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Animal Farm GCSE lesson plan

Animal Farm GCSE – Discuss a key chapter This lesson plan for Animal Farm uses ‘home groups’ and ‘expert groups’ to give students ways of approaching a novel so that they have two opportunities to discuss a key chapter from the text before they complete their own written response. Through sharing and discussing original ideas with their peers, students can really delve into […]

KS3/4 Science Lesson Plan – Use Games To Make The Topic Of Gravitational Waves Accessible To All The detection of gravitational waves proves Einstein’s theories surrounding their existence and is a potentially Nobel prizewinning discovery. The aim of this physics lesson is to make gravitational waves and LIGO accessible to students from KS3 upwards, of all abilities. These activities can be adapted for a wide range of abilities across KS3 and KS4 […]

KS4 Science Lesson Plan – Explore The Ethics Of Testing Drugs On Animals And Humans The final phase of drugs testing and clinical trials are human trials. But who takes part in these? Are they safe? Is there an alternative? Here, pupils will learn about the processes that a drug must undergo before it can be used to treat patients. This chemistry lesson explores the ethics of testing on animals […]

KS3/4 MFL lesson plan – Practise extended writing with this group activity Students need to know how to write in the target language, creatively, and by themselves. A good way to build up their confidence is to start to create longer pieces of written work as a group. This can be done at a very basic level with KS3 and developed and extended into KS4. These ideas […]

KS4 English Lesson Plan – Bring Poetry Writing Alive by Heading Outside Poetry writing is, potentially, an ideal learning medium. Its succinctness, and paradoxically boundless scope for creativity, make it irresistible, once discovered. What’s more, poetry lends itself to song, beat, drama, graphics, and personal expression – there’s something for everyone. But how to show them? Youngsters spend long hours cooped up behind desks, even for poetry-writing, […]

KS3/4 RE Lesson Plan – Use A Film To Discuss The Abuse Of Vulnerable People And The Importance Of Charity TrueTube’s film For the Sake of the Child uses first hand testimony to describe the experiences of child migrants and opens up internal contexts from movies such as Rabbit Proof Fence (aborigines and forced sterilisation), Philomena (Magdalen laundries), Django Unchained and 12 Years a Slave (slavery), as well as tapping into so many more recent […]

KS4 Chemistry Lesson Plan – Embrace The New GCSE Chemistry Specification With These Ideas During this lesson students will complete a number of discrete activities which focus on the newest chemistry content from a range of examination boards at KS4. You could break up the activities, using them individually as they fit into the larger scheme of learning, or deliver them as a more intense experience suited for separate […]

KS3/4 MFL lesson plan – Use these activities to create more confident speakers Create more confident MFL speakers by using these activities within your next lesson plan, or as part of a classroom carousel session.

KS4 History Lesson Plan – Ignite Curiosity While Teaching Medicine And Warfare Developments This exciting approach to the Historic Environment component of the new History GCSE will ignite curiosity in students and enable them to understand the developments of medicine and warfare and identify links set in the Western Front environment itself.

KS4 Biology Lesson Plan – Embrace The New GCSE Biology Specification With These Ideas It can be challenging for teachers to prepare lessons on new parts of the biology specification, such as neuroscience and the functions of the brain. New material such as the synthesis of monoclonal antibodies is a topic that has made it to KS4 from university research level and beyond, for example. During this lesson students […]

KS4 English Lesson Plan – Use Multimedia And Collaborative Activities To Perfect Close Analysis Skills There is a wealth of free multimedia materials floating around in the ether that are ours for the taking. With a pinch of creative magic, you can easily transform these materials into fantastic stimuli through which our students can practise and perfect their close analysis skills. Pair these whizzy stimulus materials with collaborative and competitive […]

KS4 Science Lesson Plan – Embrace The New GCSE Physics Specification With These Ideas Take students on a journey into the centre of the Earth by travelling on the waves of an earthquake deep into the centre of the earth, excite them with the motion and orbits of the planets and satellites and challenge them with the mathematical content of resolving forces and vector diagrams.

KS4 English Lesson Plan – Increase Evaluation Skills And Independence By Giving Students A Two Question Limit Do you spend much of each lesson answering questions because pupils are terrified of failure or ‘getting it wrong’? This method forces kids to be resilient. Each pupil is issued with two ‘banknotes’ which can be exchanged for information or materials. However, once they’re gone, they’re gone. This increases evaluation skills; why am I asking […]

KS4 Drama Lesson Plan – Use These Exercises To Enhance Students’ Interpretations Of Monologues Teaching monologues can feel a little like plate-spinning, with 20 to 30 students all working on a different script. Getting the students to perform a series of exercises once they have chosen and researched their monologues will enhance their interpretations.

KS3/4 MFL Lesson Plan – Use Photos To Get Students Talking In Foreign Languages Now more than ever, the ability to construct a response to unknown speaking and writing stimuli, presented in a foreign language and completed in controlled conditions, is key to success in new frameworks for assessment. With many teachers agreeing that the loss of valuable teaching and learning opportunities was the single biggest drawback to controlled […]

KS4 MFL Lesson Plan – Learn New Vocab By Helping Plan An Imaginary Wedding In this lesson plan pupils have to help make a happy couple’s wedding day extra special by using their language skills to translate well wishes from abroad from long lost friends and reminisce about days gone by through helping the best man write prompts for his speech; before finally writing their review of the big […]

Renaissance Star Assessments

Review – Renaissance Star Assessments Choosing the most appropriate and meaningful educational assessment system for your school is crucial. To be reliable, tests must harvest consistent results. You need a system that is student and teacher friendly, that meets the highest standards of evidence for consistency and validity, and demonstrates budget-friendliness. Renaissance Star Assessments ticks all the boxes – and […]

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KS4 Maths Lesson Plan – Use Flowcharts To Set Up Rules About Iterative Operations Flowcharts are a highly visual way of communicating information and are used in this lesson to set up rules about operations that will be performed iteratively. Students are invited to explore what happens when they put different numbers into a given flowchart, and later to experiment with varying the features of the flowchart themselves. They […]

KS3/4 Music Lesson Plan – Bring Java And Bali Into Your Classroom With The Bright And Beautiful Sounds Of Indonesian Gamelan Music ‘To create most western music, we use what is known as a chromatic scale and it contains 12 different notes. However, many non-western traditions use a pentatonic scale, made up of just five different notes, and this is much more user friendly and does not lend itself to accidentally playing ‘wrong’ notes. We will use […]

GCSE Exam Results Day – Spare A Thought For The Teachers It's not just students who are judged by exam results, and many teachers feel the strain of comparing theirs to colleagues' and other schools' achievements

KS4 MFL Lesson Plan – Improve Fluency And Confidence In Giving Effective Presentations Many KS4 MFL students suffer from a lack of confidence when it comes to speaking, and struggle to respond to questions or comments in the target language and to use it spontaneously themselves. Taking them through a series of activities leading up to a presentation to ‘sell’ a Chindōgu invention (the Japanese art of inventing […]

KS4 Geography Lesson Plan – Find Out What Students Really Know About Climate Change And How It Is Debated What do your pupils really know about climate change? This lesson is intended to get KS4 geography students thinking carefully about the subject of climate change, and how the way it is debated affects our understanding of the subject. They will recognise the importance of having a view on the most important global issue of […]

KS4 science lesson plan

KS4 science – Explore the science of Harry Potter In this skills based KS4 science lesson pupils will be able to make their own hypotheses and investigate practical scenarios in a range of different contexts. They will learn about metals and alloys and how vibrations alone can cause a solid metal structure to break. You’ll also investigate the properties of light. Students will learn […]

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