This resource was inspired by an excellent blog on Twitter by @LauraLolder and a subsequent resource for R&J that was produced by @MissMFrost and shared via @Team_English1 Using @MissMFrost's PPT presentation format, I have produced 13 essay plan starters for use with A Christmas Carol and have uploaded them in Powerpoint format and also SMART Notebook format should you prefer to use this instead. I hope they are of use to you. Matt :)

A simple survey for a teacher of any subject to use with a class they teach, collecting pupil voice data on aspects of the teacher's management of behaviour and safety in their own classroom. Collate the findings, expressed as percentages from the categories "all the time", "most of the time", "sometimes", "hardly ever" and never". The findings can be used as evidence of meeting professional standards for annual staff appraisal purposes. I hope the pupil voice survey proforma and the survey findings template are helpful to you.

A practice exam paper for the new AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2A: Writers' Viewpoints and Perspectives, linked by the theme of 'Homelessness', using an extract from Orwell's autobiography 'Down and Out in Paris and London' and a 21st C tabloid newspaper article with a very negative attitude to homeless people. The texts and the format of the exam Qs follow that published by AQA in the approved specimen materials. Please note: As these resources were originally designed for use by pupils at Key Stage 3, introducing the format and the skills tested by the new GCSE, Orwell's work was published in 1933 but for the purposes of introducing contrasting viewpoints at KS3 is suitably challenging. NOTE: I've uploaded LOADS of practice Paper 1s AND 2s to my 'shop', ALL FREE of charge. Please help yourself - just leave a review. Thank you! I hope it is of some use to you.

New AQA Language practice exam Paper 1A: Reading 20th C fiction texts: 'THE ROAD', by Cormac McCarthy, 2006. In this engaging extract, taken from the middle of the novel, a father and his son – half-starved – discover an underground bunker filled with tinned foods and water. UPDATED: APRIL 2017 - a series of REVISED SMART Notebook slides to accompany the practice exam paper, so that you can teach this extract and Qs 1 to 4 interactively, supplying also a Q3 key terminology matching starter activity, Q2 and Q3 mark schemes, a model response to Q3 where the focus is on structure and using key subject terminology appropriately and a new Q4 slide. I hope this is of some use to you. NOTE: I've uploaded LOADS of practice Paper 1s AND 2s to my 'shop', ALL FREE of charge. Please help yourself - just leave a review. Thank you! Thanks :)

AQA-style GCSE English Language Paper 2 on the theme of witchcraft, using an excerpt from an 1882 non-fiction resource and an article about the pardon of Britain's last convicted 'witch' during WW2, published in The Guardian in 2007. This might prove useful alongside study of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', to consider the changing social attitudes and beliefs in witchcraft in England from 17th to 21st C. Also uploaded is a 200 Word challenge for Section B Writing task. Students must strive to incorporate the three rhetorical devices listed on the image. Alternatively, a Section B task is printed in the Word document. Enjoy! Matt :)

This resource has 8 x weekly SPaG review slides for use when teaching Macbeth. Each slide comprises 6 common areas of SPaG error for review and consolidation. Help yourself! PLEASE NOTE: Sell and be damned!

Inspired by fellow English teachers @Team_English1 over on Twitter, I've produced these essay plan starters for use with AQA GCSE English Literature: MACBETH. The intention is to use them frequently as starters to maintain retention and to develop students' recall skills, which are essential in the context of closed book examinations. I have produced the resource in TWO formats: EITHER as Powerpoint OR as SMART Notebook. Hope it's helpful to you. Matt :)