A PowerPoint presentation which includes colourful pictures of the baby animals and the sounds of most of the animals. Children are encouraged to answer even if a guess and then on one click the answer is revealed. Some are more unusual than others; for instance who knew that baby Hedgehog’s are called Hoglet’s? Designed for and used with 2 year olds - proved to be very successful as they cried out to see it again and again. Suggested follow up - groups of animals; a group of owls is called a Parliment. EYFS Understanding the World. EYFS Communication & Language extention activity: using puppets and mimicing the animal sounds.

A PowerPoint which explores the Lion’s family using key learning words: PRIDE, explaining it as children understand - Daddy & Mummy and baby: CUB. We touch upon the job roles of the two genders as well as how to recognise a LION from a LIONESS. The PowerPoint was designed for and used with 2 year olds entitled ‘Family’ (EYFS - Communication & Language and Understanding the World) however it would also suit as a starter or revision activity for older children. Could also be used as a assembly.

Aimed at children aged 2 plus. An activity which can last from 15 minutes to 60 dependent upon how you use the activities suggested on the PowerPoint slides. Concentrates on the areas; Communication and Language, Literacy and Understanding the World. These activities explore Costa Rica radiating from the central item: the Pineapple which grows in Costa Rica. Involves sensory activities, feeling, smelling and tasting the Pineapple on an attempt to encourage healthy fruit snack options for children. Most children are thrilled to become the animals of Costa Rica, I have only included the 2 favorite animals in this PowerPoint but there are hundreds more to choose from such as Toucans, Snakes, Dragons… Enjoy :)

A PowerPoint presentation which explains the language of Media. Includes; Denotation Connotation and the Semiotics of; Indexical signs Symbolic signs Iconic signs Images are included and slides are colourful. Some slides are designed for the students to ‘have a go’.

The main or key events in 'Animal Farm' set out in boxes. This resource is intended to be copied and cut up. Students take the slips of paper out of an envelope and then put them in order. For the teachers aid, the original order is the correct order of events. A very useful method to help students to reinforce the correct order of events in the novella.

We are always being challenged to answer this question so here it is, a simple poster outlining the skills learnt while studying drama. The poster is colourful and is set out into four categories; job interview skills, personable skills, subject specific skills and team building skills.

A work book for GCSE Literature students studying Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'.

A second work book for GCSE Literature students studying 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'.

A work book for GCSE Literature students studying 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'.

George Orwell: Animal Farm A detailed scheme of work covering 21 lessons plus resources. Each lesson sets out the learning objectives, starters, introductory tasks, development activities and plenaries. This scheme of work is detailed enough to teach from direct without the need for additional lesson plans.

A resource to help with your essay planning. HIGH FIVE © Dionne Dawson 2012.

A resource to help with your essay planning. HIGH FIVE © Dionne Dawson 2012.

A character study to make sure that you know everything there is to know about Curley's wife. 24 page booklet aimed at GCSE Literature students - years 10 & 11.

Being not part of the National Curriculum, drama does not have it's own mark scheme at KS3. I created my own assessment scheme, the levels linked to the English NC levels. I separated my drama assessments into three areas; 1. CO-OPERATION & IDEAS 2. PERFORMANCE 3. EVALUATION These assessment sheets are colour coded for each KS3 year and is set on an A5 size for ease when mounting in a standard exercise book.

Being not part of the National Curriculum, drama does not have it's own mark scheme at KS3. I created my own assessment scheme, the levels linked to the English NC levels. These assessment levels have been used in every school in which I have worked and the schools have adopted my system as it has proven to be very successful; both easy to use and accurate. I separated my drama assessments into three areas; 1. CO-OPERATION & IDEAS 2. PERFORMANCE 3. EVALUATION This resource is the third section; Evaluation and includes a teacher mark scheme along with poster sized assessment levels for display so that the students can also understand their level and how to get up to the next level. The levels; over a level 5 also begin to correlate with the GCSE assessment criteria.

Being not part of the National Curriculum, drama does not have it's own mark scheme at KS3. I created my own assessment scheme, the levels linked to the English NC levels. These assessment levels have been used in every school in which I have worked and the schools have adopted my system as it has proven to be very successful; both easy to use and accurate. I separated my drama assessments into three areas; 1. CO-OPERATION & IDEAS 2. PERFORMANCE 3. EVALUATION This resource is the second section; Performance and includes a teacher mark scheme along with poster sized assessment levels for display so that the students can also understand their level and how to get up to the next level. The levels; over a level 5 also begin to correlate with the GCSE assessment criteria.

Being not part of the National Curriculum, drama does not have it's own mark scheme at KS3. I created my own assessment scheme, the levels linked to the English NC levels. These assessment levels have been used in every school in which I have worked and the schools have adopted my system as it has proven to be very successful; both easy to use and accurate. I separated my drama assessments into three areas; 1. CO-OPERATION & IDEAS 2. PERFORMANCE 3. EVALUATION This resource is the first section; Co-operation & Ideas and includes a teacher mark scheme along with poster sized assessment levels for display so that the students can also understand their level and how to get up to the next level. The levels; over a level 5 also begin to correlate with the GCSE assessment criteria.

4 double lessons studying character using the film; 'Catch me if you can' The scheme sets out objectives, starter, introduction, development and plenaries. Working with theories of Stanislavski as well as 2D, Attitude and Objective.

AS level drama study of the GREEK TRAGEDY: The Bacchae by Euripides. 20 lessons over 4 weeks planned. Each lesson sets out a brief for you to plan your own lesson(s); Lesson 1 Themes Lesson 2 Performance Lesson 3 Character Lesson 4 Character Lesson 5 Duologue Lesson 6 Chorus Strophe 1...