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Students review the autumn term before turning that reflection into specific, measurable goals for the months ahead. The deck links growth mindset language directly to writing SMART resolutions.
Share the four objectives at the outset and return to them during the final SMART goal task.
Transition slide; use it to settle the class before the opening mood poll.
How happy are you with your year so far since September?
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This title introduces the reflective first half of the lesson, which looks back over the autumn term in four stages.
Stretch: Ask students to predict which of the four review areas will be hardest to answer honestly, and why.
Device-Free: Pairs take thirty seconds to recall one highlight from the term before the prompts begin.
Section one frames the reflection around personal memories, setting up the word web that follows.
Stretch: Challenge students to consider what made the memory significant rather than simply enjoyable.
Device-Free: Students jot a one-word memory on a sticky note, ready for the next slide.
What's your best memory since September? Why?
Collecting best memories draws on recent shared experience and builds a common vocabulary of positive moments.
Stretch: Ask contributors to explain the 'why': what the memory reveals about what they value.
Device-Free: Build the web on the board as students call out answers in turn.
Section two moves the focus from enjoyable moments to accomplishments, including smaller personal wins.
Stretch: Ask students to distinguish between an achievement that came easily and one that required sustained effort.
Device-Free: Take a show of hands for anyone willing to share an achievement aloud in the next activity.
What has been your biggest achievement since September?
Gathering achievements surfaces prior experiences of success and the language students already use to describe progress.
Stretch: Students identify the habit or decision that led to their achievement.
Device-Free: Mini-whiteboards are held up together, then grouped by the teacher into themes.
Section three widens the review beyond school to interests and activities outside the classroom.
Stretch: Ask how a hobby has developed a skill that transfers to schoolwork.
Device-Free: Quick pair talk: each partner names one hobby before the web opens.
How have you improved in your hobbies since September?
The hobbies prompt draws on familiar contexts to build vocabulary around practice and improvement.
Stretch: Students describe how that improvement could be measured, anticipating the 'Measurable' element of SMART targets.
Device-Free: Students write an answer on paper and swap with a partner, who adds a follow-up question.
Section four turns reflection towards the future, bridging the review and the goal-setting that follows.
Stretch: Ask students to link one item from the earlier webs to something they want to continue this term.
Device-Free: Thumbs up, sideways or down to show how confident students feel about the term ahead.
What is one thing you are still working on this year?
Naming an unfinished goal draws out where students feel less secure, which feeds directly into the resolution task.
Stretch: Students explain what has held that goal back so far and what could change.
Device-Free: Anonymous paper slips are collected in a box and a selection read aloud.
This title marks the shift from reflection to action, introducing the growth mindset and SMART framework.
Stretch: Ask students to explain the difference between a wish and a resolution before the framework is shown.
Device-Free: Show of hands for anyone who has made a New Year's resolution before.
The definition establishes growth mindset as the belief that abilities develop through effort, feedback and learning from setbacks.
Stretch: Students rephrase a fixed-mindset statement of their own into a growth-mindset version.
Device-Free: Pairs agree on a one-sentence summary of the definition in their own words.
The clip brings real-world context to the growth mindset definition before the SMART framework is introduced; preview it before the lesson.
Stretch: After viewing, students identify one moment in the clip that shows effort or learning from a setback.
Device-Free: If the video cannot be played, reread the growth mindset definition and discuss one personal example in pairs.
Each letter of SMART is defined, and the football example models how a vague aim becomes a precise, time-bound target.
Stretch: Students test the football example against each of the five criteria and justify whether it meets all of them.
Device-Free: Call out a letter and students write its meaning on mini-whiteboards.
The second clip shows goal-setting in a real-world context, preparing students to write their own targets; preview it before the lesson.
Stretch: Students note which SMART criterion the clip emphasises most and explain why it matters.
Device-Free: If screens are unavailable, pairs rewrite 'do more sport' into their own SMART version using the previous slide.
School SMART goal
Personal SMART goal
Social SMART goal
Hobby SMART goal
Let's use our growth mindset to set some SMART resolutions together!
Filing goals under school, personal, social and hobby categories helps students organise their resolutions and spot areas they have overlooked.
Stretch: Students check one goal against all five SMART criteria and justify any changes they make.
Device-Free: Students fold a sheet of paper into four quadrants and write one SMART goal in each.
Now we have set some targets, all that's left to do is focus on achieving them!
Well done everyone, I hope you feel more motivated to continue to keep working on yourselves and your own aims for the rest of this year.
Whether you had an amazing start to the year, or things haven't quite started going your way yet - I am here to support you to do the best you can, in any way possible.
The closing message reinforces that today's targets are a starting point and that support continues through the year.
Stretch: Students name the first concrete step they will take towards one goal this week.
Device-Free: Exit ticket on paper with one goal and its deadline, kept by the teacher for a later check-in.
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