Four wordsearch puzzles for World Poetry Day (21st March) suitable for differing ages, interests and abilities; Names of poets, poetic forms/terms, The Jabberwocky and the 2021 Presidential Inaugaration poem “The Hill We Climb” English/Literacy, Starter, Tutor Time , PSHE etc Each puzzles has an extended learning task included at the end.

Fun and original Creative Writing lesson for Easter, using the imaginary land of “Good-Friday Forest” (where the Easter Bunny lives wink) Learning Objectives to write both a description and a story with very appealing and engaging visual picture stimulus. 6 Slide Landscape printable PDF file for the IWB

St Patrick’s Day Creative Writing Lesson based on The Giant’s Causeway and the legend of Finn McCool. The Powerpoint includes a clear learning objective, factual information about The Giant’s Causeway, and a link to a 2.5 minute excellent and engaging animation about the legend of Finn McCool and the creation of the Giant’s Causeway. Two writing tasks are included, each with a clear and different audience and purpose. An extension activity could be a Speaking & Listening task to create a voice over for the animation.

14 page/slide printable PDF lesson for KS3/KS2 English planning ideas for three stories based on the three different illustrated “landscapes” provided. Clear focus on English Language Assessment Objective 5: organising ideas for coherent writing. Each picture has an identical 3 page planning template so this could easily be developed over a series of lessons.

A 14 slide complete lesson getting learners to use prepositions to create varied sentence structure and imaginative, descriptive writing. Clear links to Assessment Objectives 5 and 6 of the curriculum for GCSE English Language. Differentiated Learning Outcomes included. The lesson has a task to consolidate understanding before giving three pictures to inspire imaginative descriptive sentence writing. Further ideas for differentiation could include: **More able learners write the opening paragraph of a story using one of the pictures ensuring they use prepositions at the start of some of the sentences. ** Lower ability pupils could use the list of prepositions to write descriptive sentences including prepositions, not necessarily at the start of the sentence