With over 7 years of experience teaching English across all key stages – including time as Acting Head of Department – I create high-quality, classroom-tested resources designed to save you time and raise standards. From complete schemes of work to targeted assessments and retrieval activities, everything is built with curriculum coherence, clarity, and engagement in mind.
With over 7 years of experience teaching English across all key stages – including time as Acting Head of Department – I create high-quality, classroom-tested resources designed to save you time and raise standards. From complete schemes of work to targeted assessments and retrieval activities, everything is built with curriculum coherence, clarity, and engagement in mind.
A Complete OCR A Level Poetry Study Guide
This comprehensive and expertly curated chart is your ultimate companion for mastering William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience for OCR A Level English Literature and Language Paper 2. Perfect for students, teachers, and tutors alike, this resource saves hours of research and analysis, presenting everything you need in one accessible, revision-friendly format.
Here’s what you’ll get:
Concise Summaries – Clear, student-friendly overviews of each poem’s meaning and message, ideal for quick revision or in-depth understanding.
Essential Context – Pinpoints the political, social, and historical influences that shaped Blake’s poetry, linking directly to AO3.
Blake’s Intentions – Insightful interpretations of Blake’s purpose and perspective, helping to hit AO1 and AO5 with confidence.
Theme Tracker – Identifies key themes such as innocence, experience, religion, repression, and freedom across the poems.
Memorable Quotes – A curated list of high-impact quotations, perfect for embedding into essays or flashcard revision.
Literary Techniques – Covers the subject terminology examiners expect, from symbolism to irony, and rhetorical questions to rhyme.
Structure and Form – Breakdown of each poem’s form, stanza pattern, and rhyme scheme to support structural analysis.
Comparison Guidance – Smart suggestions for poem pairings across the collections, helping students build perceptive, synoptic arguments.
Complete Year 7 English Scheme of Work for Suzanne Collins ‘The Hunger Games’ – Full Half Term with Assessments, Knowledge Organiser & Quizzes
This high-quality Year 7 English scheme of work is a fully planned and resourced unit designed to engage students while building the foundational skills they’ll need for success at GCSE. Covering a complete half term, this resource is ideal for busy teachers, departments looking to align KS3 with KS4, or schools aiming to deliver consistent, research-informed practice.
What’s included:
A fully sequenced scheme of work for a full half term
A comprehensive Knowledge Organiser outlining key terms, context, and vocabulary
Knowledge Organiser quizzes for weekly low-stakes retrieval practice
Mid-term and end-of-term assessments that mirror AQA Language Paper 1, Q5 (descriptive writing) and Paper 2, Q5 (transactional writing)
Embedded language analysis tasks to build close reading and inference skills
‘Do Now’ starter activities to maximise learning time and support retrieval
Regular recap quizzes to consolidate learning and strengthen memory
Big Questions to promote discussion, critical thinking, and deeper engagement
Built around the Rosenshine Principles of Instruction, ensuring effective modelling, guided practice, and independent application throughout
Clear, adaptable, and fully classroom-ready.
Complete KS3 English Scheme of Work for William Shakespeares ‘Macbeth’ – Full Half Term with Assessment, Knowledge Organiser & Quizzes
This high-quality KS3 English scheme of work is a fully planned and resourced unit designed to engage students while building their analystical writing skills for AQA Language Paper 1, this SOW is built around building an essay on Lady Macbeth with built in essay prep and building lessons, this is based on key scenes rather than the whole play, the key extract booklet is included and print ready. Covering a complete half term, this resource is ideal for busy teachers, departments looking to align KS3 with KS4, or schools aiming to deliver consistent, research-informed practice.
What’s included:
A fully sequenced scheme of work for a full half term
A comprehensive Knowledge Organiser outlining key terms, context, and vocabulary
Knowledge Organiser quizzes for weekly low-stakes retrieval practice
End of Unit Assessment based on AQA Language Paper 1 with feedback lesson template.
Embedded language analysis tasks to build close reading and inference skills
‘Do Now’ starter activities to maximise learning time and support retrieval
Regular recap quizzes to consolidate learning and strengthen memory
Big Questions to promote discussion, critical thinking, and deeper engagement
Built around the Rosenshine Principles of Instruction, ensuring effective modelling, guided practice, and independent application throughout
Clear, adaptable, and fully classroom-ready.
