Why use it

• Helps children notice what they have learned and achieved
• Gives them a safe way to talk about hopes and goals
• A calm, low-pressure wellbeing activity
• Suits the start of the year, the start of a term, moving class and the end of the year

Resource details

• 1-page printable
• PDF
• Infants to 6th class
• Print only, no other prep
• Free download

Lesson plan (20 to 30 minutes)

1. Warm-up. Share one place you have been and one place you would love to go.
2. Left foot. Children write or draw places they have been: holidays, trips, schools, classrooms, and things they have learned.
3. Right foot. Children write or draw places they want to go: a holiday, a new class, secondary school, and hopes, goals and things to try.
4. Share. Partner talk, or a few volunteers share with the class.
5. Close. Display the sheets, or keep them to look back on later.

Tips for teachers

• Infants can draw instead of writing
• Offer sentence starters: “I have learned…”, “I am proud of…”, “Next I want to…”, “I would love to go to…”
• Children never have to share. Sharing is always optional
• Keep the sheets and revisit them at the end of term

More ways to use it

• September: a settling-in reflection at the start of the year
• January: a fresh start for the new term
• June: looking back before moving class
• Any time you want a quiet wellbeing activity

Related resources

• Getting to Know Me: Junior and Senior Infants
• Getting to Know Me: 1st and 2nd Class
• Getting to Know Me: 3rd and 4th Class
• Morning Check-In Worksheet