Worlds and Lives pack for the new AQA poetry anthology. Currently includes:
Lines Written in Early Spring - William Wordsworth
England in 1819 - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shall earth no more inspire thee - Emily Bronte
In a London Drawingroom - George Eliot
On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955 - James Berry
Name Journeys by Raman Mundair
pot by Shamshad Khan
A Wider View - Seni Seneviratne
Homing - Liz Berry
A Century Later - Imtiaz Dharker
The Jewellery Maker Louisa Adjoa Parker
With Birds You’re Never Lonely - Raymond Antrobus
A Portable Paradise - Roger Robinson
Like an Heiress - Grace Nichols
Thirteen - Caleb Femi
Comparing poems lesson
Scheme of Work document
Explore Christmas Around the World – A Global Holiday Reading Resource with Engaging Activities!
Bring international celebrations to life with this beautifully written Christmas Around the World informational text, ideal for Upper Key Stage 2. This festive reading pack introduces pupils to holiday traditions, foods, and customs across Asia, Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania.
Perfect for literacy, geography, topic work, and Christmas Around the World projects, this text highlights authentic global practices—from parols in the Philippines to German Christmas markets, Las Posadas in Mexico, Missa do Galo in Brazil, and summer barbecues in Australia. The content is clear, engaging, and accessible for both confident readers and EAL learners.
One Lexile-Levelled Reading Text (≈780L–880L)
The passage blends cultural geography with vivid holiday storytelling. Its structure and vocabulary support Upper KS2 readers while encouraging deeper thinking about global diversity. Pupils explore seasonal differences, family customs, community celebrations, and how geography shapes holiday traditions.
8 Engaging Activities
Mixed-Style Comprehension Questions – Retrieval, inference, geography links, and short written responses
True or False Statements – Reinforce factual accuracy and clear up misconceptions
Multiple-Choice Quiz – Ideal for review or independent practice
Cloze Summary Task – Strengthens recall and key vocabulary
Crossword Puzzle – Builds terminology and cultural vocabulary
Themed Word Search – Great for early finishers or EAL support
Short Written Response Sheet – Encourages reflection and comparison of global celebrations
Full Answer Keys – Included for quick and easy marking
Looking for more holiday reading resources? Check out my other Christmas reading resources:
Night Before Christmas Poem Comprehension
Little Match Girl Christmas Story
Little Fir Tree Christmas Reading
The Nutcracker Christmas Worksheets
Christingles Fun Reading Activities
History of the Christmas Tree Reading
This bundle pack is designed for SEN or lower level learners. The pack consists of ‘What is enterprise’?
What is unemployment and ‘aspirations for the future’. There are multiple differentiated tasks and video clips to aid understanding which can be used for discussion.
Christmas/ Tradition/ Around the world/ 25th December/ Assembly ideas/ Primary/ Secondary
This 10-15 minute assembly looks at how countries celebrate Christmas around the world and all the weird and wonderful traditions that take place during the build up.
The assembly enables the students to guess he country for which each tradition belongs (which are still done to this day) and finishes with a fun filled Christmas quiz.
The pack contains:
Full powerpoint
A ‘how to use’ word document with synopsis, help with delivery and customisation ideas.
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An assembly to support work during World Mental Health Day in October. This highly dynamic presentation has an assembly plus a range of ideas and resources for follow-up form time activities.
This beautifully-designed and editable 26-slide Powerpoint presentation creatively presents information on this event and can be showcased to any age group and includes specific pages for primary or secondary students. It includes images, dynamic transitions, informative text, video and links for extension work in form time – including extra video and classroom activities.
Slide 1: What is World Mental Health Day? Includes video.
Slide 2-3: Why do some young people suffer with their mental health?
Slide 4: This rise of teenage anxiety and poor mental health [inc national research graphs]
Slide 5: Top tips for improving mental health: Breathing exercise. Includes video.
Slide 6: Top tips for improving mental health: Move more. Includes video.
Slide 7: Top tips for improving mental health: Sleep habits.
Slide 8 and 9: Top tips for improving mental health: Healthy eating. Includes video.
Slide 10: Top tips for improving mental health: Get outside. Includes video.
Slide 11: Top tips for improving mental health: Be social.
Slide 12: Top tips for improving mental health: Retrain your brain
Slide 13: Closing Thought
Slide 14: Follow-up form time activities title screen
Slide 15: Form time activities: Support links to explore
Slide 16: Form time activities: Art activity
Slide 17: Form time activities: Wordsearch activity
Slide 18: Form time activities: Poetry activity
Slides 19-23: Form time activities: Mental Health quiz – with answers
Slides 24-25: Other form time ideas to support anxiety strategies.
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This is a 6 lesson scheme of work exploring different theatrical traditions and styles around the world.
The download includes 6 fully prepared power-point lessons and all additional worksheets and resources. This also includes and assessment lesson.
All lessons are easily adaptable to suit the needs of classes.
Lesson 1 - Ancient Greek Theatre and Chorus
Lesson 2 - African Theatre
Lesson 3 - Chinese Theatre/Peking Opera
Lesson 4 - French Mime Theatre
Lesson 5 - Recap and assessment preperation
Lesson 6 - Assessment Lesson
An A5 booklet and corresponding PowerPoint presentation introducing students to the world of work and employability skills. The Powerpoint is easy to follow and students complete activities in their booklets as they go. Can take up to 2 lessons and can be adapted and extended as you wish.
Booklet introduces students to linking their interests and achievements to transferable skills, followed by guidance on how to write a CV and tackle difficult interview questions.
Great to linking in the Gatsby Benchmarks and works with multiple year groups but would target yr9 onwards.
