Resource helping students to use adjectives and adverbs effectively and strategically, and to find alternative ways of describing. Includes both notes and activities. Aimed for 11+ and KS3, but many of the ideas could also be suitable for older students.

Notes and model essay plan looking at essay technique and using context in essays through a focus on the theme of the supernatural in Macbeth. (3 pages, used for 1hr of tutoring) Designed for GCSE AQA English.

A collection of relevant quotes from a range of secondary sources on A Midsummer Night’s Dream (on a 19-slide Powerpoint). Designed for the Edexcel A-Level specification.

Powerpoint (15 slides) on designing and analysing the results of experiments.

Grammar powerpoint covering tenses (present, preterite, imperfect, compound tenses, near-future, future, conditional, gerund, present subjunctive, imperfect subjunctive), si clauses, the direct object, por and para. Level: advanced GCSE or basic AS/A-Level.

Powerpoint and handout containing language analysis notes on the extract from ‘Touching the Void’ (from the Edexcel GCSE English Language course).

7-slide powerpoint on electrolysis (reduction vs oxidation, half equations, and examples of electrolysis: lead bromide, brine, electroplating). Designed for the GCSE AQA Dual Award Chemistry specification.

7-slide powerpoint on acids, bases and salts (what causes acidity/alkalinity, salt reactions, making soluble and insoluble salts, ammonia, limewater test, crystallisation, carbonates). Designed for C4 of the AQA GCSE Chemistry Dual Award specification.

7-slide powerpoint outlining: the nature of these substances, tests for the presence of glucose, starch, protein and lipids, and how enzymes work. For section B3 on the AQA GCSE Biology Dual Award specification.

5 slide powerpoint on rates of reaction (calculating by equations and graphs, collision theory, factors affected rate of reaction, catalysts). Designed for C6 of the GCSE AQA Chemistry Dual Award Specification. 2 further slides on energy changes in reactions to explain endothermic and exothermic reactions (C9).

6 slide powerpoint on air (composition, fractional distillation, reactions) and water (treatment and filtering, desalination, chlorination, fluoridation, rusting). Designed for C3 of the the AQA GCSE Chemistry Dual Award specification.

8-slide powerpoint on structure and bonding (compounds, ionic bonding, simple molecules, covalent bonding, covalent structures, fullerenes, metallic bonding). Designed for the AQA GCSE Chemistry Dual Award specification.

Brief powerpoint on Stalin’s rise to power, purges and show trials, propaganda, cultural censorship and 1936 constitution.

7 slide powerpoint on plants (photosynthesis process and uses of its products, limiting factors, tropisms), covering section B6 on the AQA GCSE Dual Award Biology specification.

8 slide powerpoint on waves (equations, types of EM waves and their uses, sound waves, reflection refraction diffraction, Doppler effect and red shift). Designed for P2 of the AQA GCSE Physics Dual Award specification.

8 slide powerpoint focusing on moles and different types of mole calculations. Designed for C1 of the AQA GCSE Chemistry Dual Award specification.

10 page powerpoint covering Unit 1: Believing in God. Explains key terms and gives points for discussing: Christian upbringings, religious experiences, the argument from design, the argument from causation, scientific explanations, prayer, suffering.

8 page powerpoint detailing white blood cells, vaccinations, drugs used against pathogens, antibiotic resistance, safety when growing microbes. Designed for section B5 of the AQA GCSE Biology Dual Award specification.

A resource with guided activities (inspired by Anne of Green Gables) and tips on how to help your students ‘show, not tell’ in their creative writing. Designed for 11+, but relevant for 13+/KS3.

Analysis of the poem ‘Genetics’ by Sinéad Morrissey. From ‘Poems of the Decade’ for Edexcel A-Level English Literature.