These detailed course / revision notes were specially written to give AQA A Level Philosophy students a comprehensive understanding of the key knowledge from the specification for unit 3.1 Epistemology: What is knowledge? - The tripartite view Perception as a source of knowledge - Direct realism - Indirect realism - Berkeley’s Idealism Reason as a source of knowledge - Innatism - The intuition and deduction thesis The limits of knowledge These extensive notes are especially useful for students whose note-taking in lesson isn’t as good as others, or whose organisational skills mean they are missing notes/handouts on certain topics / areas. These notes will certainly help reduce the time it takes them to catch up with their peers, and also students like to use these as a checklist of topics to go into in further detail. They give peace of mind that every corner of the specification/syllabus has been covered. These notes can be given to students to work through at their own pace, or split up and given to students as and when each part of the content is studied throughout the course. As the teacher you may find it useful to go through the notes with my students as they highlight and annotate them with anything extra you want to give them according to their level. These notes though are comprehensive and detailed and work just as well as a stand alone revision aid as they do an in-class resource. Hopefully these notes help to save your students (and you!) some time in the hectic run up to exams. Thanks for taking a look :)

This lesson was designed for my pupils studying OCR Classical Civilisation 9-1 GCSE. It provides an excellent in-depth look at the Roman Domus / Villa - the household and home of wealthy Romans / Roman Patricians. The lesson is dual coded and there is an emphasis in reducing excess ‘noise’ in the PowerPoint file - allowing pupils to easily access the content without distraction. There is also a yellow overlay on each slide to aid any pupils with irlens / dyslexia (this can easily be removed though by clicking on the overlay on each slide and pressing ‘delete’). The lesson begins with a look at a map of Pompeii to allow pupils to see the prevalence of the Domus in a Roman city and then pupils are given a handout (included as a slide to be printed off) of a typical domus floor plan with a key and pupils must colour code both. Once pupils thus have an understanding of the uses of the rooms in a typical domus and what they were called, there is a handout (again, included as a slide) to be printed off of extra info where pupils are encouraged to highlight key points and use to make extra notes to supplement their work up to this point. There is then a short 3 minute video embedded in the next slide which summarises what pupils should have learnt up to this point. Having established the key features of a typical domus, pupils are then presented with the floor plans of three important Roman villas in Herculaneum and Pompeii: The House of the Wooden Partition The House of Menander The House of Octavius Quartio Pupils are prompted to compare the floorplans and key features of these houses to their ‘typical’ domus floorplan and pick out similarities and differences. A group task then ensues where pupils fill in their fact file sheets on each house using more detailed information included in the proceeding slides (designed to be printed out - but you can go through the info on the board, or alternatively read the information for each house aloud and ask students to make notes as you read - I did it slightly differently with my two groups). Finally, the PowerPoint ends with OCR GCSE Classical Civilisation exam questions so pupils’ learning and understanding can be assessed. Thanks for taking a look :-)

This resource is designed to be printed off and arranged in a timeline fashion on the class room wall. It is designed to be useful as a teaching aid from a distance and promote an understanding of the chronology of the AQA Unit: USA 1920-73: Inequality and Opportunity. It is also designed to be useful close up as a revision aid with some skeleton information included on each part. The idea is that students will find it easier to recall events from having interacted with this display each lesson. There are over 30 colour sections to this timeline so there is plenty to display.

These ‘at a glance’ revision notes were specially written to give Edexcel A Level History students a comprehensive overview of the key knowledge from the specification for Paper 2, Option 2C.1: France in revolution, 1774–99: 1 The origins and onset of revolution, 1774–89 2 Revolution and the failure of constitutional monarchy, 1789–93 3 The National Convention, the Jacobins and the Terror, 1793–94 4 From the Directory to Brumaire, 1795–99 They are especially useful for students whose note-taking in lesson isn’t as good as others, or whose organisational skills mean they are missing notes/handouts on certain topics/areas. These notes will certainly help reduce the time it takes them to catch up with their peers, and also students like to use these as a checklist of topics to go into in further detail. Hopefully these notes help to save your students (and you!) some time in the hectic run up to exams. Thanks for taking a look :)

These ‘at a glance’ revision notes were specially written to give Edexcel A Level History students a comprehensive overview of the key knowledge from the specification for Paper 2, Option 2B.1: Luther and the German Reformation, c1515–55 1 Conditions in early sixteenthcentury Germany 2 Luther’s early challenge to the Catholic Church, 1517–20 3 The development of Lutheranism, 1521–46 4 The spread and survival of Lutheranism, 1521–55 They are especially useful for students whose note-taking in lesson isn’t as good as others, or whose organisational skills mean they are missing notes/handouts on certain topics/areas. These notes will certainly help reduce the time it takes them to catch up with their peers, and also students like to use these as a checklist of topics to go into in further detail. Hopefully these notes help to save your students (and you!) some time in the hectic run up to exams. Thanks for taking a look :)

