A full analysis of Hardy’s poem about a wife learning of her husband’s death during the Boer War. This resource begins with background information on Hardy as well as contextual details about London and the Boer War. The focus shifts to the irony of the poem (receiving the second letter) before concluding with a full annotation and SMILE analysis chart. Everything you need to prepare your students for this EDUQAS GCSE poem in one simple resource.

A comprehensive resource for this EDUQAS GCSE poem which explores the effects of PTSD on a soldier and his wife. The poem is a powerful read and this resource begins with discussion points about service veterans before exploring Armitage and the inspirations for his poetry. The main focus is on the changing relationship between the couple (from lovers to carers) and the metaphors used to describe the soldier’s injuries. A full annotation of the poem is included. Everything you need to prepare your students for this poem in one resource!

A complete resource with everything you need to teach this AQA poem. Beginning with background information on the poet, this resource explores the themes and messages within the poem before concluding with a full annotation and a blank SMILE analysis chart. Everything you need in one simple resource.

A comprehensive resource with everything you need to prepare your students for this GCSE poem. Carol Ann Duffy's poem, about a war photographer developing his images, explores how the British public react to the horrors of war. Featured on AQA's 'War and Conflict' cluster, this poem shows how the photographer, editor and readers respond to foreign tragedies. Beginning with background reading about the life of a war photographer, this resource includes iconic war photographs for class discussion and a full annotation of the poem.

A complete scheme of work comprising 13 lessons plus an assessment (a letter expressing views on capital punishment). Designed for Year 8, this unit covers how crime and punishment has changed in Britain over the last 500 years. Your pupils will discover how Anglo-Saxon laws developed, how peasants were maimed for minor offences and how the death violent teenagers are treated in modern day America. topical issues such as the death penalty and children's rights are explored throughout this fully resourced scheme. A drama lesson based on Of Mice and Men is included but requires previous study of the text. Everything you need for a full half-term in one resource!

A complete scheme of work exploring a selection of poems dealing with themes of love, loss and longing. Designed for Year 8, this unit includes 10 poems and all the resources needed to deliver them. Containing a mixture of the humour of Agard and the heartbreak of WH Auden, this unit includes a comparative essay as a reading assessment. A complete half-term of lessons ready to go!

SPaG home work for the year! Three home work schemes for Years 7,8 and 9. With a mixture of themed spelling tests, punctuation challenges and proof reading exercises, this fortnightly programme sets your home work for you and is easy to assess. Each year ppt has a home page, calendar dates (that will need updating as per your own school timetable) and approximately 18 SPaG home work challenges. Two ppts are included for each year group: one is to email to all the students in yoru group; the other is for you to quickly test/ peer assess the pupils. The ppts are easily edited (the spelling tests link in to the schemes of work at our school) and have clear mark schemes for the pupils to peer/ self assess . Perfect for fortnightly starter tests (approx 15 min’s for pupils to complete-swap-mark-feedback) and you won’t have any parents nagging you for more home work! No marking, no stress, no complaints. SIK!

Designed for a top set Year 7 class, this unit of work consists of 14 hour long lessons and an assessment. Covering the range of creative writing skills from punctuation to planning and narrative hooks to characterisation, this unit is designed to engage and inspire pupils to develop their own story writing skills. Extracts from Harry Potter, Treasure Island and Boy are included as stimulii for creative young minds. This resource bundle has all you need for a full half term and is easily adapted for Year 6 or 8 pupils.

A scheme of work comprising 13 complete lessons plus an assessment. This unit is designed for Year 7-8 pupils and explores a variety of complex issues around social media such as fake news, cyber-bullying and gaming addictions. One main power point guides you through the scheme whilst all additional handout materials are included. Fear MOMO no more!

A compilation of ten poetry lessons united by the theme of nature. Copies of all the poems are included (either as word documents or within the powerpoints) and feature guided analysis as well as creative writing stimuli. This resource focuses on classic poems (there is a modern selection available separately) including Evening by Percy Shelley, To Autumn by John Keats, The Badger by John Clare and Daffodils by William Wordsworth. A focused unit of work ideal for bridging KS3/4.

A complete unit of work comprising 24 individual lessons and included assessment points. Beginning with The Charge of the Light Brigade and moving chronologically forwards to explore poems of WWI, WWII and the Cold War, this unit is designed for KS3 students and includes a variety of poems from classics by Wilfred Owen to modern poets. Themes covered include the Holocaust and the threat of Nuclear War. Everything you need to teach this unit is included. The scheme has been taught to a number of Year 8 classes and is ready to go!

