This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - designed to teach this story. Resources and the story also attached.

OfSted Outstanding Literacy All lessons Starter: With a new shift in focus for the 2012 framework that means that teaching and learning can only be judged outstanding if literacy and numeracy are encorporated across the curriculum, I am making a daily starter / settler activity that can be incorporated into all lessons. These mini activities are examples of a literacy activity & there is a tutorial before each. These are going to be made daily, so I'll upload them é I hope they will help other schools to boost literacy teaching. This one is about extending vocabulary.

Designed to tie into any scheme of work on Greek Mythology.

English Functional Skills Lesson 3 Level 1 and 2 These are lessons that are aimed at NC level 5 /6 / GCSE D/C learners who are trying to get Level 1 / 2 in Functional Skills English. I will uploaded as many lessons as I can find. I certainly have the first 4 of this unti that encorporates a little Maths but predominantly English. These lessons look at the notion of family and marriage and whether or not marriage is still relevant.

This is one of the many lessons and resources that I have uploaded for the teaching of Macbeth to year 7s working at level 4/5 in English. It's based on an end result of old SATs style type question that can be APP'd. This resource is a cloze exercise for the plot.

I have uploaded 20 lessons in this series in total - each with it's own resources where relevant. Each lesson Powerpoint can be taught as a standalone lesson, or used within the series. These are brand new lessons and they structure the reading of the novel, whilst analysing it. Designed for AQA Literacy specification. This lesson introduces the genre to pupils.

This is a full lesson pp with resources on the context of the sonnets and the tradition of courtly love. Handouts also uploaded with it.

This is a full lesson plan on the broadhseet newspapers and their features - designed to boost year 11 with writing news articles, in case it comes up in the exam.

This is a full lesson that was used to introduce the Functional Skills Qualification to pupils who were starting it.

Manchester Music – Lippy Kids This is one lesson of several lessons that I have uploaded (with resources if applicable) on music – with a particular context of music from Manchester. All of the lessons are PowerPoints that are ready to teach, although you may wish to adopt them for your own context. This full lesson covers the use of similes and metaphors in music lyrics

This is a full lesson for AQA New Specification Language Paper Preparation - it tells pupils how to tackle the reading paper - in this lesson, how to compare language and how to tackle the paper - using examples and a mark scheme - a really succeeful lesson that is very detailed and pupil friendly - My D/C borderliners have responded very well indeed to these lessons and it will help teachers that are new to the spec too.

Writing To Describe lesson This is one of three lessons on writing to Describe - the lessons cover different ways of approaching this topic and build on each other.

This is an examplar handout of film reviews - a great lesson starter - The difficult words are picked out on the bottom of each review and I get pupils to look them up in a dictionary as the lesson settler - we then go on to analyse the techniques and structure before writing our own.

Skelling Lessons I have uploaded a series of lessons on Skelling that are in no particular order as it is 4 years since I taught it and they haven't been particularly well ordered...The lessons lead to a reading assessment on the character of Michael and how he changes. I will also upload the essay plan.

In it's present format, this self contained lesson may be of little use as it is aimed at the old AQA Spec paper 2. However, all of the writing to describe techniques in this lesson are very valid and very useful so... adpated... there is some good stuff in here!

Non Fiction Writing – Travel Writing This is one lesson of 15 that I have uploaded (with resources if applicable) on non fiction texts and analysis for year 7 pupils. All of the lessons are PowerPoints that are ready to teach, although you may wish to adopt them for your own context. This full lesson covers how to use skills of inference and deduction

This is a full lesson PP that uses classbuilding activities and introduces a website called Class Dojo that is a behaviour tracking system - free to all teachers after you have registered. The hyperlinks are on the internet screens included. You'll have to adapt it and set up your class but it&'s a brilliant tool!

This is a medium Term Lesson Plan set for Christmas Carol. I have also uploaded all the lessons and resources if you would like to use them.

This is a full lesson PP - ready to teach - although you may wish to change / differentiate to your own context on the above named topic. This lesson is one of serveral that create a scheme of lessons about Victorian Crime but all can operate as standalone lessons and I have uploaded them all with the same title stem for ease of finding. This lesson is covers Victorian Society.

This is one of the homework booklets that we've created for pupils in school. The year and level is indicated in the title. It covers essential English skills to help pupils to pass their GCSE in Language and reading skills