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A shop which mainly offers secondary school mathematics materials such as worksheets, revision materials and investigations. Also on offer are English Language resources in particular advice on essay writing. Finally, the shop also offers materials geared towards career education such as giving students advice on how to compose CVs, university personal statements and covering letters with templates and model examples provided.

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A shop which mainly offers secondary school mathematics materials such as worksheets, revision materials and investigations. Also on offer are English Language resources in particular advice on essay writing. Finally, the shop also offers materials geared towards career education such as giving students advice on how to compose CVs, university personal statements and covering letters with templates and model examples provided.
KS4 English Writing mock exam questions
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KS4 English Writing mock exam questions

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This resources contains a couple of mock exam questions for KS4 English students to complete to help them prepare for the writing section of the exam. Both questions are 48 marks, the first involves writing a letter and the second requires students to write an article/magazine. Further prompts/relevant information is provided in the resource.
KS3/4 English Creating and Writing Magazines Full Lesson
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KS3/4 English Creating and Writing Magazines Full Lesson

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This powerpoint contains a full lesson on how to create and write magazines. It would be suitable for most KS3 English classes and a lower ability KS4 class. It is largely interactive and contains several activities for students to work through with the eventual aim of creating their own magazine front cover and contents page. It has strong cross-curricular links with ICT and Media Studies. The powerpoint covers the different types of magazine, features of magazines and adapting their content according to audience and format.
KS3/4 English Speeches/Persuasive Writing Powerpoint
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KS3/4 English Speeches/Persuasive Writing Powerpoint

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This resource contains a powerpoint for a full lesson (potentially 2 depending on how fast students progress) for higher-ability KS3 and 4 students on speeches and persuasive writing. It covers famous speeches, features of speeches, how to analyse them (according to purpose, audience and format) and the effectiveness of persuasive speaking/writing. Students are guided to complete a piece of writing of up to 1000 words, which is a persuasive speech on a topic of their choice. This lesson is highly interactive, with multiple activities for students to discuss and collaborate with each other including analysing famous speeches and completing a set of questions on the King’s Speech.
Sixth Form Student Preparing and Applying for University Resources
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Sixth Form Student Preparing and Applying for University Resources

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This bundle contains a wealth of resources to help sixth form students and their teachers prepare for and apply to university. This pack includes guidance on how to write a personal statement, providing a template for students to complete their own as well as a model personal statement with commentary. These are further supplemented by examples of personal statements for Nursing, Chemistry and Primary Teaching Courses. The bundle also contains handout explaining the university grading system, a template for comparing university courses when deciding which one to apply to and templates for and examples of creating a model CV and covering letter.
KS3 and KS4 English Teaching Pack
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KS3 and KS4 English Teaching Pack

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This bundle contains a huge set of resources to support students/teachers in teaching and learning KS3 and KS4 English. It contains a collection of learning mats for pupils to assist them throughout lessons and with revision and exam technique/preparation. In this bundle there is a general one for KS3 and KS4 and also specialised ones on grammar, punctuation and spelling, writing and Romeo and Juliet. The bundle also includes a couple of powerpoints with full lessons on creating/writing magazines and analysing the characters of Kes. Also in this bundle is a template to help students either peer or self assess a piece of writing, a chart of all pronouns used in English, a collaborative learning activity to help pupils learn key words and terminology and a couple of exam questions for the writing section of GCSE English.
Huge KS3/KS4 English and Maths Resource Pack
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Huge KS3/KS4 English and Maths Resource Pack

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This incredible value bundle contains a comprehensive set of resources to support students/teachers in teaching and learning KS3 and KS4 English and Maths. The English resources include a collection of learning mats for pupils to assist them throughout lessons and with revision and exam technique/preparation. There is a general one for KS3 and KS4 and also specialised ones on grammar, punctuation and spelling, writing and Romeo and Juliet. It also has a couple of full lessons for writing magazines and persuasive writing in addition to a collaborative learning activity to help pupils learn key words and terminology. The maths resources contain a huge bank of starters for KS3 (including on Geometry, Fractions and probability), a comprehensive bank of KS3 revision/exam questions, a set of 4 whole lessons on probability, scatter graphs, pie charts and solving linear equations. It also has a glossary of key words used in KS3 and 4 Maths and a subject self-audit for student and qualified teachers to examine and assess their subject content knowledge.
KS3/KS4 Secondary School Writing Pack
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KS3/KS4 Secondary School Writing Pack

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This bundle contains a comprehensive, incredibly useful set of resources to assist teachers and students studying KS3 and KS4 English. It contains a set of 5 learning mats which will be invaluable for pupils to use to assist them in their writing exercises in class and also for revision/homework purposes. There is a general learning mat for both KS3 and KS4 as well as specialised ones for grammar, spelling and punctuation and non-fiction writing. These are complemented by 2 full lessons focusing on writing: Creating and Writing Magazines and Speeches and Perusuasive Writing. The powerpoints are interactive and include plenty of activities for students to complete. The bundle is rounded of by a chart of all pronouns that need to be used by students in their writing and some GCSE mock exam questions.
KS3/KS4 Peer and Self Assessment Placemat Template
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KS3/KS4 Peer and Self Assessment Placemat Template

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A very useful template/place mat for pupils in KS3 and KS4 to use when peer and self-assessing a piece of work. This is especially useful in subjects like English and the humanities and works well as a plenary and a reflective/high-order thinking skills activity. It guides pupils through the process of self and peer assessment using helpful prompts, guidelines and clear criteria with which to assess the work on.
Set of KS3 and 4 Higher Order Thinking Skills Activities
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Set of KS3 and 4 Higher Order Thinking Skills Activities

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A very useful set of 7 activities designed to promote higher-order thinking skills among students and encourage them to think reflectively. The bundle includes 2 sets of collaborative learning activities involving key words, one for Literacy/Humanities and the other for KS3 Maths. It also contains a learning mat on Bloom’s Taxonomy for pupils to apply to their in-class and homework. Pupils are also provided with a learning mat and set of templates to peer and self-assess a piece of work, including a specialised framework to evaluate a piece of writing.