TEACHING RESOURCES Including power point presentations and activities to support the teaching of imaginative writing. Resources include opportunities to: - develop characterisation - explorer tabloid and broadsheet - create tabloid and broadsheet

At least 8 lessons worth of resources to support the teaching of creative writing (narrative and descriptive) and take stimulus from the following texts/events: - Castaway - The London riots - The Edge These resources provide opportunities to: - Describe using the senses - watch clips from Castaway and use as a stimulus for own writing - up level vocabulary - identify figurative and use in own writing - develop characterisation - develop narrative structure - assess against GCSE criteria - create tension and suspense

Resources to support the teaching of poetry analysis and exploration. These lessons were taught to year 8 but are suitable for any KS3 group as well as KS2. Poems/poets explored include: - Carol Ann Duffy - Valentine - Sophie Hannah - Symptoms - Deserted house - Sonnet 18 - A Married state - Declaration of need - Lady of Shalott - Roger McGough Opportunities provided for students to: - develop speaking and listening skills - explore the idea of marriage - analyse language, structure and form - explore pathetic fallacy

A resource that supports children in creating a comparison of perspectives using Owen’s ‘The Send Off’ and Brittain’s ‘Perhaps.’

Differentiated (by colour) lesson to support the teaching of Romeo and Juliet Act 4 scene 1. Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability Resources provide opportunities to: - evaluate the Friar's plan - explore the presentation of character and theme - empathise with Juliet

Card sort of spoken language features.

30 facts about Shakespeare and his plays. Cut them up and ask students to move around the room sharing information. A useful activity to get students thinking about Shakespeare ahead of studying a play.

A lesson to support the comparison of 2 war poems in line with the new specification success criteria for 9-1.

A selection of activities that make links to other literature texts whilst studying the poetry in an effort to help student retention of previously studied texts. Activities make links to: An Inspector Calls Romeo and Juliet Each activity takes a theme that is evident in a particular poem and encourages students to make connections with the same theme in other texts that have been studied.

2 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of the 'The Drum' by John Scott. Differentiation: purple = lower blue = middle yellow = higher Resources provide opportunities for students to develop skills for 9-1 poetry exam including language and structure analysis and context exploration.

Resources to support the teaching of Carol Ann Duffy poetry Resources include a range of activities for all abilities and ages including cloze exercises, resequencing, annotations of the poem, language analysis, contextual information and much more. Poems covered: 1. Valentine 2. War photographer 3. Salome 4. Havisham 5. Ann Hathaway 6. Human interest 7. Stealing 8. Hour

These resources support the teaching of opening worlds poetry Resources included for the following poems: - Two kinds - Young couple - Train from Rhodesia - The tall woman and her short husband - Leela's friend - Pieces of silver - Gold legged frog

Resources to support the teaching of the following poems: - Harmonium - Sonnet 43 - Quickdraw - Sister Maude - To his coy mistress - In Paris with you - The farmer's bride - Brothers - Ghazal - Born yesterday

A range of picture quizzes ideal for tutor time or the end of term. Picture quizzes on the following themes: - Children in need - Show racism the red card - Shakespeare films - TV Judges - Famous people in onesies - Celebrities carved into pumpkins - Inventors - Films - Flags

Example LTPs and curriculum plans that outline specifically how parents can help support their child through their child's study of English. The long term plans map out where students will develop the skills necessary to access the new specification 9-1 GCSE English language and literature papers.

Resources to support the exploration of audio. (week1) Resources provide opportunities to: - explore audio types - silence, noise, speech, music etc. - explore why audio is used - to create mood, to introduce an era, to reinforce an image etc. - explore contrapuntal and pleonastic audio Links to YouTube audio examples for each of the audio purposes are included. The week's work of resources culminates in an assessment of understanding task.

A resource that was delivered to heads of department to help them prepare for the new specification GCSE 9-1. The power point guides heads of department through a process of preparing for their new look qualifications and covers the following: - the importance of embedding skills into KS3 medium term plans - the importance of creating age appropriate 9-1 style assessments for KS3 Also included are: - example grade boundaries that have been created - example medium term plan that embeds skills for new 9-1 GCSE

A comprehensive selection of resources to support the teaching of Simon Armitage poetry. Power points on the following poems: 1. Kid 2. Father thought it bloody queer 3. Homecoming 4. Hitcher 5. Mother, any distance 6. November 7. Remains 8. Harmonium Resources include annotations, language analysis and a range of engaging activities for students of varying abilities. Also includes assessment opportunities and contextual information.

A lesson that encourages students to think deeply when exploring Churchill’s speech. Students work towards answering the question: How does Churchill attempt to motivate the British people?

Templates to support the completion of: department evaluation department development plan