These revision notes were specially written to give Edexcel A Level History students a comprehensive overview of the key knowledge from the specification for Paper 2, Option 2D.2: The unification of Germany, c1840–71 1 Popular pressure and causes of revolution, 1840–48 2 Failure of revolution, 1848–51 3 AustroPrussian rivalry, 1852–66 4 Prussia and the Kleindeutschlandsolution, 1866–71 They are especially useful for students whose note-taking in lesson isn’t as good as others, or whose organisational skills mean they are missing notes/handouts on certain topics/areas. These notes will certainly help reduce the time it takes them to catch up with their peers, and also students like to use these as a checklist of topics to go into in further detail. Hopefully these notes help to save your students (and you!) some time in the hectic run up to exams. Thanks for taking a look :)

These detailed course / revision notes were specially written to give OCR A Level History students a comprehensive overview of the key knowledge from the specification for Unit Y207: The German Reformation and the rule of Charles V 1500–1559 1) The German Reformation 1517–1529 2) The spread of Lutheranism 1530–1555, the Schmalkaldic War and Peace of Augsburg 3) Charles V’s relations with the Ottoman Empire 4) Charles V’s wars with France These extensive notes are especially useful for students whose note-taking in lesson isn’t as good as others, or whose organisational skills mean they are missing notes/handouts on certain topics / areas. These notes will certainly help reduce the time it takes them to catch up with their peers, and also students like to use these as a checklist of topics to go into in further detail. They give peace of mind that every corner of the specification/syllabus has been covered. Hopefully these notes help to save your students (and you!) some time in the hectic run up to exams. Thanks for taking a look :)

These detailed course / revision notes were specially written to give AQA A Level Religious Studies students a comprehensive understanding of all the key knowledge from the specification for Component 2: Study of religion and dialogues - 2A Buddhism: Section A: Buddhism Sources of wisdom and authority Ultimate reality Self, death and afterlife Good conduct and key moral principles Expressions of religious identity Buddhism, gender and sexuality Buddhism and science Buddhism and the challenge of secularisation Buddhism, migration and religious pluralism Section B: Dialogues The dialogue between Buddhism and philosophy The dialogue between Buddhism and ethics These extensive notes are especially useful for students whose note-taking in lesson isn’t as good as others, or whose organisational skills mean they are missing notes/handouts on certain topics / areas. These notes will certainly help reduce the time it takes them to catch up with their peers, and also students like to use these as a checklist of topics to go into in further detail. They give peace of mind that every single corner of the specification/syllabus has been covered in great detail. Hopefully these notes help to save your students (and you!) some time in the hectic run up to exams. Thanks for taking a look :)

This lesson goes into detail about each of Heracles’ 12 Labours; what happened during them and after each one. The lesson is dual coded where possible to ensure students can easily access the key information they need in what can be an otherwise information heavy lesson. This lesson resource guides pupils to learn about Heracles’ Twelve Labours in first an independent way,and then in a collaborative way to mixup T&L strategies to ensure engagement throughout from all students. Handouts with info on each Labour is included with quotes from primary sources (but not too much - to ensure accessibility) and a commentary for each one too. I have also included the information on each Labour on separate slides in case you’d rather go through them one by one as a class on the whiteboard. Pupils use this information to fill in an A3 sheet (included as a hidden slide to be printed off) and then have their learning cemented by the inclusion of a variety of video clips that summarise the Labours in 4 different parts. Throughout there are study questions and stretch and challenge activities to ensure the most able students are catered for. The summative assessment task at the end is an exam question, but there is also a newspaper task activity with a template included (again as a hidden slide for printing) which worked well with my students as a homework task. I did this lesson with my students in 2 x 1 hour lessons and the feedback I got from it was really good - they certainly retained the knowledge they needed for their Classical Civilisation GCSE exam. There is also a transparent cover on each slide to help pupils with dyslexia/Irlen’s which can be easily deleted or the colour can be changed to suit your pupils. Thanks for taking a look :)

This lesson is designed with the OCR 9-1 GCSE spec in mind. Topic 1.5: Festivals in the Myth and Religion Unit of the paper. The lesson starts with reminding students of who Saturn was and his background as father of Jupiter and rule of the Earth during the Golden Age. Students then look at the 17th c. copy of the 4th c. Calendar depicting elements of the Saturnalia and are encouraged to draw inferences about what might have happened during the festival itself. A worksheet is included in the .ppt file for this. A knowledge organiser is also included on a slide to be printed out and given to students who then highlight and annotate it and use it to inform a travel guide/newspaper task where they have to write about their experience of the Saturnalia to a ‘foreign’ (I.e. non-Roman) audience. Practice exam questions are also included with help on how to structure their answers. These involve a Source inference (2 mark question) and two 8 mark comparison questions where students are told to compare the festival to the Lupercalia. Finally, students are encouraged to match a series of abstract images to their learning in order to demonstrate how much they have learnt in relation to the success criteria/ learning aims.

