AQA New Spec Comparing Poetry Scheme lesson This is one fuly self contained lesson (with resources enclosed) of a scheme of work of 15 lessons that compare the poems Presents From My Aunts with Hurricane Hits England. It's for teaching on the new English specification question on comparing poems from other cultures.

This is a pp that teaches pupils how to write about an unseen poem - really really useful and easy for pupils to follow. L/O:To learn a structure that will help me to analyse poems

This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - designed to draw attention to National Poetry Day but can be taught in it's own right anyway.

This is a full lesson PP that is part of a humanities curriculum covering History and Geography strands. This lesson is ready to teach and can be used as part of the medieval unit that i have uploaded but each is a standalone lesson so can be taught alone. This lesson asks how have castles changed?

This is one of many lessons and resources that I have uploaded on Russel's Blood Brothers for the AQA Lit specification. This is alesson to revise the key themses and ideas of the play.

Each lesson Powerpoint is a complete lesson and it has been uploaded with all of its resources for that lesson beside it. All lessons have been saved with the same title to make it easier to search for them.

As part of the continued development of good and outstanding training, and with Ofste'd focu on demonstrating progress, I have been sending out little tutorials with ideas on them to show progress. There are instructions / ideas on each with a screen template that can be copied and pasted into any lesson. There are quite a few of them to try, so please do have a look for them under 'Demonstrating Progress Miss R'. They&'re not much but designed to be quick ideas. This one is about getting the start of lessons right!

With Ofsted's driver of making progress explicit, these little fun ways of showing progress from the start to the end of the lesson might be of use. They&'re fun and lighthearted and just another way of engaging with the progress of the individual child.

This is a PP that I've put together that demonstartes 21 different ways of showing progress - also works hand in hand with my demonstarting progress tutorials.

This is a full lesson Pp on differnt types of texts. You'll need some texts for the lesson, but the card sort activity is uploaded too. L/Os: To be able to identify the purpose, audience and format of a text. To be able to work in groups to analyse a text.

This is one of a series of lessons that I have uploaded on films through the decades. Starting with the 40s.

This is a small training session that I put together for NQTs on how to embed literacy across the curriculum, in all subjects.

This is a simple starter activity that encourages pupils to recap the plot whilst putting the events in order.

This is the first Maths lesson that I taught. In this, I set the expectations for the pupils and explain how lessons will start and what is expected of all pupils. Basically - setting the stall out.

I was asked to teach discursive writing to a bunch of boys that needed to have it finished in a day. Thios is the amalgamation of a full scheme of work that i used to inspire and enthuse them. It's a bit gory - but it engaged them and got them writing!

suitable for level 3 and 4 English pupils - full lesson, plan and resources for creative poetry.

This is training for staff that I adapted so that a core of older children could be trained as mentors in school. Al resources are uploaded with it but, to adapt and implement, you will want to use your own school reports.

This is a full lesson on ppt. that has been put together to help students to understand how to achieve the 8 or 9 grade in English Lit. Using the ‘Lady Macbeth as a powerful woman’ question from AQA, this lesson deconstructs specifically how students can use the extract to go ‘in and out’ of the text, referencing everything that would be critical to a grade 8/9 response. Success criteria: To know the criteria for level 6 responses. To understand what ‘going in and out’ of the extract means. To know how to analyse key words / phrases to Grade 8 / 9 standard. To understand the difference between quotes and references. To understand what subject terminology is. To better understand what a critical writing style is. All of the resources are at the end of the ppt.

This worksheet explains the skills of Media Studies. I use it at Options Evening to explain what Media Studies is.

A sheet to get pupils to analyse adverts at home.