Six ready-to-run, 15-minute tutor time sessions on news and current affairs — built for KS3 SEND tutor groups, and brilliant for any form group that needs calm, predictable, zero-prep sessions. Half a term of form time, sorted.
Every session follows the same rhythm — Do Now (settling talk task) → Activity (8–10 minutes) → Reflect (sentence-starter finish) — with colour-coded phases so pupils learn the routine within a fortnight. That predictability is the SEND adaptation: pupils always know what’s coming.
THE SIX SESSIONS

What is news? — the three tests: new, true, matters
Fact or opinion? — “can we check it?”
A good news story — comprehension and headlines
Sport in the news — headline matching, class tally poll
Our area in the news — local pride and community
You be the reporter — pupils perform a class news report using every skill from the half term

DESIGNED FOR SEND, USEFUL FOR EVERYONE

No pupil writing required anywhere — every task works through talking, thumbs, pointing, sorting or miming, and “pass” is always allowed
Full tutor guidance in the speaker notes of every slide: timings, answers, model responses, SEND tips and stretch ideas
All stories and examples fictional — nothing topical to date, nothing sensitive to manage
Sessions quietly build: fact vs opinion returns in the final reporter task
20 fully editable slides; one deck runs the whole half term

Written by a former senior leader in a specialist setting. Part of the Tutor Time Together series — a full year of KS3 SEND form time across six half-term packs (Autumn 2: Me & My World is also available; further packs releasing through the year). Follow my shop to catch each release.