To bring in consistency into my department, I made a template lesson structure to share with my team when reviewing schemes of work, or when new ones were being made. It was to also bring a ‘look’ across the department so all teachers brought similar parts to the lessons. Especially important when we had supply teachers, training teachers or for NQTs. As with all templates, they are a base, this was never used a strict set of rules for everyone. As we often said to each other when we shared lessons I share with this, use, adapt, borrow.

This is a lesson that I created for an interview. It serves as an introduction to the WW1 section for the new Edexcel Unit of Medicine for GCSE. The differentiated sheets are in the file along with the printouts for the room. It is designed to have information put around the room however depending on the class it can be taught from the board if you prefer. The lesson is focused around the statement that more progress was made during this 4 year period than any other 4 year period in history. Let me know how you get on. Thank you.

For helping my Year 10s, I made this booklet for them to complete when going through their mock papers. It is set out to be able to be completed independently or as part of feedback lessons. Each question is put in from the mock papers that they sat, but is easily editable for each of the questions you may use meaning it can be adapted very quickly for different classes. Also, for each question, students could be given the separate parts to support their feedback for other tests, further helping their focus and structure in preparation and practice.

For helping my Year 10s, I made this booklet for them to complete when going through their mock papers. It is set out to be able to be completed independently or as part of feedback lessons. Each question is put in from the mock papers that they sat, but is easily editable for each of the questions you may use meaning it can be adapted very quickly for different classes. Also, for each question, students could be given the separate parts to support their feedback for other tests, further helping their focus and structure in preparation and practice.

The lesson reviews the Battle of Britain aimed at students to consider the idea of why Britain was able to win, alongside the details of why Germany wasn’t able to win. There are differentiated resources within the powerpoint to print out for students to use while also using a video near the beginning to introduce the event in the scope of the war. Made for Year 9 and can be used as part an set of lesson on WW2 or as a set of lessons on how the past is portrayed to consider interpretations.

This lesson was made for a observation, is set out with guidance on an Active learning strategy to highlight with guidance and reasoning for each of the activities. The resources has stretch activities along with key pieces of information to support all abilities. Covers a range of reasons that can be explored individually or collectively to allow students to consider the different ways that the Church influenced daily lives with people. For schools that use Medicine at GCSE, this is a great opportunity to begin to embed key examples of knowledge early on within KS3.