7 ‘all about me’ pages in the shape of a balloon perfect for getting to know your class/transition activity.
Keep them as they are or attach to coloured paper using the template.
They can be folded and glued to create a 3D balloon. Looks great with photo of the child hanging on and can be added to a display board or hung from a washing line.
Includes a PDF booklet to provide to children starting school to gain information and get to know them before their start date. Also includes a page to colour in skills they have and two pages for parents/carers to fill in.
Is downloaded in A4; print as ‘booklet’ or use as it is.
This bundle contains all of the Never Let Me Go lessons, the comprehension activities booklet, the knowledge organiser and the Pointless game!
These engaging, varied, and informative lessons have been designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the plot, characters, language, and key messages in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel ‘Never Let Me Go.’ The lessons enable students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key features of content, language, and structure, in addition to considering Ishiguro’s key intentions in writing the novel.
All of the resources that you need to teach are included in the bundle: Whole lesson step-by-step PowerPoint presentations, informative and engaging , worksheets, activities, and lesson plans.
Contained in the bundle are lessons based on:
Characterisation of Tommy;
Ishiguro’s Use of Language;
Ruth;
The Dystopian Novel;
The Human Cloning Debate
The Theme of Life and Death
Plus the 30-page comprehension booklet, the knowledge organiser and the Pointless Game!
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
Engaging
Defining/ Understanding
Identifying/Remembering
Analysing/ Creating
Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging.
Three resources to help pupils to talk about illness, health and body parts in Spanish.
There is a reading comprehension, vocabulary activities, practice with me duele/ me duelen and a grammar gap fill task.
There is also a speaking/writing mat on illnesses and needs with translation practice and answers.
A reading comprehension on the topic of body parts, accidents and injuries in the past tense (preterite) with a scaffolded text: tuve un accidente de esqui
Answers included.
Two standalone worksheets to support pupils to talk about holidays in the past tense.
Resource 1: Introduces key past tense verbs and recycles key language with a sentence builder, gap fill reading and translation practice. There is also a summary of how to form past tense verbs with avoir and a grammar gap fill task.
Resource 2: Review of key past tense verbs with a GCSE reading comprehension task (a note taking question with a vocabulary search).
Format: Word document and PDF with answers.
A lovely little open-ended resource perfect for World Book Day!
Open book ‘Tell me a Story’ template for the children to draw or write about their characters - it could be their favourites or their own!
A range of different Fairy Tale/Traditional Tale characters on disc cut outs. You could also include your own images of popular books (I was unable to include these due to copyright)
Includes table sign
AQA GCSE English Literature Power and Conflict Poetry – Exam Preparation - A Comparative Answer on John Agard’s ‘Checking Out Me History’ and Carol Rumens’ ‘The Emigrée’.
This resource is designed to help you prepare your class to answer a GCSE English Literature question on AQA Power and Conflict Poetry. It is NOT intended to teach students the poems themselves – it is designed for you to use later in the school year when the poetry has been fully covered and the students need to learn how to use this knowledge to write the best possible exam answers.
There are six elements included:
1. Answering AQA Power and Conflict Poetry Questions: this 32-slide PDF presentation is the core of this group of resources and has been carefully designed and created to help you guide your class through each part of the essay writing process. It examines each of the following elements: the AOs and the Mark Scheme, exam timing and weighting, essay structure, how to write an introduction, using ‘rough notes’ for planning, contents of the main body and how to write a conclusion. Most importantly, it features many extracts from the sample exam answer which are annotated to show the importance of using subject terminology, precise and judicious quotes and comparative links.
2. Power and Conflict Sample Answers – this 1000-word sample answer to the question is presented in two formats for your convenience. The first is a one-page A4 handout of the essay itself. The second is a two-page A4 handout with wider margins and more generous spacing – this allows ample space for annotation and highlighting, allowing students to completely break down the elements of the essay. I would suggest copying this onto an A3 sheet – I’ve used it very effectively with pairs of students using different colour markers to highlight the various AOs, the subject terminology, comparative terms, precise quotes etc.
3. Power and Conflict Sample Planning Grid – one-page A4 handout which shows the students how to use ‘rough notes’ to plan and structure their essay.
4. Planning Grid Template – one-page A4 handout featuring a blank Planning Grid which students can use to plan their own essays for any part of the GCSE English course.
