I am a fully qualified English teacher, working specifically in secondary education with KS3 and KS4 students. I create resources for a range of KS3 and KS4 schemes of work, especially for lower ability students as these of are the groups of students I specialise in. Welcome to my shop and enjoy!
I am a fully qualified English teacher, working specifically in secondary education with KS3 and KS4 students. I create resources for a range of KS3 and KS4 schemes of work, especially for lower ability students as these of are the groups of students I specialise in. Welcome to my shop and enjoy!
This resource contains a detailed writing frame for students to follow whilst practicing a typical GCSE style question. Complete with graded frames from 4-7 to guide students into making progress into higher levels and specific quotes from all the main characters in A Christmas Carol, to further support their answers.
This takeaway homework menu is aimed at KS4 students who are studying the play The Tempest. The menu has differentiated tasks from Extra Mild through to Extra Hot and makes learning fun! All extracts that are relevant to the homework tasks are included in this resource.
This takeaway homework menu is aimed at KS4 students who are studying the play Much Ado About Nothing. The menu has differentiated tasks from Extra Mild through to Extra Hot and makes learning fun! All extracts that are relevant to the homework tasks are included in this resource.
This takeaway homework menu is aimed at KS4 students who are studying the play The Merchant of Venice. The menu has differentiated tasks from Extra Mild through to Extra Hot and makes learning fun! All extracts that are relevant to the homework tasks are included in this resource.
This takeaway homework menu is aimed at KS3 students who are just getting to grips with literary extracts and creative writing in preparation for KS4. The menu has differentiated tasks from Extra Mild through to Extra Hot and makes learning fun!
The full KS3 homework takeaway menus are also available as a bundle
The English Language Paper 1 and 2 Takeaway Menus are also available
This resource contains three employability sessions aimed at Year 10 students in secondary school through to Year 12 students embarking on Further Education. With the introduction of the up and coming T-Levels in 2020, schools and colleges now need to prepare our young people for the world and work more than ever before and so these sessions aim to best prepare students. Session one “Getting work ready" is to highlight a students skill set, strengths and weaknesses and what a placement will consist of to develop weaker skill sets. Session two “Finding a placement” is designed to help students approach employers and how to search for placements. Session three “Placement expectations” shows students typical attitudes and behaviours employers like to see displayed, how to dress appropriately and what to do if things go wrong.
This resource contains three employability sessions aimed at Year 10 students in secondary school through to Year 12 students embarking on Further Education. With the introduction of the up and coming T-Levels in 2020 and onwards, schools and colleges now need to prepare our young people for the world and work more than ever before and so these sessions aim to best prepare students. Session one “Finding a Work Placement” is to help students approach employers by themselves and how to dress appropriately, what to say and do etc before they start their initail placement. Session two “Confidence in the Work Place” is to highlight a students skill set, strengths and weaknesses and what a placement will consist of to develop weaker skill sets. Session three “Placement Review” is for students who have completed a CV or need to start from scratch writing a CV and shows students how best to make use of their work placement experience, reflecting on their time on a work placement and to consider plans for the future. Alongside this resource is an “Employability Skills Booklet” that allows students to track their sessions by making notes and writing down their ideas.
This lesson is perfect for high schools teaching a taster lesson of English to year 6 students in Primary school. It contains all the resources needed and a self explanatory powerpoint to engage young learners in high school learning!
A tutorial for students who are looking to explore their accommodation options post 16. Ideal for students in a 6th form college setting who need guidance finding and researching where to live once they leave their college course.
There are 9 accommodation options to research, all accompanied by an A3 research sheet where students can they weigh up the pros and cons of each living type. A must have for informing students about the necessary steps after college!
This resource contains three detailed lessons about two houses that come to life and develop a friendship. It is a brilliant stimulus for creative writing and engaging, particularly for the lower band students who struggle to write down their ideas. There is a small film attached to the resource, courtesy of The Literacy Shed which has some fabulous resources and each lesson has differentiated and challenging activities attached. The small film should make you cry!
This AQA English Language Speaking and Listening resource contains 5 lessons along with resources and assessment criteria. The lessons all include interesting and inspirational speeches as well as tips and tricks for presentation. I have tried to make it quite humorous to engage those tricky students and provide plenty of opportunity for discussion, group work and independent work. Updated- New added hyperlinks document for those who can’t view embedded videos.
