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A practical marking triage for primary teachers: sort work into whole-class, group and individual feedback, use the smallest effective response first, and keep the book pile from taking over your Sunday.
The small transitions between learning activities can quietly swallow a whole lesson by Friday. Here is a repeatable two-minute reset, plus scripts, visual cues and common failure points for seven everyday primary transitions.
Classroom displays can become expensive wallpaper. This termly keep/move/bin audit helps UK teachers make working walls, retrieval prompts and pupil-led displays earn their space.
Supply teaching is not about filling time — it is about keeping learning calm and purposeful. Here are 12 adaptable, low-resource activities for UK primary classrooms, plus quick tips for transitions, behaviour and leaving the room tidy.