I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
3 lessons designed to revise with students how to write an academic essay including introduction.
The first lesson models to students
The second lesson is a ‘we do’ lesson where, with teacher support, students structure an answer to a new Macbeth question.
The third lesson is designed to be an assessment where students answer a third Macbeth question independently.
Three Macbeth sample assessments included
Two walking talking mocks for AQA English language. One booklet and power point for paper 1 and one for paper 2
Includes a student booklets containing model answers which encourage students to achieve thoughtful responses, exam tips and opportunity for students to practice annotation and structuring answers to the questions.
These resources uses the November 18 AQA English language inserts.
A power point is included to guide students through the mocks including mark schemes.
A presentation used for staff CPD around strategies for increasing the ratio. Active engagement versus thinking. The presentation is rooted in educational research from Doug Lemov and Tom Sherrington.
The presentation:
sets out expectations of all students in our classrooms
explains the ratio spectrum with examples of actions that would place students in varying positions on the ratio graph
emphasises the importance of ‘no opt out’ with strategies for ensuring this
explores the concept of active observation and how it an be used to increase the ratio
explores how the ratio can be increased through writing, questioning and discussion simultaneously - in detail
considers the difference between formative and summative writing
incorporates a section where the CPD leader models a process for increasing the ratio through writing, questioning and discussion using the teachers as students - participants consider the question “What makes a good lesson?”
A series of lessons attached that explore ‘Simon Lee: The Old Hunstman.’
Lessons include:
inference skills
comparing perspectives with model answers
do now activities
exploration of moral and links to the corona virus pandemic and random acts of kindness
article writing
A Walking talking mock that uses the AQA examiner feedback from summer 2023 to guide students through a process of planning and then writing answers/essays to the Unseen poetry questions.
Power point and student work booklet included.
This resource focuses on helping students to:
understand the unseen poems quickly
plan their response
create thesis statements
Exam questions used in this resource: Autumn poem
Model answers included.
Example LTPs and curriculum plans that outline specifically how parents can help support their child through their child's study of English.
The long term plans map out where students will develop the skills necessary to access the new specification 9-1 GCSE English language and literature papers.
Revision booklet for Macbeth with activities to help students revise character, theme, context etc.
This booklet would be useful for students after studying or to complete as they study the play or complete as a homework project.
A handy pack of documents and proformas for a head of department.
Included:
Deep dive documents that will be useful for inspection including work scrutiny and learning walk templates as well as Middle leader ofsted questions
- Lesson observation / learning walk document in line with latest Ofsted
Work scrutiny / pupil voice document in line with new Ofsted
An example English department vision which takes into account pupils’ reading, writing and speaking & listening
- Department report templates
- Department detention letter templates
- Departmental moderation and standardisation templates
- English department presentation policy template
- Questions to prepare of Ofsted inspection
- A template for assessing the English department against the Ofsted ‘Good’ criteria
Resources to support the teaching of the new specification (9-1) AQA paper 2 reading section.
Resources are fully differentiated by colour:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources provide opportunity for pupil talk, provide objectives and assessment tasks. Model answers also included.
The texts used are taken from the AQA text book (turtle on the cover) but texts are also included in this bundle.
Three differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of Romeo and Juliet Act 3 scene 1.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore language, form and structure
- assess against the 9-1 specification success criteria
- explore the presentation of character and theme
- use structure strips to encourage better analytical responses
- use what, how, why instead of PEE which is too restrictive
Fully differentiated lessons to support the teaching of 'The Class Game.'
2 lessons that include pupil talk tasks, assessment, outcomes and cover:
- context of the poem
- language analysis
- form and structure exploration
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow - higher ability
Two fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of Romeo and Juliet Act 2 scene 3.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore writer's methods
- assess against the 9-1 specification success criteria
- explore Catholic marriage
- work on writing skills for language paper 2
Resources to support the revision of ‘A Christmas Carol.’
Included:
- 15 key quotations with accompanying images to help students learn quotations and remember useful quotes for analysis. Also great for displays.
- Extract to whole revision - ideal for carousel use whereby students read an extract and go through the process of structuring a response to the question.
Differentiated resources to support the teaching of chapter 4 of 'Of Mice and Men.'
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities to:
- write to argue (200 word challenge)
- explore context of segregation
- explore the characterisation of Crooks
- Analyse writer's methods
- work as a group and give presentations on contextual information
- read actively
8 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of act 2 of An Inspector Calls
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore context 1912 and 1945
- explore Gerald's and Mrs Birling's involvement
- analyse language and structure
- structure exam responses
- compare the responsibility of different character
- write imaginatively
- write a speech
3 differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of Romeo and Juliet Act 5 scene 1, 2 and 3.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore language, form and structure
- assess against the 9-1 specification success criteria
- explore context - fate and predestination
- explore creation of tension
- explore unfortunate coincidence
- explore the significance of the ending
Fully differentiated lessons to support the teaching of 'Charge of the light brigade' by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
3 lessons that include pupil talk tasks, assessment, outcomes and cover:
- context of the poem
- language analysis
- form and structure exploration
- interleaved content - obedience in the poem and in Romeo & Juliet and An Inspector Calls
- imaginative writing and upgrading sentences
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow - higher ability
4 fully differentiated (by colour) resources to support the teaching of extracts taken from 19th century texts with paper 2 comparison skills incorporated. (Theme of education)
Students will study an extract from Jane Eyre and Nicholas Nickleby on the theme of education and will analyse language and explore context. Students will look at the presentation of school life and compare to modern society. (Extracts included)
Students will then read a modern news report on behaviour in schools and draw comparisons.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
3 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of 19th century extract taken from Wuthering Heights. The focus of these lessons is childhood and students will consider the presentation of childhood in the 19th century.
Students will explore:
- differences between rich and poor 19th century children
- language in the extract
Extracts are taken from the AQA new specification 9-1, 19th century texts booklet and is included in this resource pack.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
3 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of 19th century England context. Useful ahead of studying a 19th century text or extract with KS3.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources cover:
London
social class
gender divide
rich and poor children
Technology
Education
Children
Welfare support
Hygiene
Difference between rich and poor
Opportunities to:
- write imaginatively
- analyse gender divide
- explore social class