15 slide powerpoint covering Unit 2: Life after death. Explains key terms and gives points for discussion on the following: Christian beliefs on life after death, non-religious reasons for believing in life after death, why some do not believe in life after death, abortion (discusses different Christian attitudes and the film ‘Juno’), euthanasia (types, moral issues, Christian responses), should the media critique religious views on life after death, poverty and Christian Aid.
10 page powerpoint covering Unit 1: Believing in God.
Explains key terms and gives points for discussing: Christian upbringings, religious experiences, the argument from design, the argument from causation, scientific explanations, prayer, suffering.
Context notes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Includes: Courtly Love, gender, Queen Elizabeth I, the supernatural, Shakespeare’s other plays, Classical/mythological references, literary influences and conventions, historical context of the contemporary theatre, modern productions.
Designed for the Edexcel A-Level English specification.
Powerpoint containing detailed notes on context for A Streetcar Named Desire (this includes historical background, biographical details of Tennessee Williams, setting and music, gender attitudes, literary allusions, key film and stage performances, and useful secondary source quotes).
Designed for the Edexcel English A-Level.
3 page document outlining tips for GCSE English Language exams.
Covers: answering longer questions about an unseen passage, suggestions of language and structure techniques to look out for, how to approach creative writing exam questions (writing to persuade, explain or describe).
5-page powerpoint containing useful phrases for giving arguments and opinions, expressing time, linking sentences, or introducing impressive structures.
Level: advanced GCSE/more basic AS and A-Level.
Detailed notes on context (historical background, biographical details of Tennessee Williams, setting and music, gender attitudes, literary allusions, key film and stage performances, and useful secondary source quotes).
Detailed notes on analysis and symbolism (includes the play’s structure, genre/style, characterisation, diction, significance of characters’ names, key symbols and motifs (including further detail about light, the streetcars, colours, animal symbols), setting of the apartment, music and sound, interactions in the street.
A more in-depth biography of Tennessee Williams
Designed for the Edexcel English A-Level.
Detailed context notes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Includes: Courtly Love, gender, Queen Elizabeth I, the supernatural, Shakespeare’s other plays, Classical/mythological references, literary influences and conventions, historical context of the contemporary theatre, modern productions.
Critical quotes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, both from the prescribed anthology and from elsewhere.
Designed for the Edexcel A-Level English specification.
Powerpoint containing notes for analysing A Streetcar Named Desire. Includes points about the play’s structure, genre/style, characterisation, diction, significance of characters’ names, key symbols and motifs (including further detail about light, the streetcars, colours, animal symbols), setting of the apartment, music and sound, interactions in the street.
Designed for the Edexcel English A-Level.
Step-by-step, easy to follow guide on how to approach a Latin translation. Helpful tool for pupils who get in a muddle with the word order. I tend to use this with 13+ or Y8-9 pupils.
I compiled a list of vocab which pupils I was tutoring for Latin 13+ regularly found confusing or mixed up in translations - this proved extremely helpful.
Attached a copy with English meanings and a Latin-only copy that can be used as a vocab test.
Powerpoint (59 slides) covering all exam topics for ‘DT: Food Technology’ AQA GCSE.
Includes product design questions, functions of ingredients, nutrition, methods of making, product development and prototype stages, packaging, new technologies, ethical/environmental considerations, manufacturing processes.
A couple of slides explaining food chains and pyramids (transfer of energy and biomass), decay, diagram of carbon cycle.
Designed for B10+11 of the AQA GCSE Biology Dual Award specification.
Short powerpoints covering types of adaptation, environmental change factors, obtaining data on ecology, natural selection, classification, extinction, speciation.
Designed for B8+9 of the AQA GCSE Biology Dual Award specification.
5 slide powerpoint containing: flame tests, tests for cations and anions, separating mixtures, chromatography, tests for oxygen co2 hydrogen and water). Designed for C11 of the GCSE AQA Chemistry Dual Award specification.
7-slide powerpoint on electrolysis (reduction vs oxidation, half equations, and examples of electrolysis: lead bromide, brine, electroplating). Designed for the GCSE AQA Dual Award Chemistry specification.