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This is a standalone or cover practical lesson on Pantomime for KS3 (especially Year 7 and 8). It includes the complete slides, with some teaching notes. Students will learn / review the main features and stock characters of pantomime. They will practise audience participation and then work in groups to improvise a short pantomime scenes. The final slide includes prompts for audience feedback, focusing on the positive ways of observing and commenting on what they have seen. It’s really useful around Christmas time, or if you are delivering a Scheme of Learning on comedy. Images are AI generated, so can be used without infringing any copyright.

This is a standalone Drama lesson for KS3 students, based on using a story spine to structure a piece of devised Drama. It includes full slides, with instructions and a physical theatre warm up. There are sentence starters for feeding back to groups on their performances. This works as a great single or cover lesson, if you have a cover teacher / supervisor who is happy to do practical work. Timings are on the slides.

This is a classroom cover or standalone lesson for KS3 Drama, focused on understanding different kinds of stages and asking students to have a go at designing their own theatre. Complete set of slides, with instructions. It includes discussion tasks and suggestions for video clips (YouTube links are included but there are lots of alternatives you could use instead). Instructions are included for students making a set of Google slides or a Google doc; this is easily adaptable to a paper-based task or another platform. It works really well for any KS3 class, right up to Year 9. Approximate timings for each task are included on the slides.

A fully resourced secondary assembly presentation on the topic of Imagine the world without the internet. Touches on themes of information, isolation, society, friendship and distance. Suitable for KS3-KS5 students. Fully scripted in the presentation notes, with a suggestion for a music clip to be played as the students enter the assembly space.

A fully planned and resourced secondary school assembly, suitable for KS3-KS5. On the power of listening to connect us to learning, to the world around us and to each other. Fully scripted in the presentation notes, with a suggestion for a music track to be played at the end. Trialled in school with great success. All images are either Creative Commons or AI generated, so available for use.

A fully resourced and original SoL for Year 7 Drama, based on the characters from Cluedo. Each lesson has slides and attached resources, including an evaluation quiz, character and clue cards and suggested ‘red herrings’. Each lesson has additional slides at the end in case you need to teach in a classroom, rather than a practical space, or in the event a cover lesson is needed: no additional adaptation required! All resources are included, although you will need to add one YouTube link in lesson 5. Other than that, it is fully ready to go.

This is a 2-lesson devising, script-writing and performance project for KS3. It is great as a filler, when you have some spare lessons. Students will work in groups to create a scene located in a haunted house. All the instructions are on the slides; there are tips on characterisation, use of drama techniques and rehearsal skills. There is also an alternative written lesson, if practical work is not an option.

A Drama cover worksheet on drug driving. This lesson has a variety of learning tasks, including research, case study analysis and a creative task to design a campaign against drug driving. I used this with a Year 9 group but it would work equally well with Year 8. Students will need access to computers or other resources to complete the research tasks. Ideal for a lesson where you are not able to set practical work or if there is no specialist teacher available. Could also be used as a PSHE resource.

Versatile Drama cover lesson for KS3, based on Protest Theatre. Has options for practical or classroom work, with slides for both. Worksheet included. Classroom lesson includes opportunities for video clips (I used Bread and Puppet Theatre Co but any protest theatre clip would work) and a task planning a scenario for a protest theatre play. Practical lesson includes group task to devise a short protest theatre piece on a topic of students’ own choice. I used this lesson with Year 9 really effectively but it would work for any KS3 group.

Classroom cover lesson for KS3 Drama based on understanding how comedy works. Includes full slides and a worksheet. You will need to add video clips; links are suggested. The lesson includes a classroom discussion on ‘what makes something funny?’, guided analysis of two comedy clips (Mr Bean and Michael McIntyre), then research into different features of comedy. There is plenty of work to fill a cover lesson when you aren’t able to include practical work.

This fully resourced SoL comprises 5 lessons, with slides, tasks, the teaching notes and student templates I created for my classes, which includes a list of suggested wider listening, with key features for comparison. You will need to add a YouTube link and listening question as suggested but everything else is there for you. This SoL has given great results for my students and has been revised and developed. The teaching notes and template contain eight practice 30-mark questions and a glossary, as well as a list of suggested research tasks to help set the music in its cultural context.

This work sheet has all the instructions for a standalone or cover lesson on programme music. It explains the terminology and gives a definition, then sets a practical task based on a choice of three stimulus ideas, including one image. There is no need for notation and this will suit any variety of instrumentation or technology. There is enough work to easily fill a lesson and an opportunity for students to show their work at the end, if your circumstances allow that.

A worksheet containing a practical keyboard task suitable for a standalone or cover lesson for Year 7 or 8. The tasks ask students to identify the notes of a simple melody (there is a help section on the sheet), then introduces the idea of pentatonic melodies. Students learn to play the piece in pairs, adding a simple drone or ostinato accompaniment. The extension task then asks them to create their own pentatonic note bank and use it to create a new melody. This will easily fill a cover lesson and can also be used for instruments other than keyboards.

This worksheet and practical project is ideal for a Year 7 class, to use the last 2 or 3 lessons in the Christmas term. It would also work for an extended cover project, as you have all the instructions on the sheet and your students can work independently to complete the 3 tasks. In lesson 2, they are asked to complete a story that begins where Father Christmas has gone missing; they will use their imaginations to decide where he has gone and how Mrs Claus and the elves are going to get him back. Lesson 2 is a practical lesson, where they can work individually, in pairs or groups to create a piece that accompanies part of their story. They can do this as a purely practical task, if you prefer, but there is help to support some notation as well. In lesson 3, their piece is going to be part of a Christmas album, so they should design the album cover. This can be done on paper or on computers. The whole project is on a double sided sheet of paper but is easily adaptable to an IT-based project if you prefer.

Word search suitable for part of a cover lesson or a starter/plenary for Year 7 or 8. All the terms link with a typical school Christmas. Would also work as part of a mix and match activity set.

A worksheet containing a practical keyboard task suitable for a standalone or cover lesson for Year 7 or 8. The tasks ask students to identify the notes of a simple melody (there is a help section on the sheet), then learn to play it in pairs, adding a simple drone or ostinato accompaniment. The extension task then gets them to rearrange the bars in a musical jigsaw and learn their own new version of the melody. This will easily fill a cover lesson and can also be used for instruments other than keyboards.

A standalone task suitable for a practical cover lesson for Year 8 or 9. The worksheet contains a simple 8-bar melody with advice on how to work in pairs to harmonise it using chords from a option list. Then they should learn to play the melody with their harmonisation at a keyboard or with a melody instrument and guitar. Extension activity included. This task easily lasts an hour and all the help required is on the sheet.

Two listening questions for Edexcel Music A Level set work Bredon Hill, the third song in the Vaughan Williams group ‘On Wenlock Edge’. Each one includes the questions, a skeleton score and a mark scheme, as well as precise instructions on which extract to play from the Anthology (or on a YouTube clip, if you prefer). Great for use in class or to set as independent learning. Also available in a bundle with questions for the other two songs in the set work.

Two listening questions for Edexcel Music A Level set work Is My Team Ploughing?, the second song in the Vaughan Williams Cycle ‘On Wenlock Edge’. Each one includes the questions, a skeleton score and a mark scheme, as well as precise instructions on which extract to play from the Anthology (or on a YouTube clip, if you prefer). Great for use in class or to set as independent learning. Also available in a bundle with questions for the other two songs in the set work.