Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ workbook, most suitable to year 7 or 8 SEND or low ability. A range of tasks around summaries and short key extracts from the text. Tasks include: storyboarding, comprehension questions, costume designs, identifying characters, drawing stage plans, analysing simple techniques in extracts, annotating excerpts with notes to actors, etc. I’ve used this booklet with LA year 7 in particular over 18 years and it has always provided a useful framework around which to teach the text.

AQA GCSE LITERATURE DRAMATIC TECHNIQUES IN AN INSPECTOR CALLS A straightforward one page A4 grid of dramatic, structure, form and language techniques used in the play ‘An Inspector Calls’. Helpful for revision, especially when blown up to A3. PDF and Word versions uploaded (colour and black and white).

A detailed (103 slides) PowerPoint walking pupils through: Part 1: What to expect in the exam Part 2: How am I assessed? Part 3: What should I do before I write my essay? Part 4: How do I plan? Part 5: How do I structure my essay? Using PowerPoint transitions to animate slides when in full screen mode.

Taskmaster KS3 Fun Whole Class Games A PowerPoint with 33 slides and 20 fun tasks. Could be used as a plenary ‘treat’ or an end of term ‘fun’ lesson. (i.e. 'Sir, can we have a fun lesson today?) Some tasks need a couple of props, others need nothing. Feel free to add your own challenges! I’ve had great fun with these!

Pupil booklets to support Component 1 and Component 2 of Eduqas GCSE Media Studies, covering: Quality Street This Girl Can GQ The Archers The Guardian The Sun Fortnite Luther The Sweeney Covers a range of the academic content of Eduqas Fact Sheets, as well as linked classroom activities. Thought they would be useful to someone, somewhere!

A fun and funky looking two page revision sheet, using duel coding to cover key theories required for the GCSE Eduqas course.

The Little Book of Quotes An A5 pupil booklet of key quotations, appropriate to AQA GCSE English Literature, Paper 1 and Paper 2: Macbeth (by Act) An Inspector Calls (by character) A Christmas Carol (by character) Conflict and Power Poetry (by poem) Helpful for year 11 revision.

Eduqas GCSE Media Studies NEA Component 3 Horror Film Posters (Cohort 2025 brief 2) Basic pupil booklet for pupils to research and plan their DVD and film poster. Includes pages for pupils to make their notes on: typical codes and conventions of horror typical iconography example horror film posters to annotate space to plan out a DVD and film poster blurb their coversheet notes a checklist of what to include in their products

A comprehensive booklet and staff PowerPoint for pupils working towards Component 3 of the Eduqas GCSE Media Studies qualification. Focuses on the film marketing action genre brief (cohort 2022) and the creation of a DVD jewel case and theatrical film release poster. Includes advice on research, codes and conventions, detailed planning stages and Statement of Aims.

A pupil workbook to accompany reading ‘Buddy’ by Nigel Hinton at KS3. Covers a range of reading and writing tasks, linked to GCSE English / GCSE English Literature. Best suited to LA / SEND. Includes self /peer assessment and ‘Stretch and Challenge’ tasks.

AQA English Literature Key Vocabulary Four A4 landscape pages of vocabulary for: Macbeth A Christmas Carol An Inspector Calls Power and Conflict Poetry Handy for revision with year 11. PDF and Word document included.

The Little Book of Literature Quotes Key quotes for year 11 to revise (Cohort 2019) covering the following set texts: A Christmas Carol Macbeth An Inspector Calls Conflict and Power Poetry Produced for LA Year 11 AQA GCSE Literature.**

A comprehensive booklet for pupils working towards Component 3 of the Eduqas GCSE Media Studies qualification. Focuses on the film marketing thriller genre brief and the creation of a DVD jewel case and theatrical film release poster. Includes advice on research, codes and conventions, detailed planning stages and Statement of Aims.

‘Power and Conflict’ Poetry Homework Booklet - suitable for SEND or LA Most suitable for year 10, as it only covers some of the poems studied so far: Ozymandias Bayonet Charge Poppies Kamikaze Storm on the Island Charge of the Light Brigade Tasks include: Cloze procedure summaries, diary writing task, poetry writing, creative writing, drawing images associated with poems, identifying language devices, storyboarding and comparing poems.

A KS3 pupil booklet covering covering a range of reading and writing tasks. Close links made to GCSE English Section A and B. Focus text extracts: ‘The War of the Worlds’ (H.G.Wells) ‘The Woman in Black’ (Susan Hill) Most suitable for year 9.

Pupil booklet introducing fiction texts. Includes: Writing openings to short stories Assessing sample pupil extracts against GCSE writing criteria Focus on ambitious vocabulary and sentence variety writing skills Reading tasks linked to ‘The War of the Worlds’ and ‘The Woman in Black’ Writing to describe tasks

A two sided A 4 Word template which folds into a leaflet, which can be glued into pupil exercise books. Pupils are provided with boxes to draw illustrations and lines on which to write, explaining key area like their family tree, friends and plans for the future. Very useful when getting to know new classes!

4 Excel sheets of ‘Quickfire’ starters, covering: Literary devices Spelling Punctuation Parts of speech Sentences 12 task boxes per topic area. Suitable for KS3 or as revision in KS4. SmartBoard version available also, for whole class Q&Q.

Used as part of a Year 7 ‘Myths and Legends’ Unit. Two page summary of the story, plus three reading DART tasks.

**AQA Paper 1, Questions 1 & 2 and Paper 2, Questions 1 & 2 ** Source A: Lost at Sea (Guardian) Source B: I Fell Through The Arctic Ice (Gary Rolf) Exam style for all four questions.