I hope my resources simplify your planning, give you the much needed extra hours for an improved work-life balance and take your teaching to the heights you want it to go.
I hope my resources simplify your planning, give you the much needed extra hours for an improved work-life balance and take your teaching to the heights you want it to go.
This year long Programme of Study is based on a study of the new linear GCSE English Course. This long term plan reflects the new GCSE Linear Exam Assessment Objectives.
Students will be assessed on:
Responding to GCSE fiction and non-fiction text extracts exploring creative writing based upon GCSE literary non-fiction text extracts
Exploring Shakespearean tragedy: the study ofeither Macbeth or Merchant of Venice
Exploring contemporary poetry: contemporary poetry (AQA Anthology)
The study of the 19th century novel - the teacher’s choice
Exploring and developing a viewpoint
A mock GCSE summer exams
It also includes:
activity suggestions
lesson content suggestions
exam structures
a map of the assessment objectives for the whole year
links to AQA’s GCSE exam frame and criteria
It is ideal for new HoD, departments without a HoD, or HoDs who are seeking a fresh perspective or Programme of Study.
Enjoy!
This year long Programme of Study is based on a study of the new linear GCSE English Course. This long term plan reflects the new GCSE Assessment Objectives.
Students will be assessed on:
Responding to GCSE fiction and non-fiction text extracts exploring creative writing based upon GCSE literary non-fiction text extracts
Exploring Shakespearean tragedy: the study of the rise and fall of Othello
Exploring contemporary poetry: contemporary poetry
The study of the 19th century novel: Alice in Wonderland
Exploring and developing a viewpoint
A mock GCSE summer exams
It also includes:
activity suggestions
lesson content suggestions
Exam structures
a map of the assessment objectives for the whole year
links to AQA’s GCSE exam frame and criteria
It is ideal for new HoD, departments without a HoD, or HoDs who are seeking a fresh perspective or Programme of Study.
Enjoy!
This resource is to assist the development of teachers in your department. The focus is on their progression as they move towards exceptional teaching skills while building a climate of learning.
The resource includes observation templates that achieve the following:
Starter and LO Observation Grid
Development Phase– Observation Grid
Plenary Observation Grid
What is Your Teaching and Learning Balance? Template
Extract from: The Perfect OFSTED Lesson (Pre Observation Checklist)
SWOT: A Post Observation Reflection
Impact on Learning Observation Grid
This is also a valid resource for developing a buddy peer observation system across the school or within departments.
The templates have been tested numeous times across the curriculum in a busy, inner London secondary school, but it could be used in any teaching sector.
Enjoy!
This is a SPaG grid that’s a simple tick sheet that students can glue into their exercise books each term (or half term) to show their progress across the literacy skills. It is designed to be a student self-assessment resource.
The Worksheet contains 2 banks of persuasive skills.
Set 1: Basic Techniques for persuading your audience for hitting Grade 4-6 (new GCSE) and Set 2 includes more advanced Techniques for persuading your audience for hitting Grade 4-9 (new GCSE).
Useful for independent work/HW tasks for KS3 and KS4.
Suitable for KS3 and KS4.
This resource is suitable as a criteria sheet that students can use to achieve their persuasive writing targets. They can keep re-visiting the sheet for HW tasks too throughout the year (if it’s glued into their exercise books).
The key strategy governing the activity is that students are taking charge of their own progress and learning to be independent learners as the criteria sheet is an important tool in their learning toolbox.
The activity also deploys FAR marking techniques.
This resource can be used in many ways: plenary, starter, or as a competitive group game. You could also hide the clues around the room.
It’s a fun way to learn a lot a techniques in one lesson.
These are 8 topics (a mixture of argue, persuade and advise tasks) with slightly differentiated planning proformas for each question so students can work independently.
Suitable for KS4 classes or accelerated KS3 classes.
These criteria sheets can be given to students before a task so they know what they’re working towards and then glued in under their HW for the teacher to fill in and comment on.
It’s a strategic yet quick and simple way of marking HW
The bank includes criteris sheets for:
Creative Writing
Non Fiction Writing
Poetry Analysis
Novel Analysis
Vocabulary definitions followed by sentence creation
These assessment sheets are ideal for in-class assessements in Year 10 (in preparation for the GCSE exam in Year 11) and for Year 11 examination preparation.
The criteria sheets include:
Poetry (unseen and seen)
Writing to Inform
Shakespeare Study
19th Century Novel Study
Modern Drama: Blood Brothers
This 6 Hats task is designed to be a whole-school resource for analysing vusual stimulus but it can be adapted to become a kinaesthetic task too (jsut change the wording).
The resource uses sentence starters for differentiation too.
It can be used to analyse newspaper images, historical images, art etc and is especially good as an information gathering task before writing creatively, doing artwork or discussing/responding to historical sources.
Suitable for KS3 and KS4.
This is a simple, visual method of exploring the differences between the different grade boundaries of the new assessment schedule in English.
Benefits KS3 and KS4 progression.
This resource is for an advanced KS3 group or a KS4 class.
The ppt includes:
a starter
all learning and writing tasks
a plenary
Please note, you’ll need to find a copy of the poem on Google.
This resource is for KS3 and KS4 and is designed to generate independent work, group work skills and in the end, essay writing skills.
The shapes support the development of Numeracy Across the Curriculum
What is this resource
A four week plan for teaching Skellig to Year 7
Who is it for?
KS2 and KS3
What’s included?
A 4 week study plan
Practical Tips?
The plan contains ideas and a teaching structure. However, the teacher who dowloads it would need to create the resources.
This can be used across the school to encourage student to reflect on their literacy development and self-editing skills.
If you print two slides per 1 piece of A4 it can be easily glued in after a student has completed the work and before the teacher marks it.
It is useful for ensuring students are critically assessing their own work so they become independent learners.
Also, it’s good for showing progression if you’re planning on getting students to re-draft their work after you’ve marked it.