This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the content, language, and structure features of ten war/conflict poems. In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique! Each of the poems are widely studied, with many being from the Literary Heritage bank, and most being fixtures in examination board anthologies. Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings poems, understanding the writer's ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical contexts of the different wars/conflicts, and analysing features of content, language, and structure. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

This engaging and thought-provoking series of lessons has been devised to provide students with a well-rounded, secure understanding of Emma Carroll’s ‘Secrets of a Sun King.’ Double and triple lessons are provided for each chapter, broken down into ten resource packs: Chapters 1 and 2 Chapters 3 and 4 Chapters 5 and 6 Chapters 7 and 8 Chapters 9, 10 and 11 Chapters 12 and 13 Chapters 14, 15 and 16 Chapters 17 and 18 Chapters 19, 20 and 21 Chapters 22 and 23 The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range of activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analysis and deeper thinking activities. Additional worksheets and templates are also provided where needed for some of the creative tasks. All of the resources and tried and tested in real classrooms, catalysing excellent outcomes. The resources are suitable for students across KS2 (I originally used them with year 4 and 5 classes).

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about prominent writers - past and present. It is useful as a part of a history study of significant people over time, or an English study of famous writers. Included in this bundle are 15 knowledge organisers, spanning different eras, countries, genders and ethnicities: William Shakespeare Charles Dickens Beatrix Potter Emily Dickinson Lewis Carroll Maya Angelou George Orwell Dr Seuss Roald Dahl Oscar Wilde Geoffrey Chaucer J.K. Rowling Jane Austen Virginia Woolf William Wordsworth Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive information about the writer, their career and their life, including sections entitled: -Overview; -Key Times in their Life; -Career -Important Vocabulary; -Timeline of their Life; -Answers to the Important Questions; -Top Ten Facts. The resources are designed to be printed onto A3 or A4, and are provided as both PDF and Word versions (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.

This ‘Secrets of a Sun King’ big bundle contains all of the Secrets of a Sun King lessons, plus the detailed knowledge organiser and the 22-page comprehension activities booklet! The entire novel is broken down in to 10 double (and in some cases triple) lesson bundles, meaning that there is a total of 23 individual lesson activity sets here - one for each chapter of the text. -1. Chapters 1-2 -2. Chapters 3-4 -3. Chapters 5-6 -4. Chapters 7-8 -5. Chapters 9-11 -6. Chapters 12-13 -7. Chapters 14-16 -8. Chapters 17-18 -9. Chapters 19-21 -10. Chapters 22-23 The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range f activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analaysis and deeper thinking activities. Additional worksheets/ templates are provided for tasks where they are required - everything that you need to teach the lessons is here! The lessons are most suitable for children in KS2, (I originally used them with year 4/5 children) but with minor adaptations could be used with older or younger year groups.

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for students learning or revising knowledge relating to a wide range of history topics, including: The Ancient Egyptians The Ancient Greeks The Vikings The Romans The Victorians The Aztecs Baghdad c.900AD World War I World War II Tudors and Stuarts The Great Fire of London Anglo-Saxons The Holocaust The Cold War Each organiser contains a number of comprehensive sections to guide learning and revision including: Overviews of the era; Annotated maps/ diagrams; Timelines; Rulers/ Emperors/ Prominent People; Daily Life at the time; Important facts/ dates The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDF and Word versions (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included). The knowledge organisers may be used for students of all ages, but are most suitable for children in upper KS2 and lower KS3.

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for children learning about writers, as a part of their study of ‘Significant Individuals.’ Included in this bundle are 20 knowledge organisers, about: Florence Nightingale Mary Seacole William Booth Mother Teresa Marie Curie Tim Berners-Lee Stephen Hawking Isaac Newton Robert Scott Amy Johnson Christopher Columbus Neil Armstrong Winston Churchill Queen Victoria Queen Elizabeth I Abraham Lincoln Nelson Mandela Martin Luther-King Guy Fawkes Emmeline Pankhurst Each knowledge organiser contains comprehensive sections entitled: Overview; Key Times in their Life; Important Vocabulary; Timeline of their Life; Answers to the Important Questions; Top Ten Facts. The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.

This huge resource pack contains highly stimulating, detailed, and informative whole-lesson resources for 18 different poems - each of the poems feature on the new GCSE poetry lists for the vast majority of examining boards. In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique! The poems included are largely from the Relationships and War/Conflict poetry lists. Individually, these resources are worth more than double the price of the bundle, meaning that you can make a considerable saving! Each lesson employs a wide range of teaching and learning strategies, with a large variety of interesting tasks and ideas. This pack contains a whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation for each poem, in addition to all of the worksheets, task resources, and lesson plans that you need to teach. Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes Before You Were Mine - Carol Ann Duffy Dulce et Decorum est - Wilfred Owen In Paris with You - James Fenton Love's Philosophy - Percy Bysshe Shelley Mametz Wood - Owen Sheers Mother, Any Distance - Simon Armitage Neutral Tones - Thomas Hardy next to of course god america i - E.E. Cummings Out of the Blue - Simon Armitage Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poppies - Jane Weir Sonnet 116 - William Shakespeare The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Falling Leaves - Margaret Postgate Cole War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy What Were They Like? - Denise Levertov When We Two Parted - Lord Byron Comparing Poems! All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the presentations.

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for students learning or revising knowledge relating to 16 KS2 history topics, including: The Ancient Egyptians The Ancient Greeks The Vikings The Romans The Aztecs Baghdad c.900AD World War I World War II Tudors and Stuarts The Great Fire of London Anglo-Saxons The Shang Dynasty Ancient Sumer The Peasants’ Revolt Boudica The Hundred Years’ War Each organiser contains a number of comprehensive sections to guide learning and revision including: Overviews of the era; Annotated maps/ diagrams; Timelines; Rulers/ Emperors/ Prominent People; Daily Life at the time; Important facts/ dates The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDF and Word versions (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE ‘GREAT EXPECTATIONS’ AND ‘A CHRISTMAS CAROL’ LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE 30-PAGE COMPREHENSION BOOKLETS, AND THE POINTLESS GAMES, AT A SPECIAL ‘GIGANTIC BUNDLE’ PRICE! These engaging, varied, and informative schemes of learning are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘Great Expectations.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete these schemes having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Dickens’ language devices. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided - everything that you need to teach!

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for students learning or revising knowledge relating to 20 KS3 history topics, including: The Norman Conquest The Crusades King John and the Magna Carta The Black Death The Peasants’ Revolt The Hundred Years’ War The Wars of the Roses The Interregnum The Glorious Revolution The Transatlantic Slave Trade The French Revolution The British Empire Women’s Suffrage World War I The Inter-War Years World War II Indian Independence and Partition The Holocaust The Cold War Extending Understanding of the Iron Age Each organiser contains a number of comprehensive sections to guide learning and revision including: Overview/ summary; Annotated maps/ diagrams; Timelines; Breakdown of key events; Important individuals/ leaders; Key vocabulary Important facts/ dates The resources are designed to be printed onto either A3 or A4, and are provided as both PDF and Word versions (so that you can edit if you want to).