I was discussing this idea the other night with my good friend Mr Todd and thought it was worth a blog.

After I have done my ‘normal plenary’, I say to the students that I am going to write down 5 key things from the lesson, leave it quite open ended I do. I then, put the 5 points in an envelope, seal it and get one of the students to sign the seal. They love that.

I then place it somewhere visible in the classroom.

At the start of the next lesson, I ask students to ‘predict’ the five points in my envelope (get them to write them down). We then go through them and I write down all the points that they have came up with on the board (what an easy way to review last lessons learning).

I then get the student who signed the envelope to open it and read out the points that I wrote down. I can then assess what I thought were the key points with what they have came up with.

What I love about this is that it takes no planning, it engages the kids and links two lessons together.

Easy…..Derren Brown would be so proud….......