A perfect lesson for when you’re reading the history lesson moments in Noughts and Crosses (up to chapter 35). Explores white vs black coverage of history in schools and challenges thinking.

Exploring racism in the media. Chapter 16/17 of Noughts and Crosses.

Well Being Daily Check in Resource Mental Health. A printable resource to laminate and use over and over again. Positive mental health, pioneering emotional regulation for students.

Planner can be laminated and re-used over and over. Option for personalisation at the top for their name.

Students can use this to identify their emotion at the time and become self aware.

Pre-assessment prep, assessment and mark scheme and post-assessment feedback ‘make a difference’ time. 3-5 hours worth. Using extracts from Noughts and Crosses. Heavy focus on WHAT/HOW/WHY approach to analysing language with scaffolding, model answers, checklists, self-assess, peer-assess.

Post-Assessment language analysis on Noughts and Crosses extract. Complete with mark scheme.

Language assessment using Noughts and Crosses extract including mark scheme. Ready made assessment and mark scheme ready to go.

Writing a what how why language paragraph analysis using Noughts and Crosses extract. Very detailed lesson with model answer, heavy scaffolding, check-list for self/peer assess.

Attitude to learning poster for students and teachers to display. Student-friendly language for them to understand their attitude to learning and teachers may reference this consistently in raising behaviour and high expectations.

Something for all teachers to stick on desk to remind you to conduct efficient plenaries and check understanding effectively. Students can use this resource too - student friendly.

Black narratives: exploring THUG (including black narrative multiple extract booklet resource consistenting of extracts from: Ghost Boys, Emmett Till article, THUG - The Hate U Give, Noughts and Crosses). Black narrative lessons, BLM.

Black narratives: exploring Emmett Till article (including black narrative multiple extract booklet resource consistenting of extracts from: Ghost Boys, Emmett Till article, THUG - The Hate U Give, Noughts and Crosses). Black narrative lessons, BLM.

Black narratives: exploring Ghost Boys (including black narrative multiple extract booklet resource consistenting of extracts from: Ghost Boys, Emmett Till article, THUG - The Hate U Give, Noughts and Crosses). Black narrative lessons, BLM.

We like to read big chunks of it and stop to check understanding every now and then so here’s a quick lesson to retrieve what they know so far and what they can remember about language zooms from last time… Includes free knowledge organiser

Noughts and Crosses language method zooms as you read through chapter 3-8. Black narratives BLM. Exploring language/word types/methods with scaffolds. Including free knowlegde organiser.

Chapter 2 of Noughts and Crosses -connotations and knowledge organiser

Reading chapter 1 of Noughts and Crosses: structure, dual narrative, knowledge organiser included.

Linking Noughts and Crosses prologue to Romeo and Juliet’s prologue. Including free N+C knowledge organiser. Black narratives. BLM lessons.

Introduction lesson to Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman BLM Black Narratives. Explores the front cover, blurb, foreword and preamble.