I have been teaching English for 21 years in various teaching establishments including mainstream, private and SEN; both abroad and in the UK. I enjoy making student centred, fun resources to enable all students to access great literature.
I have been teaching English for 21 years in various teaching establishments including mainstream, private and SEN; both abroad and in the UK. I enjoy making student centred, fun resources to enable all students to access great literature.
Full bundle of resources for KS 2 including SOW, lesson plans, assessment and activities for a full range of curriculum areas; including Science, Literacy, Maths, Tudors, Drama, Dance, Egypt.
A full unit of work for teaching Forces KS2; including machines and levers and pulleys - incorporating lesson plans, numerous activities (differentiated) and presentations.
Full unit of work for KS Dance: focusing on Body Actions, includes full Medium Term Plan for Dance: Body Actions and full plan for jumps, transference of weight, travel and turn.
Tuition resource for GCSE guitar players in need of sufficient technique for performance and composition elements. Guitar scales - tab, standard notation and video resource. Two octave major scales. Prepared by a graduate guitar player of Leeds College of Music and experienced secondary music teacher.
Lee Patrick Grad. Dip. Mus., PGCE
Fun resource to test your pupils SPAG knowledge. Pupils have to decide whether the sentences are accurate and then bid for the sentence.
Resource includes:
PPT
Sentence auction worksheet
Fake money.
Exciting and innovative resource. Starts with Board Game, pupils collect 'Gansta' card (which will decide whether they are in the Capulet or Montague gang) and quotation cards on the way around the board. They finish with a Prince question card. This will then lead to a matching activity, character with quotation. Differentiated cards allow for progression and allowing the more able students to be challenged.
Activity leads onto a class discussion and role play as to each characters' responsibility for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
Learning Aims:
To introduce students to the theme of Tragedy, Revenge, the ‘Butterfly effect’ and characterisation and motivation.
To familiarise students to the main characters, language, setting and plot.
To enable discovery-based learning within small groups.
To lead to further discussion of character roles and responsibility towards Romeo and Juliet’s deaths, based on exploration of quotations. Prince holds court with questioning suspects.
Resource includes:
Game Board
Heart Counters
'Gangsta' cards.
Quotation cards
Differentiated quotation cards
Police question cards
Pupil chart to complete at end of task
This fun, student centred resource is a complete set of lessons to enable students to be prepared for the Shakespeare aspect of GCSE English Literature for both AQA and OCR. It fulfils the Speaking and Listening component and can be used as an example of Real Life Context. Rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted for discovery based learning.
The learning objectives are for
• Students to use prior knowledge of text to demonstrate understanding of characters to answer the questions posed in depth
• Students to be able to use Speaking and Listening skills in RLC
• Students to be able to demonstrate use of quotation to justify answers
• Students to demonstrate understanding of context to answer the question:
Romeo and Juliet: Romantic Tragedy or Tragedy of Circumstance?? Discuss.
This can be used as a formal assessment for a mock examination for the literature Shakespeare paper, or a controlled assessment.
A in depth lesson plan demonstrates the best use of the resources, which included differentiated worksheets to accommodate a range of abilities within once class.
Resource includes:
* PPT presentation
* Character cards
* Prosecutor questions to be used for role play
* Guilty or not guilty Worksheets (differentiated)
* Full lesson plans
* Character Supportive Quotes Worksheet.
Includes youtube clip: Judge Judy Best Bits.
Is ideal to use with my other resource: Romeo and Juliet Game Board as a follow up activity.
This fun, student centred resource is a complete set of lessons to enable students to use prior knowledge and understanding of Romeo and Juliet to complete a role play and complete a worksheet and essay using supportive quotation.
The learning objectives are for
• Students to use prior knowledge of text to demonstrate understanding of characters to answer the questions posed in depth
• Students to be able to use Speaking and Listening skills in RLC
• Students to be able to demonstrate use of quotation to justify answers
• Students to demonstrate understanding of context to answer the question:
Romeo and Juliet: Romantic Tragedy or Tragedy of Circumstance?? Discuss.
This can be used as a formal assessment for a mock examination for the literature Shakespeare paper, or a controlled assessment.
A in depth lesson plan demonstrates the best use of the resources, which included differentiated worksheets to accommodate a range of abilities within once class.
