challenges that provide a different opportunity for group working: ‘spot the differences’ and ‘what is it’ (digitally altered images).

The resources are provided on a power point presentation as well as in a word document contains the same activities- especially useful are the sheets to fill in for the ‘Find someone who…’ challenges.