Students guess the decade of pictures of fashion, pop music, tv programmes, films, politicians. Answers are provided in the form of notes visible when you step through the slides, so make sure you quiz the students in Slide Show mode but check the answers in Normal view!Created for my tutor group in the school’s golden jubilee year.

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Knight and his son, the Squire. PowerPoint introductions to the characters. Description of the Knight with Middle English side by side with modern version. Coat of arms template - design coat of arms for the knight, reflecting his experiences and interests. Used with Year 7 low ability group. Strange to have Chaucer as an author in the prose group when he writes in rhyming couplets and was once known as the father of English poetry!

PowerPoint of information about sweating, designed for PSHE.

Continuation recap of The Speckled Band. Brief background, then sums up the clues.

Various resources. Photo album is a good 'settler' at the start or end of a lesson. Etaples has images of the huge camp. Crossword puzzle is based on pre-war section of the novel.

PowerPoints which could be used with a tutor group, PSHE class or in assembly to stimulate discussion on the subject of chewing gum. It is important that the students do not know the topic before you show the ‘What is it?’ slides or they will obviously guess it’s gum! Range of issues, from history of gum chewing to the economic consequences of careless disposal, finishing with some amazing gum artwork.

This PowerPoint is a simple re-cap of the start of the story by Conan Doyle.

The 3 poems from Skirrid Hill are: The Farrier, Steelworks and Late Spring. Used for the AQA Struggle for Identity in Modern Literature.

Used to revise for AQA Struggle for Identity in Modern Literature.

Starter to stimulate discussion. Used to introduce literature of other cultures, in English with Year 8 SEN class. Also used with Year 11 mixed abilty Tutor Group! Artworks are from Ghana and South Africa too. Please comment to let me know how/if you use.