A scheme that covers the basic plot line of Much Ado About Nothing. It lasts 5 weeks and is aimed at Year 8.

A scheme created for mid to high ability Yr7s. This covers the writing types: Inform, explain, advise, persuade and argue. It also includes a lesson on the features of a newspaper with a view to students creating their own school newspaper as an extended home learning project. When trialed we found that each writing type took 2 x 1 hour lessons. This scheme does not include DIRT lessons, although we did add some in. There is, however, self and peer assessment opportunities throughout. Please check the notes section of the PowerPoints for web addresses of videos and extra teacher information. Any questions, please ask. Enjoy.

Year 7 Unit - An exciting introductory unit for Drama covering the 'Actor's Toolkit' basics, and leading up to an assessed performance with physical theatre and soundscape too. This uses videos as examples for students to engage with, lots of class discussion and whole class activities, as well as paired/small group activities throughout.

Structured feedback sheets with key terms and differentiated sentence starters. We print and laminate, keeping a set in the classroom. Can be used as part of structured, whole class discussion or by individuals to respond to each other's work independently.

This was created for a low ability Y8 class to encourage them to think about creating and writing about characters. It is preparation for their Y8 exam which is based around an AQA Paper 1 Section B task. This lesson uses group work and timed tasks and can be adapted for any creative writing scheme/ lesson or any character study activity. There are challenges and super challenges to extend student learning and the lesson has a Big Question, which I use instead of Learning Objectives. there are also differentiated success criteria using Bloom's Revised Taxonomy to explore different levels of success. My class loved this, I hope yours does too.

Students, as trainee agents, investigate the rules of capital letters, correcting errors and writing their own examples of the rules in action. An enjoyable way to look at grammar, with opportunity for some teacher in role (as the lead agent!). Great for encouraging boys to engage with aspects of language. Part of a series of literacy lessons - look out for more on commas, apostrophes, sentence structures etc! Suitable for year 7 or low ability year 8.

Using playing cards to encourage the use of varying sentence lengths in creative writing. Designed to enable students to think carefully before writing, this lesson provides a fun and engaging way to encourage sentence variation. Created for Year 8s with Language Paper 1 Section B in mind, this lesson can be used and tweaked for any year group.

Students, as trainee agents, investigate the rules of simple and compound sentences, correcting errors and writing their own examples of the rules in action. An enjoyable way to look at grammar, with opportunity for some teacher in role (as the lead agent!). Great for encouraging boys to engage with aspects of language. Part of a series of literacy lessons - look out for more on commas, apostrophes, capitals etc! Suitable for year 7 or low ability year 8.