Setting cover work at secondary

Make secondary cover lessons both engaging and worthwhile with these specially selected lesson ideas, activities and booklets for class and supply teachers

Tes Resources Team

31st October 2024

Teacher planning for their secondary cover lessons

Take the stress out of devising cover lessons with these ready-to-use activity ideas for a range of subject areas

Making sure that cover lessons are both valuable and interesting can be time-consuming, whether you’re a supply teacher or a teacher having to set work. To make the process simpler, we’ve hand-picked some of the best resources to make sure your students remain stimulated and engaged.

Whole School

Amy Banks

Activity Bank: Tutor Time

FREE

(1)

A completely editable bank of tutor time activities in the following categories: * Podcasts * Games and group activities * Meditation and motivation * Discussion and debate * Videos and documentaries + a blank slide for staff and students to share their own recommendations The bank includes: 15 d...

RAResources

Tutor / Form Time Activities - Cover Lesson

£3.60

(2)

**This pack contains x20 A4 printable activity sheets which have been created to keep students busy during tutor/form time and great for cover lessons. If used once a week, this pack will last over half a year! They are also ideal for homeschooling!** Each activity sheet contains a set of tasks w...

English and Humanities

Sarah Graham

English Home Learning Packs KS3

FREE

(156)

Here are two 30+ page English work packs I made for my SEMH Y8 and Y9 students who are self-isolating. It has sections on SPaG, reading and writing, with an extras section at the back with some fun creative tasks. They will easily suit upper KS2 though. They might look a bit wonky in the preview...

EnglishGCSEcouk

English Cover KS3

£3.00

(6)

English cover for KS3 lessons that includes: 2x Analysing fiction texts (English Language Paper 1 Q1-3) 2x Analysing non-fiction texts (English Language Paper 2 Q1-3) 2x Descriptive/narrative writing (English Language Paper 1 Question 5) 2x Non-fiction writing (English Language Paper 2 Question 5) ...

EC_Resources_EXTRA

History Cover Lesson - Black Death

£1.00

(2)

Easy to use source work history cover lesson. All you need to do is print it out and leave it with the cover teacher - all the instructions are on the worksheets. This doesn't contain any of our previous material so you don't need to worry about students having already completed any tasks, **The pa...

Joshua Liversidge

Weather & Climate Worksheet

£1.00

(1)

simple weather and climate summary worksheet ideal for KS3 or KS4. comes with attached answer sheet to keep your planning short and easy! enjoy

Maths, Science and Computing

Jon O'Neill

Emergency maths cover lesson? Enrichment materials

FREE

(18)

Ready-to-go, standalone enrichment activities. These are NOT simply colouring-in or wordsearch activities! Rather they are an attempt to productively use any spare curriculum time, perhaps when a colleague's lesson needs cover and it is not practical to organise suitable work. Can use as whole class...

amcooke

KS3 Chemistry homework tasks

£3.00

(2)

Leveled tasks on various chemistry topics suitable for KS3. Each presentation has 3 slides. Slide 1 is the pupil sheet, slide 2 contains the mark scheme and slide 3 has suitable comments to use give a target on how to improve scientific knowledge. Taken by an OFSTED inspector to give to a schoo...

Leetax

KS3 Computing Cover Lesson - No prior knowledge required. Driverless Cars.

£2.00

(2)

This is a computing driverless car themed cover lesson with a workbook for students to complete. There is a comprehensive worksheet with many tasks to keep everyone busy. students will love to complete this cover lesson. It has royalty-free pictures present throughout the tasks and workbook. Hope ...

silvestertim

Maths cover lessons

£6.00

(1)

Excellent resources to use as cover work when absent from class!

Creative

heiabrann

Cover/one off lessons of Drama

FREE

(44)

For when a member of staff is off or you just need a one-off, straightforward lesson

k_saara

Facial features cover lesson

FREE

(7)

Cover lesson to develop core drawing skills using facial features including a challenge task and a section for student/teacher feedback.

mr.simon.bull

D&T product design homework - Year 7

£1.50

(1)

A product design homework booklet consisting of five pages of fun and engaging theory / drawing activities. PDF and Publisher files included.

russwilliams

Blues performance worksheets and cover lesson

£1.00

(1)

This is a pack of worksheets to be used as part of a Blues scheme of work at KS3 or KS4. The contents include: 1\. Improvising using the Blues Scale 2\. The Blues scale for transposing instruments and guitar tab 3\. The 12 Bar Blues structure for keyboard/piano 4\. The 12 Bar blues for gu...

Languages

hazjazmaz

KS3 MFL GENERIC COVER WORK

FREE

(16)

A set of activities for a cover lesson or series of cover lessons. Or for extension work for those students who have finished the tasks set in class. The idea is that students are offered an element of choice, and can work on easier or more complicated tasks. Hope it's helpful.

NicolaRoseby

ER verbs - cover, homework, revision

£1.00

(1)

Two resources to help pupils learn about -er verbs in the present tense. There is 4 page worksheet (with answers) and a word search (with answers). The worksheet has a grammar explanation and examples and so is perfect for revision, cover lessons, homework and teaching by a non-specialist. It is a...

-myrtille-

Cover lesson - Jobs - Empleos - Trabajo - Family

FREE

(6)

Cover lesson on Jobs. Aimed at Y8 Set 3. They had already completed Linguascope vocab sheets for cover last lesson so had done a lot of words but nothing towards building up sentences. Translation. 3rd person. Answer sheet included for cover teacher.