Time

Min

Activity, what happens

Materials

SESSION 1, Go Play! (9:30–10:45)

9:30

12

Table Arcade, teachers arrive, get a colour-sticker name tag, sit at their colour table and just play

no briefing. Best table score ⭐

Name tags + colour stickers

table devices on arcade.html

9:42

12

The reveal (all games vibe-coded) + 3 Guess-the-Prompt rounds, one real-prompt slide per game, closest team ⭐⭐ per round

S1 team sheet Part 1

the Ladder + stars

9:54

10

Debrief: name the strategies (hook, prediction, prior knowledge, competition)

evidence slide

Slides

10:04

14

Meet your lesson + team activity: open the lesson in the Drive folder, read the opener, fill Part 2, teach the room in one sentence (sharpest ⭐). Openers Map handout given only AFTER

Drive folder on devices

Handout, L7-12 Openers Map (hidden until after)

10:18

15

Co-create norms, team sticky sprint (fastest full team ⭐)

cluster and agree 5 norms

they live on Zone A

Yellow + blue stickies

Zone A

10:33

7

Framing the day's race on the Ladder milestones

The Ladder

10:40

5

Exit stickies to Zone B (use / steal / worry-Open)

Zone B

SESSION 2, Go Think! (10:55–12:30) · break 10:45–10:55

10:55

15

Cheat sheet walk: the strategies of L7–12 (no lesson mapping on the sheet, the hunt finds it)

Cheat Sheet, Strategies of Lessons 7–12

11:10

35

THE STRATEGY HUNT, teams tear down their own lesson from the Drive folder

strategy stickies

passive moment (⭐ per strategy, bonuses)

S2 team sheet

big stickies

answer key (facilitator only)

11:45

25

Ice-cream scoop share (pair → team → room, 90s each) + stickies onto the Pattern Wall grid

Zone C grid poster (A2)

bell

12:10

20

Pattern spotting on the grid (⭐ per surviving pattern) + hand out the Strategy Mapping answer key + Ladder update

lunch skim assignment

Handout, Strategy Mapping L7-12 (hidden until now)

Time

Min

Activity, what happens

Materials

SESSION 3, Go Make! (1:45–3:15)

1:45

10

Framing: what makes a check formative (during learning, visible, actionable, low-stakes)

Slides

Cheat Sheet, Quick Formative Checks

1:55

20

Audit sprint, teams audit their lesson's real worksheets from the Drive folder

nominate weakest check (diagnosis ⭐)

S3 team sheet Parts 1–2

2:15

25

CAROUSEL ROUND 1: THE HACKATHON, rebuild the weakest check in the build section (finish ⭐)

S3 team sheet Part 3

colour markers

15/5/1-min warnings

2:40

20

CAROUSEL ROUNDS 2–5, sheets rotate on the bell (5 min each): three ratings /5 + one correction in ink

round 5 = FINAL SAY totals + verdict

S3 team sheet Parts 4–5

bell

3:00

15

Owners rule on every correction (accept / not accept / accept with edits), top total ⭐⭐⭐, second ⭐⭐, accepted corrections ⭐ to reviewers

sheets to the wall

The Ladder

SESSION 4, Go Reflect! (3:25–4:45) · break 3:15–3:25

3:25

28

THE BIG DEBATE, scenario: primary students should be allowed to use GenAI chatbots for schoolwork. RED agrees, BLUE disagrees, colour teams split across both sides

3 rounds + crossings

leaders retain (crossing ⭐, best argument ⭐, retention ⭐)

Crossing tracker

walkable gap

argument starters in the guide

3:53

5

Debrief the debate as a classroom strategy (L12's red-blue with floor-crossing)

Slides

3:58

12

Risk-spotting for their lesson: top 2 risks + prevention + recovery (one risk is their own, the blank)

S4 team sheet Part 2

4:10

10

Worry wall answered, teams adopt others' worries

accepted answers move to 'Answered' (⭐ each)

Zone B

index cards

4:20

12

Final ice-cream scoop + commitment cards (1. lesson + strategy, 2. date, 3. success check)

S4 team sheet Part 4

index cards

Commitment Wall

4:32

13

FINAL TALLY, count publicly, crown the winning team, reframe the competition as a strategy

photos

close

The Ladder

prize

camera