This is planning I created a few years ago to use with a year 5 class. We were asked to take the whole first week of term with our new classes to perform ‘getting to know you’ activities Take a look at the plan. It worked really well - it was a great week! I’ve also added the pictures we used for the wartime artwork. The kids throughly enjoyed this activity - they looked at the wartime poster and adapted them for school e.g keep calm and carry on working! These posters stayed up in class all year long. Activities are easily adapted for KS1 - KS2 pupils, and parts of this could be taken and used at KS3 in PSHE, Tutor time, Art or History.

I developed this when working with a year 5 class, as I felt communication between school and home wasn’t good. Pupils filled this in on thursday, I checked it on friday and added any comments if necessary (usually not) and then pupils took this home on fridays for their parents. Logs then came back to me on monday and I could then deal with any issues the parents have. The aim is to improve school-home relations. Suitable for KS2 students.

I hand out my contract to pupils in the first week of having a new class. They then write their own. We discuss the ins and outs of this, specifically thinking about WHY we have certain rules. I laminate theirs and mine and put them on the wall to be referred to whenever one of us steps out of line! There’s also a planning frame for poor writers.

I used this with particular autistic children that struggle to explain in words what they are feeling and why they are feeling this way - e.g. after an argument on the playground. They can write down what happened and you can give them house points as an incentive for telling you how they feel.

A behaviour and consequences flow chart that you can use after an event with pupils to discuss what they did and what they could have done. I find this useful in that it encourages SEND pupils, including children with Autism, a logical approach to explaining an emotional reaction. I allow children to draw their answers if they’re not comfortable in writing them. I have used this in detention so that pupils are at least thinking about why they’re suffering consequences - because of their own choices.