This resources gets students to consider what makes a good Christmas Advert before watching and analysing several examples. To help students there is an example which is aimed to be a very good response for a middle/top set. More adverts could be added if you wish or you could extend the task at the end by getting students to peers assess each others work. Top sets and able groups could be encouraged to develop their own criteria for a good advert or for less able groups please use the criteria on the PowerPoint. Brilliant way to include a festive flavour to your lessons whilst keeping management happy with content and skills being taught until the end. Happy Christmas!

These are placemats that I designed to use in my English/Humanities classroom to encourage students to improve their extended writing. It includes top tips for successful writing, visual prompts for varying sentence starters and tables with different connectives to chose from. These could be used as a specific aid in a lesson or be stuck to desks to allow students ready access to them during lessons. This can then form part of your verbal feedback where you can encourage students to improve their work by changing a sentence using a different sentence starter.