I am a fully qualified English teacher, working specifically in secondary education with KS3 and KS4 students. I create resources for a range of KS3 and KS4 schemes of work, especially for lower ability students as these of are the groups of students I specialise in. Welcome to my shop and enjoy!
I am a fully qualified English teacher, working specifically in secondary education with KS3 and KS4 students. I create resources for a range of KS3 and KS4 schemes of work, especially for lower ability students as these of are the groups of students I specialise in. Welcome to my shop and enjoy!
A tutorial for students who are looking to explore their accommodation options post 16. Ideal for students in a 6th form college setting who need guidance finding and researching where to live once they leave their college course.
There are 9 accommodation options to research, all accompanied by an A3 research sheet where students can they weigh up the pros and cons of each living type. A must have for informing students about the necessary steps after college!
With all this uncertainty about school closures and lock downs coming up, I have created a 4 week activity timetable for you to do with your children (should we all be stuck inside our homes for the foreseeable future!).
As I’m sure you are all aware, keeping children entertained under these circumstances is going to be difficult so I really hope this activity timetable is useful to some of you. It’s cost friendly and I have based the majority of activities inside the home.
This takeaway homework menu is aimed at KS4 students who are studying the play Much Ado About Nothing. The menu has differentiated tasks from Extra Mild through to Extra Hot and makes learning fun! All extracts that are relevant to the homework tasks are included in this resource.
This takeaway homework menu is aimed at KS4 students who are studying the play The Merchant of Venice. The menu has differentiated tasks from Extra Mild through to Extra Hot and makes learning fun! All extracts that are relevant to the homework tasks are included in this resource.
This takeaway homework menu is aimed at KS4 students who are studying the play The Tempest. The menu has differentiated tasks from Extra Mild through to Extra Hot and makes learning fun! All extracts that are relevant to the homework tasks are included in this resource.
This resource contains 5 skills tutorials in order to prepare students who are due to go out on work experience. The first lesson “Why is work experience so important?” allows students to understand the need for work experience and the benefits it will create. Lesson 2 “Finding out what I want to do” allows students to explore their interests (and even find out what they are!), alongside a range of different career options. Lesson 3 “How to approach businesses and employers” shows students the best way to contact businesses to arrange their own work experience placement. This includes template emails and how to make their emails appealing. Lesson 4 “First day jitters” prepares students for their placements with what to wear, what to take with them, how to prepare the night before, and finally Lesson 5 “Using your experience for the future” allows students to reflect on their work placement and add their newly acquired skills to their CV.
Complete with a range of activities and worksheets for students to use, these lessons will ensure your students go out to work experience fully prepared.
This resource contains three employability sessions aimed at Year 10 students in secondary school through to Year 12 students embarking on Further Education. With the introduction of the up and coming T-Levels in 2020, schools and colleges now need to prepare our young people for the world and work more than ever before and so these sessions aim to best prepare students. Session one “Getting work ready" is to highlight a students skill set, strengths and weaknesses and what a placement will consist of to develop weaker skill sets. Session two “Finding a placement” is designed to help students approach employers and how to search for placements. Session three “Placement expectations” shows students typical attitudes and behaviours employers like to see displayed, how to dress appropriately and what to do if things go wrong.
This takeaway homework menu is aimed at KS4 students who are studying OCR 2- Fractions, Decimals and Percentages. The menu has differentiated tasks from Extra Mild through to Extra Hot and makes learning fun! Students can be expected to complete one task from the menu each week and choose a different spice strength to help them practice harder questions. All questions included are from both Foundation and Higher tiers. For some of the harder questions I have attached Index extracts on separate slides. I would encourage students to try these questions without a calculator and/or show all their workings out for each question.
This takeaway homework menu is aimed at KS4 students who are studying OCR 1 Number Operations and Integers. The menu has differentiated tasks from Extra Mild through to Extra Hot and makes learning fun! Students can be expected to complete one task from the menu each week and choose a different spice strength to help them practice harder questions. All questions included are from both Foundation and Higher tiers. For some of the harder questions I have attached Index extracts on separate slides. I would encourage students to try these questions without a calculator and/or show all their workings out for each question.
