Whole-class body movement, everyone standing. Work one full example end to end before sitting.

Clockwise worked demo (face front = start): quarter right → side wall; second quarter → half turn, back wall (opposite); third quarter → three-quarter, other side wall; fourth quarter → full turn, front again. Count aloud: 1, 2, 3, 4 quarters.

Anticlockwise worked demo (reset to front): same four stops but to the left. Stress half turn = opposite wall both ways; three-quarter anticlockwise lands on the wall that quarter clockwise used.

Slip to watch: pupils spinning the wrong way or calling a three-quarter a half. Hold the class to one direction at a time. Quick hands-up on “where after a half turn?” then sit.

Alongside the screen, use the two joined card strips as your real turning arm. Open them a quarter turn and lay your paper right-angle corner into the opening so the class sees a quarter turn is a square-corner turn. Then open a half turn (a straight line, two corners) and a three-quarter turn (three corners). Keep saying the direction: clockwise.

The point to draw out on the square: because a quarter turn is exactly a square-corner turn, the square looks the same after every quarter turn. Hold your paper corner against the screen as each quarter turn lands.

Talk this one through together — pupils take turns at the board and the class agrees or corrects out loud.

Advance the arrow a quarter turn each time and have the class read its new direction aloud and name the turn so far: after one quarter it points right; two quarters make a half and it points down; three quarters make three-quarters and it points left; four quarters bring it back to the start. If the on-screen control does not stop and hold cleanly at each quarter, use your card arm alongside the screen to fix each named position. Keep a real clock face beside you so you can point to the minute hand swinging from 12 to 3 (quarter), to 6 (half), to 9 (three-quarter).

Rotate four pupils across the four turns. Watch for pupils turning anticlockwise — hold the whole class to clockwise so the counting stays consistent.

This is the practice round — pupils take turns at the board, turn the arrow and name the turn, and the class confirms before moving on. Keep it brisk rather than over-explaining.

Anchor everything on the quarter turn = square corner idea: a quarter turn points the arrow right, a half turn points it down (the opposite way), a three-quarter turn points it left, and a full turn brings it back to the start. Advance the arrow with the on-screen control (or your card arm alongside if the control does not hold cleanly); ask pupils to name the turn before you stop and reveal the direction. Work through the four on-screen prompts in order so every named turn gets a turn.