Check out a bank of discourse markers that students of all age can use in their writing. Please comment and review!

Here is a video that yo can pause, discuss and play. There are opportunities to go further by looking on the Earth Day website and even immerse students in David Attenborough’s Blue Planet.

Here is a poster to engage prospective students to the EPQ course, delivered through AQA.

Here is a lesson based on exploring different viewpoints and perspectives. At the core of this lesson, I have used an image, where students develop a storyline. The planning is detailed and gives students the space to explore language features they can use, interviews they can embed as well as consider the structure of their article.

This is jam-packed SOW that covers THREE areas: research & planning, production of short film/ digital stills, and evaluative analysis. Within the research & planning unit, topics covered are: analysis of all eight specified short films, narrative structure (McKnee), mise-en-scene and genre. As for the production unit, topics covered are: scriptwriting, dialogue, location recce, risk assessment, character development, costume, make-up, casting, lightin, editing, composition, shooting scripts, storyboarding and screen testing. Lastly, within the evaluatuve analysis unit, lessons are focused on: planning (with planning sheets), developing a writing style, scaffolding for writing introduction, main body paragraphs and the conclusion. I have used current resources from Studiobinder, Masterclass and many more online articles and videos to keep the unit current. Enjoy!

Give students a choice of SEVEN tasks to complete in the first 10 minutes of your lesson. Click. Download. Enjoy! Please comment and review.

Here is a short Christmas Quiz with FOUR round. With five questions in each round: All things Christmas, Year of 2022, Sport and Flags.

Everything you need to teach Rear Window for WJEC/ Educas GCSE Film Studies.

Everything you need to start teaching Slumdog Millionaire with WJEC GCSE Film Studies.

TWENTY questions to get students thinking and creating example of a range of language and structural features! Answers included in the comment box.

This lesson focuses on identifying language and structural features. Students will have the opportunity to pick quotations from the poem and make links to the them of ‘power of nature’. This task provides good planning for an assessment style question.

This lesson guides students to identify language and structural features. Furthermore, it encourages students to think about the structure of the poem and begin to engage in a personal opinion.

This lesson ensures students have an in depth understanding of language features used by Owen. Towards the end of the lesson, students are encouraged to zoom in to language choice of the writer.

A well-developed lesson that supports students in depth study of language, structure and contextual links made in the poem. Embedded in the lesson is a lovely reading of the poem by John Agard. Later, in lesson students are encouraged to make links to the theme of conflict.

This anthology is ideal for Key Stage Three students. It spans across three different wars: World War One, World War Two and the Afghanistan war. Each section allows students to read about the diverse experiences of those in war and those impacted by war. Embedded in each of the poems is a short synopsis of the poet and at times a glossary of words that students may not already know. The first six poems have accompanying slides; more presentations will be added this term. All the best!

Here is a complete lesson with accompanying model paragraph and a success criteria. Students are guided and support in making accurate annotations and consolidating their knowledge through embedded videos from BBC Teach.

In this lesson students will be able to understand the meaning of William Blake’s London. Students will have access to some contextual information and plenty of annotations to copy into their own anthologies. Attached to this lesson is a Tic Tac Tow grid used for differentiation with a challenge task to start thinking about a comparison. Further to this, a model paragraph adding comparing Ozymandias and London. Enjoy!

A clear structured lesson guiding students reading of My Last Duchess. Annotations have been included with a small focus on structure. To complete the lesson is a debate statement.

A succinct lesson providing student with annotations and comments on the structure of the poem. There are two task for student to complete: both of these will develop and consolidate their understanding of the poem.

Best print in A3 - a summary sheet to collate all of students ideas for each poem in the cluster.