These ‘at a glance’ revision notes were specially written to give Edexcel A Level History students a comprehensive overview of the key knowledge from the specification for Paper 1, Option 1B: England, 1509–1603: authority, nation and religion 1 Monarchy and government, 1509–88 2 Religious changes, 1509–88 3 State control and popular resistance, 1509–88 4 Economic, social and cultural change, 1509–88 Was there a general crisis of government in the last years of Elizabeth I’s reign, 1589–1603? (Historians and their views are explicitly discussed here) They are especially useful for students whose note-taking in lesson isn’t as good as others, or whose organisational skills mean they are missing notes/handouts on certain topics/areas. These notes will certainly help reduce the time it takes them to catch up with their peers, and also students like to use these as a checklist of topics to go into in further detail. Hopefully these notes help to save your students (and you!) some time in the hectic run up to exams. Thanks for taking a look :)

These revision notes were created for my students and were intended to give them a comprehensive overview of th four parts of the Crusades AQA A Level specification: The origins of conflict and the First Crusade, c1071–c1099 The foundation of new states and the Second Crusade, c1099–1149 The Muslim Counter-Crusade and Crusader states, 1149–1187 (A-level only) The Third and Fourth Crusades, 1187–1204 (A-level only) They were especially useful for students whose note-taking in lesson wasn’t as good as others, or whose organisational skills meant they were missing notes/handouts on certain topics/areas. They found these notes certainly helped reduce the time it took them to catch up with their peers, and also they enjoyed using them as a checklist of topics to go into further detail. Hopefully these help to save your students (and you!) some time in the run up to exams. Thanks for taking a look :)

These ‘at a glance’ revision notes are intended to give AQA A Level History students a comprehensive overview of the four parts of the breadth study: “The British Empire, c1857–1967”: Part one: the High Water Mark of the British Empire, c1857–1914 The development of Imperialism, c1857–c1890 Imperial consolidation and Liberal rule, c1890–1914 Part two: Imperial retreat, 1914–1967 (A-level only) Imperialism challenged, 1914–1947 (A-level only) The winds of change, 1947–1967 (A-level only) They are especially useful for students whose note-taking in lesson isn’t as good as others, or whose organisational skills mean they are missing notes/handouts on certain topics/areas. These notes will certainly help reduce the time it takes them to catch up with their peers, and also students like to use these as a checklist of topics to go into in further detail. Hopefully these notes help to save your students (and you!) some time in the hectic run up to exams. Thanks for taking a look :)

These ‘at a glance’ revision notes were specially written to give Edexcel A Level History students a comprehensive overview of the key knowledge from the specification for Paper 1, Option 1G Germany and West Germany, 1918–89: 1 Political and governmental change, 1918–89 2 Opposition, control and consent, 1918–89 3 Economic development and policies, 1918–89 4 Aspects of life in Germany and West Germany, 1918–89 Historical Interpretations: How far was Hitler’s foreign policy responsible for the Second World War? (Specific historians and their viewpoints are detailed here) They are especially useful for students whose note-taking in lesson isn’t as good as others, or whose organisational skills mean they are missing notes/handouts on certain topics/areas. These notes will certainly help reduce the time it takes them to catch up with their peers, and also students like to use these as a checklist of topics to go into in further detail. Hopefully these notes help to save your students (and you!) some time in the hectic run up to exams. Thanks for taking a look :)

This Powerpoint covers everything students studying AQA A Level philosophy need to know about Utilitarianism, according to the specification. It is purely informative and you could adapt it to include written discussion questions, or simply use it as a prompt for class discussion during the course of your teaching. It also doubles as a handy revision aid. It’s all laid out clearly and neatly to reduce cognitive load and to ensure the information contained within it is as accessible as possible, My students really appreciated the format and the real world examples offered to help cement their understanding of these concepts. Topics included: Normative ethical theories What is normative ethics ? Utilitarianism The question of what is meant by ‘utility’ and ‘maximising utility’, including: Jeremy Bentham’s quantitative hedonistic utilitarianism (his utility calculus) John Stuart Mill’s qualitative hedonistic utilitarianism (higher and lower pleasures) and his ‘proof’ of the greatest happiness principle non-hedonistic utilitarianism (including preference utilitarianism) act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism. Issues, including: whether pleasure is the only good (Nozick’s experience machine) fairness and individual liberty/rights (including the risk of the ‘tyranny of the majority’) problems with calculation (including which beings to include) issues around partiality whether utilitarianism ignores both the moral integrity and the intentions of the individual.

