Summer School Holiday Reflection Templates

Mix up your Summer back to school holiday recounts with this range of 12 reflection templates! Your first writing session back is all ready to print and go right here.

You can use these graphic organisers and games as planning tools for writing a formal recount or you can simply use the templates as an engaging task for students to reflect on their holiday experiences. Great first day of school activity and tasks for the first week back after summer holidays.

You can select which activity suits particular students and be set for all abilities!

It’s very beneficial for students to be given the time to discuss and catch up with their peers after their summer holiday!
They also make great displays to brighten up your classroom!

Tip: If you are using in junior classrooms it’s great to print onto A3 for extra space!

What’s included:

• Recount Features PosterMy Summer
• My Summer Alphabet
• My Summer Highlights
• Roll and Recount – How was your Summer? A blank game board for students to create with reflection questions about their summer break.
• Roll and Recount Summertime Funtime – a recount game board with reflection questions as well as moving forwards and backwards counting
• Roll and Recount – Floating through Summer – a recount game board with reflection questions
• Fun in the Sun – Summer Recount pages for a formal recount with dotted thirds lines and a blank template
• Floating through summer – have your students record the different ways they took care of their social and emotional well-being.
• My Summer Scoop – Provide each student with the blank ice cream cone and scoops, using the coloured poster have your students design their own ice cream scoops based on the flavours correlating with the activities they completed during their break. Students can then use their ice creams to prompt conversations in small groups with more detail about the activities they took part in.
• Holiday Chit Chat – Students can create their own chatterbox and use the reflection questions to prompt verbal recounts with their peers about their holidays.
• My Summer Camera Roll – your students can create a visual representation of their holidays – each box can have different activities or feelings they experienced through the holidays or they can provide more detail about certain activities they enjoyed.
• My Summer Break – Ask your students to decorate the outline title with all the different activities and representations of their own summer break.