A very simple pp that offers ideas on how boys learn and how to improve their performance by grouping things into 5 ; their preffered number!

This is the starter and the worksheets that you need for it. Really interactive - pupils have alsways loved this activity - across Key Stage 2, 3 and 4 - very simple but very effective! Great AFL tool as well.

I designed these very simple self evaluation questionairres for pupils as part of their mentoring process. Pupils fill these in by asking teachers their levels and it encourages them to take ownership of their learning.

This is a Primary School Transition Questionairre that I use on a module for year 7s to ask them how they are feeling about secondary school, as they join us. Useful to tie into any transition units - but will need adapting for your school.

A very interesting pp that gets staff thinking about the boys / girls learning debate - great for using prior to introducing underachieving boys tactics

This lesson ties into the other lessons that I have previously uploaded on magazine front covers - it is literally the structire for the lesson with a reminder of the key ingredients of the cover - very simple and nothing more than that!

This is a lesson designed to introduce what non fiction tests are - some slides are specifically dated and will need to be changed.

This lesson is predominantly aimed at the poetry question for the legacy spec - however, it can easily be tailored for study of any comparative texts by changing the texts and the mark schemes within it. I thought it was worth uploading for the structure that can be used.

I use the fully interactive lesson pp for the taster days when pupils come up from Primary feeders to introduce what their English lessons will be like. They love the interactive nature of it and the poem always goes down well. Uses AFs and APP strands.

I was asked to teach discursive writing to a bunch of boys that needed to have it finished in a day. Thios is the amalgamation of a full scheme of work that i used to inspire and enthuse them. It's a bit gory - but it engaged them and got them writing!

Using the covers of magazines and the Media Studies mark scheme, this lesson tells pupils what to do to hit the top bands and breaks down how to analyse a magazine cover.

This is a full lesson PP on the prologue to Romeo and Juliet - used predominantly for the old specification, it can easily be changed to update to the new with a new mark scheme.

This is a lesson that structures getting the pupils to write a piece that you can assess with APP. Handout also uploaded.

My first steps into teaching Histpry with a literacy focus - this is a lesson about the Abolutionists.

This lesson encourages pupils to explore the theme of identity and write a poem about their own identiity

This is a full and detailed interactive lesson that encourages pupils to look at who's to blame for the death of Curley's wife. Ofsted grading was outstanding - so it&'s good stuff!

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.

Believe it or not, this very simple lesson is a reminder to D/C borderliners on how they should be writing accurately. It's to hammer home the very basics that make the very big differences in their writing marks - 2 hour lesson.

Target Setting Lessons to Boost Pupils from 3 to 4: These lessons are part of a project that is challenged with boosting pupils from level 3c to 4c. Each week starts with a new focus on literacy, numeracy, kagan techniques and a personal target. Pupils need a target book to work with and this less More…on is delivered at the begining of every week. Targets are then tracked through all of their lessons for the week to chart their progress. There are serveral lessons available for the start of every week. This is lesson 7.

This full and detailed lesson (designed for a whole day of teaching) takes the two poems, breaks them down and encourages pupils to analyse them and write about them. Then compare them.