Plan & Deliver

Form Time Activities

Short careers activities built for the ten minutes a tutor actually has. Five formats - poll, quiz, reflection, discussion and quest - generated per form group against a topic and a duration, with pupil responses captured so form time counts as evidence.

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Form Time

Lessons

Quick careers activities for form tutors.

PollQuizReflectionDiscussionQuest

What does a surveyor do all day?

Poll10A5 min12 SepCompleted

Read the four options out, then ask for a show of hands before revealing the answer.

Apprenticeship myths

Quiz10B10 min15 SepCompleted

Six true-or-false statements. Pause after each one and ask a pupil to justify their answer.

One job you'd never considered

Reflection10C5 min18 SepNot run yet

Give everyone 90 seconds of quiet thinking time, then take three answers around the room.

Networking Bingo

Quest9A10 min22 SepNot run yet

Pupils collect a signature from someone who has done each of the nine things on the card.

Paused - every activity logs Gatsby evidence for the pupils who took part

Schedule › Lessons › Form timeShort tutor-time activities generated per form group, with responses coming back.

Why it matters

What changes

The honest version of the before, and what it looks like once this is running.

Without Chapter
  • Careers squeezed out of a timetable that has no room left
  • Tutors asked to 'do something careers' with no material
  • Registration time producing nothing you can evidence
  • The same worksheet photocopied for the fourth year running
With Chapter
  • Short activities built for the ten minutes tutors actually have
  • Five formats, each with a different job to do
  • Generated per form group against a topic and a duration
  • Pupil responses captured, so form time counts as evidence

How it works

Up and running in minutes

Three steps, in the order you'd actually do them.

Pick a format

Poll, quiz, reflection, discussion or quest - each sized for registration rather than a full period.

Generate it for a form group

Set a topic and a duration; Chapter writes the activity for that named tutor group.

See who actually ran it

Responses captured per pupil and completion tracked per form, so form time counts as evidence.

In detail

How it actually works

The mechanics behind the screenshot.

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Five formats, because ten minutes is not a lesson

A poll opens a conversation. A quiz checks a misconception. A reflection asks for one honest sentence. A discussion gives the tutor a prompt they can actually run. A quest sends the pupil into the Chapter app. Each is sized for registration, not a period.

  • Poll, Quiz, Reflection, Discussion and Quest
  • Generated against a topic, a duration and a named form group
  • Responses collected per pupil rather than a show of hands
  • Completion tracked so you can see which forms actually ran it
Form time activities
ActivityFormType
What does a surveyor do all day?10APoll
Apprenticeship myths10BQuiz
One job you'd never considered10CReflection
Networking Bingo9AQuest
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Ready-made activities in the Resource Library too

Alongside generated activities, Chapter's resource templates include tutor-time material you can take as-is - Career Personality Quiz, 'Who Am I?' Mind Map, Values Card Sort, Sector Spotlight Cards, Networking Bingo - each already tagged to a year group and a benchmark.

  • Templates carry their year group and Gatsby tagging already
  • Print, export to Word, or send to pupils in the app
  • Tutors open and deliver - no preparation step
  • Sits inside Lessons, so one place holds everything a tutor teaches
Resource Library · Form time
Career Personality QuizY7 · BM3
"Who Am I?" Mind MapY7 · BM1
Values Card SortY9 · BM3
Sector Spotlight CardsY8 · BM2
Networking BingoY9 · BM5

What you get

Everything included

No add-ons, no per-seat pricing - it's all in the platform.

6 capabilities

Five formats: Poll, Quiz, Reflection, Discussion and Quest

Generated for a named form group from a topic and a duration

Ready-made tutor-time templates in the Resource Library

Responses captured per pupil, not a show of hands

Completion tracked per form group so you can chase the gaps

Lives inside Lessons, so tutors have one place to look

Evidence & integrations

What it proves, and what it plugs into

Form time is how a programme reaches every pupil every week - the reach that Benchmark 1 and Benchmark 3 are really asking about.

Gatsby Benchmarks evidenced
  • 1A Stable Careers Programme
  • 2Learning from Career & Labour Market Information
  • 3Addressing the Needs of Each Young Person
Works with
  • Lessons

    Form time lives inside the lessons module

  • Resource Library

    Ready-made tutor-time templates

  • Chapter student app

    Quests and responses

Questions

The things schools ask

Not any more - it was folded into Lessons, and opening Form Time takes you to the lessons list filtered to form-time material. Same activities, one fewer place to look.

They are built for registration. You set the duration when you generate one; five minutes is the default and ten is usually the ceiling.

No. Each activity is self-contained - the tutor opens it and runs it. That is the design constraint the format works within.

Yes. Responses are captured per pupil and activities carry a completion state, so you can see which form groups ran it and which did not.

See Form Time Activities in action

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