We had a themed week in school where pupils had to think about the world of work. A variety of activities, from thinking about different jobs, general ideas about what they want to be and a detailed for to include research on their chosen job. We rewarded throughout the week with WOWW tokens. The most collected won a prize.
This resource is my whole-school skills framework (P1-P7) that directly links to the Skills Development Scotland (SDS) meta-skills. It comes with all the supporting materials you’ll need, plus clear connections to the world of work to help pupils see the ‘why’ behind their learning.
We’ve implemented this across our whole school, and the feedback from staff has been amazing! It’s made a real difference to pupil engagement, how they develop essential skills, and their overall learning.
I really hope this helps your school foster those crucial meta-skills and boost curriculum coherence across your primary stages!
3 activity sheets based on the theme of World of Work for KS1.
Sheet 1 shows 20 characters with props that suggest their occupations.
Children can make a list of what jobs they think the people do and then write the corresponding numbers next to the characters.
Sheet 3 gives suggestions that may support the children in their choices and with their written work.
Sheet 2 shows 4 characters and asks the children to add props to each person to indicate what jobs they might do. They can then write the titles underneath the pictures.
Sheet 3 can also be used for children to draw pictures of occupations or props and /or to write the words.
A powerpoint featuring facts and figures, a video and a quiz on how useful languages can be when entering the world of work. No prior knowledge required. Facts and figures from CILT website.
1-2 hour session, detailed PowerPoint, worksheets, clips, well differentiated, suitable for KS3/ KS4, to help cover the Gatsby Careers Guidelines. Created for Year 10s in the run up to starting their work experience placements. The progress sheet is optional
These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes) and are designed to last one hour each.
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powerpoints on part time work, jobs, why you want a particular job, job interview and application letter, description of work experience in past tense
work booklet with worksheets based on powerpoints
vocab list covering all topics
This is an extremely dense 12 page booklet with easily an entire scheme of work. This has been created to give year 7 an introduction to Shakespeare: to understand his life, works, times, theatre and to grasp how a script works. There are two pages which focus on Shakespeare’s villains (Don John and Iago) but in reality this is to simply expose students to Shakespeare’s life and characters rather than to complete in depth analysis of a plot and character. Although this was created with year 7 in mind it would fill a gap at any level of Key Stage 3 if students’ knowledge of Elizabethan England is lacking.
Both the editable Word document and .pdf are provided - please note the word document may not appear like the booklet pdf because of font use and formatting.
This booklet is also available as part of a Shakespeare bundle with two other KS3 booklets covering Shakespeare heroes and the idea of tragic heroes and Shakespeare’s relationships.
The booklet is as follows:
1 - front cover and basic dramatic terminology glossary
2 - William Shakespeare information with space to create a fact file
3 - Shakespeare’s works - basic information, followed by a task to understand the difference between comedies, tragedies and histories then sorting key plays into each type
4+5 - a double page spread with a timeline across Elizabethan and Jacobean England. At the top students can create a timeline of historical events and then plot Shakespeare’s life underneath (perhaps using page 2)
6 - Elizabethan entertainment - 4 boxes for students to complete information about bear baiting, bull baiting, cock fighting and the theatre - I have attached the factfile made to accompany this lesson.
7- The Globe Theatre - A label the Globe picture followed by a gap fill about its history (in image)
8- Understanding a script - the first scene of Macbeth is used to explain the layout of a script, followed by a gap underneath for students to make their own mini script using a similar layout and features.
9- Stage directions- a list of common Shakespeare stage directions with definitions for students to match followed by some complex stage directions to "translate"
10 - An explanation of the character and his motives, an extract from the play (1.3) and a series of questions which track students through the extract.
11 - An explanation of the character and his motives,an extract from 1.1 alongside a modern translation followed by a series of questions.
12- a common words glossary where students should independently record new words learnt.
KS3 new for the Activate 1 resource, ‘Working Scientifically’.
Full lessons ready to use straight ‘out of the box’. You’ll struggle to find a set of as many planned lessons this cheap and of similar quality.
Free lessons available here L1 Safety in the Lab https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/safety-in-the-lab-11712866
L8 Scientifici Investigation https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/scientific-investigations-11712899
Lessons meet the full criteria for this unit
Similar structure to my other power points following the input - activity - review phasing
Plenary sections for progress checking
Clear learning objectives and outcomes
Modern and engaging layout
Little adaptation needed
Each lesson covers at least an hour of lesson time
LESSONS
L1 Safety in the Lab (FREE)
L2 Asking Scientific Questions
L3 Planning Investigations
L4 Bunsen Burners (BONUS)
L5 Recording Data
L6 Analysing Data
L7 Evaluating Data
L8 Scientific Investigations (BONUS FREE)
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Editable worksheets x3 matching pictures with jobs/careers/profession of people. Survey asking learners which jobs they would like to learn more about.
Visual content and Widgit visuals for young people with special education needs (SEN/SEND).
French KS3 worksheet for cover, revision, homework etc.
Recap jobs with EPI-style activities.
Match up vocab
Add the spaces
Choose and circle the correct word
Gapfill - write the missing word
Who said (reading)
Identify the tense (past, now, future)
Tick the job in the feminine form
Anagrams writing
Add the missing vowels
Answer the questions about the text in English
The first question of each task is done as an example.
With a suggested ‘challenge task’ extension at the end.
Vocab ready for new GCSE spec
Great for last minute cover work, revision leading up to a test, or for retrieval and consolidation of learning over the last few topics.
This is based of a chapter in an IGCSE English as a second language text book.
Includes:
simple resume writing
listening from youtube clips
creative writing
job vocabulary and sorting