I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
A card for each poem (15 in total) for all of the Power and conflict poems for new specification AQA.
Each card contains an image reminder, several key words taken from the poem and context links.
Useful for students to revise the key messages for each poem and rather than learn quotes remember key words that should spark a memory about the poem's meaning and tone etc.
Students can use the cards to arrange by themes or content as part of a revision lesson.
Fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of context for the 15 AQA new specification 9-1 GCSE English literature poems. (Power and conflict)
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Fully differentiated resources to support the teaching of KS3 war poetry.
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities for:
- context exploration
- language analysis
- form and structure exploration
- imaginative writing
- self and peer assessment
- poetry comparison
- embedding the 9-1 skills
All resources are planned to build the skills needed for the new specification GCSE English literature course (9-1)
These resources cover chapters 4 - 7 of Jekyll and Hyde and meet the requirements of the new GCSE 9-1 specification.
9 outstanding lessons that are meticulously planned, fully differentiated and numbered for ease of use with activities included.
Homework tasks included.
Download and teach right away. These lessons are ready to go.
All lessons are fully differentiated by colour
Purple = lower ability
Blue = middle ability
Yellow = higher ability
Red = most able
These resources cover the following areas of the novel in chapters 4-7
- Context - duality - London fog - Victorian gentlemen - gothic etc.
- Letter as a plot device
- Comparison of characters
- Jekyll's changing character
- Character and theme presentation
- Sample GCSE answers
- Idiomatic expression
Chapters 1-3 and 8-10 are also available and are all meticulously planned and fully differentiated.
22 fully differentiated lessons (by colour) that enable students to explore a wide variety of poetic forms. Opportunities to create poems of a variety of forms.
These lessons are meticulously planned and are ready to go. Lessons are numbered for ease of use. Assessment opportunities and homework tasks also included.
Poetic forms explored:
- Villanelle
- shape
- ballad
- Elegy
- love poetry
- war poetry
- free verse
- limerick
- haiku
- dramatic monologue
- song and rap
- blank verse
- dialect poetry
- simile poems
- culture poems
Featured poems/poets:
- Carol Ann Duffy
- John Agard - Half Caste
- The Chimney sweep
- This is this six o'clock news
- Alone
- Daffodils
- London
- Declaration of need
- William Blake
- Robert Graves
- Blessing
Resources provide opportunities for students to:
- analyse language, structure and form
- create their own anthology of poetry
- explore context
- explore the relevance of poetry
Differentiation:
purple = low ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
red = most able
Over 10 fully differentiated resources to support the teaching of print and TV advertising and the creation of own advertising campaign.
Lessons are ready to go and are numbered for ease of use. These lessons were planned in order for students to complete AQA assignment 1 coursework but can be used to meet any advertising success criteria.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore media language
- explore media audiences of print advertising
- identify and analyse presentational and persuasive techniques
- analyse the narratives of adverts - print and TV
- Explore how products promote themselves across three mediums (TV, print and web)
- explore synergy
- use a brief to create an advertising campaign for a new fizzy drink
- conduct primary and secondary research
- gather qualitative and quantitative data
- analyse existing fizzy drink adverts including diet coke and pepsi
- explore how adverts play on consumer fears and dreams
- create an advertising campaign
- evaluate own production work
- peer and self assess regularly
Three lots of walking talking mock style exam revision for AQA English language paper 1 and paper 2
Perfect to use in class as a walking talking mock - whereby you guide students thorough each question and allow them the suggested time to complete each task.
Using 3 different sample papers 1 and paper 2 papers, these resources:
- guide students through how to tackle each question
- provide suggested timings
- provide sample answers
- provide tips and strategies for planning a response
- show the questions annotated to ensure students stick to the focus of the task
- provide opportunities to self/peer assess against the mark scheme criteria
- model to students how to annotate the questions
The revision uses exam papers provided by AQA and use extracts from the following:
Paper 1:
- Glass, bricks and dust
- City of beasts
- Brighton Rock
Paper 2:
- Bad weather
- Festivals
- Villages
This bundle includes power point slides that contain key information on each of the 15 poems which can be used as a carousel activity to allow students to revise the poetry.
Also included is a card sort activity and opportunities to revise the context of each poem.
Resources to support the teaching of the radio industry.
Resources include opportunities to:
- explore radio ownership
- explore the differences between commercial, community and BBC public radio
- produce a report on the structure and organisation of the industry
- explore the difference between analogue and digital
- explore digital technologies: DAB, DRM. freesat, wifi
- explore digital play out systems, CD, DAT
- explore station formats
- explore job roles and plan for career progression within the industry - case studies included
- explore job descriptions
- plan to launch a new station
- investigate the role of the regulatory body: Ofcom
- investigate radio and the law
- investigate the broadcasting code and examples of breeches - including Russel Brand and Jonathan Ross case study
- Explore the role of Ofcom in investigating ownership, and competition
These resources cover chapters 1 - 3 of Jekyll and Hyde and meet the requirements of the new GCSE 9-1 specification.
14 outstanding lessons that are meticulously planned, fully differentiated and numbered for ease of use with activities included. Download and teach right away. These lessons are ready to go.
All lessons are fully differentiated by colour
Purple = lower ability
Blue = middle ability
Yellow = higher ability
Red = most able
These resources cover the following areas of the novel in chapters 1-3
- Context - duality - Victorian gentlemen - gothic etc.
