A unit to help pupil develop personal writing skills based on The Scottish Book Trust Days Like This project - encouraging people to write about a significant day in their life. Includes the poem Days by Brian Moses, the prose text The Day the World Failed to End by Mark Palmer and advice from Irvine Welsh.

Advent calender style lesson starters. Pupils choose a number at random and class complete a creative language based task. Most can be done with no preparation but worksheets are attached for the tasks in which they are needed.