Teaching Ideas for Class Management

Classroom teaching ideas and lesson planning advice to support busy primary school teachers in Key Stages One and Two and the Foundation Stage. Discover a fantastic range of teaching resources to manage and organise primary classrooms.

  • New Class

    New Class

    Spend time at the end of the school year making preparations for working with a new class in the autumn term

  • Classroom Organisation

    Classroom Organisation

    Organise and layout a primary school classroom to maximise learning opportunities for all pupils

  • Class Trays

    Class Trays

    Organise a range of trays in the classroom to manage and store resources needed for different curriculum topics

  • Class Introductions

    Class Introductions

    Develop strong and positive friendships at the start of the new school year that pupils can utilise when working across the curriculum

  • First Day

    First Day

    Achieve a successful and less stressful start to the new school year by utilising a range of class management strategies and techniques

  • Summer Goodbyes

    Summer Goodbyes

    Mark the end of the school year by getting the class to participate in events and experiences to reflect on their time in primary school

  • Classroom Temperatures

    Classroom Temperatures

    Utilise different techniques to manage high summer temperatures in the classroom that might hamper learning

  • SATs Survival

    SATs Survival

    Ease worries and anxieties as pupils prepare to take part in compulsory testing towards the end of a key stage

  • Topic Launches

    Topic Launches

    Select and utilise effective ways of launching a new curriculum topic covering a range of subjects in the classroom

  • Maths Recovery

    Maths Recovery

    Support progress and development in maths and plug any attainment gaps and weak understanding of concepts

  • Learning Zones

    Learning Zones

    Create different learning zones around the classroom to support development across a range of curriculum areas

  • Book Corner

    Book Corner

    Build a book corner in the classroom to support and encourage reading of different fiction genres and non-fiction texts

  • Theme Park Visit

    Theme Park Visit

    Practise identifying and calculating the timing and duration of rides and events when visiting a theme park on a special family trip

  • Family Holiday Trips

    Family Holiday Trips

    Identify and record how to compose and publish recounts using adverbials of time and place to describe family holidays to different places in the world

  • Garden Numbers

    Garden Numbers

    Identify and model some of the different calculation techniques that can be used when adding pairs of single digit numbers

  • Summer Stories

    Summer Stories

    Practise composing and presenting narrative stories with familiar settings to illustrate the events and experiences that could happen during the summer