This presentation was designed and delivered at the beginning of a CPD day we did on ensuring the rigour and alignment of our curriculum: both whole-school and in individual subjects. It goes into 7 key areas of curriculum design: Challenge Enjoyment Progression Relevance Coherence Personalisation Choice Each one is defined and explanations are included for the speaker as to what these mean on a practical level. Links to research are included and the end of the presentation focuses on the implementation of the key facets and mapping how they can be evidenced in e.g. a curriculum map. Staff found this clear and concise and helped foster a sense of collaboration when it comes to curriculum planning - hopefully it can form the base of curriculum thinking in your context too. Thanks for taking a look :)

This lesson is designed with OCR’s GCSE Classical Civilisation unit: Myth and Religion The lesson is comprehensive in its inclusion of everything the GCSE specification requires: How wealth and status affected burial in Ancient Rome Preparation of the body Funerary procession Burial of the body Festivals for the dead and ancestors Also, primary sources such as Pliny and Ovid are included and clearly signposted for students. Thinking questions (to be answered verbally or in written form are included) as are exam questions at the end, in addition to a short video where Mary Beard looks at Roman tombs lining the road into Rome. Everything my students needed to know is included and they seemed to really enjoy it and engage with it. It’s presented using the principles of dual coding to reduce cognitive load - ensuring that excess ‘noise’ on the PowerPoint does not prove a barrier to knowledge acquisition and retention. Thanks for taking a look :)

This lesson can be used as a stand alone lesson at the beginning of a unit of study on any of Shakespeare’s plays. It is designed to engage students with the ‘why’ of studying Shakespeare, in the hope that this increases engagement and knowledge retention when studying his plays themselves. It begins by running through some main reasons why Shakespeare’s plays have stood the test of time, e.g. his use of language, his characterisation and plot etc. After discussion of each of these, students are prompted to summarise what they have just discussed and learned with sentence starters. A comprehension, included within the PowerPoint file to be printed off, can then be tackled with KS4 students, and if teaching KS3 I just used the second half of this comprehension which is easier to understand. Questions designed to extend students thinking and develop their explanations as to why Shakespeare is still important to us today are then posed which students can write answers to in their books. The lesson is designed to fit neatly into an hour and coloured overlays are included on each slide to aid students with Irlen Syndrome or Dyslexia who might benefit from them. The colour of these can be easily changed or they can be deleted if not needed. The lesson slides are also done in a way that is designed to reduce cognitive load and proves popular with our students as a way of presenting information with clarity. Thanks for taking a look :)

This PowerPoint presentation is ideal for an assembly or a talk to parents of any exam cohort. It could also be used for an hour’s lesson if students were to try different techniques as they are introduced on the screen live. We actually also used it for Staff CPD to help them guide students revision lessons - it worked really well and staff appreciated having guidance to ensure the tasks they are setting in revision lessons are valuable. It is simple and clear and grounds all the suggested techniques in the cognitive science research into which revision techniques actually work and why, It means students can have confidence that the revision tasks they are completing actually have a high chance of making knowledge stick and ensuring they retain key information they will need for their exams. It has worked really well with our students and hopefully it can save you a little bit of time reinventing the wheel. Thanks for taking a look :)

This ‘lesson’ on the importance of the Amazonomachy (which will ideally cover 2-3 lessons) is designed with the new Classical Civilisation 9-1 OCR GCSE in mind. Specifically, the Myth and Religion Paper 1 unit: 1.6 Myth and Symbols of Power. Students will ideally have just finished studying the Centauromachy and so at the end of this powerpoint they will be able to compare their knowledge of both and evaluate the significance of both in relation to each other. All worksheets mentioned here are included as slides within the .ppt file itself, ready to be printed off and inserted into the appropriate part of the lesson. The lesson starts with a look at how Amazons are depicted in art and students are introduced to the Amazon race through the video (link attached). Information about who the Amazons were and their battles with the Greeks is then included with a challenge question included below (designed to be printed off A5 size). Students are then introduced to the Temple of Apollo at Bassae with background information on the temple itself in order to contextualise the Bassae Frieze (a prescribed source for the course). This is followed by a numeracy challenge where students have to calculate the area of the temple (which can then lead to a discussion as to the length of the Bassae Frieze and its impressiveness etc.) A cloze test/passage is then included to be printed off where students fill in missing words in order to get them used to the kind of language they need to be using while analysing the sculptor’s use of space etc on the frieze. There is then an 8 mark source Exam question where students have to produce a similar style answer to the one on the cloze sheet but now off their own heads. Students should be encouraged to use the model as they write their own. Finally students are asked to link their learning during this topic to a set of abstract images where they can be questioned in order to explain fully what they have learnt in relation to the learning aims.