This scheme was used with a set three year seven class. It takes you up to part two of the novel. The pupils really enjoyed it. it was made in my PGCE year so may need adapting!

KS3 - English - Documentary Comprehension Lesson - Non-Fiction - Watch and respond This lesson works really well as an additional lesson linked to my ‘Weird and Wonderful’ or ‘Around the World’ schemes or as a stand alone lesson. The idea is that students watch the documentary as their text and listen for the evidence in order to fully respond to the 10 questions. The questions are all retrieval questions apart from question 10 in which students use what they have learned in the documentary to answer an opinion question. The documentary is ‘Inside the Factory - Series 5 Episode 6 - Pasties’

Staffroom bingo cards. Ready to laminate and display. The idea is that staff write their name or a colleague’s name on them when they have achieved what the ‘bingo’ cell says. They can then be wiped and re-used or swapped / shared with another dept. The people with a line or full house at the end of a week or Half Term win a prize. Great for staff well being and / or motivation. Just a bit of fun and can be edited to suit your own department (especially if you have a focus for the current HT). Hope you enjoy.

Eduqas Language Component Paper 1- Practise Exam Q1,2,3 & 5 This paper uses an extract from a Christmas Carol wherein the ghost of Christmas present visits Scrooge. The questions are questions 1, 2, 3 and 5 only. In order for students to focus on language and selecting relevant quotes for analysis. The paper has been made by myself and is not in any way produced by Eduqas. It was aimed at giving students KS4 a practice over the Christmas period.

A menu task sheet that allows students to select from (or complete all) 4 tasks linked to writing creatively using their senses linked to Easter / Spring and the world around them.

I sent this home to my form to let them know that they are part of something bigger, they are still part of our form, and that I am very proud of them as we go into our final half term of the year. You can change to add your own Bitmojis or other images. Once printed, cut around the black boxes ideally one will stick to the front and one will be placed inside. Bold an A4 piece of card lengthwise, so you have a long thin piece of card approximately 30 cm X 10 cm. Then cut this piece in half. Each text box that you have cut should fit safely within and be able to be glued to look like the pictures I have added with the resource. Alternatively, you could stick back to back or just use one box to make it look more like a postcard and add the address on the other side ready to post. Please feel free to edit and share your finished results with me on twitter @nowtcheesy

Pub Quiz - 9 Rounds - Cross Curricular - Dingbats and Picture round - Answers included. I used this a staff pub quiz to raise money for our school charity. It was good fun - challenging at points - there were teams representing each of the subject areas included. The money raised by charging for this quiz will continue to be donated to the British Heart Foundation. Hope you enjoy.

This workbook is designed to help students practice forming and spacing their words. It is designed to help those with poor grip or lower ability, those who really struggle to form legible words on the page. By the end of the workbook they should see and feel a difference in their handwriting.

Shakespeare’s Macbeth context - Witchcraft - Carousel lesson This lesson has been designed to allow students to work in pairs, small groups or table groups in order to circulate and research the opening of ‘Macbeth’ and how witches were viewed at the time when the play was written. The lesson includes a PPT with starter activity and instructions for the lesson, A3 printable sheet for each student (LA version available) and the printable resource material (all in one document) with labels for each table. Put each category separately on different tables. Alternatively, this lesson could be lead from the front.

All poem titles from the Eduqas Poetry Anthology in an A3 table for revision in the first pages and comparison in the final pages. The table asks students to provide the following for each poem: A brief overview 3 important quotes Context A poem they could make a link to (this could be extended to an explain) The poems have been clustered in order for students to make links on themes such as: time / nature / power / love / relationships. The final page encourages students to plan and structure their comparative response between two linked poems of their choice, selecting comparative connectives to use too.

KS3 - English - Literacy Skills Workbook - Spelling This workbook briefly revisits: Prefixes and suffixes Double consonants Nouns ending in y Plurals Selecting homophones It would work well as a mid-range resource for a KS3-lower KS4 student who needs some recapping. Ideal as an intervention or when returning in Sept.

