Class Table Race - Motivational Resource

Class Table Race

Classroom resource ideal for motivating pupils!
Tried and tested in the classroom, this resource will motivate your pupils to organise themselves quickly, enabling wasted time to be a thing of the past!

Directions for use

1. Laminate and fix together the 4 pages of the Table Race track (35 spaces) and display with the heading and chequered flag (at the finish line).
2. Assign each table/group of pupils a coloured car to ‘race’ towards the finish line throughout the week, in response to the teacher’s instructions.
3. At the end of the week the winning table/group then receives a reward (to be decided by the teacher) and the cars are reset to ‘start’ for the next week’s race.

This resource can be used in a number of ways. For example:

• Award 2 ‘table race points’ to the table/group which tidies up the quickest and 1 point for the next quickest table/group, etc. - you will find that classroom equipment miraculously disappears, leaving tidy tables in a fraction of the usual time taken!
• Award points for the tidiest pencil pots, etc.
• Award points for reading silently during reading sessions
• Award points for putting chairs up quietly at the end of the day
  etc., etc.
  Rewards given to the winning table/group each Friday could include a small inexpensive prize, team points, a privilege, etc.
  The Table Race can be incorporated into your existing reward system easily.
  You will be astonished at how well the Table Race can help to motivate the children, as well as bringing a fun element to mundane tasks such as tidying up!