Making back-to-school easier with Tes

Whether you’re gearing up for your first day teaching or preparing to return to school for another year. We’re on hand to help you save valuable time with a huge range of tried and tested classroom resources, covering every subject at both primary and secondary level.??

?With a view to saving you even more time, our resource team have searched through our deep library of resources to hand-pick the best of the best. Below you’ll find those handpicked selections of resources made, tried, tested and shared by teachers across the UK, made for you and made for back to school.???

Back to school resources for Primary?

There’s nothing more important than learning about your new class and what makes them, them. So, we’ve hand-picked a range of ‘all about me’ and ‘getting to know each other’ resources to help build out your first few lessons and days of the school year.??

Setting expectations and routines with your class is another vital part of a successful and smooth return to school. To help with your planning in this area, we’ve selected a range of charts, displays and presentations shared by our brilliant community of resource uploaders.??

Find essential resources that’ll help you ease into the first few weeks here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/back-to-school?

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Back to school resources for Secondary?

We all dream of a smooth transition from holiday mode back into school life; to make this a reality we’ve compiled resource collections to help you quickly and easily plan ahead. You’ll find a range of back-to-school assemblies, ice breakers, quizzes and activities to help kick-start your new year. Discover them here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/blog/back-school-inspiration-secondary?

?The first few days of the year you’ll also spend time learning or relearning about your tutor group. To help with this, we’ve gathered a wide range of tutor time activities including popular games, quizzes and challenges to encourage teamwork, creative thinking and problem-solving among your form group. Take a look at the range, here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/blog/best-reviewed-tutor-time-activities?

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Find even more resources with Teach Starter!?

Did you know Teach Starter is part of Tes? Bursting with 1000s of professionally designed, teacher-created resources. The back to school collection covers everything from displays and classroom set-up resources to transition resources, icebreakers and behaviour management materials. Everything you might need to set up and get back to school as smoothly and successfully as possible.?

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Your free teaching calendar??

Get ahead for the new year with the help of our new Autumn term calendar.?Beautifully illustrated, featuring all the key seasonal dates and major events. Put it up in your class or staffroom and don't miss a thing!?Download for free: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/2024-25-tes-autumn-term-staff-room-calendar-13063278?

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SEND Survey?

As the year starts, we’re also keen to hear the thoughts of anyone who works with children with SEND. We are currently running a survey to build a picture of SEND across the UK. From how confident teachers feel teaching SEND students to the funding and training available.??

Whether you’re a SENDCo, a SENDV or a TA working with SEND students, we would like to hear from you to help us build the most in-depth and insightful picture of SEND in schools today.??

Best of all, the survey takes just five minutes. Complete it, here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VFMDDB8?