5 extracts with questions designed to encourage students to explore and engage with the texts, find quotes, explain their thoughts, opinions and ideas linked to what they have read. Extracts include: Lord of the Flies Roald Dahl Gelert the dog

KS3 - English - Literacy Skills Workbook - Sentences & Punctuation This workbook helps students to focus on the key skills of using capital letters and punctuation in the right places as well as cutting off their sentences so that they aren’t ridiculously long. It looks a little at main and subordinate clauses and punctuation in the correct places. It is not designed as a ‘from scratch’ or starter resource. It would work well as a mid-range resource for a KS3-KS4 student who needs some recapping. Ideal as an intervention when returning in Sept.

This lesson includes a PPT to lead the lesson and a printable flippable resource which students can cut out, stick together and then make notes on (see photos). Students cut along all black line up to the horizontal ‘title’ line which is used to hold the hole resource together. The glue is then applied to this section and the flippable resource is layered up. The punctuation foci are: semi-colon, colon, apostrophe, dash and brackets. If you print slides 3, 5-8 they can be used to support / differentiate or to allow the lesson to work as a carousel rather than teaching from the front. This lessons always goes down well. It works well in competition, in smaller groups, from the front or with students working independently.

KS3 / KS4 English - Quiz Quiz Trade Cards Persuasive Techniques - Great Revision : Print back to back so one side has the quiz, answer and challenge and the other says ‘Persuasive QQT’ 24 QQT cards in total but more can be printed and mixed in. QQT rules: 2 students stand facing each other each with a QQT card. 1 reads the quiz question to 2, 2 answers, if correct 1 can high 5 or shout “Yeah!”. If incorrect, 1 tells 2 the answer. Then 2 reads their question to 1 and the process repeats. Once they have both read their cards and answered, they swap cards, put their left arm up in their air and move around the room looking for a new QQT partner. The cards have a CHALLENGE on them. If students have to wait for a new pairing or they found the question to quick or straightforward, they can ask their challenge question. The first set (pages 1&3) have the definition and the technique as the answer, The second set (pages 5&7) have examples of the technique in action and the technique as the answer - a little more challenging. Cards include the following techniques: Emotive language Forceful phrases Rhetorical Questions Statistics Rule of Three / Triples Personal Pronouns Hyperbole Repetition Expert opinion Imperatives Anecdote Short Sentences / Paragraphs This resource was made by me and has always worked well. Cards 1&3 can be used alone with KS3 or LA KS4 sets. HA sets or classes ready for a challenge can have pages 5&7 mixed in. Enjoy!

To get the new academic year off to a great start and headed in the right direction or as a great focus with a new class, choose a ‘WORD GOAL’ for the rest of the year. A word goal is a word that helps to focus on an area of your life in which you want to improve, grow, develop or do more. This resources helps to guide students through their selection (sheet 1) then explain their selection and set some initial actions (sheet 2) and then revisit their word at several kep points in the year (sheet 3) to review and refocus. I have also added a display title if you wanted to put the ‘Word Goals’ up on display. This has worked really well in the past and also works well hand in hand with the ‘Letter to my Future Self Lesson’ which I also have available.

A full 3 page WHOOSH on word with parts in bold for students to read aloud. Made for and used in our classrooms this year by me, it’s worked very well. Students have enjoyed, giggled and most importantly, understood the plot through reading it and performing it together.

English - KS3 - Remembrance War Poetry Lesson and display. Based around students discussing life in action during the war and how it was framed by the war office using the poems ‘Bayonet Charge’ & ‘Exposure’. Postcards from the past. The idea is that they have an ‘Experiential Lesson’ going under a scramble net wearing a helmet and gas mask, immersed in a soundscape (these can be found on Youtube). If you can’t source any or all of these, the lesson would still work in looking at and examining the finer details of the postcards when printed off and used in groups or pairs then at the board. Ten examine the poems and the challenges soldiers faced that perhaps we don’t initially think of. I have also attached lettering and description for a display if you took pictures or kept the postcards. Students always really enjoy this lesson.

An Inspector Calls Wall Display Key Quotes for each character on publisher. Sized to 290cm x 75cm Ready to just print onto A3, trim and put onto the wall.

KS3 English ‘School Life’ - Fiction Reading and Writing Workbook Home Learning Based around the theme of School using Harry Potter, To Kill a Mocking Bird and Jane Eyre extracts. Word document so easily editable 43 pages long with reading and writing opportunities and self reflection / assessment built in so this booklet is great for students working from home.