<p>This is a Playground Project activity I have used many times before and adapted it to suit the needs of the age group and audience.</p> <p>I have provided a wide variety of tasks which will hopefully allow all children to develop creativity in their presentation skills and writing tasks.</p> <p>I have used this as an after SATs activity and it worked pretty well.</p>

<p>Turn your favourite book into a board game. Stuck with what to do with your students in the final week of the summer term? Use this powerpoint and handy templates for a week’s lessons of fun. Students can choose any text they have studied with you over the year and create their own board game. This could be a brand new game or something inspired by a classic.<br /> Included is a powerpoint with rules and suggestions, and three templates inspired by monopoloy, snakes and ladders and cluedo. All are left blank so students can adapt. Ie. instead of snakes they could use prospero’s staff</p>

<p>A film project designed for y9, but could be adapted for any ks3 group. The project is designed to last for 5/6 lessons.<br /> Student activities are focused on Spanish character descriptions, giving opinions, film comprehension questions, past tense and future tense verbs, dictionary skills, film predictions, film review in English, film summary in Spanish.<br /> Student booklet is ready to print and teacher powerpoint clearly shows each of the lessons.</p>

<p>This engaging investigation activity allows students to use develop their innovation, creativity and collaboration skills to control the direction of their enterprise project.</p> <p>The resource set guides students through the entire project, from conception to evaluation, and includes resources/ guidance for the following activities:<br /> -Deciding upon different roles within their groups, in order to carry out multiple tasks effectively;<br /> -Designing a company name and appropriate logo and slogan;<br /> -Researching their product area, including competitors and USPs;<br /> -Conducting market research;<br /> -Budgeting;<br /> -Detailed product design;<br /> -Packaging design;<br /> -Creating instructions for users;<br /> -Formulating and presenting a persuasive pitch;<br /> -Surveying the target audience for their feedback;<br /> -Self-evaluating strengths and areas for development.</p> <p>A comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the project.</p> <p>There are at least a week’s worth of resources in here, enabling students to fully immerse themselves in the project. I orignally have used this with KS2 and KS3 students, but they could reasonably be adapted for students in KS4.</p> <p>All images have been cited at the end of the PowerPoint presentation and are licensed for commercial use.</p>

<p>Three differentiated project booklets, linked to the theme of oceans, to develop different English objectives.</p> <p>Each section has instructions so that the children can complete the learning independently if required. As shown in the preview of the middle difficulty resource.</p> <p>I mostly developed these for use in SEMH schools where the children responded better to having a project to work through. I have many of these booklets that follow different themes but with similar layouts so the children know what to expect and are confident in their ability to succeed.</p> <p><strong>Lower difficulty:</strong><br />  I can explore adventurous vocabulary.<br />  I can use interesting vocabulary in my sentences.<br />  I can spell words with the /er/ sound spelt ‘or’ after w.<br />  I can answer questions about an informative video.<br />  I can pick out the key points of a recount.<br />  I can write a recount.</p> <p><strong>Middle Difficulty:</strong><br />  I can find synonyms for words.<br />  I can use interesting vocabulary in my sentences.<br />  I can spell words with the ‘k’ sound spelt ‘ch’ (Greek in origin).<br />  I can answer questions about an informative video.<br />  I can pick out the key points of a recount.<br />  I can write a recount.</p> <p><strong>Highest Difficulty:</strong><br />  I can find synonyms for words.<br />  I can use interesting vocabulary in my sentences.<br />  I can spell words with ‘silent’ letters.<br />  I can answer questions about an informative video.<br />  I can pick out the key points of a recount.<br />  I can write a recount.</p>

A lovely project to finish a term on. Pupils are asked to design and present a Christmas advertising campaign. The powerpoint provides a lesson to introduce the task to the pupils, as well as a resource for peer assessment at the end. It is then at the discretion of the teacher how long they allow pupils to work on their project in between.<br /> <br /> I have added some notes on the slides for teacher guidance <br /> <br /> Easy to differentiate - simply limit or add to the features you discuss in the first lesson.<br /> <br /> Develops analysis skills, persuasion skills and speaking and listening skills.<br /> <br /> I have tried to keep the amount of printing to a minimum!

<p>An accompanying booklet for the book ‘The Hate U Give’ by Angie Thomas. This can be used as a stretch and challenge project for students to complete independently, or as a Guided Reading project for smaller groups of students.</p> <p>The booklet is divided into 6 weeks. Each week contains instructions on which pages to read, an accompanying vocabulary builder to support student vocabulary acquisition and cultural capital, and an overarching history-based question about the pages read. There are prompt ideas for students so scaffold their responses to the questions outlined.</p> <p>Instructions feature at the start of the booklet, as well as some introductory context to help support students’ understanding.</p> <p>This booklet can be used as a reading initiative in its own right, or alongside the English curriculum in a secondary setting.</p>

<p>An accompanying booklet for the book ‘The Giver’ by Lois Lowry. This can be used as a stretch and challenge project for students to complete independently, or as a Guided Reading project for smaller groups of students.</p> <p>The booklet is divided into 6 weeks. Each week contains instructions on which pages to read, an accompanying vocabulary builder to support student vocabulary acquisition and cultural capital, and an overarching history-based question about the pages read. There are prompt ideas for students so scaffold their responses to the questions outlined.</p> <p>Instructions feature at the start of the booklet, as well as some introductory context to help support students’ understanding.</p> <p>This booklet can be used as a reading initiative in its own right, or alongside the English curriculum in a primary or secondary setting.</p>

