A complete KS4 unit of work designed for students studying AQA. This pack contains 8 complete and fully resourced lessons are included exploring the stalemate during WW1 from Verdun- Somme-Gallipoli and Jutland. Everything you need for a whole half-term in one bundle!
Two accompanying units: causes of the war and ending the war are also available from SIK History.
A complete KS4 unit of work designed for students studying AQA. This pack contains eight complete and fully resourced lessons are included exploring medieval medicines from Christianity to Islam and from surgery to the Black Death. An end of unit revision lesson is also included. Everything you need for a whole half-term in one bundle!
Designed for a top set Year 7 class, this unit of work consists of 14 hour long lessons and an assessment. Covering the range of creative writing skills from punctuation to planning and narrative hooks to characterisation, this unit is designed to engage and inspire pupils to develop their own story writing skills. Extracts from Harry Potter, Treasure Island and Boy are included as stimulii for creative young minds. This resource bundle has all you need for a full half term and is easily adapted for Year 6 or 8 pupils.
A scheme of work comprising 13 complete lessons plus an assessment.
This unit is designed for Year 7-8 pupils and explores a variety of complex issues around social media such as fake news, cyber-bullying and gaming addictions.
One main power point guides you through the scheme whilst all additional handout materials are included. Fear MOMO no more!
A complete KS4 unit of work designed for students studying AQA. This pack contains 11 complete and fully resourced lessons are included exploring the causes of WW1 from Bismarck- Morocco-Bosnia and the Schlieffen plan. Everything you need for a whole half-term in one bundle!
Two follow up units: stalemate and ending the war are also available from SIK History.
A compilation of ten poetry lessons united by the theme of nature. Copies of all the poems are included (either as word documents or within the powerpoints) and feature guided analysis as well as creative writing stimuli.
This resource focuses on classic poems (there is a modern selection available separately) including Evening by Percy Shelley, To Autumn by John Keats, The Badger by John Clare and Daffodils by William Wordsworth.
A focused unit of work ideal for bridging KS3/4.
A complete unit of work comprising 24 individual lessons and included assessment points. Beginning with The Charge of the Light Brigade and moving chronologically forwards to explore poems of WWI, WWII and the Cold War, this unit is designed for KS3 students and includes a variety of poems from classics by Wilfred Owen to modern poets. Themes covered include the Holocaust and the threat of Nuclear War.
Everything you need to teach this unit is included. The scheme has been taught to a number of Year 8 classes and is ready to go!
A complete unit of work exploring poetry from other cultures. Designed for top set Year 7s, but easily adapted for Years 6-8, this unit covers a selection of well known, modern poems including Search for my Tongue, Island Man, Limbo, Nothing’s Changed and Half-caste. Most of the poems covered have featured in past years GCSE papers (allowing you to tick the stretch and challenge sections on your lesson plans) but have been made accessible to KS3 pupils through the detailed discussion points and smaller chunked activities. 12 poems and full resources as well as an assessment is included in this resource pack.
A full unit of work exploring the holocaust. Eight fully resourced lessons are included, each with a variety of activities to challenge and engage your students. The resources are designed for KS3 classes but can easily be adapted into KS4 resources.
Lesson 1: Intro to holocaust
Lesson 2: Ghetto life
Lesson 3: The final solution
Lesson 4: Auschwitz- Birkenau
Lesson 5: Effects of holocaust
Lesson 6: Liberation
Lesson 7: Remembering the victims
Lesson 8: Revision of unit.
This unit is designed to follow on from a mini unit on Hitler’s rise to power which is also available from SIK Lessons.
A full unit exploring the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon Britain. Each lesson is fully resourced with a range of activities to engage your pupils. Targeted at KS3 classes,
Lesson 1: Intro to topic
Lesson 2: Population Growth
Lesson 3: Town conditions and cholera
Lesson 4: Workhouses and child labour
Lesson 5: Transport changes
Lesson 6: Dragon’s Den style project - pupils have to work in groups to pitch their new products (e.g. steam engine) to the class. This lesson can easily be extended to 2/3 lessons plus homework research.
