This is a powerpoint presentation that can be used to stimulate debate and allow the students to explore major world issues and topics. There are 51 different topics here and these cover popular debating topics (animal rights, immigrants, democracy) and more obscure topics (about junk food and curfews!) Really useful starter, plenary, tutor time activity, drama activity or in a debating club.

This lesson looks at how soldiers expressed them selves on the front line by looking at several examples of art in war. Primarily the pupils will be asked to analyse famous drawings, painting and poems of WW1 to see what they can learn. The they will have a choice of making a drawing/painting or a poem of their own to show what they have learned. This lesson helps the students to develop empathy and encourages literacy through creative writing. An excellent lesson.

This lesson was originally created for RS but can easily be adapted for any written subject (Especially English, History, Geography or PSHE) It encourages pupils to challenge each other and work on their literacy skills. The students have to support or challenge a proposition, and then have a live debate but in complete silence. It is also good prep for writing an essay style question in RS where the students need to consider multiple perspectives about the same issue. The students love this lesson and often ask to do the lesson again! This is a surprisingly effective lesson that the pupils really enjoy.

This is a fun lesson for Drama or English that gets the pupils to think about how to build an original character. It includes a number of activities and some fun drama games to get the students warmed up.