This is a collection of high-quality model essays for the ‘Othello’ question on the AQA ‘Love Through the Ages’ paper for A-level English Literature. They have been written by a highly-skilled teacher with many years’ experience of A-level teaching, so this is the perfect resource with which to support, challenge and inspire your students.

If your A-level English Literature students study Carol Ann Duffy’s brilliant ‘Feminine Gospels’, then this collection of detailed essay plans covers everything they need to know. On the basis of these plans, all students will be able to create an essay worthy of an A* grade! Hopefully you find it useful. Enjoy!

Using an extract from Mitch Albom’s brilliantly funny and moving novel ‘The Five People You Meet in Heaven’, I have put together a series of AQA-style GCSE English Language Paper 1 questions and accompanying PowerPoint. Your students will love the text - the opening of the story - and find the slides extremely useful as they perfect their examination technique. Enjoy!

A range of model essays, written to stretch, challenge and raise aspirations for all students, for comparative analytical tasks based on the AQA ‘Power and conflict’ poetry anthology. Who knows, perhaps one of these poems will be selected by AQA this summer, in which case these essays might be the perfect preparation for your students aiming at grades 7, 8 and 9! Hopefully you find them useful.

SEVEN rounds of epic Christmas quiz questions, beginning with a round about what has happened in 2023, ending with an exhilarating music round - featuring a mash-up of 2023’s biggest songs. In between, you’ll face Christmas-themed Countdown conundrums, ‘Secret Santas’ (celebrities with their faces obscured by Santa hats and beards) and more. Enjoy - you’ll never take part in a better Christmas or end-of-year quiz!

This is the perfect guide to Section C (Unseen Poetry) of the AQA A-level English Literature Paper 1 (‘Love Through the Ages’) exam. Your students will find it incredibly helpful, since the model plans, model essays and poems with which to practise their own essay-writing leaves them in no doubt as to how to approach this component. Enjoy!

This is everything your GCSE students will need in order to understand ‘An Inspector Calls’, its characters, its themes and J.B. Priestley’s intended messages, commentaries and criticisms. Key quotations, technical analysis, contextual linking, playwright’s intentions… this really is a comprehensive revision booklet for Priestley’s play.

Comprehensive notes about all FIFTEEN of the ‘Power and Conflict’ poems from the AQA GCSE anthology. These thoroughly detailed notes are organised into clear sections - context/ideas, language analysis, form/structure and links to other poems - so students can already think about how to structure their comparative essays. This booklet covers absolutely everything your Year 10 and Year 11 students could possibly need for the ‘Power and Conflict’ cluster, setting them up perfectly for the poetry section of the AQA Literature Paper 2.

An extremely useful resource for Year 10 or Year 11 students preparing for AQA’s GCSE English Language Paper 2, using two sources relating to women’s football. The booklet consists of AQA-style questions, model paragraphs and spaces for students to complete their own responses, as well as tips for Question 5 (the writing section) and an exemplar Q5 article. Enjoy!

This series of fun, engaging, interactive discussion displays is a fun resource to use with form or review groups during morning or afternoon registration. On just one slide, so there’s no need to fiddle around, there are Countdown conundrums, maths puzzles, riddles, ‘Thunks’ (challenging, thought-provoking questions), debate statements and spiritual or motivational quotations. This has been a hit in my school, and is guaranteed to engage the whole class. Enjoy!

I don’t know about you… but I’m feeling 2022! With 8 fun rounds of questions about a variety of themes and topics, your students will love this Christmas quiz. Complete with a film round (testing knowledge of the biggest films of 2022 as well as some Christmas classics), music round (featuring a mashup of 2022’s best-selling hits), celebrity faces covered by Santa hats and beards and a Christmas cracker joke punchline round, this quiz really does have it all. Enjoy - and Merry Christmas!

A comprehensive guide to key quotations from Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel ‘Jane Eyre’, with related language analysis and links to social, cultural and historical context for each quotation. Three quotations have been selected from each of the novel’s 38 chapters, making this the perfect revision guide for anyone studying ‘Jane Eyre’ for the AQA GCSE English Literature.

A complete mock AQA GCSE Language Paper 1 question paper that I have put together using an extract from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic novel ‘The Great Gatsby’, in addition to an accompanying PowerPoint that walks students through each question: it can either be used as a feedback lesson or as a whole-class walk-through for exam preparation. Hopefully you find it useful!

A complete mock AQA GCSE Language Paper 1 question paper that I have put together using an extract from Sebastian Faulks’ novel 'Birdsong’, in addition to an accompanying PowerPoint that walks students through each question: it can either be used as a feedback lesson or as a whole-class walk-through for exam preparation. Hopefully you find it useful!

A comprehensive guide to Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Feminine Gospels’, a set poetry text for AQA’s English Literature A-level Paper 2 (Texts in Shared Contexts). Notes are organised according to Duffy’s main ideas and messages, language techniques and aspects of form/structure. An incredibly useful guide for students - and teachers - getting to grips with Duffy’s collection.

A series of resources that prepare GCSE students for the ‘Macbeth’ section of the English Literature exam. First, an exam-style extract question based on Act 3 Scene 2 of the play, focusing on how Shakespeare presents Macbeth as an ‘evil character’. Then, a PowerPoint walking students through the task. There are also a series of anonymous student responses for classes to read and mark, deciding on a grade and reasons for it. A perfect resource for any Year 10 or Year 11 group studying ‘Macbeth’ and preparing for the GCSE English Literature exam.

A fun form time activity, this EPIC quiz recaps what happened over the summer holiday, the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, summer music hits and celebrity faces obscured by hats and shades! Enjoy - hopefully it helps to kick off the new term in a fun, engaging and slightly silly way.

A mega Christmas Quiz, perfect for secondary school classes to end a stressful Autumn term - complete with a film round, music round, bonus music round, Secret Santas and much more. Audio clips from some of the biggest songs of 2020, questions about the year’s biggest news stories, celebrities with Santa beards and hats, still images from films, etc. - enjoy! Merry Christmas!