This resource contains three employability sessions aimed at Year 10 students in secondary school through to Year 12 students embarking on Further Education. With the introduction of the up and coming T-Levels in 2020 and onwards, schools and colleges now need to prepare our young people for the world and work more than ever before and so these sessions aim to best prepare students. Session one “Finding a Work Placement” is to help students approach employers by themselves and how to dress appropriately, what to say and do etc before they start their initail placement. Session two “Confidence in the Work Place” is to highlight a students skill set, strengths and weaknesses and what a placement will consist of to develop weaker skill sets. Session three “Placement Review” is for students who have completed a CV or need to start from scratch writing a CV and shows students how best to make use of their work placement experience, reflecting on their time on a work placement and to consider plans for the future. Alongside this resource is an “Employability Skills Booklet” that allows students to track their sessions by making notes and writing down their ideas.
This resource contains three detailed lessons about two houses that come to life and develop a friendship. It is a brilliant stimulus for creative writing and engaging, particularly for the lower band students who struggle to write down their ideas. There is a small film attached to the resource, courtesy of The Literacy Shed which has some fabulous resources and each lesson has differentiated and challenging activities attached. The small film should make you cry!
This resource is perfect for celebrating those students that deserve recognition for their efforts in and around school for the week. It can be easily adaptable to fit Primary School year groups and your own school logo. Contains years 7-11 in this package.
16 KS3 takeaway homework menus specifically for KS3 schemes of learning. Each menu has a different takeaway restaurant from Mcdonalds to Subway and starts with “Extra Mild” through to “Extra Hot” to reach those high achievers. See below for the list of work schemes covered:
A Christmas Carol
An Inspector Calls
Beginning the Bard (Introduction to Shakespeare)
Blood Brothers
Contemporary Novel (Holes and Skellig)
Dystopian Literature
Gothic Literature
Literary Extracts and Creative Writing
Macbeth KS3
Me Myself and I (Autobiographical)
Of Mice and Men
Poetry from Other Cultures
Romeo and Juliet KS3
Unseen Poetry KS3
War Literature
War Language
10 KS4 takeaway homework menus specifically for KS4 schemes of learning. Each menu has a different takeaway restaurant from Mcdonalds to Wagamama and starts with “Extra Mild” through to “Extra Hot” to reach those high achievers. All menus contain 6 extracts relevant to the questions on the powerpoint slides that follow. See below for the list of work schemes covered:
A Christmas Carol KS4
An Inspector Calls KS4
Language Paper 1
Language Paper 2
Macbeth KS4
Poetry Anthology- Power and Conflict
Romeo and Juliet KS4
Spelling Punctuation and Grammar
Unseen Poetry KS4
This resource contains a detailed writing frame for students to follow whilst practicing a typical GCSE style question. Complete with graded frames from 4-7 to guide students into making progress into higher levels and specific quotes from all the poems in the Power and Conflict cluster, to further support their answers.
This resource contains a detailed writing frame for students to follow whilst practicing a typical GCSE style question. Complete with graded frames from 4-7 to guide students into making progress into higher levels and specific quotes from all the main characters in Macbeth, to further support their answers.
This resource is specific to the new GCSE English Language Paper 2 specification and is an aid for students answering each question. Questions 2-5 all have a check box for students to tick off, to ensure they are including the correct parts of their answer. Brilliant for bottom set students who struggle to write down their ideas.
This resource is specific to the new GCSE English Language Paper 1 specification and is an aid for students answering each question. Questions 2-5 all have a check box for students to tick off, to ensure they are including the correct parts of their answer. Brilliant for bottom set students who struggle to write down their ideas.
This resource contains a detailed writing frame for students to follow whilst practicing a typical GCSE style question. Complete with graded frames from 4-7 to guide students into making progress into higher levels and specific quotes from all the main characters in An Inspector Calls, to further support their answers.
This resource contains a detailed writing frame for students to follow whilst practicing a typical GCSE style question. Complete with graded frames from 4-7 to guide students into making progress into higher levels and specific quotes from all the main characters in A Christmas Carol, to further support their answers.
This reward loyalty card is perfect for encouraging students to engage in lessons and contribute positively. Students can collect 10 stamps or stars from the teacher to claim a prize for their hard work and effort.