5. Power and Conflict AOs – one-page A4 handout which explains the AOs to students in a manner that is accessible and easy to understand.
6. Teacher's Instructions.
Alternatively, you can buy the presentation here or the worksheets here.
GCSE lesson on the topic of healthy living (sub-topic of doctors / saying what’s wrong).
In this lesson students learn key vocabulary for body parts and different ailments. The lesson includes a wide range of activities which serve to enhance listening, reading, writing and speaking skills.
I have done this lesson many times with my GCSE classes and students always enjoy playing the different games and activities.
Also includes printable copy of crossword understanding of key vocabulary in Spanish.
New and improved PSHE resource helping teenage girls in Key Stage 3 to explore the issues that matter to them as active, confident young women.
Activity sheets to accompany the lesson plans.
English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 2: Prose → Science and society → Frankenstein and Never Let Me Go
Comparison notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF file. (See free download for an example.)
New and improved PSHE resource helping teenage girls in Key Stage 3 to explore the issues that matter to them as active, confident young women.
A series of ten lessons to facilitate the teaching of sensitive subjects such as personal hygiene and puberty for PSHE teachers, and non-experts alike.
Checking Out Me History - AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology
This two-lesson unit teaches students about John Agard's 'Checking Out Me History' in detail. Designed for GCSE pupils studying AQA Power and Conflict poetry, the resource explores the poem in depth and explains how to compare it to other poems from the anthology. It is made up of a 49-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 3 accompanying worksheets.
The lessons contain the following:
Lesson One
Context - An introduction to John Agard and the social and historical context of ‘Checking Out Me History’.
First Reading - A reading of ‘Checking Out Me History’ with comprehension / consolidation questions - answers included.
Language and imagery - Analysing the poem line by line. Exploring language and answering questions that delve deeper. Model answers provided.
Essay Writing - An essay question to assess students' initial understanding of the poem. An example response is included.
Lesson Two
Imagery - Analysing Agard's use of imagery.
Themes - Discussing Checking Out Me History's themes.
Structure and Form - Considering how Agard uses form, structure, rhythm and rhyme.
The GCSE exam - Comparing ‘Checking Out Me History’ with ‘London’ and explaining how to write a comparison essay in the exam.
This is a comprehensive resource containing a range of activities, however it can also be edited, personalised and differentiated to suit your teaching needs.
To preview a selection of slides from 'Checking Out Me History’, please click on the images.
Help children feel confident and excited about meeting their new teacher with this engaging Get to Know Me worksheet. Designed for KS2 pupils (Years 3–6), this printable colouring-style activity encourages children to introduce themselves, share their interests, reflect on how they learn best, and tell their new teacher what makes them unique.
Perfect for transition day, the first week back, or meet the teacher activities, this low-prep resource helps build positive relationships from day one while giving teachers valuable insight into their new class.
What’s included:
1 A4 printable black and white worksheet
Fun colouring-style design
Writing and drawing prompts
Suitable for Years 3–6 (KS2)
Sections include:
My name and preferred name
A little bit about me
Draw a picture of yourself
My favourite things
I am good at…
I learn best when…
Something you might not know about me
I would love my teacher to know…
I would like help with…
I am looking forward to…
Perfect for:
Transition Day
Moving to a new class
Back to School
Meet the Teacher activities
PSHE lessons
Icebreaker activities
Classroom displays
Pupil voice
A lesson on John Agard’s ‘Checking Out Me History’ aimed at lower ability learners. It includes:
Do Now task (shown on cover slide)
Contextual information regarding the historical figures and events referenced in the poem, with corresponding worksheet.
Link to relevant video + the meaning of ‘Eurocentric’
Quotation Hunt + Challenge Task
Imagery in the poem worksheet
Comparison table to complete with ‘My Last Duchess’ in terms of the presentation of the abuse of power.
Review learning with challenge question.
This Spanish Powerpoint Tutorial introduces body parts and the expression 'Me Duele(n)&' and the Verb &';Doler'. Uses the theme of the San Fermin fiesta in Pamplona to introduce the Writing and Speaking tasks. I started the lesson with video clips from the internet of the bull runs. The PP ends with photos of injuries encouraging students to say the correct sentence for each one. Follow up Homework was to research the festival and produce a poster.