Resource includes:
* PPT presentation
* Character cards
* Prosecutor questions to be used for role play
* Guilty or not guilty Worksheets (differentiated)
* Full lesson plans
* Character Supportive Quotes Worksheet.
Includes youtube clip: Judge Judy Best Bits
Exciting and innovative resource. Starts with Board Game, pupils collect 'Gansta' card (which will decide whether they are in the Capulet or Montague gang) and quotation cards on the way around the board. They finish with a Prince question card. This will then lead to a matching activity, character with quotation. Differentiated cards allow for progression and allowing the more able students to be challenged.
Activity leads onto a class discussion and role play as to each characters' responsibility for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
Learning Aims:
To introduce students to the theme of Tragedy, Revenge, the ‘Butterfly effect’ and characterisation and motivation.
To familiarise students to the main characters, language, setting and plot.
To enable discovery-based learning within small groups.
To lead to further discussion of character roles and responsibility towards Romeo and Juliet’s deaths, based on exploration of quotations. Prince holds court with questioning suspects.
Resource includes:
Game Board
Heart Counters
'Gangsta' cards.
Quotation cards
Differentiated quotation cards
Police question cards
Pupil chart to complete at end of task
4 different ideas for assemblies. Includes PPTs on:
St Nicolas; the Truth about Saint Nicolas
The Solar System
Orangutans
Extreme Weather and Climate Change.
A fun, full resource consisting of various fiction and non-fiction activities, aimed at all Key Stages.
Including:
Writing Monologues
5 Senses
Writing Newspaper Articles
Various writing tasks.
Various writing task, Christmas
Sentence Auction
Sentence Auction, Christmas.
A fun innovative resource, including Macbeth Snap game to get students to recognise and learn useful Macbeth quotes, in preparation for GCSE exam. This then leads to further exploration of these quotes as a planning sheet to answer the exam question on culpability for Duncan's death.
Resource includes:
Lesson Plan
Snap game
Worksheet
Planning Sheet
Lessons to investigate and create monologues. The resource includes starter activity, looking at famous monologues: Mickey - Blood Brothers and Chocolate Cake - Michael Rosen, both resources have attached transcripts. It also includes writing monologue activity with visual stimuli.
Ticks the 'creative prose' box for GCSE English (WJEC)
Include:
Lesson plan
PPT starter and other activities
Handouts
Writing activity to create own monologue.
Extension activity: Cloze procedure for Blood Brothers
Includes video extracts.
How to set targets and assess post levels? Follow the simple Dartboard Technique..
Pupil Targets and Teacher Assessment for KS3 English, but can be applied to any subject or Level.
Teachers can set the individual target for the pupil according to relevant descriptors. The pupil's own involvement in setting targets and completing their Dartboards motivates them to achieve and this is rewarded with a fun certificate.
Tried and tested, deemed 'outstanding' and 'noteworthy' by recent Ofsted inspection.....
Resource includes:
PPT existing of description of system, descriptors for KS 3 English, Pupil friendly targets, Exemplar Dartboards; both teacher and pupil.
Certificates for completion of targets.
Generic Dartboard for other subjects.
Teachers can set the individual target for the pupil according to the descriptors. The teacher discusses the targets with the pupil from the descriptors and how to possibly achieve the target. Pupils either complete the chart themselves (via the pupil friendly descriptors) or the teacher can, the teacher keeps one copy electronically, the pupil can stick their dartboard to the front or inside their exercise books)
Once a pupil has completed target related work, they can be assessed according to the colour key (above, below or secure). The teacher can complete their own dartboard for each pupil and fill in colour as appropriate. Thus the teacher can review the progress of the whole class simply and efficiently.
The system allows for easy reviewing of the targets with the pupil and a joint discussion on which targets has been met by mutual agreement. Once both teacher and pupil has agreed on the assessment of the target, the pupil can then colour in the target with reference to the key. The pupil can then easily see which targets still need work, which targets have been satisfactorily met. This then gives them motivation to work on the next target as a desire to complete the board and thus achieve their ‘bullseye’.
The targets assessed as ‘below’ provides the basis for the next target board alongside new targets. Pupils are rewarded for a completed board by hitting the bullseye and therefore receiving an achievement certificate. The pupil therefore has a sense of achievement and the teacher a form of assessment which can be reviewed with the pupil and significant adults.
Tried and tested, deemed 'outstanding' and 'noteworthy' by recent Ofsted inspection.....