A complete unit of work exploring poetry from other cultures. Designed for top set Year 7s, but easily adapted for Years 6-8, this unit covers a selection of well known, modern poems including Search for my Tongue, Island Man, Limbo, Nothing’s Changed and Half-caste. Most of the poems covered have featured in past years GCSE papers (allowing you to tick the stretch and challenge sections on your lesson plans) but have been made accessible to KS3 pupils through the detailed discussion points and smaller chunked activities. 12 poems and full resources as well as an assessment is included in this resource pack.

A full script for Robin Hood. The full performance lasts approximately two hours (split into two acts/ 12 scenes). Suitable for KS2 upwards. Cast list as follows: ROBIN HOOD - Principal boy -8 scenes MAID MARIAN - Principal Girl – 9 scenes NURSE TITTLE TATTLE - The Dame – 11 scenes MUCH, THE MILLER’S SON -The “Buttons” character – 9 scenes THE SHERIFF OF NOTTINGHAM - The bad guy! – 7 scenes NICKIT & SCARPER - The Sheriff’s Tax Collectors – 9 scenes THE FAIRY STARDUST OF THE FOREST - The “Good Fairy” character – 8 scenes MYSTIC MEG Works for the Sheriff, giving him guidance for the future – 6 scenes ALARNAA / SCARLET / LITTLE JOAN / FRIAR TUCK Robin’s men & women! – 7 scenes KING RICHARD Act II Scene 12 only – 2 scenes The “Hoodies” – trainee “Merry Men”, played by teenagers “Teen-speak” - 7 scenes HELEN HARDUP “Know-it-all” villager. Lines in Scene 1 only - 4 scenes SALLY SKINT & PENNY PENNILESS Villagers, with a few lines – 3 scenes CHORUS ROLES: - Peasants, Merry Men & Hoodies, School Children – 7 scenes

A complete unit of work exploring Gothic Horror. Beginning with extracts from classic texts such as Frankenstein and Dracula, this unit covers a range of Gothic poetry and Gothic fiction. Modern texts such as Twilight are included and the pupils are provided with a variety of stimuli for creating their own Gothic stories. Designed for a high-flying Year 9 class, a complete unit of work with all supporting resources and an assessment is included in this pack.

11 fully resourced lessons guiding KS4 pupils through creative writing skills. Designed to support the AQA Language Paper 1 Q5 , each lesson offers descriptive picture prompts as well as narrative writing threads that your pupils can work through. Each lesson typically includes a range of 5+ building block tasks such as: looking at examplar materials, quick tasks on figurative writing, sentence variety and punctuation exercises that help students to plan and prepare for their extended responses. The power points can easily be adapted for other exam boards. Everything you need for a full half-term exploring creative writing skills in one bundle!

A comprehensive scheme of work exploring the classis story of George and Lennie’s pursuit of the American Dream. Designed for KS3 students (and linked to the new EDUQAS GCSE), this scheme begins by exploring the historical context before following the adventures of the two men. The different characters and themes are all explored throughout 11 hour long lessons culminating in a book review assessment. A great unit ready to go!

A full scheme of work for travel writing. Ideal for Years 6-8, this resource includes 10 hour long lessons, many of which can be developed into two full lessons, and covers all of the main areas of travel writing. The unit includes analysis of travel brochures, rhetorical devices, drama activities, formal letters of complaint and exemplar travel writing from Bill Bryson. An assessment (plus planning grid) is also included.

A KS3 unit of work focussing on poems about poverty. Each poem has its own full lesson with poetic starters and analysis of the poem focussing on either language or structure (or both). The unit mixes traditional KS3 poem with more challenging former GCSE texts. A fully complete scheme to help prepare students for studying anthologies further up the school. Poems included: Blessing, Down and Out- Paddington Station, Give, The Gresford Disaster, The sad story of Lefty and Ned, Living Space, Mother to Son, Poverty, Timothy Winters, Two Scavengers on a truck...,Your Dad did what?

A fun KS3 unit exploring persuasive writing skills through Dragons’ Den style pitches, topical issues speeches and chocolate bar designs. Incorporating A FOREST FIRE techniques, this pack includes 14 full lessons, a selection of starter activities and pupil support material as well as links to Karl Pilkington video clips about inventions and persusaive techniques used by auctioneers in Storage Hunters. An end of unit assessment is also included.

A huge bundle of emotive, topical ideas used as a springboard to persuasive speeches. This unit is designed as a transition unit from KS3-4 but can easily be adapted to Year 11 classes preparing for exam writing tasks. Each lesson is fully resourced with clear power points, magazine/ news articles and links to short videos online. The scheme links to A FOREST techniques and is aimed towards AQA specification but can easily be tweaked for other exam boards. The issues covered in this pack include: the horsemeat scandal, American gun control laws, euthanasia, banning of whatsapp, the death penalty and should boxing be banned. An assessment on equality in society is included. A complete half-term’s worth of lessons in one easy bundle. Print off the articles and you’re ready to deliver high quality, inspiring lessons to motivate and engage your pupils!