This lesson develops students’ ability to analyse the theme of fear across Shakespeare’s Macbeth, preparing them for GCSE English Literature examination responses. Students revisit key moments in the play where fear shapes character motivations, drives plot development, and contributes to the tragic atmosphere.

Immerse students in the atmospheric world of Victorian London with this structured and skills-focused 5-lesson creative writing unit. Designed for KS3, the resource develops students’ ability to craft sophisticated, engaging prose while exploring the social tension, mood and detail associated with 19th-century urban settings. Across the unit, pupils read and analyse high-quality model texts, considering how writers construct setting, tone and narrative voice. They then apply these techniques in guided and independent writing activities. The unit explicitly teaches five key sentence structures — the comma sandwich, tricolon, prepositional push-off, three-verb sentence, and writer’s aside — supporting pupils in building control, rhythm and clarity in their writing. Resources include annotated extracts, scaffolded tasks, vocabulary banks, success criteria, and editing checklists. The unit culminates in a assessed descriptive piece set in Victorian London, demonstrating students’ progress in sentence variety, descriptive technique and voice development. This is an academically rigorous and fully-resourced unit to enhance creative writing confidence and quality.

A full scheme of work of 26 lessons, with tasks ranging from analysis, discussion and transactional writing. This unit has been designed as a transition unit as student bridge into GCSE study though could be easily adapted for GCSE study due to the analytical elements of the SOW

This scheme of work has been designed for KS3 with the aim of preparing them and preteaching vocabulary for studying Shakespeare at GCSE. It involves a combination of reading tasks, analytical tasks, and narrative and non-narrative tasks. There is also a suggested assessment included.

A bank of language and structure techniques and their generic effects, with examples. A useful revision resource for GCSE classes

A full Scheme of Work which goes through the poems for the AQA Language and Literature A Level for Seamus Heaney

A full scheme of work looking at Phillip Pullman’s adaptation of Frankenstein

A scheme of work designed as a first read through of the text with extract and whole text questions within.

This is a booklet following Arthur Conan Doyle’s B24 with the aim of improving student vocabulary through discovery and creative writing.

This is a Unit of Work designed for KS3. In this booklet, students complete a range of activities, from close textual language and structure questions, to TIES questions, to creative writing.

A Scheme of Work using the Odyssey as a stimulus and focused on Creative writing.

This is a Little Red Riding Hood script for students to perform in Drama.