Do you want to challenge your students effectively throughout KS3 and KS4, and prepare them to achieve the highest possible grades/marks?
Do you want to prevent your brightest students becoming bored or frustrated? (Something that should never happen in English)
Has your department been asked to focus on stretching the potentially high achievers?
This course demonstrates how specific approaches and strategies can be used in the classroom with minimum preparation but with maximum effect on our students’ learning. Transform your students’ experience in your classroom today and watch as they reap the benefits and improve exam results!
Identifying these pupils correctly
Understanding their needs and what really works with them
Challenging lessons that lead to deeper understanding
Maximum engagement – all of the time
Understanding what Examiners want
Poetry – a closer analysis of the writer’s skill
Fiction texts – a different approach to deepen understanding
Putting exam skills into practice
Thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for their learning
Asking the “What if…? Question to explore character
Risk-taking and not relying on spoon-feeding
Making sure high challenge lessons are the norm.
“The best course I have ever been on. The materials were very useful. The course leader was brilliant, approachable and amusing. I can actually go back to school with a lot of useful and usable ideas and resources.”
Teacher , Brunts AcademyVery worthwhile, informative and enjoyable.
This was an enjoyable and very useful course, with great strategies I can use across key stages immediately.
Super course. Really useful ideas and materials I can use straightaway.
Relevant information presented in a friendly yet professional manner.
Pamela was an engaging and knowledgeable trainer. The ideas discussed were practical and highly adaptable and have certainly helped me to consider strategies for pushing the more able in my own classes.
Practical and interesting approaches to how to support and challenge MAT learners and friendly and approachable guide through them.
