Thursday 29 August 2013

Resources for the new school year

Getting to Know Your Pupils
  
As it's time to prepare for the new school year, we're featuring our 'getting to know you' resources and ice-breaker ideas.
 
Introduce yourself and find out about your new pupils.

A fun activity which can be used to get to know a new class.

20 effective ice-breakers.
 
Fun tasks that work great as ice-breakers and starters.
 
20 starter activities which can be used as effective ice-breakers.
 
Works in exactly the same way as the TV show. Contains three ready made boards which can be changed or added to.
 
A great template for creating your own ice-breaker quizzes.
 
A fully editable version of the traditional game.
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Wednesday 21 August 2013

Warhorse Teaching Resources (Michael Morpurgo)

Warhorse (Michael Morpurgo)

(Warhorse (Michael Morpurgo) - English teaching resource featuring 131 slides)

Key Stage : KS3 teaching resources
Warhorse is a complete 14 lesson scheme of work with a 131 slide editable PowerPoint presentation and a 16 page booklet of worksheets.
KS3 English Teaching Resources: Warhorse by Michael Morpurgo contains a range of lessons, tasks and activities designed to develop pupil knowledge and understanding of the historical context, plot, characters, language and themes of this wonderful novel.
Our Warhorse by Michael Morpurgo teaching resources include a collection of activities for pupils of all abilities:
    - A scheme of work overview with 14 four part lessons covering historical context, plot, character, themes and language
    - Analysis of the characters of Joey, Albert, Father, Captain Nicholls and others
    - Extension activities for G&T pupils
    - 4 part lessons with starter activity, introduction, development and plenary
    - Historical context understanding research activity
    - Developing inference and deduction skills
    - Empathetic writing - Joey's diary
    - Hotseating to develop character knowledge and understanding
    - Analysing Michael Morpurgo's use of language and narrative structure in Warhorse
    - Writing a newspaper story
    - 14 lesson scheme of work
    - A 131 slide PowerPoint presentation (see preview below)
    - 16 worksheets to accompany the PowerPoint slideshow
To view the KS3 English Teaching Resource: Warhorse by Michael Morpurgo in more detail you can click on the Powerpoint images in the boxes below.