I am an English Teacher at an SEMH secondary school. My resources cover a wide range of key stages and abilities to cater for the complex needs of my students. Often my resources will be designed to appeal to older students with a lower ability content, but they still work well for younger students also. I have a big interest in Phonics, low ability resources with a high interest level for older students, creating useful displays and making stickers to aid in my marking.
I am an English Teacher at an SEMH secondary school. My resources cover a wide range of key stages and abilities to cater for the complex needs of my students. Often my resources will be designed to appeal to older students with a lower ability content, but they still work well for younger students also. I have a big interest in Phonics, low ability resources with a high interest level for older students, creating useful displays and making stickers to aid in my marking.
Useful resource. A bundle of three storyboards in three sizes: 4, 6 and 8.
I use these for a variety of different lessons.
I hope you find them useful.
I am the qualified Access Arrangements Assessor for my school, additionally, I have responsibility for applying for any access arrangements, creating the folder of evidence to support the application, and speaking with the JCQ Inspector during their annual visit.
I always receive compliments from the JCQ inspectors on my record keeping, so I thought this would be a useful resource to share with others.
This resource breaks down how I put my evidence folder together to support my access arrangements applications.
This resource is current from Autumn Term 2018; the applications I put in this term are for my current Year 10s who will be leaving in 2020, and any new starters to Year 11 since lasy year’s applications.
This resource includes the following documents:
Suggested Access Arrangements Folder List: a list of everything I include in my folder, icluding an explanation of how I put it together and any tips from my experience.
Access Arrangements Cover Sheet Template: for the front of your folder.
Data Protection Notice: this is available for free from the JCQ website, but I have included the most up to date one here for your convenience.
Form 8 Template: this is available for free from the JCQ website, but I have included the most up to date one here for your convenience.
Teacher Records Template: to demonstrate normal way of working within your centre.
Teacher Records Template Guidance Sheet
Teacher Records Worked Example: for your reference
Access Arrangements Staff Training: to help support your request for teaching staff to provide reports supporting your application, and to help staff understand access arrangements as a whole.
Staff Training Record Sheet Template: which you can use as evidence for JCQ, to show training on Access Arrangements has taken place.
I hope you find this useful.
A highly engaging quick activity or starter.
A young girl who must help a tiny boy pilot fly home before it’s too late
I regularly use these with my secondary age SEMH students, and they love them. They would also work well with younger students.
Each activity comes with a link to the short film on YouTube and information about the film.
There is standard question sheet and a differentiated version with sentence starters.
This item comes with an extension task to make it into a full lesson. Ideal for a cover lesson. I have used it successfully as a cover lesson on several occasions. I have included some storyboard templates to use with it also.
You can save money by buying all five activities as a bundle.
All of the Year 2 Common Exception Words split into eight spelling lists using the look, say, cover, write check format.
These lists co-ordinate with the free poster, book labels and adhesive labels template available from my shop.
Also available with the Year 1 Common Exception Words and the Statutory spelling lists for Years 3 &4 and 5&6.
A highly engaging quick activity or starter.
A thought provoking short looking at the themes of disability, differences and acceptance.
A young boy is given a surprising gift by his mum.
I regularly use these with my secondary age SEMH students, and they love them. They would also work well with younger students.
Each activity comes with a link to the short film on YouTube and information about the film.
There is standard question sheet and a differentiated version with sentence starters.
You can save money by buying all five activities as a bundle.
I am the qualified Access Arrangements Assessor for my school, additionally, I have responsibility for applying for any access arrangements, creating the folder of evidence to support the application, and speaking with the JCQ Inspector during their annual visit.
I always receive compliments from the JCQ inspectors on my record keeping, so I thought this would be a useful resource to share with others.
This resource includes the Teacher Record template that I use to demonstrate “normal way of working” within my centre.
Additionally I have included:
Teacher Record with a worked example for reference
A guidance sheet where I explain how I collect these records and put them together
A staff training PowerPoint on Access Arrangements that I use with the teaching staff at my school to explain Access Arrangements, and how to complete the teacher records.
A staff training sign-in sheet that you can use as eveidence for JCQ to show training on Access Arrangements has taken place.
Documents are correct as of Autumn 2018
I have a separate resource which breaks down exactly how I put my Access Arrangements folder together including templates which I use. All of the above is included in that resource, so if you are interested, you can save money by downloading that one directly. Please find in my TES Shop
I hope you find this useful
I created this resource for students at my SEMH secondary school who have a varying range of abilities.
This is a perfect resource for an end of half term, or a cover lesson. It is highly engaging and my students always enjoy these tasks.
Whilst made with SEN students in mind, it would be suitable for mainstream primary and secondary age students.
I have made three levels of challenge from low primary school levels with cloze passages, and sentence starters, up to a more challenging “treasure hunt” aimed at KS3 students working at age appropriate levels. There should be something there for everyone!
I have also included teacher answer sheets for easy marking.
I hope your students enjoy this as much as my students do.
A pack of highly engaging quick activities or starters based on short animated films.
I regularly use these with my secondary age SEMH students, and they love them. They would also work well with younger students.
Each activity comes with a link to the short film on YouTube and information about the film.
There is standard question sheet and a differentiated version with sentence starters.
Spelling Mnemonic Poster for People.
People eat omelettes, people like eggs.
Available as two versions; one with sound buttons under people, and one without.
Useful one page that can me used as a poster or a writing mat.
Comma, Full Stop, Question Mark, Exclamation Mark and Speech Marks.
