Guidance for answering Cambridge-style examination questions based on Joan Lindsay’s novel. A set of 10 questions based on literary aspects of the novel, beginning and ending plot characters themes setting mood narrative point of view Exam practice questions Explore a text critical response empathetic response

A 50 page unit containing study notes, tasks and links to suitable short video clips. Great for online teaching and home schooling too. Hitler’s Rise to Power The Path to War The outbreak of war The war in Africa America enters the war The end of the war in Europe and Japan

KS3/Gr9 - A 23 page unit of work which can be printed and/or projected. Includes simple tasks, a poster task, an investigation into forced removals and the current land restitution issue in South Africa, a coursework task based on Nelson Mandela and F W de Klerk and many more activities. (with marking guidelines and suggested answers) The introduction of apartheid The Freedom Charter The Sharpeville Massacre The Soweto Riots The 1994 elections The role of Nelson Mandela and F W de Klerk Suitable for Cambridge and South African CAPS Investigations suitable for IB.

A 17-page document which can be used for Year 9 or I/GCSE Core students. It can be printed, projected or mailed to students for class, blended or home learning. Contains information, activities and links to suitable videos. Five lessons which cover the following topics: What is the difference between a recession and a depression? The Great Depression (1929) What causes a recession? The 2008 Global Financial Crisis The effects of the coronavirus on the global economy.

A 29-page document containing study notes, activities, links to videos and summaries for Year 9 or I/GCSE Core students which can be printed, projected or mailed to students for class, blended or home learning. Topics covered: Rocks Weathering Soils Drainage basins Management

A 35 page document for Year 9 or I/GCSE which can be printed, projected or mailed to students for class, blended or home learning. Contains links to suitable videos. Covers these topics: Ecosystems Human activities disturb ecosystems Biodiversity Impact of coronavirus lockdowns on ecosystems Case Study: a desert ecosystem

A 45 page document for Year 9 or I/GCSE Core students which can be printed, projected or mailed to students for blended or home learning. Contains links to suitable videos. Covers these topics: Site and situation Settlement patterns and functions Settlement hierarchy and zones Land use models How to use satellite images

A 41-page self-explanatory document which can be printed, projected or sent to students for blended of home learning; contains links to suitable videos. 5 lessons covering: Role of government Role of consumers Role of science and technology Sustainable farming Sustainable fishing

Social Studies (Geography and History) - A 40-page document which can be printed, projected or mailed to students for blended or home learning. Links to suitable videos included. A variety of activities including mapwork, questions, essay task. At least 5 lessons covering: Physical Geography Political Geography Climate and biomes Conflict in the Middle East Israeli-Palestinian conflict in more detail Beirut chemical explosion, ship stuck in Suez Canal included…

A 25-page document for Year 9 or I/GCSE students which contains information, activities and links to suitable videos. Can be printed, projected or sent to students for blended or home-based education. Whole unit for at least 5 lessons. Topics covered include: Freehand sketches Formal drawing Vanishing points Isometric Orthographic drawing

A useful 27 page document for Year 9 or I/GCSE which contains information, links to suitable videos and questions which test different levels of thinking skills. Can be printed, projected or sent to students for blended or home-based learning. The whole unit consists of 5 lessons. Topics covered include: Modernism Bauhaus International Style High Tech architecture Post-modernism

Useful for students painting in oils for the first time, e.g. Year 9 or I/GCSE. A 12 page document containing tips, study notes, practice and assessment activity based on watching suitable videos. Can be printed, projected or sent to students for blended or home-based learning. Allocate 5 lessons to complete the whole unit. Includes: Preparing to paint Prep work for landscape Blocking Layers Final touches

Useful as an introduction to art and design in year 9 or I/GCSE. Follows on from lessons on Elements of art and design (also available on this site). A 20-page document with activities and self-explanatory notes and links to suitable videos which can be printed, projected or sent to students for blended or home learning. Covers the following topics (5 lessons): principles of art principles of photography principles of design Famous designers Assessment activity

Useful as the first Art and Design lesson in Year 9 or I/GCSE for Cambridge exams. Based on the CIE video, with suitable creative activity, and intro to van Gogh’s Starry Night art. Links to 2 videos included. A 9 page self-explanatory document which can be printed, projected or sent to students for blended or home learning.

5 lessons for Year 9 or IGCSE Geography. Includes study notes, links to YouTube videos, reinforcement questions, Summaries. Remote or class teaching. Print or project. Role of government Role of consumer Role of science and technology Sustainable agriculture Sustainable fishing

Business Studies - remote and classroom teaching. 5 lessons with reinforcement activities, study notes and links to YouTube videos. What is marketing? Product Place Price Promotion

Year 9 - Introduction to digital art and graphic design. 5 lessons using YouTube videos with activities for each lesson. Digital art for beginners Digital drawing exercises Digital painting Beginning graphic design Using colour and images in graphic design

Some Reading and Literature activities that I put together for my Year 8 lessons on the Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon - the story of a Rohingya refugee boy in an internment camp.

KS3 - 5 x history lessons, printable, project or download; notes, YouTube videos and questions. I used them for Year 9. Students quite reassured to know that mankind has survived similar pandemics throughout history. Bubonic plague The Columbian Exchange Spanish Flu HIV/Aids Covid-19 Suitable for remote teaching and online home-schooling too.

KS 3 - 5 lessons: Information, activities, links to suitable videos Perpetua and Felicity (early Christian martyrs) Joan of Arc (Christian warrior) Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Opposing the Nazis) Martin Luther King (Fighting for Civil Rights) Desmond Tutu (The importance of reconciliation)