Winter Swans This two-lesson mini-unit explores Owen Sheer’s ‘Winter Swans’ in detail. Designed for GCSE pupils studying AQA’s Love and Relationships Poetry, this resource looks at the poem in depth and explains how to compare it to other poems from the anthology. The resource is made up of a 46-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 4 accompanying worksheets. The two lessons contain the following: Lesson One Context – A brief outline of Owen Sheers and factors that may have inspired the poem. First Contact – An initial reading of ‘Winter Swans’ with a glossary included. Comprehension questions with example answers. Language and imagery – Analysing ‘Winter Swans’ in detail. Exploring key imagery and answering questions that delve deeper. Model answers provided. Essay Writing – An essay question to assess initial understanding. An example answer is included. Lesson Two Themes – Analysing the themes of ‘Winter Swans’ - Romantic love, nature and distance Structure and Form – How Sheers uses rhyme, rhythm, caesura and enjambment. The GCSE Exam – Comparing ‘Winter Swans’ with other poems from the anthology. Model answer included. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below for more AQA Anthology Poetry - Love and Relationships resources: When We Two Parted Love’s Philosophy Porphyria’s Lover Sonnet 29 – ‘I think of thee!’ Neutral Tones The Farmer’s Bride Eden Rock Mother, Any Distance Before You Were Mine Walking Away Follower Letters From Yorkshire Singh Song! Climbing My Grandfather AQA GCSE Anthology Poetry Love and Relationships Pack

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Descriptive writing: Winter. The power point includes: a starter, an extract from Storms of Silence by Joe Simpson which is analysed at word and whole text level, an opportunity for pupils to improve their work to show progression, a skills slide, a planning slide and a checklist for peer assessment. Highly visual and engaging.

Full lesson (approx 1-2 hour) with model paragraph analysing writer’s methods in the poem. Starter - List/draw image of swan/connotations of a swan. Main 1 - Read through poem/gather initial ideas/whole class annotation. Match images with Q’s task. Rank ordering task. Push students to think about the effect of key words in preparation for the second part of the lesson. Main 2 - Model paragraph - Discuss/annotate evidence of how it is a good example. Students then write up their own response in the same style as the model. Could be given as a homework either. *Model is aimed at higher ability GCSE students. This can easily be simplified to suit lower ability.

Enhance your student’s creative writing with these 30 winter-themed descriptive writing prompts. Perfect for immersing students in the beauty of winter, these prompts are versatile and can be used for individual lessons, starters, writing challenges, cover lessons, seasonal assignments, or independent writing tasks. Each prompt presents a unique winter scene, item, or scenario designed to spark creativity, improve descriptive language, and encourage students to explore sensory imagery. Examples include: ➤ Describe the feeling of a chilly winter breeze on your face. ➤ Describe the sound of snow beneath your feet as you walk through a winter wonderland. ➤ Describe a snowflake. This download includes: ★ 30 descriptive writing prompts with a hyperlinked master list ★ Individual handouts for each prompt, allowing students space to write their descriptive pieces Encourage your students to create vivid and detailed descriptions with these inspiring winter prompts, perfect for bringing the magic of the season into their writing.

This resource contains a fully editable, 130-slide PowerPoint presentation on the Winter Olympics and the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games taking place from Friday 6th February until Sunday 22nd February in Italy. The PowerPoint focuses on: the history of the Winter Olympics the events in the Winter Games GB’s performances and achievements in past Olympics the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games Team GB The presentation includes links to some of the events taking place at the Games, GB’s ice hockey gold medal, Eddie the Eagle’s ski jumping, John Curry and Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean’s ice-dances and the amazing snowboarders, Jamie Nicholls and Katie Ormerod, in action. Please note, the watermark on the preview images is not present on the resource itself. If you buy this resource and are pleased with your purchase, I would be grateful if you could leave a review. As a token of appreciation, you can have a free resource of your choice up to the value of your purchased resource. Just email inspireandeducate@aol.co.uk with your user name, the resource you have reviewed and the resource you would like for free. You may also be interested in: The Winter Olympics Puzzle Pack This Winter Olympic sports puzzle pack includes fourteen puzzles - three differentiated word searches, four differentiated anagram worksheets, three differentiated winter sports puzzles and four differentiated crosswords. All the puzzles are Winter Sports-themed. Winter Olympics Quiz 100 Question Quiz This resource contains an editable, 100-question PowerPoint quiz on the Winter Olympics. Questions focus on: the history of the Winter Olympics the events in the Winter Games GB’s performances and achievements in past Olympics The quiz contains 100 questions, with three possible answers, with varying degrees of challenge. It can be administered in a variety of ways - to individuals or teams. Answers can be found by clicking on the snowboard image on the bottom right-hand corner of each slide. An answer sheet is provided to allow individuals/teams to record answers. Save money and buy all three resources in a bundle at a discounted rate: Winter Olympics Milano Cortina 2026 Bundle Winter Paralympics Milano Cortina 2026 80-Slide Presentation