Definition and examples given.
All of the Year 1 Common Exception Words split into five spelling lists using the look, say, cover, write check format.
These lists co-ordinate with the free poster, book labels and adhesive labels template available from my shop.
Also available with the Year 2 Common Exception Words and the Statutory spelling lists for Years 3 &4 and 5&6.
A set of twenty four Shakespearean insults with the play citation.
Not seen on the preview, but on the mock up of a display board: they are presented with aged paper as a background and the pack includes a Shakespearean Insults header page.
I have found them to be a really useful way of engaging students with Shakespeare. My students had lots of fun using Shakespeare quotes to insult eachother and me (in a light hearted way of course!)
I would suggest cutting the insults into individual strips for your display.
Lookout for my Shakespeare Display Bundle and save money by buying the facts and phrases display at the same time.
All of the Years 3 and 4 statutory spellings split into eleven spelling lists using the look, say, cover, write check format.
These lists co-ordinate with the free poster, book labels and adhesive labels template available from my shop.
Also available with the Years 5 and 6 Statutory Spellings and the Common Exception Words for Years 1 and 2.
A highly engaging quick activity or starter.
An engaging and entertaining short which my students thoroughly enjoyed. They particularly liked the “twist” ending.
The 3D animated short called “Sweet Cocoon” is about two insects that decide to help a struggling caterpillar in her metamorphosis.
I regularly use these with my secondary age SEMH students, and they love them. They would also work well with younger students.
Each activity comes with a link to the short film on YouTube and information about the film.
There is standard question sheet and a differentiated version with sentence starters.
You can save money by buying all five activities as a bundle.
When a young man’s ideal marriage proposal is put in jeopardy he is forced to dive into unknown waters to salvage his plans.
A highly engaging quick activity or starter.
I regularly use these with my secondary age SEMH students, and they love them. They would also work well with younger students.
Each activity comes with a link to the short film on YouTube and information about the film.
There is standard question sheet and a differentiated version with sentence starters.
You can save money by buying all five activities as a bundle.
Dates, Days of the Week, Months and Years with Sound Buttons or spelling techniques.
Cut up and laminate. I blu tac these to a wall or a door and stick onto the whiteboard each day. Useful to help my students write the date in their books.
Where sound buttons are not useful I have included an alternative spelling technique.
I had a yearlong salaried placement in Secondary English at my home school, including a half term placement at a different secondary school within my federation.
I was graded Outstanding for my teacher training year. I was offered a permanent role at my home school for my NQT year before the end of my first term of training. My placement school also offered to create a permanent role for me, but I chose to continue my employment at my home school.
These are the standards summaries and appendices lists for each Teaching Standard that I created for my standards/evidence folder during my training which you may find useful for reference purposes, or to give you an idea on how you might assemble your own folder.
I have also included some guidance on how I went about putting my folder together, and how I organised it.
Additionally, I have included an acronyms/abbreviation list. I use these throughout my summaries and appendices, and whilst some are very obvious, some may not be.
There are eight summaries, eight appendices lists, one guidance sheet and one acronyms sheet.
I have developed a range of time-saving labels for marking presentation elements in student books. I regularly use these myself in my marking, and find them invaluable. They are clear, and provide a cohesive look across my marking, which is always commented on favourably in book looks or work scrutinies by SLT or external agencies.
I can make a Presentation Marking Label to your specific request and make it available for the same low price of the rest of my label range. Please contact me with your request via my Instagram or Facebook page. Links are on my TES Shop page.
They are designed to fit Avery labels J8160 21 per page, or similar.
The current list of Presentation labels available in the range are:
Please use a single line to cross out errors.
Please always write in black ink.
Please do not doodle in this book.
Please leave lines between your date, title and your main writing.
Please use a ruler to underline your date and title.
Remember to write the title and the date.
Please take care with your presentation.
Remember to write the date.
Remember to write the title.
Please write clearly and on the lines.
[BLANK] for you to handwrite your own comment.
I also have a range of SPaG Marking Labels available, which co-ordinate with the Presentation range. These will give a cohesive look across all your marking.
I have various other marking labels also available; please take a look in my shop.
I have developed a range of time-saving labels for marking and setting correction tasks. I regularly use these myself in my marking, and find them invaluable. They are clear, and provide a cohesive look across my marking, which is always commented on favourably in book looks or work scrutinies by SLT or external agencies.
They are designed to fit Avery labels J8160 21 per page, or similar.
**I can make a SPaG Marking Label to your specific request and make it available for the same low price of the rest of my label range. Please contact me with your request via my Instagram or Facebook page. Links are on my TES Shop page.
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The current list of SPaG labels available in the range are:
Remember to use capital letters for proper nouns.
Please add capital letters to proper nouns using a polishing pen.
Please remember to use punctuation at the end of a sentence.
Please add punctuation to the end of every sentence using a polishing pen.
Please correct the underlined spellings.
Spelling Correction Colouring In Activity*
Remember to use capital letters at the beginning of sentences.
Please add capital letters to the beginning of each sentence using a polishing pen.
Please add a capital letter to the beginning of each sentence.
Please add punctuation to the end of every sentence.
[BLANK] for you to handwrite your own comment.
Spelling correction activity includes all resources and teacher guidance.
Save money by buying my SPaG Marking Labels Bundle.
I also have a range of Presentation Marking Labels available, which co-ordinate with the SPaG range. These will give a cohesive look across all your marking.
There are various other marking labels also available; please take a look in my shop.