A 21 slide PowerPoint lesson analysing Zephaniah’s poem ‘The British’ - includes thought-provoking questions, engaging video clips and tasks for students to complete in response to the poem. Easily adaptable and suitable for KS2/KS3!

A 24 slide PowerPoint exploring and analysing Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘If’. With contextual detail surrounding the lives of Kipling and those who influenced him, including his son John. Includes a break down of the stanzas and message behind the poem. Suitable for all ages!

A 23 slide PowerPoint on poetic devices and their effect on the reader. Includes: Examples of simile, metaphor, personification, repetition, imagery, onomatopoeia, rhyme and alliteration. Exploration of their effect on the reader. Exploration of why the writer may choose to employ that device in their poem specifically. Activity for students to analyse an unseen poem for poetic techniques - Merrill Glass - 'But you didn't'.

Includes a 15 slide PowerPoint on Duffy’s poem ‘Havisham’. Includes detailed annotation of the poem as well as key themes and questions for students to complete as independent study. Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem. Engaging and thought-provoking lessons for KS3 and KS4. Easily adaptable for ability!

A 27 slide (15 min approx) assembly on mental health, statistics, sample stories and suggested strategies. Appropriate for senior age but mentions ‘self harming’ explicitly but not in detail. Focused on awareness and support. Easily adaptable for different age groups/cohorts! World Mental Health Day 10/10/17!

A 16 slide PowerPoint exploring Frost’s poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ in preparation for an Unseen response. Explores the poem itself and how to annotate and includes a checklist for analysing an Unseen Poem.

Engaging lesson on creative writing in which the students describe a storm. Includes snippets of other writing to analyse for linguistic/structural techniques used for effect and to engage a reader. Includes interesting adjectives list and model written piece with questions for students to analyse. Suitable for KS2-KS3!

A 10-15 minute assembly on the importance of having aspirations, setting goals for yourself to both better yourself as a person but also inspire others to do the same. Interactive with engaging clip and questions as well as posing a question for students to think upon as they leave the assembly.

Engaging lesson on creative writing in which the students create a message in a bottle. Includes snippets of other writing to analyse for linguistic/structural techniques used for effect and to engage a reader. Includes interesting adjectives list and model written piece with questions for students to analyse. Suitable for KS2-KS3!

A 16 slide PowerPoint on Robert Frost’s poem ‘Out Out’ with differentiated questions for pupils to respond to and full analysis and annotation of the poem. Easily adaptable for different abilities, this lesson is challenging, engaging and thought provoking! Suitable for KS3/KS4.

A 10-15 minute assembly on Christmas, its traditions and a glance at how it is celebrated across the world. With a couple of unusual facts and some lovely engaging images and points for thought, this assembly is brief and informative. Suitable for all ages!

A 10-15 minute assembly on Peer Pressure, definitions of positive and negative peer pressure, scenarios for students to assess and includes a more specific model scenario for students to give advice on. Also includes advice on how to deal with peer pressure and to say no. Easily adaptable for tutor time! Suitable for all ages!

A 14 slide PowerPoint identifying the DAFOREST persuasive techniques and their effectiveness in persuasive and argument writing. There is a print-off of Emma Watson's HeforShe UN speech for students to identify the techniques in a sample text as well as statements for students to create their own piece of persuasive writing in response. This also includes a DAFOREST techniques checklist that can be printed out and stuck into students' books as a revision resources or for classroom display.

A 10-15 minute (allowing for student reflection and Q&A) assembly on the importance of good behaviour, its impact on yourself and those around you and getting rid of the excuses we use for behaving badly. Lots of interesting quotes, scenarios and a clip to keep students engaged!

A PowerPoint analysing language, structure, tone and images within the poem ‘To my nine-year-old self’ by Helen Dunmore, includes detailed annotation of stanzas. Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem. For AS/A-level Edexcel Poems of the Decade Collection

An 18 slide PowerPoint exploring William Wordsworth’s ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’, better known as ‘The Daffodils’. Suitable for KS3-KS5!

A resource containing a flow-chart to help ease Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs) and anxiety as well as top tips for anxiety sufferers and self-talk statements to help relieve some of the stress they are experiencing.

Key Quotes for the central characters within J.B. Priestley's 'An Inspector Calls'.

8 posters containing engaging wordplay and punny-business demonstrating the FUN that can be have with the English language! Eye-catching and thought-provoking for English students of all ages!