A series of 7 lessons designed to build students’ capabilities with creative and descriptive writing. Can be used with able students at KS3 or struggling students at KS4. Each lesson follows a structured learning path with a quick quiz to start students off and a reflective self-evaluation to end the lesson. Photo-prompt lessons include links to video soundscapes to enliven pupils’ imaginations and aid with sensory description. Photo prompts are used regularly to mimic the AQA GCSE creative writing task and to stimulate discussion. Each lesson is based around bright, vibrant, attractive PowerPoints designed to engage even the most disenchanted students. All activities are differentiated to support the weakest and challenge the strongest students in your classes. The pack contains the following: Lesson 1: Show Don’t Tell. Explaining and practising the art of describing, not listing details. Includes 1 resource for group planning. Lesson 2: Show Don’t Tell 2. Building on last lesson to include a range of language devices in our writing. Lesson 3: Sensory Description. Building on the use of language devices to focus students’ attention on the 5 senses. Lesson 4: Emotive Language 1. Includes 2 resources for model answer analysis. Lesson 5: Emotive Writing 2 - Peer Assessment. Contains a peer assessment grid. Lesson 6: Semantic Fields Lesson 7: Class Assessment. The culmination of the unit, where all the techniques studied are used to create an emotive piece of writing.

A Year 8 Learning Mat based on Expo 1. Includes a range of key vocabulary stretch and challenge phrases, targeted to each unit. Encourages all students of all abilities to use increasingly complex language, including up to GCSE standard, as well as encouraging independent learning. Students can also use the present tense verb table at the back to check their own conjugation and start to work more independently with verbs.

A two-sided learning mat to aid Year 7/8 pupils in their use of the Expo 1 textbook. Phrases used complement the given vocabulary and grammar in the textbook, with a view to encouraging them to use more complex, GCSE-level language right from the start. Also includes a verb sheet to help students access the more common verbs to extend their language into the third person and beyond.

A comprehensive and detailed learning mat with examples of challenging and complex phrases for each key unit of the AQA GCSE. Reverse side also has a comprehensive breakdown of all tenses with examples for regular and irregular construction. Subjunctive phrases are also given with potential application to all units and themes. Exam technique is also accounted for, with a dedicated section for photo card sentence starters and a wide range of opinion phrases for both speaking and writing. A modern, attractive resource for students of all abilities to use to extend and diversify their language.

A full lesson - including starter task and plenary - to help students prepare for the AQA GCSE speaking exam. Includes built-in exam-friendly timers to allow students to structure their preparation with time to spare for review. Includes also mark scheme grid for students to use for photo card, role play and general conversation peer and self assessment. Role plays and photo cards are given with teacher script in the PowerPoint notes, for either teacher or student use as required.

Discourage limited ambition in your classroom! Instead, encourage excellence and challenge with this A3, mostivational poster. Don’t say you’re finished - ask me: Is this excellent yet?

A series of resources to teach, practise and assess the passé composé in French, including irregular verbs for both avoir and être. Includes: An adaptable PowerPoint lesson with in-depth, clear explanations and examples A print-out for students’ exercise books/folders A practise sheet of exercises A homework sheet of practise sentences An assessment and mark scheme.

A marking feedback sheet, able to be used across all curriculum areas to focus-mark extended pieces of work. Personally I use this marking sheet to really focus my upcoming planning, reflect and review on what has been taught in the run-up to the piece of work, and better enable myself to give effective, in-depth and productive feedback to my classes.

An attractive warnings/celebrations board to aid behaviour and classroom management and encourage positive learning behaviours from all pupils.