Classroom Printables

Built for the first week of term, and the rest of it

This category is the odd one out. Nothing here teaches a skill. These are the pages a teacher prints because something has to exist by Monday morning and making it by hand would take the evening.

Name tags are the first week in one file: desks, trays, cubbies, coat pegs, folders. Type a name into the generator on that page and you get a tag with that name already on it, in the theme you picked. For a whole class it is faster to print the blank sets and write the names in, which is also the version that survives a child changing their mind about which name they go by.

All about me sheets fill the first day honestly. Every child can do one, nobody can do it wrong, and you end up with a wall display and a rough reading of who in the room can already write. There is a drawing-led version for three to five year olds who cannot yet.

Morning work covers the fifteen minutes between the first child arriving and the last one, which is the hardest part of the day to plan for.

Exit tickets, if you have not used them

Exit tickets are a slip a child fills in during the last two minutes of a lesson and hands over on the way out. One question, one answer, name on it.

The value is not the answer. It is that you read thirty of them in four minutes and know exactly who to sit with tomorrow, before you have planned tomorrow. Marking a set of books tells you the same thing three days too late.

Print them 2, 4, 6 or 8 to a page depending on how much room the answer needs. Four is the usual choice. There are prompts written out, blank versions, subject sets and self-check scales for the classes where the useful question is how sure the child feels rather than what they wrote.

Bubble letters

Bubble letters are display work: titles, name banners, posters, classroom doors. Outlined letters to colour in, A to Z, plus single-letter pages for the ones that get asked for constantly, A, B, M and S. The generator turns any word you type into bubble letters if the word you need is longer than one letter.

They also work as a quiet activity that looks like art and is actually letter recognition, which is a useful thing to have in reserve.

Copying and sharing

Print as many as you need, every year, for as many classes as you teach. No cost and no limit. If a colleague wants them, send the link to the page rather than the PDF, which keeps the files free for everyone.