120+ Plenary Activities to Make Your Lesson Planning Quicker, Simpler and More Enjoyable
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🎯 Plenary activities you can use to review, revisit and reflect on learning at the end of any lesson.
🎯 Suitable for primary and secondary classrooms.
🎯 Easy to adapt and modify so they marry up with the needs of your learners.
🎯 Create variety in how you bring your lessons to a close, raising engagement and creating memorable experiences for your class.
🎯 Curate your own bank of plenary activities that fit seamlessly with how you like to teach and plan.
A good plenary can have a huge impact, encouraging reflective engagement with the lesson content and helping to solidify learning.
Simple reflective questions and tasks are often really effective.
For 168 of these, see my Plenaries on a Plate resource.
But there’s also scope for planning interesting and engaging plenaries that take things a bit further.
And you’ll find more than a hundred suitable activities in The Plenary Producer.
Streamline Your Planning and Engage Your Learners
Simply open up the resource while you’re planning, find a plenary that appeals, and tweak it so it fits your lesson.
All the plenaries inside are suitable for use across the Key Stages and with different topics, subjects and curriculum areas.
Some emphasise reflection, some focus on synthesis, while others use games to get learners thinking about the learning they’ve done during the session.
All can be modified and adapted to suit your needs.
And together they provide you with sufficient variety to keep the ends of your lessons consistently engaging and motivational, for every learner you teach.
The resource is FREE to download and FREE to use.
It is published by Gershon Learning Limited under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Creative Commons license.
That means you can download it, freely share it and redistribute it with attribution and a link to this site, but you cannot use it for commercial purposes or create any derivatives of it.
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What’s Inside?
Here’s a sneak peak of some of the strategies, activities and techniques waiting for you inside The Plenary Producer:
- 🎯 Questions to Ask
- 🎯 Freeze Frame
- 🎯 Get Creative
- 🎯 Different Shoes
- 🎯 In the Spotlight
- 🎯 My word!
- 🎯 Which pic?
- 🎯 Evaluation Tree
- 🎯 Labelling
- 🎯 Beat the Teacher
- 🎯 Shape and Colour
- 🎯 Mr Wrong
- 🎯 Classified Information
- 🎯 Word Limit Whiteboard
- 🎯 Chop and Sort
Using The Plenary Producer in Your Planning
The Plenary Producer is non-directive and curriculum agnostic.
You can use the resource any way you like.
Here are three ideas to get you started.
✅ Review existing lesson plans and substitute in new plenary activities where appropriate.
This can help make the ends of your lessons more memorable and also give you opportunities to revisit the lesson content in new and different ways.
✅ Share the resource with a group of learners. Give them a lesson topic you will soon be doing with them.
Ask them to look through and pick out a plenary they like the sound of.
Their goal is to create a plenary activity, based around the lesson topic, that you or they could deliver to the rest of the class.
✅ Look through the resource and create a list of twenty plenaries you like the sound of, have never used before, or want to use again.
Your goal is to cross off every item on your list.
How do you get to cross off an item? By using that plenary in one of your lessons.
P.S. You can access all my resources in one place on the free resources hub page.
