Mix of quotes on learning and on affirming positive thoughts. We use these in Tutor time and as posters for classrooms Gives a useful thinking point to the beginning of form time as students are coming in. useful to discuss and to share. Classroom affirmations are used to create a positive and supportive environment by teaching students to be supportive of one another. Affirmations develop an atmosphere where it is the norm to acknowledge and affirm positive behaviors, thoughts and actions. Used consistently, affirmations can change students’ attitudes and their actions. Daily affirmations train your brain to think positively; they are uplifting truths you want to believe and heartwarming convictions about yourself or the world as a whole. They are one of the most effective ways to proactively and permanently change the way you think. Included are some notes about affirmations and how they can support students to be resilient with some academic research to support the use in schools.

Quick quiz for tutor time or end of term Used at my school as a team activity for tutor groups in Y11/12 answers included Participation and team work

Reflective diary on progress made on summer school for KS2/3

Hopefully a useful powerpoint that staff can adapt as an intro to summer school.

Pictures linked to Other Cultures poetry Use to support students ideas about the poems includes some questions and thinking points - taken from a resource not written by me

Award certificates for achievement. Created for English but could be adapted.

A cross curricular project between English and ICT focusing on Food, healthy eating and ICT skills

A resource with a simple chart for students to use to help them compare the poems in AQA Other Cultures Cluster 1. The mood space has been left blank for students to complete and a blank chart is provided for students to write their own comments

AQA ANTHOLOGY - WORKSHEET FOR LOWER ABILITY STUDENTS FOCUSING ON EAGLE AND SONNET

A resource focusing on achieving C/D band in GCSE poetry exam. It concentrates on Seamus Heaney and Gillian Clarke and provides exemplar essay excerpts for those aiming to achieve C and D band results in GCSE.

A worksheet with a writing activity based on school reports using The Ghost of Thomas Kempe a low fantasy novel for children by Penelope Lively

Quiz on the Ghost of Thomas Kempe novel P Lively

This resource provides a lesson focussed on apartheid and how it connects to Robert Swindells' novel Daz 4 Zoe>

Focused GCSE question Exam work Aqa A langauge

This resource provides exam preparation for the AQA GCSE writing task of writing to inform. It considers some of the language devises employed by texts with the purpose to inform and how they may to used to good effect on the text's audience.

ppt exploring gcse exam task writing to explain

Focused activty concentrating on Punctation. Really useful on screen as an activity.

Focus on punctation and correction Works really well on screen for students

Punctutaion focus - students correct the errors in a story version of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Really useful to have on an English shared ICT area - allows students to work on screen.

GCSE language paper based on CAN YOU LIGHT A FIRE Advert Activities and writing task