A progressive, age-related assessment system that has been created working up from KS2 with the raised expectation of the new SATS 2017, and then up to the assessment objectives at KS4. The assessment grid offers guidance on how to use it, and also includes how students could be assessed across the year. This will focus your KS3 curriculum so the skills are developed ready for the increased expectation of the Grade 5 at GCSE.

Three answers that show different levels of the mark scheme, for the theme of betrayal. I have asked students to read all three, highlight the sections that are analytical and explain what makes 2, better than 1 and what makes response 3, better than 2. There is a bronze, silver, gold task and PYT for challenge. I have also demonstrated that the theme questions should be explored in an evaluative way, as done in response 3, where the answer explores the type of betrayal too.

This is a booklet designed at improving the retention of key knowledge linked to the poems in the anthology for love and relationships. Great to use as homework or as intervention for key stage four pupils.

Compare how death is presented in the poem Porphyria’s Lover and a poem of your choice: WWTP, Neutral Tones, Eden Rock. An annotated example of a comparison with a key to support students’ awareness of how to construct an answer.

A retrieval focused booklet for Love and Relationships AQA with 8 activities. Good for year 11 HMK or exam revision.

A brand new, unseen paper for English Language paper 2 with a modern, engaging text and a 19th century diary entry. The paper also includes a helpful grid to scaffold answers making revision easier and helping students to form their own answers. There is also a section B writing activity that includes a planning sheet. I have used this with my own year 11 classes, which helped them to develop their paper 2 exam responses, particularly the synthesis Q2 and the Q4 comparison.

A handy resource to give out over a holiday as homework to help with the retention of the key ideas of the AQA Love and Relationships poems. It is differentiated to add challenge if pupils want to push their revision to help consolidate their understanding.

A revision lesson for the character of Mrs Birling that includes key quotes and starter of true and false and a main activity where students can write an exam response. ***Now with an added revision lesson attached where students have to plan their response to five additional questions focused on the character of Mrs Birling ***

You could cut these out and get students to rank order them to justify, which is better and why. This can be used for a homework, revision task before an exam. This could also be used as part of a task within a lesson. There are five responses to an exam question on Eric that gradually become more perceptive and detailed. Alongside the responses is a bronze, silver and gold differentiated task to challenge all learners. There is an extension task (push your thinking) to add additional challenge. This is something I have used with year 11 to help develop their understanding of the character, context, writer’s intentions and to teach the skills of writing a detailed reading response.

If you want to push your students’ responses for the English language papers then it helps if they are using sophisticated, higher level terminology when they explore the effect of the writer’s use of language. This worksheet includes 11 key terms that students need to revise and use to access the higher levels, alongside a differentiated bronze, silver, gold activity so they can apply what they have learnt. There is a question: how does the writer use language to describe the horror of prisons? where the students can then answer to show they can incorporate the terms into their analysis. This is a useful resource for top sets, but also any students who are at a Grade 5+ and are pushing for a higher grade.

A set of posters for Macbeth including key quotes for: Macbeth, The Witches, King Duncan, Donalbain, Macduff, Lady Macbeth, Malcolm and Banquo. I have these as posters in my room and encourage students to use the quotes independently when writing exam responses. I have also shrunk them down to A5 and made them into a revision booklet.

A retention grid to revise key themes, characters, plot and context and chronological order. Used for homework and for revison.

A useful exemplar to show how an exam response could be written for 'An Inspector Calls' with a focus on Gerald. It is differentiated to allow students to make progress at an appropriate level of challenge.

There are six questions on this worksheet that focus on six poems. The task is differentiated with bronze, silver and gold. The poems are in pairs: Simple Joys and Bags of Love Homework and Studying Apologising and I’m Sorry This will work well as a revision tool before the GCSE exam or could be used as homework.