We all have those tricky students who are in and out of lessons due to bad behaviour. These work booklets are specifically aimed at students who are isolated and need independent work to do. They can also be used as homework booklets or in-class activities. Complete with a contents page for different schemes of learning and targets every year group in KS3 and KS4 specifically. See below the list of work schemes in each booklet:
Year 7
Me Myself and I
A Christmas Carol KS3
Contemporary Novel
Literary Extracts/Creative Writing
Beginning the Bard
Poetry from Other Cultures
Year 8
War Literature
Macbeth KS3
Blood Brothers
Gothic Literature
Year 9
Dystopian Fiction
Of Mice and Men
Romeo and Juliet KS3
An Inspector Calls KS3
Unseen Poetry KS3
Year 10
A Christmas Carol KS4
Macbeth KS4
An Inspector Calls KS4
Poetry Anthology- Power and Conflict
Unseen Poetry KS4
Speaking and Listening
Year 11
Language Paper 1
Language Paper 2
This resource contains 5 skills tutorials in order to prepare students who are due to go out on work experience. The first lesson “Why is work experience so important?” allows students to understand the need for work experience and the benefits it will create. Lesson 2 “Finding out what I want to do” allows students to explore their interests (and even find out what they are!), alongside a range of different career options. Lesson 3 “How to approach businesses and employers” shows students the best way to contact businesses to arrange their own work experience placement. This includes template emails and how to make their emails appealing. Lesson 4 “First day jitters” prepares students for their placements with what to wear, what to take with them, how to prepare the night before, and finally Lesson 5 “Using your experience for the future” allows students to reflect on their work placement and add their newly acquired skills to their CV.
Complete with a range of activities and worksheets for students to use, these lessons will ensure your students go out to work experience fully prepared.
This NEW English Language Paper 1 SOW specifically for the AQA exam board contains 8 hours of learning. It includes starters, main activities and plenaries for each lesson and also extension and differentiated worksheets to help you reach those weaker and/or stronger learners.
Struggling to reach your bottom set year 7s or 8s? This is the scheme of work for you! Complete with assessements, lesson by lesson worksheets, resources and differentiated tasks, this scheme of work makes reaching those tricky students a little less stressful. Every lesson has been adapted to fit in with the new AQA English Literature and Language GCSE, to help prepare those weaker students with an accessible text.
16 KS3 takeaway homework menus specifically for KS3 schemes of learning. Each menu has a different takeaway restaurant from Mcdonalds to Subway and starts with “Extra Mild” through to “Extra Hot” to reach those high achievers. See below for the list of work schemes covered:
A Christmas Carol
An Inspector Calls
Beginning the Bard (Introduction to Shakespeare)
Blood Brothers
Contemporary Novel (Holes and Skellig)
Dystopian Literature
Gothic Literature
Literary Extracts and Creative Writing
Macbeth KS3
Me Myself and I (Autobiographical)
Of Mice and Men
Poetry from Other Cultures
Romeo and Juliet KS3
Unseen Poetry KS3
War Literature
War Language
10 KS4 takeaway homework menus specifically for KS4 schemes of learning. Each menu has a different takeaway restaurant from Mcdonalds to Wagamama and starts with “Extra Mild” through to “Extra Hot” to reach those high achievers. All menus contain 6 extracts relevant to the questions on the powerpoint slides that follow. See below for the list of work schemes covered:
A Christmas Carol KS4
An Inspector Calls KS4
Language Paper 1
Language Paper 2
Macbeth KS4
Poetry Anthology- Power and Conflict
Romeo and Juliet KS4
Spelling Punctuation and Grammar
Unseen Poetry KS4
16 KS3 takeaway homework menus specifically for KS3 schemes of learning. Each menu has a different takeaway restaurant from Mcdonalds to Subway and starts with “Extra Mild” through to “Extra Hot” to reach those high achievers. See below for the list of work schemes covered:
A Christmas Carol
An Inspector Calls
Beginning the Bard (Introduction to Shakespeare)
Blood Brothers
Contemporary Novel (Holes and Skellig)
Dystopian Literature
Gothic Literature
Literary Extracts and Creative Writing
Macbeth KS3
Me Myself and I (Autobiographical)
Of Mice and Men
Poetry from Other Cultures
Romeo and Juliet KS3
Unseen Poetry KS3
War Literature
War Language
10 KS4 takeaway homework menus specifically for KS4 schemes of learning. Each menu has a different takeaway restaurant from Mcdonalds to Wagamama and starts with “Extra Mild” through to “Extra Hot” to reach those high achievers. All menus contain 6 extracts relevant to the questions on the powerpoint slides that follow. See below for the list of work schemes covered:
A Christmas Carol KS4
An Inspector Calls KS4
Language Paper 1
Language Paper 2
Macbeth KS4
Poetry Anthology- Power and Conflict
Romeo and Juliet KS4
Spelling Punctuation and Grammar
Unseen Poetry KS4
