Can you Students Find the Spy. A lesson where collaboration, logical thinking and clue solving clues are essential. The students are given 5 suspects - each suspect has a vital information that the students will need. They are then given 5 coded clues - the clues use Morse Code, Semaphore, Caesar cipher and others. Once they have decoded the clues they need to match each one to the suspects, can they work out who the spy is? After solving the clues and accusing a suspect - many of the clues match more than one suspect, the students can create a debate / court case. Aimed at students in year 5 to year 8 but it can be used for older students if you focus mainly on the court case and their debating skills.

An interactive activity for students of all abilities. In teams, students are given a life threatening scenario - e.g. zombie attack. They must decide which three of the ten items given to them, they would use to survive - items include a school recorder, bird seed and a rope. Students use their imagination, oracy skills and teamwork to create the best verbal story to say how they would survive.

A short, printable A5, booklet that gives year 6 - 7 students information on word classes, language techniques (both creative and persuasive), punctuation, and implicit vs explicit information.