Our popular Year 1 morning starter PowerPoints are now ready-to-use presentations that launch directly in your browser. Ideal for Year 1 morning work and early morning activities, each set provides five daily starters for use on your interactive whiteboard.
📅 The date updates automatically every day. The date is generated when you launch the presentation, so it will show the correct date on the day you use it.
Prefer a downloadable write-on resource? Explore our Year 1 morning starter mats.
Our Year 1 morning starter PowerPoints have been refreshed as online presentations for use throughout the school year. They provide structured Year 1 early morning work that pupils can begin as they arrive, with a familiar combination of maths, spelling, writing and daily discussion activities.
The Year 1 morning starter presentations are organised into Autumn, Spring and Summer sets, with five daily activities in each set. The familiar structure helps pupils know what to expect each morning while providing plenty of variety and regular opportunities to revisit important skills.
Activities vary across the sets, but pupils will regularly encounter:
These varied Year 1 morning activities can be used as early morning work, morning tasks or regular retrieval practice, giving pupils something purposeful to get started with at the beginning of the school day.
Simply launch your chosen presentation in your browser and use it on your interactive whiteboard. Pupils can complete their Year 1 morning work in morning books, on individual whiteboards or verbally where appropriate.
The date updates automatically every day. The date is generated when you launch the presentation, so you do not need to change it in advance. If you are looking at a presentation now but plan to use it later in the term, it will show the correct date when you launch it on that day.
Teachers can also use their usual interactive whiteboard or screen annotation tools to mark, circle or discuss responses on screen. Answers and example responses are included in the presentation notes for quick reference.
You can use the annotation tools available on your interactive whiteboard, browser or device to write, mark answers, circle items or model responses while working through the activities with your class.
The presentations launch online rather than being downloaded. This helps fonts, formatting and activities display consistently across different devices and avoids compatibility issues with different presentation software.
If you would prefer pupils to work directly on a resource, our downloadable Year 1 morning starter mats provide a write-on alternative. You can also explore all our Year 1 morning starter activities.
