This is a Functional Skills Entry Level 1 Writing revision exam to be used when teaching Romeo and Juliet. It is best given to pupils before the Capulet Ball.

This resource contains two functional skills writing activities with instructions for the pupils to follow. The tasks could be used for either Entry Level 3 or Level 1 with the pupils’ outcome determining their level. You could ask the pupils to plan their work before writing if you wish. The first text asks pupils to write a letter to the local council applying for permission to host a bonfire night. In the second task, the council has asked the students to write an informative text to schools describing a celebration or festival and its historical or religious significance. Students can choose real celebrations and write about them and you may also want them to research the chosen topic as they plan their text. Alternatively you may allow pupils to invent their own celebration, adding some imagination to the functional task. We at Engage Education believe in making functional fun. Please check out our other Functional Skills English resources.

This resource consists of a revision exercise for a Functional Skills Level 1 assessment. It is for staff use, providing a topic for a discussion and a checklist to assess whether pupils have passed the test or not. Although this assessment follows the theme of Bonfire Night/Guy Fawkes, it can easily be edited for any topic and used multiple times. There are two pages for this resource, one for teachers to assess multiple pupils and one for assessing one pupil which can be placed in this pupil’s file. This task is a formal discussion about whether late October/Early November is a good time for the people of the UK or not. It asks pupils to research Guy Fawkes Night, Halloween and Mischief Night, looking at why people do and don’t celebrate them, why some people love them and why some people do not enjoy these festivals at all. Please look at our other Functional Skills Bonfire Night/Guy Fawkes resources ranging from Entry Level 1 to Level 1 and including reading, writing and speaking and listening activities.

This template can be used when writing a medium term plan for any book or play. It contains tables for suggested reading writing and speaking + listening activities and for the novel’s themes. It also contains a rationale which explains the school’s policy for teaching literature. This is a valuable time saving resource for English teachers and Heads/Leads. It is quick and easy to complete, but includes all the relevant details and an impressive rationale.

This is The Ultimate Writing Championship! Pupils complete a series of writing challenges that focus on specific skills. Each challenge has a warrior who represents that challenge. To complete the challenge, the pupil has to achieve the challenge target and defeat the warrior. At the end of each unit, they must face the Stage Champion in a battle for the Stage Title. Pupils can also compete for the tag team title, working with friends or with staff support. In these title matches, pupils are assessed on all the skills included in the stage. The Ultimate Writing Championship raising pupils’ engagement when writing. The challenges can be used as part of a literacy hour or as extension work. The writing topics are for you or the pupil to choose. They can therefore be linked to any lesson, therefore promoting literacy across the curriculum. Each challenge has an easy to mark system and each unit has a challenger record for staff and pupils to record their victories. This resource contains all the challenges for the Stage 1: Men’s Division. There are 9 skill challenges and 2 title challenges. Challenges include: Writing on the line Finger spacing Letter formation Basic spelling (High Frequency Words and simple phonetic words) Full stops Capital letters Making sense

This is a knowledge organiser for EYFS Autumn 2. It is visually striking and supplies information on the topics to be taught, the vocabulary specific to those topics and the help that will be offered to the pupils so that they can access the learning. This is normally used for Reception class.

These two resources support pupils in improving their consistency in punctuating sentences correctly and helping them to know when to use ‘and’ + when to use ‘but’. In both resources, the pupils move from being given phrases to use to create sentences using either ‘and’ or ‘but’, to writing multiple sentences independently using both ‘and’ + ‘but’ appropriately. These resources can be used as class activities, extension work or as homework.

In these resources, pupils are given visuals and some words and are asked to use them to create a simple sentence using a conjunction/connective. They are expected to use capital letters and full stops correctly and to choose additional High Frequency words and spell them independently. They are asked to repeat this process with different visuals and words a variety of times. This is the first step in preparing pupils to write sentences while using conjunctions/connectives. The images help more visual learners and the given words provide ideas for what to write about and structure. These resources can be used as a class activity, as extension work or as homework. There are five resources to use when you choose this download. The conjunctions/connectives included are and, when, but, so, + because.

