All you have to do with this is cut out the words - Basically, you give a word in the story (one of the homphones) to the pupils and they will keep it. As you read the story and say their word, their job is to stand up and check if it is the correct spelling! Great fun and an easy way to get perceptions of homophones corrected with whole class involvement and engagement.

This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded for Section A Coursework on The Music Industry. The lesson is ready to teach with it's resources (if aplicable). Although, you will wish to adapt and differentiate for your own class. They can be taught together to reach an assessment outcome but all are suitable as standalone exploratory lessons. This lesson gets pupils to investigate the make up of album covers.

This breaks down a series of freeze frame images that build to help pupils to create a brief play.

This is one of a series of lessons/ activities / worksheets that I am uploading on the old AQA anthology poems. The lessons obviously have a comparative strand running through them and there are lessons for all of the poems from Cluster 1 and 2 uploaded as well as lessons that compare two poems or teach how to analyse them / compare them. Obviously no use for the old spec, but entirwely useful for the poetry comparison piece of controlled assesment in the new AQA spec.

Non Fiction Writing – Time Capsule This is one lesson of 15 that I have uploaded (with resources if applicable) on non fiction texts and analysis for year 7 pupils. All of the lessons are PowerPoints that are ready to teach, although you may wish to adopt them for your own context. This full lesson covers writing skills.

This is a full lesson that revises how Curley's wife is presented in the novel. LO To investigate the presentation of Curley’s wife.

This is one of many lessons that I have uploaded on the rise of Hitler and Germany under his rule, this one has a focus on the Holocaust. This lesson is for Key Stage 3 pupils; year 9. All of the lessons can be taught together but each covers a topic so can also be picked up separately. This is a full powerpoint lesson, ready to teach but you will want to adapt it / update it for your own context and any resources are also uploaded with it. This lesson covers the resistance movement.

This is a full day session that I have put together aimed at D/C borderline students to help them to get top of Band 3 answers in the AQA Language exam. I was teaching a class of Pupil Premium boys, so the sessions are chunked, repetitive and feature really clear structures and methods to help the boys to see the clarity of how to tackle the paper with competitions and cooperative learning to boot!

This is one of the homework booklets that we've created for pupils in school. The year and level is indicated in the title. It covers essential English skills.

As part of our drive for numeracy across the curriculum, I've created a series of tutorials for teachers to offer ideas of how to incorportae numeracy starters into any lessons. In this one, Pupils attempt a challenge to start the lesson.

This lesson works in conjunction with other lessons on the same poem that have also been uploaded. This is a full lesson PP with the objectives of: To think about what the back story to the poem might be by looking at the images in the poem. To consider the Poems central themes and issues

Jack The Ripper – Improved London This is a full lesson PowerPoint that is ready to teach (with resources if applicable) – although you will wish to adapt it for your own context – it’s part of a Humanities curriculum that is taught to Year 7 pupils, so covers Geography, History and Literacy skills. There are a series of lessons that I have uploaded. They can be taught as a group, or as a standalone as each is an entire complete lesson. This Lesson’s LO: To describe more than one reason why conditions improved in the East End in 1888

This is a full lesson on pp with the resource for the Citizenship GCSE on the Universal Decl. of Human Rights

This is a full lesson pp with background info on slavery that enhances pupils' ability to analyse the poem.

Non Fiction Writing – writer’s purpose and viewpoint This is one lesson of 15 that I have uploaded (with resources if applicable) on non fiction texts and analysis for year 7 pupils. All of the lessons are PowerPoints that are ready to teach, although you may wish to adopt them for your own context. This full lesson covers the writer’s purpose and viewpoint

Believe it or not, this very simple lesson is a reminder to D/C borderliners on how they should be writing accurately. It's to hammer home the very basics that make the very big differences in their writing marks - 2 hour lesson.

Luckily, we will never be in the position again where I have to teach 2 specifications at the same time to the same class. However, this is the scheme that I created last year when this was the approach adopted by the Head. Although these lessons are aimed at both specs, the full scheme is more IGCSE skills and texts than the AQA. My AQA scheme will be uploaded as a separate entity. 2 of these texts, I've uploaded before but the whole scheme makes sense when uploaded together. Remaining lessons are uploaded separately.

Germany GCSE History – Kristallnacht This is one of many lessons that I have uploaded on the history of Germany for GCSE pupils. All of the lessons can be taught together, but each covers a topic so can also be picked up separately. For ease of locating, the title stem is the same: 'Germany GCSE History -'. This is a full PowerPoint lesson, ready to teach, and any relevant resources are also uploaded with it. This lesson’s LO: To be able to describe Kristallnacht using accurate detail

This is a full powerpoint lessons, ready to teach but you will want to adapt it / update it for your own context. This lesson covers the Tudor period and the clothes and food elements.

Plot Sort Exercise Of Mice and Men This is a sheet with the plot in the wrong order for pupils to cut out and order the events. Good lesson starter / revision exercise.