Can you believe it’s already November? 🤯
With the end of the year (and Year 6 graduations!) fast approaching, now’s the time to start thinking about how to approach your 2024 reflections and 2025 goal-setting practices with your students. Reflecting upon how far your class has come over the past year and exploring how they want to grow and develop in the year to come is so valuable!
In today’s blog, we’re looking at how to approach end-of-year reflection at each year level, using some of our favourite resources to help you along 💛 Plus, we’ll look at goal-setting strategies and how to support your students in dreaming big for their futures, and we’ll take a look at our newest drop of graduation resources! 🎓
In the early and lower years, reflections can be simple and highlight the key impactful memories from the year. Have your students ask themselves questions, such as: Who did we meet? What did we do? How did we learn? In the upper years, students are encouraged to reflect more deeply on their learning and experiences from the year. They can explore the skills and lessons learned, brainstorm what they’d like to discover in the coming year and reflect upon their personal strengths 💛
These reflection resources are fun, hands-on and are designed to be perfect displays or take-home memories.
💛 All the Reasons: To the Class of 2025 💛
With a range of suitable templates included, this versatile editable resource can be used to create a booklet, a bulletin board or a bunting hanging display! Students will get the opportunity to think about the different reasons why they loved their time in your class, and will draw or write about all of their favourite parts of the year. |
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💛 My Memory Mailbox: End of Year Craft💛
Your students will love building these papercraft mailboxes! Each contains a pocket that other students can use to ‘mail’ letters containing special memories and messages of gratitude. With lots of options included for differentiation and a variety of unique craft ideas, this flexible activity makes for a gorgeous feel-good classroom display 🥰 |
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💛 Fingerprint Friends💛
Create a beautiful keepsake for your students to remember their classmates! Students will use ink or paint to apply their fingerprint to each of their peers’ activity sheets. Use the heart template with two fingerprints or place one fingerprint on the grid and draw a little face or person! A blank template is also included for your students to get creative with their fingerprints. |
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💛 Magnificent Memories Spinner 💛
Prompt students to draw or write about some of their favourite memories, people and learning experiences from 2024. Decorate and assemble into a super cute spinner that would make for a great take-home gift. Or why not use as part of a classroom display? We love the idea of using the spinners as wheels for a giant train decorated by the whole class that’s ‘chugging into 2025’! TT Tip: use our bulletin board lettering packs to make the perfect heading. |
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💛 End of Year Memories Fortune Teller 💛
This hands-on template asks upper years students to create a foldable fortune teller. Each fortune teller contains questions prompting students to reflect on their year at school in pairs or small groups. This resource is also editable, so you can alter the questions to perfectly suit your class and context! |
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💛 Letter to My Younger Self 💛
Use these planning and writing templates to create a letter from your students addressed to their younger selves. They’ll be asked to reflect on the things they’ve learned and the advice they would give to themselves at the beginning of primary school. This task is perfect for the final week of school or in preparation for graduation! |
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Setting goals is crucial for student development! It allows your class to visualise where they are headed and make concrete plans in order to reach their ambitions 💛 Our goal setting resources are perfect for identifying areas of improvement and creating tangible paths to success.
💛 SMART Goal Setting 💛
With a display pack and a worksheet template collection available for download, use these resources to determine if your students’ goals are SMART – specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound! Teach your students how to create manageable, fair goals that they will be able to succesfully complete. |
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💛 Goal Getters: Student Goal Setting Writing PACKAGE 💛
This writing package is perfect for breaking down large goals into easy, manageable chunks. Students will create a step-by-step path to follow to achieve success. The download even includes check-in pages you can use to monitor progress and see how close your students are to achieving their goals! |
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💛 Personal Strengths Worksheets 💛
These worksheets are perfect for early learners to reflect on their strengths and identify clear and achievable goals for improvement. These activities are also an excellent introduction to growth mindsets! (Psst…have you seen our The Power of Yet freebies? 👀) |
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💛 New Year Goals Peacock Craft 💛
This gorgeous craft activity makes for a perfect end of year display in upper years classrooms! After gluing together and decorating their peacocks, students will write a goal for the upcoming school year onto each feather. We’ve also included an optional banner you can use to take your display to the next level! 🦚 |
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Whether your students are moving on to a new year level, a new room or even a new school, the future can be daunting! 😖 Activities focusing on 2025 and beyond can help to remove some of the fear surrounding the new year and help prepare your class for all the upcoming change.
💛 Dear Future Teacher 💛
For many students, the idea of having a new teacher in 2025 can be very scary! This activity can help calm their worries by allowing them to write to their future teacher. They will describe themselves and their hobbies, discuss their goals for the new year and make predictions about what they hope their future teacher will be like. |
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💛 Fun in the Sun POWERPOINT 💛
This interactive PowerPoint is a great end of year conversation starter! Each slide gives students two options for what they might be able to do on their school holidays. Start a discussion, debate as a whole class, or use as a writing prompt! The text in this activity is also editable, so the questions can be changed to better suit your class. |
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💛 My Holiday Bucket List Craft 💛
Get students excited for their summer holidays with this beach bucket-themed craft! Your class will reflect on all the fun things they want to do during the upcoming holiday period and then decorate their bucket. Why not use real sand, shells and PVA glue to give a textural addition to your decorations? |
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💛 I Believe In My Selfie 💛
Students will draw a picture of themselves (or you can photograph and print images) and then write about their personal goals for the 2025 school year. This resource is absolutely perfect for a take-home gift that students can reflect on twelve months in the future! |
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Are your students heading to high school next year? 😱 Prepping for graduation can be an incredibly stressful process for educators, so we’ve made it easy for you with our new range of graduation resources! Featuring displays, classroom activities, worksheets and more, these resources are designed to take the pressure off so you can focus on enjoying the final weeks of primary school with your students ❤️
💛 Graduation Display PACKAGE 💛
These colourful resources are perfect for a hallway bulletin board or as part of a display at your school’s graduation ceremony! This package includes a three-page banner, bunting and an editable display where students can add photographs or drawn self-portraits showing how they’ve grown since their first year of school. |
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💛 Graduation Time Capsule PACKAGE 💛
Capture the memory of this magical milestone using our time capsule kit! This download includes a variety of activities for students to complete, a checklist of items to add to their capsule and label templates. Make your capsules into a take-home gift and label with the date that students need to re-open it! |
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💛 Graduation: Future Me Self-Portrait Craft 💛
Need an eye-catching display to show parents at your graduation ceremony? We love this engaging art activity, which asks students to reflect on who they think they will become in 10, 15 or 20 years’ time. Use markers, watercolour paint and papercraft to create these gorgeous half-and-half self portraits ❤️ |
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We hope you have fun kicking goals and celebrating your year during Term 4!
Don’t forget to tag us @topteacher in all your amazing work 💛
