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KS1 activities
Discussion Starters
Short questions to help pupils reflect on feelings, friendships, and classroom routines.
Choose a theme such as feelings, friendships, or helpful habits.
Read one prompt aloud and invite each pupil to share their thoughts.
Encourage pupils to respond to one another with compliments or follow-up questions.
Story Corner
Share a picture book extract and ask pupils to predict what happens next.
Select a short picture book page or image.
Ask pupils to describe what is happening using a beginning, middle, and end.
Invite a few pupils to act out the imagined ending.
Calendar Chat
Explore upcoming events, birthdays, or seasons to build anticipation and organisation.
Show a simple classroom calendar or display a relevant image.
Highlight one upcoming date and ask pupils what they already know about it.
Let pupils share how they might prepare or feel about the event.
Wellbeing Circle
Use visual prompts to help pupils express how they feel at the start of the day.
Place three emotion cards (happy, calm, worried) at the front.
Invite each pupil to stand on or point to the card that matches their feeling.
Ask for volunteers to share why they chose their card and what might help them today.
Brain Boost Moves
Light movement routine to reset energy and focus before lessons begin.
Demonstrate three simple actions such as stretch tall, touch toes, wiggle fingers.
Count down together and perform each move with rhythm.
Finish with three deep breaths, asking pupils to notice how their body feels.
Kindness Postbox
Celebrate kind behaviour by sharing quick compliments or thank-you notes.
Prepare a small postbox or basket labelled “Kindness”.
Invite pupils to dictate a note about a friend’s kind action while you write it down.
Read two or three notes aloud and display them on the kindness wall.
Sound Spotters
Listening game to identify different classroom or nature sounds.
Play or make three simple sounds (e.g., shake keys, tap desk, clap softly).
Ask pupils to close their eyes and guess which sound they hear.
Flip roles and let pupils choose the sounds for the class to guess.