1. Make students wait behind chairs to be dismissed from classroom table by table
2. Get the students to line up in alphabetical order, check uniform and ask them to be quite, before leading them to assembly
3. Hands up if they want to ask a question or have a suggestion
4. Allow students to chatter for a minute to get it out of their system
5. Take as stance in the centre, front of classroom and exclaim ‘Right’ as clapping hands to get class attention and signal the start of the lesson
6. Count down from 10
7. Latch onto eye contact with students who are chatting carrying on teaching
8. Stand behind chatty student while carrying on teaching
9. Ask pupils to participate in the lesson properly because you want to have a productive fun lesson

10.Place books of students down in circle before they enter the class so students some in and immediately sit behind their books
11.Tell class that the other class did x, y or z really well and you want this class to beat them
12.Stop to ask questions to check that students are paying attention to the and understanding
13.Instead of asking for a single student to put hand up to read ask class to put hands up if they haven’t read yet
14.Remind students of the marking criteria
15.Teacher put hands up and wiggle fingers get class to copy the action to make sure they are all paying attention
16.Use a sound of a bell (through youtube maybe…) to get class attention