This is a thorough and comprehensive 30-slide lesson on Owen Sheers’ poem ‘Winter Swans’, which is studied as part of AQA’s GCSE Literature anthology on ‘Love & Relationships’. This PowerPoint unpicks key themes of romantic love, separation and reconciliation with close analysis of language, form and structure. Also included are questions/tasks for students and a ‘mock’ essay question in which students must compare ‘Winter Swans’ to another poem, just like in the real AQA exam. Also included is a table for students to complete on the poem to help compartmentalise their notes. PowerPoint saved as PDF.

This lesson gives students ideas of how to compare Winter Swans with The Farmer’s Bride using ‘Desire’ as the question focus. It then gives them a structure for writing a comparison essay and a model to pick apart before completing their own paragraph analysis.

This is a short lesson written for Year 12 tutor, it only last around 20 minutes so more suited to registration. In this lesson students will learn about ways to support their mental health during the cold, dark winter months. This resource comes with lesson slides.

Very detailed 70 slide PPT on The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare containing a short biography of the author, a presentation of the major characters, notable quotations, a very detailed summary of the play and 30 essay questions.

A few resources based around the Winter Olympics 2026. Resources include a whole class quiz, a word match & wordsearch of key vocabulary (good to practise dictionary skills) and a blank athlete profile, where students could research athletes participating in the games.

Polar bears, penguins and snowmen…Oh My! Now with additional Winter Related Activity Sheets A wonderful, creative way to decorate your room for Winter with these Winter Lantern Crafts. With 8 different lantern templates, let your kids choose the one they like: snowman, snowman family, polar bears, penguins, winter trees, January art, snowflakes and patterns. These units are designed in a Mix and Match format. You are able to pick the pieces that you want, depending on the needs and the abilities of your students. There are so many different possibilities. Each lantern creation is designed with a printed lantern template and the choice of several Winter themed trims. This is a great activity to keep the kids busy while practicing fine motor skills, colouring, folding, gluing and especially cutting. So many ways to decorate the lantern trims using glitter, paper layering, leaves, fake snow, shredded paper, cotton, tissue paper... In my classroom, creating the basic lantern will take my kiddos about 90 minutes (coloring and assembly). Included: • 8 Printed lantern templates • 8 Trim sets • Additional embellishments • 6 Winter Related activity sheets ************************************************************* Keywords :: Winter Craft :: Winter Activity :: Snow Craft :: Snow Activity :: Paper Lantern :: 3D Craft :: Winter Theme :: Ms Lil :: Winter Decoration :: Winter Art :: January Art

I put this collection of photos together for my students as part of our exploration of seasons, weather, and climate. Please leave me a review and I will send you any other resource of your choice for free (contact me: office@oceansproject.com). Check out my other resources at my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/sarah277 Let me know if you have any resource requests and I will tailor make a resource for you.

This is a sensory story I created for my topic 'seasons'. This was written for a PMLD/ CLDD class. I have written it with the sentence, the sense, the sensory experience and what I and my TAs are looking for and observing throughout the sessions. Repeat story throughout the term to enable the child to develop anticipation, investigation, awareness, preference and much more. Could also be used in an EYFS KS1 class.

This is my version of a popular game - Dobble. Dobble is a simple pattern recognition game in which players try to find an image shown on two cards. Each card in Dobble features eight different symbols, with the symbols varying in size from one card to the next. Any two cards have exactly one symbol in common. For the basic Spot it! game, reveal one card, then another. Whoever spots the symbol in common on both cards claims the first card, then another card is revealed for players to search, and so on. Whoever has collected the most cards when the 55-card deck runs out wins! I hope you find it useful. Please, leave a review I will be very grateful!

4 rounds optical illusions baby animals memory game flags Ks3 or KS4 all abilities all answers provided for marking!

Grab these calming winter coloring pages to bring creativity to your classroom! This pack of winter coloring sheets is full of 50 beautiful, clean, and fun images for children to enjoy expressing their creativity and perfecting their fine motor skills.

Can be used with various Keys stages right up to GCSE level. This is a lesson which encourages creative writing based on the theme of winter. Students would need to have completed a study of figurative language and know how to use a thesaurus before attempting this task.