This lesson uses a paper thematically linked to 'Space' and takes students through a series of leading questions in order to help them break down the methods they can use to approach this final question on the Non Fiction paper. It also includes reference to PALS as a method of talking about authors ideas and perspectives. My year 11 group found this lesson enormously clarifying as a revision lesson.

This resource takes students through a range of engaging activities in order to instil a love, understanding and ability to analyse the text, in terms of language, structure and thematic links. This is everything you need to teach Act 2 of this play, activities are designed to be pick and mix if you are tight for time. If taught in full this powerpoint would take between 4-6 hours of teaching.

This lesson introduces students to the fundamental differences between 'features' and 'components' in Media texts and asks them to analyse the 'Where's Klaus' Internet Safety advert. This lesson worked really well as a successful interview lesson for Middle Leadership, it would equally work well for a Media Studies lesson or a PSHE lesson on Internet Safety. Students are asked to engage with the advert using stills and differentiated questions. When I taught this lesson I also got students to mark their start 'grade' on a timeline (most said they would have thought they'd get a 2/3 at first) and then ask them to review this twice more during the lesson.....this simple method was highly successful in showing the 'outstanding progress'achieved during the lesson for all students.

This powerpoint includes detailed contextual information linked to the text. Close analysis of language, form and structure through both ‘given slides’ and task driven learning. This resource also includes a non fiction reading extract for additional background on the use of the word ‘Raven’ so comprises elements of the skills required in the English Language exam. This lesson would work well as an introduction to the poem and a revision lesson. Challenge tasks are threaded throughout. The lesson ends with a ‘comparison quiz’ and revision challenge task.

A current news quiz that asks students to fill the word gap in the headline. All headlines are taken from current news articles and includes World News and the 2017 Election amongst other subjects. My tutor group love these types of quizzes and ticks both tutor time and the SMSC boxes. Enjoy!

This assembly uses humour to appeal to secondary age students and reiterate that Christmas does not have to mean not looking at your study books for 2-3 weeks. This assembly is one that stays in students’ memories and resonates with them for a long time afterwards. The resource comes with a complete script and the powerpoint is fully animated to ensure that the visuals match the presentation. This is an assembly that my students loved and laughed about for a long time after first presenting this. WARNING: DO NOT SHOW THIS TO ANY YEAR GROUP WHO MIGHT STILL BELIEVE IN SANTA! :-)

This powerpoint is designed to support students studying Shakespeare as a complete text at GCSE level. This resource covers Act One in detail and is one of five resources on this text. It draws on a range of varied activities to hook students and nurture a love of Shakespeare: dramatic exercises, creative exercises, matching and challenge activities and activities that make Shakespeare more realatable to the 21st century student. This resource is tailored for 6-8 hours of teaching and includes character studies, analysis of language, form and structure. It is everything you would need to ensure students fully engage with this play, beyond the narrative alone.

Following the success of my first collection of 19th century non fiction extracts, here is a further collection with 6 more extracts for practice analysis.

This resource is designed to take GCSE students through a detailed analysis of William Wordsworth’s poem in line with the new GCSE (9-1) specifications. It covers context, form, language and structure. This lesson incorporates a number of differentiated activities, in particular stretch and challenge, for the very top end using the Venus and Adonis Myth to secure a grade 8/9.

Suitable for use with both the AQA 2017 specification or the Edexcel 2017 specification, this set of resources takes students through this poem step by step, the collection of resources includes an alphabetised version of the poem, contextual information, challenge activities, language activities and higher order questioning on language, structure and form before providing a stanza by stanza analysis. This is everything you need to teach this poem.

This lesson includes a range of tasks to engage students, including information on context and interpretations of the poem. The lesson includes extension activities, grading criteria and DIRT tasks. This is a really effective lesson to use when studying poetry at KS3 level to gently introduce students to the strengthened demands of the GCSE (9-1) syllabus.

A well rounded quiz based on commonly heard slogans, students of all ages and abilities should be able to access this end of term/tutor time treat!

A tutor/end of term film quiz accessible for seccondary students of all ages/abilities - varied clues including audio and visual slides makes this a fun activity.

This powerpoint is designed for use as a CPD presentation that explores a full range of methods for showing the use of differentiation in classrooms. This presentation is based on pedagogical thinking and uses time efficient but effective ways of varying teaching methods to support students and also make learning enjoyable and challenging.

This quiz draws on famous film stars, royalty, pop stars, historical icons and inspirational sportsmen. It traverses the entire curriculum and my year 7s and 9s both absolutely loved playing this. Challenging but not too difficult.

A powerpoint containing a mix of easy and difficult Dingbats images and in turn the answers. This is a ready to roll End of Term Quiz for that last 50 minute lesson with a 'spirited' group!! Enjoy. Also available as part of a discounted package with a scorecard...see my shop for other options on buying this resource.