Teacher guide · Confidence Lab · Harder · about 30 min

🎤 Record Your Elevator Pitch

Pupils practise confidence and creativity through "Record Your Elevator Pitch": 30 seconds to sell an idea.

Lesson guide

1. Hook · 5 min
Show the 🎤 mission title and read the opening: "What are you pitching?". Take three quick guesses.
2. Model · 5 min
Think aloud through the first step together. Use Echo the Parrot's line as your prompt: "Say it clearly — I'm listening."
3. Do · 10 min
Pairs work through the 4 steps on screen or on the printed sheet. Circulate and ask "why?"
4. Discuss · 10 min
Use two or three of the discussion questions. Ask pairs to share different answers, not just correct ones.
5. Reflect · 5 min
Exit ticket: one sentence on how they used confidence today.

What was the hardest choice in "Record Your Elevator Pitch", and why?
What are you pitching — explain your reasoning to a partner.
Write your pitch. Keep it to about 30 seconds of talking — explain your reasoning to a partner.
Now say it out loud twice. What did you change the second time — explain your reasoning to a partner.
Where could you use confidence outside school this week?
If you did this again, what would you change?

Support: Read prompts aloud, pair with a confident partner, and accept spoken or drawn answers for writing steps.

Stretch: Set the Challenge tier (1 extra steps) and ask pupils to justify every answer in writing.

National Curriculum: English: spoken language — articulate and justify answers
PSHE: Relationships: communicating feelings and listening to others
PSHE: Health & wellbeing: resilience and managing setbacks

Pupil sheet

Name: ____________________ Date: __________

1. What are you pitching?
☐ An invention
☐ A club at school
☐ A book you love
☐ Yourself for a job
2. Write your pitch. Keep it to about 30 seconds of talking.
3. Order the parts of a strong pitch.
___ Hook
___ What it is
___ What you want
___ Why it matters
4. Now say it out loud twice. What did you change the second time?