Back to School Getting to Know You Pack: 12 First Day Middle / High Activities
Back to School Getting to Know You Pack: 12 First Day Middle / High Activities
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This Back to School Printable Activities Pack takes the stress out of those 'getting to know you' week 1 lessons by providing no-prep, engaging activities designed to foster community, connection, and calm, perfect for upper primary through to high school, even with a tough crowd.
But the main reason you should get this pack?
BECAUSE THE HOLIDAYS SHOULD BE ABOUT HANGING WITH FAMILY, ROTTING ON THE COUCH, OR SPENDING TIME IN THE SUN... NOT STRESSING PLANNING THAT FIRST DAY!! 🌞💃
Why you will LOVE this Back to School Activities Pack:
→Everything is done for you- no scrambling or last-minute prep! Spend your last days of summer relaxing instead of planning.
→It's fully editable in Canva, so you can adjust the wording on any activity to suit your students and differentiate with ease.
→It'll help you get to know your students quickly while they connect with each other.
→It helps manage the back-to-school buzz by giving you some calm and independent writing tasks to engage students amongst the ice-breakers.
→They are engaging activities that encourage belonging, reflection, and creativity while giving you valuable insights into your new students.
→They are all print and go! Can't get easier than that.
What’s Included in This Back to School Activities Pack:
✓ Back to School Chatterbox: A paper chatterbox students write, decorate, build, and use to ask classmates getting-to-know-you questions.
✓ My Hello Hexagon: Students create a personalised hexagon, then connect matching edges with classmates to build a collaborative class display.
✓ About Me Shield: A symbolic shield activity where students represent their interests, strengths, and goals using words, drawings, and colour.
✓ About Me Flip Book: A mini flip book exploring their identity, interests, strengths, struggles, hopes, and goals for the year ahead.
✓ Two Truths and a Lie – Holiday Paragraphs: A fun writing activity that gets students chatting and reflecting.
✓ A Letter to My Future Self: Encourages reflection and goal setting for the year ahead.
✓ A Letter to My Teacher: Learn what matters most to your students while building connections.
✓ All About Me One Pager: Students create their own profile.
✓ Classroom Design Challenge: Get students talking designing their own classroom layout.
✓ Find a Mate Word Search: An engaging activity that can have a bit of a competitive edge!
✓ Hidden B2S Message + Create Your Own: Students decode a Pigpen Cipher message of encouragement, then create their own for a classmate to crack.
Perfect for upper primary, middle, and high school. Every activity is editable so you can adjust the wording, complexity, and tone to suit exactly who's in front of you.
Looking for absolutely EVERYTHING for the Back to School Season?
Connection, routines, icebreaking, and expectations that actually stick (without lifting a finger)?
You'll find this and everything else inside of The Complete Back to School Bundle. And when I say complete, I mean complete.
The only bundle out there that has literally everything, built by an actual classroom management specialist who knows what it takes to win over a tough teen crowd.
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