A comprehensive resource with everything you need to prepare your students for this GCSE poem. Carol Ann Duffy's poem, about a war photographer developing his images, explores how the British public react to the horrors of war. Featured on AQA's 'War and Conflict' cluster, this poem shows how the photographer, editor and readers respond to foreign tragedies.
Beginning with background reading about the life of a war photographer, this resource includes iconic war photographs for class discussion and a full annotation of the poem.
Four creative writing resources to help prepare KS3/4 students for the AQA Language writing section.
Four incredible pictures introduced with literacy correction starter exercises that provide the background to each inspirational and thought provoking image.
A full analysis of Carol Rumen's poem about a woman who has fled her homeland but can only remember the positives of growing up there.
This resource has everything you need to prepare your students for their AQA exam including a full annotation and a guided marketplace lesson exploring structure, meaning, imagery, language and the effect on the reader.
Everything your GCSE students need to know on handy sheets.
Full details of key events and quotes for the following characters:
Scrooge
Ghosts
Bob
Fred
Tiny Tim
Plus notes on the Fezziwigs, Belle and the charity collectors.
An excellent revision resource for pupils to prepare with.
A creative writing planning mat that helps both KS3 and KS4 pupils prepare for the AQA exam question: Write a story or a description based on this picture.
This resource has three versions of the same template and can be adapted in seconds by simply changing the picture and tweaking the first box.
The worksheet is a planning grid to focus pupils on their structure, vocabulary, punctuation and sentence variety prior to producing their piece of extended writing.
A fully resourced scheme of learning to support Private Peaceful as a class reader.
15 hour long lessons are included tracking the action of Michael Morpurgo’s WWI novel. The lessons explore the themes and characters with a variety of reading, writing and discussion tasks. The scheme builds up to a reading question: Did Charlie deserve to be killed for cowardice?
A scheme of learning (31 hour long lessons) using Animal Farm to explore social power. Following the 10 chapters of this Orwell classic, this scheme mixes close reading skills with debates and topical discussion points. In addition to the exploits of tyrannical pig Napoleon, this scheme also examines real world events in communist Russia, modern Russia and women in Afghanistan. Assessments on how Napoleon is presented and how power can corrupt world leaders are included.
Three different quiz challenges for use in form times or across school. A Geography theme quiz tests pupils on all 32 qualifying flags whilst a 32 team word search gets your class familiar with the competing teams. For real football enthusiasts, a World Cup History Quiz has 30 questions which test the knowledge of previous tournaments with questions on incredible matches, legendary players and bizarre facts from 1930 to 2018. Three great resources in one bundle!
A collection of the very best persuasive speeches. Perfect for Year 9/KS4 classes studying rhetoric or Aristotle’s Triad.
Includes Tilbury, Gettysburg, We shall fight on the beaches and many others.
Speeches only- no lesson specific resources.