Our new resource line – 5-Minute GPS!

Please welcome our new resource line – 5-Minute GPS! 

This is a brand-new creation tailored for you to use in the classroom to meet your class’s GPS needs. Following the success and structure of our 5-Minute History and 5-Minute Science resources, as well as our ever-popular Maths in Minutes, these are designed to give you easy and instant access to a range of GPS questions. 

 Year 1 5-Minute GPS 

 Here’s why we think this will help your GPS teaching! 

• Every download is three sheets of questions. The number of questions builds up across Key Stage 1 and into Key Stage 2: Year 1 (pictured above) is three questions per sheet, giving you nine questions in total; Year 2 is four questions per sheet, totalling twelve questions; and Key Stage 2 is five questions per sheet, making a total of fifteen questions. This reduces cognitive load for younger children and allows a wider range of questions as children get older.  
   

• All questions are fluency-based, rather than reasoning, to be in line with assessments.  
   

• All answers are provided as a separate sheet to each set of questions, meaning you can quickly display the answers without needing to work them out yourself! This gives your class opportunity for self-marking and discussion about answers, providing you with an informal formative assessment opportunity. Objective codes from Classroom Secrets are provided on the answer page, meaning that you can quickly find related resources for a question if required. 
   

• Each week of 5-Minute GPS is aligned to follow the content of the Classroom Secrets GPS scheme. For example, parenthesis is the first spring block in Year 5, so questions about parenthesis will not appear in any of the Year 5 Autumn 5-Minute GPS downloads.  
   

• The coverage has been carefully planned out to ensure all objectives are covered over the year as they are introduced. Initially in the autumn term, questions will entirely be from the previous year group as a recap opportunity. However, as year-group specific content is taught, content from this will gradually be included alongside the previous year group objectives. By the second half of the summer term, objectives are entirely from the current year group. The exception to this is Year 6, where key content from across Key Stage 2 is included throughout, such as apostrophes and speech punctuation. Coverage is also from all areas of the GPS curriculum in each resource, giving your children a broad range of topics to tackle. 

• When new topics are included within our GPS scheme, they are focused on within the following week’s 5-Minute GPS resource. This means you can be confident that, after your initial teaching, key content will be revisited to capitalise on the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve but will then be covered again regularly afterwards, enabling your class to regularly consolidate as the year progresses via retrieval practice. 

• From Year 3 onwards, there is a question specifically focusing on identifying word classes each week. This has been included as it’s a really useful area that drives so many other aspects of GPS, but children can find challenging. At least one of these will be a homonym or heteronym that can be multiple word classes depending on the context, such as ‘wind’, ‘back’ and ‘green’, to provide extra challenge and discussion. 

Year 2 5-Minute GPS, with the corresponding answer sheet 

• All 5-Minute GPS resources have a clean style, designed to reduce cognitive load, which is consistent across all year groups. These are presented in line with our style guidance, with a format that includes a child-friendly font for child-facing questions in the Year 1 and Year 2 versions and word choices that enable as many learners as possible to access questions. 
   

• At least one image is used on each sheet to provide some visual interest. These have been carefully chosen to not lead the children towards a specific answer and to also be relevant for the question.  
   

• This resource is designed to be displayed on an interactive whiteboard for children to answer on individual whiteboards or in exercise books, saving you printing and photocopying cost and time. However, should you wish, they have the flexibility to be printed. 
   

• 5-Minute GPS can be used at any time in the school day! You could use them for morning work, as a starter to an English lesson, for settling-down time after break, during the register, as a stand-alone task, whenever you have five minutes spare (which, granted, doesn’t happen often!), for intervention, or even as an accessible homework task.  
  

Year 3 5-Minute GPS 

• 5-Minute GPS can be used by other classroom adults such as teaching assistants but also has scope to be used beyond the classroom, such as tutors, supply teachers and breakfast club. For parents wanting to expose their children to questions similar to content that they use at school, or to help them increase confidence/speed, these resources are an excellent choice. 
   

• The content complements our recently-updated GPS assessments, which you can read more about here. 

Each year group will have one 5-Minute GPS a week, leading to thirty-six in total per year. With a launch date of March 2026 for these, we are starting with the Summer 1 Week 1 versions of each year group, meaning that several will be online for when you return to school after Easter so you can start using these in the summer term!  

The first two weeks of this will be free for every year group; we hope you enjoy using them with your class! We would love to hear your feedback, suggestions and ideas for how these could be improved even further – please submit these to hello@classroomsecrets.co.uk. We would also love to hear how your class find these resources!