Functional Skills - A Difficult Birth?

Another busy week sees our membership continuing to grow and our bank of resources developing at a rapid rate. We've had some excellent feedback from members for our new functional skills resource - thank you! Hopefully it will help take some of the stress out of the transition to the English 2010 curriculum, an area we are focusing on more and more, working hard to help our members cope with the demands of a new syllabus.

Already in 2010 we have published Romeo and Juliet and Functional Skills English and we are ready to put some new resources for GCSE Literature onto the site which should appear over the coming week. If you're teaching Gillian Clarke's poems you should find A Difficult Birth, Easter 1998 a helpful addition to the already established resources of The Field Mouse and Cold Knap Lake. We already have a good selection of resources for Pre1914 poetry including The Affliction of Margaret, On my first Sonne, Sonnet and Patrolling Barnegat and a couple of materials for Seamus Heaney's Death of a Naturalist and Storm on the Island. For the novel we've got schemes of work on Of Mice and Men and the ever popular Stone Cold whilst play-wise you could try Blood Brothers, Our Day Out or Romeo and Juliet.

As mentioned in last week's blog, our next focus is Key Stage 3 with a resource for the Louis Sachar novel Holes but there will be other bits and pieces cropping up in the mean time so keep an eye on the site.

Have a good weekend.

Until next time.

Kind Regards

Martin