This is a full lesson PP on Descriptive Writing - ideal for exam preparation with visual stimulus and revision techniques.

This is one of many lessons that I have uploaded on The Slave Trade for Key Stage 3 pupils in year 8. All of the lessons can be taught together, but each covers a topic so can also be picked up separately. For ease of locating, the title stem is the same: ' Slave Trade'. This is a full powerpoint lesson, ready to teach, but you will want to adapt it / update it for your own context and any resources are also uploaded with it. This lesson covers the life of the slaves on plantations.

Non Fiction Writing – Bill Bryson 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 language devices and humour

This is a full lesson Powerpoint with the objectives of: To be able to identify metaphors and similes To be able to use metaphors and similes in our own work A series of tasks that build up to pupils using the techniques in their own poem.

This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - on persuasive writing.

This is a full lesson PP that is part of a humanities curriculum covering History and Geography strands. This lesson is ready to teach and can be used as part of the medieval unit that i have uploaded but each is a standalone lesson so can be taught alone. This lesson asks why did William build castles?

The Crucible – Introductory Lesson This is one of several lessons that I have uploaded on the Crucible. The lessons are PowerPoints that are ready to deliver – but you may wish to update them for your own context. This lesson has lesson objectives of: To be able to analyse the opening setting of The Crucible. To understand the context of The Crucible.

A great way of helping pupils to create characters - write their facebook page!

This is a full lesson powerpoint on culture and it explores how culture adds to the meaning of certain Media Texts.

A full lesson PP on writing to persuade... made originally for old AQA legacy spec - can be adapted and updated easily.

This is a lesson powerpoint that is ready to teach - albeit, you may wish to adapt it for your own context. It is aimed as an intro to History in Year 7. I've uploaded a series of lessons that can be taught together for the final outcome or, quite easily as standalone lessons. This particular lesson covers an intro to History.

This is a Powerpoint Starter on Homophones - They're Their and There. Activity to engae pupils with the rules.

This PP structures a whole day of Speaking and Listening Activities for GCSE English - interactive and fun for pupils with all of the esources uploaded with it.

With Ofsted's driver of making progress explicit, these little fun ways of showing progress from the start to the end of the lesson might be of use. They&'re fun and lighthearted and just another way of engaging with the progress of the individual child.

This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - on the skills of analysing media texts

A couple of lessons that uses a series of reading Image techniques in order to introduce the gothic genre prior to learning about gothic literature. The second focuses on how a writer creates atmosphere.

This is another lesson that ofsted have judged as Outstanding. It contextualises the poem Havisham - offering a functional way into it by setting up pupils as social workers trying to work out what has happened to the woman and why this poem is her suicide note.

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 correct language use.

This is a sheet that gets pupils to think about the changes that they would make to a fairytale in order to rewrite it.

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 about Slavery and I have uploaded them all with the same title stem. This lesson is covers the plantations and how to use sources.