I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
A handy pack of documents and proformas for a head of department.
Included:
Deep dive documents that will be useful for inspection including work scrutiny and learning walk templates as well as Middle leader ofsted questions
- Lesson observation / learning walk document in line with latest Ofsted
Work scrutiny / pupil voice document in line with new Ofsted
An example English department vision which takes into account pupils’ reading, writing and speaking & listening
- Department report templates
- Department detention letter templates
- Departmental moderation and standardisation templates
- English department presentation policy template
- Questions to prepare of Ofsted inspection
- A template for assessing the English department against the Ofsted ‘Good’ criteria
Comment back for Media studies teachers in an excel file.
The comments cover the following areas:
- Pupil effort
- Pupil homework
- Pupil classwork
- Pupil targets for improvement
Comment back for English teachers in an excel file.
The comments cover the following areas:
- Pupil effort
- Pupil attitude
- Pupil homework
- Pupil classwork
- Pupil targets for improvement
Also broken down to provide comments for:
- Poetry
- Prose
These resources allow aspiring middle and senior leaders to track their progress in gaining evidence and experience in the following areas:
- Leading in the community
- Leading people
- Leading strategically
- Leading teaching and learning
- Leading the organisation
Each document lists the skill areas necessary to be a successful leader in each area listed above.
Ideal for teachers who are working towards progressing to leadership and for interview preparation.
These documents outline what makes a student a HAP, MAP or LAP now that curriculum levels have been removed.
HAP = High achieving pupil
MAP = Middle achieving pupil
LAP = low achieving pupil
The documents outline the skills required (in both theory and practical) for each student in year 9 through to year 11 to be categorised as a HAP, MAP or LAP in Media studies. The skills are bullet pointed to allow ease of use for all department members.
These documents would be ideal for teachers to use when assessing student progress in specific components of their Media studies, particularly in KS3 (year9.) Once used, the student work can then be compared to their target in order to track progress.
These documents outline what makes a student a HAP, MAP or LAP now that curriculum levels have been removed.
HAP = High achieving pupil
MAP = Middle achieving pupil
LAP = low achieving pupil
The documents outline the skills required (in both reading and writing) for each student in year 7 through to year 11 to be categorised as a HAP, MAP or LAP in English language. The skills are bullet pointed to allow ease of use for all department members.
For KS4 this information is separated into both language and literature.
For literature this is broken down even further so that teachers can determine whether students are a HAP, MAP or LAP in specific components of English such as:
- poetry
- 19th century literature
- Shakespeare
- modern novel
These documents would be ideal for teachers to use when assessing student progress in specific components of their English studies be it language or literature. Once used, the student work can then be compared to their target in order to track progress.
A variety of resources to support the teaching of anti bullying as part of English context or as part of PSHE.
Resources include:
- national anti bullying week ideas
- Who wants to be a millionaire anti bullying game
- pledge cards
- analysis of anti bullying posters
- create own anti bullying speeches/posters etc.
- forms of bullying
-research lesson ideas
Resources to support the teaching of speech writing.
Resources provide opportunities to:
- structure speeches using the 6 part structure
- develop persuasive skills
- write speeches on the theme of the increase in legal driving age
- write speeches on the theme of TV talent shows
Students will study speeches by the following people as a stimulus:
- Winston Churchill
- Elizabeth I
- Earl spencer tribute to Diana
- Barack Obama
- George Bush
- Martin Luther King
- Nelson Mandella
Resources to support the teaching of letter writing.
The lessons take stimulus from the following:
- Children in need
- Comic relief
- Pimp my ride
- Holidays from hell
Resources provide opportunities to:
- structure formal letters
- use the 6 part structure to form letter content
- write persuasively
- write emotively
Resources to support the teaching of 'twisted' for lower ability.
Homework project also included.
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore stage directions
- understand and create monologues
- explore characterisation
- develop empathy skills
- explore and create flash backs
- create narratives
- develop speaking and listening skills through role play
- create tableau
- explore the theme of bullying
- analyse anti bullying posters and create own
- write letters to an agony aunt
- performs scenes
Resources that provide students with a fun exploration of English as an introduction to KS3 or KS2.
Students develop a variety of English skills through the theme of going on a quest. Along the quest students must negotiate a number of labours which will each help them to develop necessary skills such as:
- descriptive writing
- formal letter structure
- planning skills
- narrative writing
- solving riddles
- creating characters
Resources to support the understanding of the context of being homeless.
Ideal for supporting students with their exploration of texts such as 'Stone Cold' and 'The Outsiders.'
Resources included:
- Homelessness case studies
- missing person posters/adverts
- extract from Stone Cold - homelessness and the law
- true or false activities
- what is a home?
- 'The Streets of London' Ralph McTell exploration
- 'London' by William Blake poem exploration
- consideration of bullying
- leaflet examples
- investigation into homeless charities
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore homelessness through case studies and exploring the law
- write persuasively
- structure formal letters
- explore and create missing person posters
- explore poetry
- analyse texts
- investigate and create leaflets#
- debate whether more housing is needed
Resource to support the revision of context of Jekyll and Hyde and how to form exam responses to an extract from the novel and make links to the novel as a whole.
Meticulously planned and differentiated.
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
These resources provide opportunities for carousel activities whereby students read 4 extracts from the novel and make notes to form an exam response. Students will consider other parts of the text as part of their answer.
Extracts taken from:
-chapter 3 - 'Dre Jekyll was quite at ease'
-chapter 4 - 'Carew murder case'
-chapter 9 - 'Dr Lanyon's narrative'
-chapter 10 -'Henry Jekyll's full statement'
A booklet is also included to support higher ability exploration of context.
Over 31 fully differentiated (by colour) and meticulously planned lessons to support the teaching of The Edge by Allan Gibbons. Lessons are numbered for ease of use.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore an analyse characters and themes
-explore racism and make links to other literature including John Agard poetry
- explore bullying and create anti bug texts
- explore perspectives
- write agony aunt letters
- explore and analyse the creation of tension
- study news reports and create reports
- study and create police reports
- develop narrative writing
- develop persuasive writing
- explore dramatic irony
A wide variety of starter activities and warms to get students engaged and awake.
Included in this wide variety of starters and warm ups are:
- optical illusions
- ice breakers
- Taboo games
- Brain gyms
- homophones
- metaphors and similes
- double negatives
- imperatives
- punctuation practice
- spellings
- inference
- describing games
and many, many more!
Over 14 lessons to support the teaching of Skellig.
Opportunities for students to:
- analysis writer's methods
- analyse the creation of tension
- develop speaking and listening skills
- explore symbolism
- create diary entries
- make links to other literature including the schoolboy by William Blake
- explore the effect on the reader
- explore characters and themes
Revision guide to support student revision and understanding of the novel.
This resource could be ideal as an ongoing homework project as students read the novel in class.
A higher and lower ability revision guide to allow students to revise Romeo and Juliet.
These would be ideal as ongoing homework projects as students read the play.