Pupil outcome: I can identify the features of a recount written about a school trip. Key learning points: - When we are recounting, the information we are sharing with someone is called a recount. - A recount is written in the first...

Pupil outcome: I can name some features of a recount. Key learning points: - A recount is a type of writing which retells something that has already happened - Recounts are mostly told in chronological or time order - Recounts are mostly...

Pupil outcome: I can identify and analyse the layout and linguistic features of a diary entry. Key learning points: - The purpose of a diary entry is to recount important experiences and express feelings. - A diary entry has a specific...

Pupil outcome: I can generate precise vocabulary for a diary entry based on ‘Into the Forest’. Key learning points: - A diary entry recounts experiences chronologically and expresses emotions, thoughts and feelings. - Exaggeration is...

Pupil outcome: I can use a plan to write part one of a diary entry based on ‘How To Train Your Dragon’. Key learning points: - The purpose of the main body of this diary entry is to describe events, thoughts and feelings in detail. -...

Pupil outcome: I can identify the different features of a diary entry. Key learning points: - A diary is a personal book where you write about your thoughts, feelings and experiences. - Features are distinctive qualities or...

Pupil outcome: I can identify and analyse layout and linguistic features of a diary entry. Key learning points: - A diary entry is a type of recount written in the first person. - A diary entry is informal in its tone. - The purpose of a...

Pupil outcome: I can plan the recount section of a journalistic report. Key learning points: - The recount section of a journalistic report provides specific details about the news event in chronological order. - Use of subject-specific...

Pupil outcome: I can identify and analyse the layout and linguistic features of a diary entry. Key learning points: - The purpose of a diary entry is to recount important experiences and express feelings. - A diary entry follows a...

Pupil outcome: I can write a letter which recounts an imagined experience from the trenches of World War One, using Wilfred Owen’s 1917 letter to his mother as stimulus. Key learning points: - The date, address and greeting are important...

Pupil outcome: I can improve a letter which recounts an imagined experience in the trenches by using a range of sentence lengths and fronted adverbials. Key learning points: - Rhythm is the beat, flow, or pattern of a piece of music or...

Pupil outcome: I can plan an imaginative letter that recounts an experience in the trenches of World War One using Wilfred Owen’s 1917 letter to his mother as stimulus. Key learning points: - Letters were a vital form of communication...

HipHughes flows though the Election of 2000 like sweet jazz, dancing through the ins and outs of the most contested election since Jefferson screwed Adams in 1800.

Did Nader play the role of spoiler? In my first video collaboration with my friend Will from Political Junkie, I provide evidence why Ralph Nader absolutely did not spoil the presidential election of 2000. If anyone did, it's probably...

Professor Dave explores the career and legacy of President Bush Jr

The 54th Presidential election in American history took place on November 7, 19- I mean, 2000. (The Year 2000) It was the first election I could finally vote in! And boy, was it a messed up one. We wouldn't even know who won until over a...

George W. Bush is the second son of a former president to become president, after John Quincy Adams all the way back in 1825. Always the black sheep of the Bush dynasty, he eventually became governor of Texas, and then ran for president...