Working together self-review checklist
KS1
All
Did everyone feel OK about being in the group?
Y1
T1
Did you make sure that everyone had a chance to say
what they wanted to, maybe asking a question, or
answering one? Did you all take turns?
Y1
T2
Before you started, did you talk to each other about
what you were going to do?
Did everyone listen to what other people said?
Y1
T3
Did you have a chance to tell the group what you
thought and why you thought that?
Did you decide together how you were going to tell
the rest of the class what you did in the group?
Y2
T1
Did everyone listen to what other people thought and
what they would like to do?
Did you agree together what each person had to do
next?
Y2
T2
Did you think about different ways of doing things and
agree on the best one?
Y2
T3
Did you feel OK to ask a question if you didn’t
understand?
Did people say if they agreed with or liked something
someone said or did?
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Working together self-review checklist
Y3/Y4
All
Did everyone feel OK about being in the group?
Very well So-so Not very well
Y3
T1
Y3
T2
Y3
T3
At the beginning of the activity did you take some
time to talk about what needed to be done, and who
would do what in the group?
Very well So-so Not very well
Did you make sure everyone was included, for
example by asking people by name for their ideas or
thoughts?
Very well So-so Not very well
Did you talk about what might happen if you tried out
different ideas?
Very well So-so Not very well
Y4
T1
Y4
T2
Did you make sure everyone knew who was taking
which role in the group – the leader, the person who
reports back, the person who writes things down,
and someone to make sure that everyone is
included?
Very well So-so Not very well
Did you plan your time well, making sure that
everyone was doing something sensible towards the
project?
Very well So-so Not very well
Did you have someone to check the progress
everyone was making?
Did you talk about what you could do if things went
wrong?
Y4
T3
Did you understand the main thing that each person
said? Could you tell someone else the differences
and similarities between what different people said?
Could you tell someone what helped you to
understand what other people in the group were
saying (for example, did they speak clearly, answer
people’s questions, say things in different ways)?
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Very well So-so Not very well
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Y5/6
All
Did everyone feel OK about being in the group?
Very well So-so Not very well
Y5
T1
Y5
T2
When you were planning, did you think about and
plan how long the task might take overall, how many
sessions you would need to complete it and so on,
as well as thinking about what you needed to do
straight away?
Very well So-so Not very well
When you needed to make a decision in the group,
did you think about the consequences of each
possibility?
Very well So-so Not very well
Did you make sure everyone had a say?
Were you able to reach a compromise when people
had different ideas?
Y5
T3
Did you have a leader of the group?
Did you agree what the leader of the group should do
– for example, encouraging others and making sure
that everyone has a turn and deciding what to do
when people can’t agree?
Y6
T1
Very well So-so Not very well
If you did not understand something, did it feel OK to
ask the person to explain again?
Did you say if you did not agree with something and
did you have a chance to explain why?
Very well So-so Not very well
If someone said they didn’t agree with what someone
else said or did, did that person ask them why and
listen to their reasons?
Did it feel OK for people in the group to disagree?
Y6
T2
Did you use ‘peaceful problem–solving’ to try to find a
win-win solution if people didn’t agree in the group?
Very well So-so Not very well
Did the language you used and the way people said
things to each other make a good solution more likely?
Y6
T3
Was the language you used and the way people said
things appropriate for working together in the
classroom? Did it help everyone feel comfortable?
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Very well So-so Not very well
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