AI Starter Activity Generator for Teachers

The AI Starter Activity Generator exists because writing a tight 5-minute starter for every lesson is a small task that adds up across a week. OES generates starters in three styles — retrieval, recap and exam-style hook — calibrated to the prior topic and the lesson ahead. Most teachers we speak to spend several hours a week on this single task; OES collapses that to minutes without losing the professional judgement that makes the output usable in a real classroom.

Outputs are editable from the first second. Starters are short, low-stakes and pitched correctly for the year group. You can adjust tone, tier and length, swap activities, rewrite a single question, or regenerate sections without redoing the whole document — so the AI is a strong first draft, not a black box.

Each starter is mapped to a spec point, with answers and follow-up questions ready to display. That spec-alignment is what separates OES from a general AI chatbot: every output is built around the GCSE, A-Level or IB syllabus you actually teach, with command-word patterns, mark-scheme conventions and language that examiners reward.

Department-friendly by design. You can save, reuse and share outputs across colleagues, standardise quality between classes, and use the Starter Activity Generator as a shared baseline for trainees and ECTs without losing your house style.