This is a programme of peer assessments in education. It contains 16 different peer observation sheets, each having a different teaching and learning focus. The benefits of using different teaching and learning focuses in peer observations are: By giving each peer observation a different teaching focus to observe, it will encourage teachers to think about different areas of teaching and learning. It will ensure that completing a series of peer observations every year remains interesting. The process is less threatening and judgemental. The aim of observation is to think about the teaching and learning area of focus and for all staff involved to learn from the experience. The quality of the lesson itself is not to be analysed. Peer Observation Sheets Included: Behaviour Management Differentiation Questioning: Pitch Questioning: Intent Questioning: Different Questioning Activities Questioning: Differentiation Through Questioning Questioning: Pupil Involvement Individual Pupil Engagement Class Engagement Teacher’s Use Of Language Language Directed At An Individual Pupil Teacher’s Movement (Monitoring) Links To Other Subjects VAK Who Leads The Learning? What I Can Use In My Own Teaching This resource programme also includes an introduction text and a powerpoint presentation that can be used to launch the peer observation programme in a staff meeting. Organisation Of The Peer Observation Programme: • Teachers agree to complete a peer observation. (More than one teacher can observe one member of staff) • A meeting between the staff involved is held before the observation in which the time of the observation and the lesson focus is decided. • The teacher being observed plans the lesson with the teaching and learning focus in mind. • The lesson is observed with the observer completing the relevant peer observation form. • The teachers hold a post-lesson discussion, both completing the details on the observation form and discussing the lesson focus in detail. • The observer completes their peer observation record chart and shared it with the SLT. • The number of peer observations required in a year is decided by the SLT, but staff may wish to conduct more observations than this.

This is a writing task that can be used any time when teaching the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’. It fits any exam body.

This resource consists of a revision exercise for a Functional Skills Entry Level 2 assessment. It is for staff use, providing a topic for a discussion and a checklist to assess whether pupils have passed the test or not. Although this assessment follows the theme of Bonfire Night, it can easily be edited for any topic and used multiple times. There are two pages for this resource, one for teachers to assess multiple pupils and one for assessing one pupil which can be placed in this pupil’s file. Please look at our other Functional Skills Bonfire Nights/Guy Fawkes resources ranging from Entry Level 1 to Level 1 and including reading, writing and speaking and listening activities.

This resource is designed to be used with Chapter 6 of the novel Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo. This chapter is titled ‘Nearly Five To One’. The main event of this chapter is the disappearance of Big Joe. This resource contains a powerpoint presentation that is used to recap on the novel’s previous chapters, to check the pupils’ comprehension of this chapter and to generate a discussion on how the pupils think the characters have developed in the story so far, and/or how their opinion of them has changed. This resource also includes some worksheets. These contain a lesson(s) plan, 2 activities and some extension work. The first activity asks pupils to write about how they think the characters have developed in the story so far, and/or how their opinion of them has changed . The second is a functional skills task which asks pupils to write an advertisement for a newspaper asking people to help search for Big Joe. The extension asks pupils to complete a table for 5 characters from the story by adding as many suitable adjectives as they can t describe them. They are asked to use a thesaurus to do this. This resource should take at least two lessons to complete, but it could be used for more depending on how much time you allow for the discussions. The extension work could also be used as a whole class activity or as homework. Please look at our other Private Peaceful lessons in this series.

In these resources, pupils are given visuals and some words and are asked to use them to create some simple sentences. They are expected to use capital letters and full stops correctly and to choose additional High Frequency words and spell them independently. They are asked to repeat this process with different visuals and words a variety of times. This is the first step in preparing pupils to write a short text independently. The images help more visual learners and the given words provide ideas for what to write about and structure. These resources can be used as a class activity, as extension work or as homework. There are two resources to use when you choose this download.