As a HOD / teacher, promote the sharing of good practise by ensuring that your department is observing each other. Use this proforma to collect peoples' reflections and as the basis for ensuring that evaluative conversations take place within your department. This could easily be added into your school's / department's policy for appraisal!

A complete lesson to be taught as an introduction to English Literature at A-Level. This gets students thinking about the Literary Canon and their reasons for wanting to take on the A-Level. Students will also be required to put to the test, many of the skills they will need to be successful A-Level students.

An exemplar essay on Journey's End, considering how the theme of camaraderie is presented. This resource was written by a teacher to demonstrate how to meet the Assessment Criteria. This is particularly aimed at KS5 but could be adapted for use with KS4 students.

A handy information resource to help students improve their AO5 marks and know how to structure their essays.

A handy booklet to support A-Level students with their wider reading. In the requirements for AO4 to make wider connections, students need to be reading widely around their core texts. This booklet makes those expectations clear to students from the beginning of the course and provides them with a convenient place for them to log what they have been reading and to reflect on the ways in which they can use their wider reading in comparison to their set texts. A great resource to hand out to students at the beginning of the course!

An easy-to-use proforma for use by HODs when completing a learning walk. This will enable you to record your observations of your team in one, handy place and record any issues that need to be picked up on efficiently after the learning walk has taken place.

A handy resource that collects together a number of critical interpretations of "King Lear". These could easily be incorporated into classroom discussion when teaching students to engage with others' viewpoints (AO5) or be used as part of a lesson where you are teaching students how to incorporate critical quotes into their written responses.

Student's essay written to explore how justice is presented across the play. A-Level standard.

An exemplar that you could use / adapt with your A-Level class, showing students how to meet the Assessment Criteria for the NEW A-Level AQA A specification. I have taken the sample question from specimen Paper 1 and modelled how a chapter from Jane Eyre could be used in response. This exemplar is modelling how to get top marks by meeting all of the band 5 criteria.

A handy resource that outlines a foolproof exam strategy for students so they know how to use their planning time in the exam to craft and shape a top band essay response.

A booklet of extracts all on the theme of Courtly Love to help students improve their contextual understanding of writers' treatment of this theme. This will help students with their AO3/4 marks on Paper 1 - Love through the Ages.

A booklet of extracts all on the theme of Destructive Love to help students improve their contextual understanding of writers' treatment of this theme. This will help students with their AO3/4 marks on Paper 1 - Love through the Ages.

A detailed handbook that introduces students to the new A-Level course and sets out clear expectations for how they are to approach their studies. This resource was written for the new AQA A specification but would be easily customisable to any new A-Level course. The advice to students is very pertinent and will ensure that your students begin their two years of study in the right frame of mind to achieve success!

A document that can be used for the planning of schemes of work. This is a great resource for HODs to introduce to their departments for the writing and re-writing of SOWs. This is user-friendly and will enable the user to create full and detailed lesson plans. From a HOD's perspective, this will enable you to have discussions with your department about the profile of the learner you are aiming to create. Also as HOD, you can relax in the knowledge that your department's schemes of work are fully differentiated and focused around success criteria.

An easy-to-use proforma for HODs or any other colleague when observing within their department. This enables you to pinpoint strengths and areas for improvement to inform positive conversations regarding CPD and to enable the sharing of good practise across the department.

Long term plan for the delivery of AQA A English Literature specification over two years.

A one-off lesson with all resources to deliver to Year 11 students who have chosen to study English Literature to A-Level. This lesson introduces them to WW1 texts and gets them thinking about key issues and areas for study which will face them in September.

A wider reading list for the new AQA A specification Paper 2 World War One and its Aftermath.

A handy resource that outlines a method for students to follow which will help them include contextual comments and comment upon their significance so as to meet band 5 criteria for AO3.

A resource to hand out to students giving them pointers on what aspects of form, structure and language they could comment on, when analysing a prose text. This will enable students to meet the assessment criteria for AO2 at both GCSE and A-Level.