A revision clock for revising Romeo and Juliet themes and characters.

An engaging two-part lesson introducing students to the magical world of Fantasy fiction.

A three-part sequence to plan, produce, and evalaute a piece of descriptive writing.

A lesson and accompanying academic reading task sheet to support a study of Chapter 13 of ‘Treasure Island’.

A visual guide for all staff to support dyslexic students.

A visual guide to support parents to support their children with their reading.

A poster guide exploring how to build a RFP culture across the school.

A mini-sequence exploring the poem, ‘My Last Duchess’, by Robert Browning, through a mixture of reading and writing tasks.

A range of carefully considered activities to run across a one-week Summer School. Lessons cover English, Maths, Literacy, Cooking, History, Science, Drama, Music and Art.

This task is to plan a piece of descriptive writing and peer-assess.

An engaging, fully-resourced lesson consolidating understanding of a range of Fantasy fiction characters, such as: Harry Potter, Queen of Hearts, and Gollum.

A lesson exploring archetypal characters in Fantasy fiction (with links to Harry Potter).

A lesson exploring the events of Chapter 3 of ‘The Giver’.

A two-part lesson exploring Chapters 4/5 of ‘The Giver’ with students crafting their own letters from the perspective of The Giver to Jonas.

A two-part lesson exploring how to make detailed and perceptive inferences on the characters of Sherlock and Dr. Roylott (The Speckled Band). Aimed at a MA set.

Lesson Four: Evaluating Fairy Tales Students will develop an understanding and appreciation of how writers successfully use description in their writing by exploring crafting of writing in ‘The Ickabog’. To begin with, the lesson recaps and identifies important subject terminology. Teachers should set a quiz on any misconceptions. Lesson Five: Famous Fairy Tale Subversions As students have developed an understanding of fairy tales in week one, supported with their homework tasks, this week explores fairy tales and how famous writers have subverted them in the past. This lesson explores The Brothers Grimm and Charles Perault. Lesson Six: Crafting Fairy Tale Descriptions To identify early progress, students will describe a typical fairy tale setting using the knowledge developed from the previous lessons studying The Brothers Grimm and Charles Perault. Weekly Overview: By the end of the week, students should be able to plan a description based on fairy tale conventions and begin to subvert expectations in the style of The Brothers Grimm and Charles Perault.

Lesson Seven: Freytag’s Narrative Structure This lesson, students will develop their understanding of Freytag’s narrative structure by exploring ‘Aschenputtel’ by The Brothers Grimm. Developing on from last week’s study of famous subversions of fairy tales, students will now move onto the structure of these texts and how this will be utilised in their end of term assessment. Lesson Eight: Fairy Tale Settings Using Shrek as a stimulus and pastiche of the genre, students will explore typical settings in fairy tales. To assess progress, students will complete a short baseline writing task of a setting description, which can be used in their end of term writing during the exposition. Lesson Nine: Archetypal Characters Building on from settings, students will explore archetypal characters in fairy tales and how writers and pop-culture challenge these stereotypes. Students will debate why it is important that we have visible challenges to stereotypes in wider society. Following on from this, students will once again develop their writing by crafting a brief paragraph on a character. Weekly Overview: This week, students will begin to craft settings and character descriptions which can be incorporated into their own assessment response at the end of term. Furthermore, we continue to explore how and why writers subvert character, setting, and plot.

Over 80 extracts to create a culture of reading across the school. All linked to literacy calendar of events, challenges, and celebrations.