A five-minute starter for every week of the school year, each pinned to a real date in the history of crime and punishment: from the Gunpowder Plot to Peel’s police, Tolpuddle to the end of the death penalty. Every starter has a short reading, a recall question, a thinking question and a discussion prompt, with a full answer key. Fits Edexcel, OCR B and Eduqas Crime and Punishment, KS3 and Citizenship.

What’s inside

• 36 weekly starters as half-page slips (2 to a page: print, cut, hand out)
• The same 36 as a 16:9 projector PDF, one starter per slide
• A perpetual 12-month classroom calendar, “This Day in Crime and Punishment History”, with 64 dated entries and no weekdays, so it works every year
• A one-page student response log
• Teacher notes with a week-by-week plan and specification links
• A full answer key: model answers for Q1 and Q2, and points on both sides for Q3

Built for the classroom

• Readings of 80–100 words in British English, for a reading age of about 12–14
• Justice gets as much space as crime: laws, courts, policing, prisons, reform and rights
• Crimes are described factually, with no graphic detail
• Every fact checked against two independent sources

42-page A4 PDF + 37-slide projector PDF.