<p>An accompanying booklet for the book ‘The Middle of Nowhere’ by Geraldine McCaughrean. This can be used as a stretch and challenge project for students to complete independently, or as a Guided Reading project for smaller groups of students.</p> <p>The booklet is divided into 6 weeks. Each week contains instructions on which pages to read, an accompanying vocabulary builder to support student vocabulary acquisition and cultural capital, and an overarching history-based question about the pages read. There are prompt ideas for students so scaffold their responses to the questions outlined.</p> <p>Instructions feature at the start of the booklet, as well as some introductory context to help support students’ understanding.</p> <p>This booklet can be used as a reading initiative in its own right, or alongside the English curriculum in a secondary setting.</p>

<p>Two extended booklets to promote Literacy in Year 7. Booklets start with word exploration, creativity through book Insta-posters/ book toks and work through comprehension skills.<br /> Attached with a Word Bank that students are expected to use alongside this project and in all cross-curricular lessons.</p>

<p>Have oodles of fun designing your own theme park. This step-by-step Word guide explains how to create a marketing campaign for your very own theme park. The steps include:</p> <ol> <li>Create a name and a logo for your theme park.</li> <li>Design four new rides for your park and write a sentence to sell each of them.</li> <li>Create two areas to appeal small children.</li> <li>Create a new on-site hotel with themed rooms.</li> <li>Put it all together in a leaflet to publicise the theme park.<br /> This sixteen-page booklet contains example texts which have been marked-up to highlight key features.</li> </ol>

<p>A selection of three dynamic tasks/challenges that students can do at home or in school, individually or in pairs. Part of an English diploma originally, these projects are creative yet entertaining:</p> <ul> <li>Write a letter to your future self</li> <li>Build a stage for your favourite book</li> <li>Turn your favourite book into a video game.</li> </ul> <p>Each task comes with powerpoint instructions.</p>

<p>7 lessons worth of non-fiction teaching and activities set for a Year Two class but could easily be adapted for any KS1 and LKS2.<br /> Activities look at descriptions using expanded noun phrases, features of non-chronological reports, planning and finally writing a report.</p> <p>Adaptable powerpoint and resources included.</p> <p>With thanks to Slidesgo for their colourful template.</p>

Fully differentiated (by colour) resources to support the teaching of a one - two week Media based English project on advertising. <br /> <br /> Differentiation:<br /> yellow = higher<br /> blue = middle<br /> purple = lower<br /> <br /> Resources provide opportunities to: <br /> - explore target audience for advertising campaigns<br /> - explore existing advertising campaigns <br /> - explore the use of persuasive language<br /> - explore the use of presentational features <br /> - analyse the effectiveness of advertising campaigns <br /> - explore the narratives of advertising campaigns<br /> - design a new soft drink and develop the advertising production plan <br /> - peer and self assess <br /> - explore representation <br /> - justify own design choices<br /> <br /> These resources could also be useful as part of an enrichment day/activity.

<p>A fun and engaging project perfect for the end of the year!</p> <p>Students pick an animal from the provided list and then complete several writing and research based tasks around this. At the end of this project, students should have a bank of work that contains:</p> <p>Writing to describe<br /> Writing to inform<br /> Descriptive writing<br /> Newspaper writing<br /> A fully complete A3 fact file sheet (included)</p> <p>and much more.</p>

Attached are some resources for students to use in groups in order to make a magazine. This would be perfect for year 7 and 8 since from this age students need to be encouraged to read a wide range of non fiction texts in preparation for GCSE and magazines are a good place to start. I would suggest that you provide piles of different types of magazines for them inspect and scrutinize such as ones based on music, fashion, teen girl, cars, football/sport and gaming.<br /> <br /> Within their groups, students can assign roles and each student can plan and design their own page.<br /> <br /> Since I can't share images of front covers or pages from real magazines, I have left boxes on some of these planning sheets blank so that students can stick their own in to demonstrate their decision making. I have made these resources into PDFs so that the text boxes don't shift. <br /> <br /> The resources attached include:<br /> <br /> - Magazine Planning Sheet (a sheet to record their group's initial decisions)<br /> - Front Cover Analysis Sheets (provides space to stick examples and thinking prompts)<br /> - A suggested questionnaire for students to distribute or an exemplar which students can build on<br /> - Design a Contents Page - a planning resource<br /> - Design a Front Cover - a planning resource<br /> - Design a Letters or Problem Page - a planning resource<br /> - Design a Product Review - a planning resource<br /> - Page Templates - boxed sections to place text and images<br /> - Planning an Advert - a planning resource<br /> - Spellings - suggested spelling lists which can be adapted<br /> - Write a Feature Article - a planning resource.

<p>Rubric and directions for making a calendar.</p>

<p>Attached is my NPQML project scoring 26/32</p>

<p>This class was made for international students studying Business English for the first time at roughly Cambridge BEC Preliminary level. It could also be a fun project for Key Stage 3 or Key Stage 4 students who are new to studying business. It was over 10 hours of classes for my students, and about 15 hours including homework tasks.<br /> The PPT guides students through understanding important vocabulary for branding, analysing effective logos, conducting market research, understanding graphs, advertising techniques, creating and giving a pitch. It is designed as a group project in the style of the Apprentice and follows an Apprentice episode based on designing baby food. The students will be designing a new fast food restaurant.</p>

Students create a magazine in groups, using this step-by-step guide and checklists to help them. A detailed overview of the project.

A Shakespeare credit task holiday home learning. Students can pick and choose their tasks as long as they earn the right amount of credits! KS3 find this fun too.