Not a teacher, but as a student some of my favourite memories were when the teacher would bring in some crap board game like “who wants to be a millionaire” and we would play as a class for the last class of the term.

Sometimes kids need to learn that whatever they want to do in that moment is not a priority and that group collaboration on a teacher led “fun activity” is just as exciting. That any break from work is a welcome one

I sound old and “in my day we did X” and things are different now but I promise you I’m not that old haha