A resource that looks at personal statements. It has a step by step guide to writing a personal statement.

Using images from war, this PowerPoint focusses on varying sentence openers. Can be used with conflict poetry or with descriptive writing.

Power point presentation examining the description of the Troll from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

Compares the Globe with modern theatres.

Designed for a Y8 lower ability group, it covers language devices using poems by Ogden Nash and Lewis Caroll.

A Unit of work covering the poets Blake, Wordsworth and Frost. includes a SOW, powerpoints, starters, homework and worksheets.

Looks at various texts and descriptions of a gas attack and asks students to write their own report.

A range of resources that explore the novel.

A series of power-points that look at reading non-fiction, writing to review and descriptive writing. Based on articles about Centre Parcs which are from different viewpoints.

Various activities exploring the prologue and looking at previous learning.

Looking at the start of the novel discussing Tommo's role in his father's death and his relationship with other characters.

Can be used for Y7 looking at what is meant by identity and looking at their own lives and what makes them unique. Could also be used in English to support an autobiographical unit

Looks at the poem Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen as well as visual texts leading to students writing a non-fiction article on the use of gas in the trenches.

Looking at texts either from or about the Harry Potter series, these PowerPoints looks at various reading skills. Includes both fiction and non-fiction texts which are provided.

A lesson looking at feelings and empathy and how empathy can help us understand others.

Three power-points looking at the theme of love in Act1, Scene 5 and how to explode quotes.

A literature poetry quiz based on the AQA Anthology Literature Poetry. Revises the poems of Seamus Heaney and Gillian Clarke and Pre 1914 with the theme of nature. A jeopardy quiz which gives students the answers and they need to come up with the question.

A starter for a lesson on World War 2 looking at which year some key events took place.

Various activities based on the spelling lists for Entry 3 English of the reformed Functional Skills. Good for starters or revision. Could also be used for KS3 English.