Here is a set of two lessons I developed for my G&T Students when interviewing both of these remarkable people. It would be a great exercise to carry out with GSCE aged students or HA KS3.

This is a complete mini-scheme of work (10 lessons in total), with 32 files included in the pack! It starts with general horror stories with a twist, in which sterotypical genre conventions and characters are studied, moving on to a recap of the gothic and Edgar Allan Poe. The final lesson is planning a gothic story with a gothic generator. This can be taken forward as a written assessment. Each lesson is fully differentiated and resourced, with a broad range of engaging activities, use of ICT and opportunities for creative and collaborative work. Week 1: A Vendetta, Guy de Maupassant, (3 lessons) Week 2 Lamb to the Slaughter, Roald Dahl, (3 lessons) Week 3: The Tell Tale Heart, (3 lessons) Bonus lesson: Frankenstein Characterisation - this lesson was an observation lesson and can stand alone in between any week. It was graded ‘Outstanding’ and is fully resourced and differentiated. Please leave a review if you can. It is massively helpful to the creation of future resources and it would be massively appreciated. If you need anything else or have a query, please contact me directly on slgraham0@gmail.com!

I’m reuploading this resource of a very popular card game template with a different name so I don’t get another slap on the wrist! I teach SEND so these are giant sized and good for those students with weaker fine motor skills. It’s an engaging activity which takes little planning and is excellent for reinforcing learning/revision/hooking reluctant learners/generating discussions/etc. They’re super easy to make- get the students to populate the cards and then print, stick pages together, cut round and laminate two at a time. They can be brought back out for revision of topic areas covered and are suitable and adaptable for all subjects. Enjoy!

This resource is a standalone lesson on Frankenstein and the characterisation of his monster. It’s ideally used for HA Y7 up to LA Y9. Can easily be pitched up or down, however all resources are fully differentiated. It has lovely links to classroom discussion and can be used as a springboard for other horror/gothic work. This was an observation lesson and was graded as ‘Outstanding’. This resource is also part of a SOW: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/murderous-horror-stories-ks3-scheme-of-work-12109498

Hello! Thanks for viewing the resource. Included in this download: 1x highly visually engaging and fully differentiated lesson 3x differentiated worksheets to support group work. Covered in the lesson: James I Gunpowder Plot North Berwick Witch Trials For some reason, the previews on TES make the worksheets look a bit wonky. I promise they are ready to print and go! I hope it will engage your students and afford you a bit of extra self care time! Please check out my other Macbeth resources too. Always do get in contact if you have any questions or comments, and please leave a review if you can. I’d really appreciate the feedback.

Hello! Thanks for viewing the resource. Included in this download: 1x highly visually engaging and fully differentiated lesson I haven’t included hyperlinks to the openings as I use film clips on my laptop. I’m not entirely sure of the copyright issues involved with uploading those. I’ve knocked a little bit off the price because of this. I hope it will engage your students and afford you a bit of extra self care time! Please check out my other Macbeth resources too. Always do get in contact if you have any questions or comments, and please leave a review if you can. I’d really appreciate the feedback.

Hello! Thanks for viewing the resource. Included in this download: 1x highly visually engaging and fully differentiated lesson 3x differentiated worksheets to support group work. I hope it will engage your students and afford you a bit of extra self care time! Please check out my other Macbeth resources too. Always do get in contact if you have any questions or comments, and please leave a review if you can. I’d really appreciate the feedback.

Hello! Thanks for viewing the resource. Included in this download: 1x highly visually engaging and fully differentiated lesson 3x differentiated worksheets I hope it will engage your students and afford you a bit of extra self care time! Please check out my other Macbeth resources too. Always do get in contact if you have any questions or comments, and please leave a review if you can. I’d really appreciate the feedback.

This is a fully resourced, fully differentiated maths revision lesson on measurement, and a whole heap of fun. I threw some code breaking as a starter in there to get them warmed up. My KS4 SEND students loved it as a break from Functional Skills practice papers. This could easily work for UKS2 and LKS3. This download includes: Bright, colourful and highly engaging Powerpoint presentation 3 sets of clue worksheets, differentiated four ways each- so 12 in total! A worksheet to collect their answers through the steps and to help them work through the suspect list. Hope you enjoy it and it saves a bit of time. Please let me know how it worked for you and leave a review! All feedback/suggestions very much welcome. N.B. I made this on a Mac using Word 16. My work PC didn’t like it so if yours doesn’t either, I’ve got my reformatted copy on my stick. Please just let me know and I’ll send that over to you.

A restorative reflection sheet to be used after a behavioural incident.

Resourced and Differentiated lesson based on the amazing poem by Mike Garry.

Resources for an analysis lesson on Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger

This is a really fun and engaging escape room activity with a literacy focus (with some numeracy links too). It is fully editable and straightforward to differentiate if needs be. All resources are ready to print at the end of the PowerPoint. It is highly visual and has gone down a treat with some of my more reluctant learners. I developed this for a whole school (secondary SEND setting) deep learning day, but would suit UKS2 and KS3 students too. Clues include: Synonyms, Homophones, Adjectives more. Answer sheets and teacher answers are included. We used cash boxes with code locks, but you can easily just pretend too!

This is a fully formulated spreadsheet with a promotion zone, middle of the table zone and relegation zone (I know there’s no promotion zone in the Prem- humour me!) You enter reward points in as the weeks go by and you can order who’s where by the points by using the ‘sort largest to smallest’ function. It’s super easy to use, easy to introduce with classes, and if yours are as football mad and competitive as mine, it should be effective! I use the final half term points to see if they’ve met the class reward trip on the points thermometer on my wall. Please get in touch if you have any questions, and leave a review with suggestions or feedback. It’d be very much appreciated.

Very much as it says on the tin (no whistles or bells)- Behaviour report card template to reinforce good behaviour. I print them out on green, yellow and red card (green 1 week, yellow if it escalates to two weeks and red on two weeks or more). These can be linked to rewards and sanctions etc that you have in your class/school. The timetable is editable so easily adapted- I teach a high school SEND class. On the back page, there are three boxes for comments - one for school, one for home and another for the pupil to self-reflect on their behaviour. This is a Microsoft Publisher file. Hope it helps!

This is an intervention booklet I use in my sessions with more able SEND KS3 students. It could be used with KS2 students too. It has a range of activities: Comprehension Design a computer game Design a promotional poster Word search and colouring pages for fast finishers. I have also added a PowerPoint to accompany this resource, should it come in handy.

This is a lesson I made for my lower achieving SEND KS4ers. It links in with our Equality and Fairness topic that we are looking at in History. It is aimed around students with the ability of 4-5 years old. The main lesson task is for students to design a story quilt for their own lives. I encouraged some of my students to just put things that are important to them. When I have done this task with my students, it has prompted lovely discussions about what is important to them and our school community. It will also link to diversity across the curriculum and into any Black History Month activities you might be running. The PowerPoint goes into the artist’s life and the medium she worked in. There is use of Widget visuals here, as well as the OpenDyslexic font. This lesson could be easily developed into a comprehension or research task, should you want a more robust literacy task.