A very interesting pp that gets staff thinking about the boys / girls learning debate - great for using prior to introducing underachieving boys tactics

A very simple pp that offers ideas on how boys learn and how to improve their performance by grouping things into 5 ; their preffered number!

This is a PP on the importance of and ideas for engaging starters and plenaries. Suitable for all teaching staff with some great ideas for literacy and numeracy starters to include in lessons - ideal for the new inspection framework.

This is a full lesson that is on different types of sentences and is about moving writing from level 3 to 4. Lesson builds on my previous lessons on - please look at them for build up and follow on. If you like it, please rate it!

This is part of a full scheme of work - all powerpoints and resources have been uploaded. Powerpoints are all separate uploads, saved by lesson numbers 1,2,3 etc. There are 9 lessons in total. Also uploaded as part of this section are resources. All lessons are saved under 'Nobody Has a Private Life'. This scheme is quite old, and will need some adapting as it was written in my PGCE year. However, it's a good starting point and pupils have very much enjoyed it over the years. Also has strong citizenship links!

This is a full lesson PP that is ready to teach as it is - although you may wish to adpat it for your own class and context. I've uploaded the others in the series with resources under the same title of 'AQA Writing Controlled Assessment'. I'm using this for teaching the AQA controlled assessment writing element of a day in the life / my story where a pupils writes from the eprspective pf being a child soldier. In theis lesson, they analyse sentence types and trial them.

This is a full lesson PP that is ready to teach as it is - although you may wish to adpat it for your own class and context. I've uploaded the others in the series with resources under the same title of 'AQA Writing Controlled Assessment'. I'm using this for teaching the AQA controlled assessment writing element of a day in the life / my story where a pupils writes from the eprspective pf being a child soldier. In theis lesson, they analyse and write their openings to the stories

This is a full lesson powerpoint that is ready to teach on the change of language and it's use - It also covers time periods for s/h context.

This is one of many lessons that I have uploaded on Racism in America. 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: ' Racism In The USA'. This is a full powerpoint lesson, ready to t each but you will want to adapt it / update it for your own context and any resources are also uploaded with it. This lesson gets pupils to explore whether or not Martin Luther King' s dream came true.

As part of our drive for literacy across the curriculum, I've created a series of tutorials for teachers to offer ideas of how to incorportae literacy starters into any lessons. In this one, Pupils develop their use of contextualised adjectives for recapping skills.

Year 8 mixed ability writing frame for the poem The Eagle

This is a whole PP that teaches about the Brontes across different curriculum areas - ideal for use on Worls Book Day!

This is a full lesson Powerpoint to aid teaching narritive writing. This lesson is ready to teach, but you will want to differentaite it for your own classes. It covers how to develop description for settings.

This is one a full overview that I have uploaded on Media and Non Fiction Texts. The lessons are contextualised in the remit of 'making a band'. You will wish to adapt and differentiate for your own class.

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.

Literacy Starter –Correct the punctuation These few slides can be added to the start of any lesson to use as a settler for when the pupils come into the room and to incorporate literacy skills into your lesson. This particular exercise is a text that pupils need to correct by correcting all of the punctuation

This is one of several resources that I have uploaded for the teaching of Pre1914 poetry. This is taught to develop pupils comparing skills and would be relevant to the AQA new specification for language and poetry. This particular resource is a poetry brochure with a selection of poems that the students stusy in the unit. This is the student copy.

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 covers what the middle ages were like.

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 why did William win?

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 what happened in 1066?