A six week poetry module designed for Year 8, but is adaptable for Year 7 and 9. The unit focus's on the theme of relationships (mainly familial) and includes the poems: Kid - Simon Armitage If - Rudyard Kipling Mother to Son - Langston Hughes Born Yesterday - Phillip Larkin There is also space for the teacher to teach their own choice of poem.

Instruction writing activity can be used for the more able in Year 6 as well as in Years 7 and 8. Activity consists of a video with comprehension questions, sorting activity, modeled class work as well as a DIRT activity to finish. The aim of the piece is to create a piece of instruction writing on how to protect bees with a punctuation focus.

A sheet to help save time marking, but still give individual targeted feedback. I use this sheet by marking for GPS and reading through the pupils work. Then, I fill out the attached proforma. For the shout-out section, I mentioned 3 pupils who did something really well and then they shared their work with the class. As part of the DIRT process the pupils then came up with an individual target for themselves, either from what I had suggested from the sheet, or from something they heard in the pupils who got a shout-outs work. This way all pupils created their own individual target which they can work on next lesson.