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Valentine's Day webquest |
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Who was the real Saint Valentine and why do we remember him on 14th February? Search the internet for answers to these questions and more. A lovely 'one off' Year 7 lesson. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 11/01/2013 | |||
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Pancake Day |
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Read about Shrove Tuesday, watch a YouTube clip on how to make pancakes and put the recipe in order. Ideal for introducing year 7 students to instructional writing. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 11/01/2013 | |||
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Christmas advent calendar | ||
An interactive advent calendar with festive starters, plenaries and other creative ideas to celebrate December. (Warning: this is a large file and may take a few moments to download. Please note that our PowerPoints work best with MS Windows.) | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 04/12/2012 | |||
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A letter to Father Christmas |
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A selection of Christmas themed letter writing activities, with both formal and informal writing options and a writing frame. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 04/12/2012 | |||
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Predictions | ||
A lovely resource in which students make predictions about the festive story 'Nicholas Was...' by Neil Gaiman and then create their own graphic story. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 09/11/2012 | |||
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The Queen's Jubilee Blockbuster game |
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A fun and challenging interactive test all about the British royal family. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 25/05/2012 | |||
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Design your own royal bunting! |
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Use this template to design some bunting with a 'favourite book' theme. Perfect for those Diamond Jubilee classroom displays! | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 25/05/2012 | |||
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Valentine's Day mad libs |
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Introduce students to word classes and parts of speech using mad libs. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 10/02/2012 | |||
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Christmas poems |
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A lovely 'one off' Christmas lesson. Students work on rhyme and rhythm to create their own Christmas or winter-themed poem. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 25/11/2011 | |||
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'The Magic Wood' at Christmas | ||
Use the Henry Treece poem as a starting point for creating an atmospheric Christmas poem. | |||
| KS3 | Poetry Published: 14/10/2011 | |||
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Halloween poems | ||
A fun resource which supports students with writing Halloween themed poetry! | |||
| KS3 | Poetry Published: 14/10/2011 | |||
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Football crazy | ||
A selection of activities with a World Cup theme | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 08/06/2010 | |||
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Remembrance Day study |
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Not strictly English, but hey ho! A powerful and moving History exercise that encourages children to find out about the people listed on your nearest war memorial. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 02/09/2009 | |||
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Year 6 induction | ||
Interest and enthuse Year 6 pupils with this imaginative letter writing lesson based on WH Auden's classic poem 'Night Mail'. | |||
| KS3 | Poetry | Skills Published: 26/06/2009 | |||
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Talking Turkeys! | ||
A fun way of looking at Benjamin Zephaniah's poem in defence of the Christmas turkey! Great as a one-off Christmassy lesson. (Due to copyright, poem not included.) | |||
| KS3 | Poetry Published: 26/06/2009 | |||
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Work experience | ||
A focused resource on structuring an argument, looking at the arguments for and against work experience. | |||
| KS4 | Skills Published: 02/03/2009 | |||
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Ban Christmas! - persuasive speech plan | ||
Beat the winter blues with this lively discussion. Includes a frame to help students write the speech. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 12/12/2008 | |||
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Christmas carols |
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Write a new Christmas carol! A handy Christmas quickie. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 02/12/2004 | |||
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Writing to argue. Should fireworks be on sale? | ||
A useful resource that could help to supplement and aid teaching on argumentative writing. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 14/01/2004 | |||
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Christmas teaching ideas | ||
17 fun, educational ideas for the run up to Christmas. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 02/12/2002 | |||
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Christmas wordsearch |
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Find the Christmas words in the grid. [NB Amended version added 11-12-02] | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 28/11/2002 | |||
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