A full script for Robin Hood. The full performance lasts approximately two hours (split into two acts/ 12 scenes). Suitable for KS2 upwards. Cast list as follows:
ROBIN HOOD - Principal boy -8 scenes
MAID MARIAN - Principal Girl – 9 scenes
NURSE TITTLE TATTLE - The Dame – 11 scenes
MUCH, THE MILLER’S SON -The “Buttons” character – 9 scenes
THE SHERIFF OF NOTTINGHAM - The bad guy! – 7 scenes
NICKIT & SCARPER - The Sheriff’s Tax Collectors – 9 scenes
THE FAIRY STARDUST OF THE FOREST - The “Good Fairy” character – 8 scenes
MYSTIC MEG Works for the Sheriff, giving him guidance for the future – 6 scenes
ALARNAA / SCARLET / LITTLE JOAN / FRIAR TUCK Robin’s men & women! – 7 scenes
KING RICHARD Act II Scene 12 only – 2 scenes
The “Hoodies” – trainee “Merry Men”, played by teenagers “Teen-speak” - 7 scenes
HELEN HARDUP “Know-it-all” villager. Lines in Scene 1 only - 4 scenes
SALLY SKINT & PENNY PENNILESS Villagers, with a few lines – 3 scenes
CHORUS ROLES: - Peasants, Merry Men & Hoodies, School Children – 7 scenes
A complete unit of work exploring Gothic Horror. Beginning with extracts from classic texts such as Frankenstein and Dracula, this unit covers a range of Gothic poetry and Gothic fiction. Modern texts such as Twilight are included and the pupils are provided with a variety of stimuli for creating their own Gothic stories. Designed for a high-flying Year 9 class, a complete unit of work with all supporting resources and an assessment is included in this pack.
11 fully resourced lessons guiding KS4 pupils through creative writing skills. Designed to support the AQA Language Paper 1 Q5 , each lesson offers descriptive picture prompts as well as narrative writing threads that your pupils can work through. Each lesson typically includes a range of 5+ building block tasks such as: looking at examplar materials, quick tasks on figurative writing, sentence variety and punctuation exercises that help students to plan and prepare for their extended responses. The power points can easily be adapted for other exam boards. Everything you need for a full half-term exploring creative writing skills in one bundle!
A bundle of 24 biology revision mats for your pupils to complete. An ideal weekly homework for GCSE students to consolidate their knowledge and discover their knowledge gaps. Each mat contains a number of focused prompts/ questions for the pupils to complete as well as providing important equations. Once completed, either in class or at home, the mats function as effective revision tools. Topics covered include: cell structure, bio-energetics, nervous system, inheritance, biodiversity and ecology.
A bundle of 10 chemistry revision mats and 10 question packs for your pupils to complete. An ideal weekly homework for GCSE students to consolidate their knowledge and discover their knowledge gaps. Each mat contains a number of focused prompts/ questions for the pupils to complete as well as providing important equations. Each question sheet has a range of quick questions to check their understanding. Once completed, either in class or at home, the mats function as effective revision tools. Topics covered include: alkanes and alkenes, atoms, history of atoms, rate of reaction, structure and the atmosphere.
A mixture of resources exploring America in the 20th Century (other than its involvement in the world wars/ Vietnam). Each lesson is fully resourced with a mixture of written sources, documentary links and role play scenarios to help your pupils understand the changing face of America. Lessons explore the following topics: Intro and the 1920’s, prohibition and the mafia, the Wall Street Crash, the moon landing, the assassination of JFK and the Cuban missile crisis.
A comprehensive scheme of work exploring the classis story of George and Lennie’s pursuit of the American Dream. Designed for KS3 students (and linked to the new EDUQAS GCSE), this scheme begins by exploring the historical context before following the adventures of the two men. The different characters and themes are all explored throughout 11 hour long lessons culminating in a book review assessment. A great unit ready to go!
A complete KS4 unit of work designed for students studying AQA. This pack contains 10 complete and fully resourced lessons are included exploring the Nazis in power (1930-45) from propaganda- Hitler Youth-the Final Solution. Everything you need for a whole half-term in one bundle!
Two proceeding units: Before the Nazis and Nazi growth are also available from SIK History.
A full unit of work covering the formation of the UK. Designed for KS3 classes, this unit includes six full lessons and an assessment. Each lesson has a range of activities that can easily be adapted for any class.
Lesson 1: England and Wales
Lesson 2: England and Scotland
Lesson 3: Invasion of Ireland
Lesson 4: Irish famine
Lesson 5: The Troubles
Lesson 6: Assessment prep
Lesson 7: Assessment
A full scheme of work for travel writing. Ideal for Years 6-8, this resource includes 10 hour long lessons, many of which can be developed into two full lessons, and covers all of the main areas of travel writing. The unit includes analysis of travel brochures, rhetorical devices, drama activities, formal letters of complaint and exemplar travel writing from Bill Bryson.
An assessment (plus planning grid) is also included.