This is a full powerpoint with resources at the back of it, designed to help someone to lead a twilight session (approximately 1 1/2hrs to 2hrs) on why we need to differentiate and ideas of how it can be done. The session is interactive with little exercises for the teachers to take art in s that they can consider the impact of the structures for differentiating in their own classrooms. Training covers differentiation for different types of learners as well as ability. If you're buying this, you will need to have some knowledge of differentiation to deliver it, so that you can deconstruct the activities after you have tried them with the trainees.

A lesson that i have used with my bottom set year 7 to help them to work cooperatively before I started with the content. Classbuilding lesson.

A generic team rules lesson that helps teachers to extablish their class rules. Good starting point with new classes.

This is a full lesson / Session PP that is designed to use to gather ideas and allocate ideas for planning the articles in the school magazine. I have uploaded other resources for setting up a school magazine and they can all be used in conjunction with each other.

4 simple questions with space on the sheet for pupils to analyse their own performance and successes.

Soemthing to keep forms / classes goign for hours in the last few days.

This is a PDF of training that I put together for NQTs in my LA to give them some specific strategies on how to help manage their time and their workload. There are some 'quick wins' here, as well as some ideas on how to efficiently manage diaries using outlook and how to use meeting minutes to evidence meeting the teaching standards. I have used advice from TES forums in the training too - so I promised I would share it when it was done.

This is a little fun activity for form time at the end of term. Pupils try to work out what very obscure words mean!

This poster is ready to roll - just add some images from your school with the logo and make multiple copies that tell pupils where and how to apply.

This is one of my teaching and learning documents that details the process for learning walks - good as a starting point for someone to work with.

This is a report that monitors a specific pupils behaviour in class over a 6 lesson period - copy sent to parents prior to going on report and then after.

This is a whole school quiz with Italy as a theme and it crosses every subject.

This APP Pupil speak Writing self evaluation sheet is used to mark pupils work - they fill it in and so does the teacher - designed to encourage participation in improving grades as an AFL tool.

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 one of my training powerpoints for the NQT programme. This one intruduces Cognative Ability Tests

This is a worksheet that I've given to new TAs / PGCE students to support them in using the internet and word to create worksheets - for those that are new ish to PCs etc.

This sheet is used to gather all info on a pupils progress throughout Key Stage 3 from 2 to 4. Passed with summative assessment from teacher to teacher to fill in so that teachers can get a full and detailed overview of each indovidual pupil.

This resource includes a full Reading, Writing and Communication Policy for secondary schools, that is based on the KS2/KS3 Glossary for the National Curriculum. The SPAG terms from the glossary are split into each half term so that they can be incorporated into lessons for all teachers, across all subject areas. In this resource, there is a full overview of the policy and then 3 Glossaries - one for three of the half terms. I didn't complete the other three, unfortunately. The glossaries are to support teachers of other subjects with some of the more difficult terms. The policy includes the following: Literacy Focus: - Based on what is being taught in English (reading and Writing) Spelling Focus: - Taken from the KS2 programmes of Study Spoken Language Focus: - Basics expected at all times / in all places – taken from the KS3 strands. Some additions based on recapping KS2 and developing those in KS3 POS. Key Terms – Spread throughout the year using the Non-Statutory KS3 Glossary Central to this policy is setting up Communication Leaders in schools, where pupils with strong literacy skills are trained to support those that may need it. Therefore, also included is the full training to set this up.

This is a full and detailed PowerPoint that consists of 122 slides in total. It is fully interactive training that was originally created for College / Sixth form teachers to update them on all of the changes that have been made to the KS3 curriculum, and to the specifications for GCSE. This would also be ideal for Governor training so that Governors have a fuller understanding of the English curriculum in secondary school. Also, hughl;y suitable for NQTs / PGCE students. Session Aims: To understand the changes to the skills and content of the key stage 3 curriculum. To gain an understanding of the current English Language GCSE landscape. To enhance your knowledge of the upcoming specification changes to GCSE English Language and Literature. The training covers: The key changes for the KS3 Curriculum for English. The content and the skills that are required to be covered in English at Key Stage 3 Opportunities to extend the new curriculum into Literacy Across The Curriculum. How pupil progress will be assessed. The GCSE Landscape – What Pupils are studying now. What’s next – the new GCSE specifications and the challenges they will bring.

In brief, this resource is a full assessment system that can be used both in English and other subjects (literacy across the curriculum) in order to assess the writing grades of students and to help them to diagnose their own areas for development, as well as setting targets for improving writing skills. This is not available anywhere else other than on the TES This system is all my own work and I have created the grade descriptors from scratch, using: The GCSE descriptors or writing from AQA and Edexcel combined – therefore, they are as generic as they can be and are not board specific. My own extensive experience of English teaching and exam marking. Basically, I have broken down each grade from 1-9 and matched them to the skills that pupils should need in order to achieve the grade (as a best fit). This has been done by calculating how old GCSE grades (A*-G) correlate against 1-9 and benchmarking a low C at the Grade 4. Obviously, there will be variation of grades at the end of the GCSE year for year 11, as they are set on a national curve BUT these resources lay the foundations for assessment in KS3 and to ensure that teachers within a school or department can benchmark and describe what they expect each grade to look like and what students need to be able to do to hit a grade in writing. Therefore offering complete consistency and clarity for students and teachers within a school. The resource includes: Grade descriptors for writing for 1-9 9 assessment sheets for each grade 1-9 for both AO4 and AO5 9 assessment sheets for each grade 1-9 for punctuation only, so that teachers can break down the focus if they want to A training PowerPoint for all staff that allows the lead to deliver a fully interactive session All resources for that session A training PowerPoint for the English dept. that allows the lead to deliver a full explanation of how to use the materials All resources for that session This resource is all ready for you to start working with as soon as you download it.