- Animal Imagery
- Descriptive writing opportunities
- Analysis development and practice
- Teacher, self and peer assessment opportunities
- Contrasting characters
- Character and theme presentation
Chapters 4-10 are also available and are all meticulously planned and fully differentiated.
8 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of act 2 of An Inspector Calls
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore context 1912 and 1945
- explore Gerald's and Mrs Birling's involvement
- analyse language and structure
- structure exam responses
- compare the responsibility of different character
- write imaginatively
- write a speech
6 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of act 3 of An Inspector Calls
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore context 1912 and 1945
- explore Eric's involvement in Eva's death
- analyse language and structure
- structure exam responses
- compare the responsibility of different characters
- write a speech
-explore the functions of the inspector
Resources to support the teaching of the entire play.
Differentiation:
purple - lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities for:
- imaginative writing
- speaking and listening
- analysis of language
- comparison of novel and play
- exploration of monologues
- exploration of contextual elements such as homelessness and friendship
- exploration of effect on the reader/audience
- exploration of flashbacks
- exploration of dual narrative style
These resources cover chapters 8-10 of Jekyll and Hyde and meet the requirements of the new GCSE 9-1 specification.
8 outstanding lessons that are meticulously planned, fully differentiated and numbered for ease of use with activities included. Download and teach right away. These lessons are ready to go.
All lessons are fully differentiated by colour
Purple = lower ability
Blue = middle ability
Yellow = higher ability
Red = most able
These resources cover the following areas of the novel in chapters 8-10
- Context - duality - master and servant - gothic etc.
- Creation of tension
- Medical breakthroughs
- Language and structure analysis
- Opportunity for debate and persuasive writing
- Analysis development and practice
- Teacher, self and peer assessment opportunities
- Character and theme presentation
Chapters 1-7 are also available and are all meticulously planned and fully differentiated.
Exam revision for Jekyll and Hyde new specification GCSE AQA 9-1
Included:
- quotations with images to help learn quotations
- carousel activities to revise character, plot and context
- Context revision
- Extract to whole revision
- Sample assessments
- Analysis of writer’s methods practice
40 revision cards with questions on one side and answers on the other to make revision fast and simple. This resource is best used in a small index card folder/organiser.** (As seen in the image) **
Based on the Leitner method, the idea is simple: the further the card goes back in the folder: the more secure the information is in long term memory.
A card can only move back a position if you correctly answer the questions on the card. If at any point you do not answer a card correctly enough, the card must return to section 1 regardless of how far back it went. This is because it needs to be re-studied.
Quotation cards
There are 3 questions on each card: a ‘who’ question, a ‘what’ question and a ‘why’ question.
Knowledge cards.
These cards test knowledge of either subject terminology or the text itself. Subject terminology cards include questions on the definitions of language devices, sentence types and word classes as well as specific terminology.
Knowledge cards include questions about context, plot, character and theme.
Getting started
Create 6 sections in your ‘Lightning Revision’ folder.
Place all/some cards in section 1 at the front of the folder.
Follow the timetable card **(photo attached) **which tells you which of the sections you should revise each day. You’ll revise section 1 every day because cards in this section are the ones that you are least secure with.
If you answer correctly enough: move the card to the next section.
If you aren’t happy that you answered correctly enough then move the card back to section 1. (Regardless of how far back in the folder it was.)
**The Science bit: the better the mastery: the less frequent the practice. **
‘Lightning Revision’ works using the principle of ‘spaced learning.’
Research shows that after studying something: within one hour, you will have forgotten an average of 50% percent of the information. Within 24 hours, you have forgotten around 70% and within a month, this increases to 90%.
By spacing out the studying and by returning frequently to the material we want to remember, we increase our chances of committing it to long term memory.
Instead of ‘cramming,’ the simple act of spacing out revision in instalments, and allowing time to elapse between them makes the learning and memory stronger.
This resource has been created to help information that you have revised stay within your long term memory. In this system, we revise information that we are insecure with more frequently.
2 versions included:
Print - fold horizontally - cut them up and you’re ready to go!
Print back to back and you;re ready to go.
24 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of Animal Farm. All chapters covered. Lessons develop skills to access the 9-1 GCSE English literature paper.
Lessons are meticulously planned - can be downloaded and taught straight away. They are ready to go. Lessons are numbered for ease of use.
Enjoyable lessons for GCSE or KS3.
Differentiation:
purple = low ability
Blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
These resources provide opportunities to:
- Analyse character and theme
- Explore context
- Write persuasively
- explore allegory
- explore propaganda
- Analyse language
Revision resources in preparation for the new specification 9-1 examination.
- context revision
- character revision
- theme revision
- practice answers
- formulas for answering the question
- Quotation revision
- opportunities for carousel tasks
- MTP included with assessment Question opportunities for the literature paper and also the language papers.
9 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of writing skills for paper 2 (non fiction and transactional writing (writing to argue, persuade etc.)
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources provide example responses and activities to allow students to develop the following:
- Language - linguistic devices
- tone
- style
- register
- vocabulary
- structure
- perspective
Resources to support the teaching of ballads at KS3.
Included:
- ballad of Homeless Jack
- ballad of Hillsborough
- ballad of Frankie and Johnny
- ballad of Charlotte Dymond
Resources are fully differentiated by colour.
Purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher