Get your students revising themes and characters with these Top Trump style cards. Students play in the game in the traditional sense (reading out one of the categories and whoever has the highest number wins the card) or add a twist and have students play a Cluedo twists! Remove a person, cause of death and location and try to work out which three cards are missing by playing Top Trumps. Fantastic revision resource.

Mystery writing SOW with a focus on creative writing. A text focus of Beware of the Dog by Roald Dahl. Build your students creative writing capabilities with a breadth of writing opportunities, planned feedback and upgraded writing opportunities. The SOW benefits from oracy tasks, revision, reflection and AfL. Regenerate your current SOW with a streamlined sequencing of learning.

A detailed and thorough SOW for speech writing. The scheme has students building on skills learnt to eventually be able to write about a social topic of their choosing. Students learn about pathos, ethos and logos to build a coherent and articulate speech. Students read and watch a breadth of speeches from politicians, celebrities and more to learn how they can engage and enthuse their listener. There are built in activities for students to build confidence in public speaking as well as opportunities to develop oracy.

This is a fully resourced SOW written using a focus text of Dear Martin. The SOW has an oracy focus, utilising a plethora of writing and talking activities to engage students. The SOW also benefits from non-fiction extracts that support students to develop their critical thinking of the world around them. The SOW is structured to learn about context, include close textual analysis of the text and ends with a final letter writing activity to a person they admire.