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To help a class bond, particulary at the start of the new school year, try these primary lessons and activities.

This is a useful collection of ideas for use in tutor or form groups to build a sense of belonging and community.

This is a nice idea for primary back to school class bonding,  or any work on identity. It comes from @MissFMackenzie on Twitter. Pupils created their island shaped in the initial of their name.

These fabulous free resources come from the Tower Hamlets Oracy Hub and Tower Hamlets Education Partnership.

Usw these dicebreakers for a fun activity in small groups to bond a new class. Students work in groups, taking turns to roll a dice then answer a question.

These are some great slide decks from Pear Deck, covering helping a new class bond and explore personal identities. Suitable for upper primary and secondary

This is a primary getting to know each other resource from the National Literacy Trust

This activity asks children to think about their hopes and dreams for the new school year ahead

This is a great tool for developing progressively more complex vocabulary for emotions, as children move up through the school,

A lesson for upper primary and first year of secondary from Wolverhampton Headstart - looks at what empathy means, how to see others' perspectives, and how to use active listening to resolve confli

In this collection we have:

• A primary assembly about connectedness from Place2Be
• A piece-of-the puzzle primary assembly about connectedness and belonging, with jigsaw piece, from Mentally Healthy Schools/Anna Freud Centre
• Two truths and a lie… eight great getting-to-know you activities for secondary and upper primary
• Y7 team building favourites
• Getting to know you activities from the PSHE Association

From Place2Be we have a series of assembly and lesson resources focusing on community recovery and helping you to bring your school back together. The resources are split into four themes (self-efficacy, hope, gratitude and connectedness), with each drawing upon some of the factors that underpin emotional wellbeing and resilience.

Then there is a  five-step exercise on identity and belonging helps secondary students appreciate differences—in themselves and in their peers. It was developed by Shana White- thank you, Shana

This toolkit from Mentally Healthy Schools has primary activities, lesson plans and assembly plans to help children to think about who they are as a person, recognise what they are good at, identify positive things about themselves, learn from their experiences and set goals.

One 20-30 minute activity helps encourage staff and pupils to think about their aspirations for the year ahead, especially in relation to mental health and wellbeing.

A pack of teaching resources to support work on the book by R.J. Palacio - Wonder, adapted for younger readers as We’re All Wonders. Recently turned into a film starring Julia Roberts, it tells the story of a boy called Auggie with a facial abnormality who struggles to make friends. The simpler version confine itself to how people stare at him and say unkind things behind his back, and how that makes him feel. In the more complex original, his parents have to shield him from this by educating him at home, but now he is about to start school and dreading it.

This lovely resource from BOND and Young Minds was written by Sam Hart, Angie Taylor and staff and pupils at Hove School.  It supports the tutor group structure and helps build relationships between tutors and students.

Here we have a nice new idea for creating a classroom charter, and a variation on the charter - a class manifesto, with a teacher's example to help children get the idea.

Here we have a great icebreaker , designed to get new groups of children to interact with one another. Additionally the icebreaker should challenge stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination amongst the class. The resource was created by Jarosik- thank you.

Then from 'oops vip' there is a truly fabulous and funny slide show for tutor time or assemblies, on how to be successful in the new school year. And a fun Room 101 getting to know you activity Powerpoint from inara14