Plan & Deliver
Form Time Activities
Short careers activities built for the ten minutes a tutor actually has. Form time lives inside Lessons: describe a topic and Chapter builds a short deck - a poll, a quiz, a discussion prompt, a reflection - that a tutor can run from the board and set against their form group.
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Lessons › Form timeShort tutor-time activities in the Lessons list, set against a form group.
Why it matters
What changes
The honest version of the before, and what it looks like once this is running.
- Careers squeezed out of a timetable that has no room left
- Tutors asked to 'do something careers' with no material
- Registration time producing nothing you can evidence
- The same worksheet photocopied for the fourth year running
- Short activities built for the ten minutes tutors actually have
- A short deck built from a topic, ready to run from the board
- Set against a named form group, with a date
- Taught form time writes pupil evidence, like any lesson
How it works
Up and running in minutes
Three steps, in the order you'd actually do them.
Describe a topic
Chapter builds a short deck - a poll, a quiz, a discussion prompt, a reflection - sized for registration rather than a full period.
Set it for a form group
Give it a date and a tutor group, and it sits in Lessons with everything else they teach.
See which forms ran it
Ready, Scheduled and Taught, like any lesson - and taught form time writes pupil evidence.
In detail
How it actually works
The mechanics behind the screenshot.
Short, because ten minutes is not a lesson
A form-time activity is a few slides, not a lesson plan. Describe a topic and Chapter builds a short deck - a class poll to open a conversation, a quiz to check a misconception, a discussion prompt a tutor can actually run, a reflection to close. Each is sized for registration, not a period.
- Class poll, quiz, discussion prompt and reflection slides
- Built from a topic, or started blank
- Set against a named form group, with a date
- Ready, Scheduled and Taught, so you can see which forms ran it
| Activity | Form | Type |
|---|---|---|
| What does a surveyor do all day? | 10A | Poll |
| Apprenticeship myths | 10B | Quiz |
| One job you'd never considered | 10C | Reflection |
| Office or outdoors? | 9A | Discussion |
Ready-made activities in the Resource Library too
Alongside generated activities, Chapter's resource templates include tutor-time material you can take as-is - Career Personality Quiz, 'Who Am I?' Mind Map, Values Card Sort, Sector Spotlight Cards, Networking Bingo - each already tagged to a year group and a benchmark.
- Templates carry their year group and Gatsby tagging already
- Print, export to Word, or send to pupils in the app
- Tutors open and deliver - no preparation step
- Sits inside Lessons, so one place holds everything a tutor teaches
What you get
Everything included
No add-ons, no per-seat pricing - it's all in the platform.
Short decks built from a topic, sized for registration
Class poll, quiz, discussion prompt and reflection slides
Set against a named form group, with a date
Ready-made tutor-time templates in the Resource Library
Ready, scheduled and taught, the same as any lesson
Lives inside Lessons, so tutors have one place to look
Evidence & integrations
What it proves, and what it plugs into
Form time is how a programme reaches every pupil every week - the reach that Benchmark 1 and Benchmark 3 are really asking about.
- 1A Stable Careers Programme
- 2Learning from Career & Labour Market Information
- 3Addressing the Needs of Each Young Person
Lessons
Form time lives inside the lessons module
Resource Library
Ready-made tutor-time templates
Chapter student app
Pupils join from the board
Questions
The things schools ask
Not any more - it was folded into Lessons, and opening Form Time takes you to the lessons list filtered to form-time material. Same activities, one fewer place to look.
They are built for registration: a handful of slides a tutor can run in five or ten minutes.
No. Each activity is self-contained - the tutor opens it and runs it. That is the design constraint the format works within.
Yes. Each activity is set against a form group and moves from Ready to Scheduled to Taught like any lesson, so you can see which forms ran it and which did not.
Plan & Deliver
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