Practical resources to empower every educator in a secondary school

One book per department, Key Stage 3 to A Level.

For heads of department and every teacher in one

English · Mathematics · Science · Art & Design · PE · Geography · History · Business · Drama

How the subject builds from Year 7 to Year 13, what each key stage has to leave behind for the next, and where departments lose ground without noticing. Built from the exam boards' own specifications read in full — with what the specification demands kept clearly apart from what we recommend.

Every judgement comes with a quality ladder: what weak, developing, strong and exceptional actually look like in this subject, so a department can place itself honestly.

A hundred questions a subject, each worked over a full page.

For subject teachers and heads of department

English Language · English Literature · Mathematics · Biology · Chemistry · Physics · Business · Computer Science · Geography · History · Physical Education

Every question is worked three times — weak, middling and strong — each carrying the mark it would score. What separates them is named, and the prompts that move a student up are set out in order. Board-neutral: the assessment objectives are Ofqual’s, worded identically for every board.

Nothing comes from a past paper or mark scheme, and every passage is original or out of copyright.

Everything for one GCSE text, written for the board that will mark it.

For English teachers and heads of English

Blood Brothers · Macbeth · A Christmas Carol · An Inspector Calls

Thirty one-hour lessons for one set text, in the text’s own order. Every lesson is one card — retrieval, passage, the activity in timed steps, the writing and the check, with an exam-focus line per board. A knowledge organiser and a diagnostic per unit, then weak, middling and strong answers for each board’s own mark scheme.

The boards reward different things — Edexcel gives no marks for language analysis on Blood Brothers, Eduqas none for context. The pack says so at every exam line.

One topic, one landscape page, led by its images.

For subject teachers and heads of department

The sheet that sits on the desk while the work is happening — landscape, so it lies open beside an exercise book, and one topic to a page rather than one page to a unit. It is led by its images rather than its headings: a sourced archival photograph where one exists — the stretcher party in the mud at Boesinghe, Marie Curie at the wheel of her X-ray car, the Greenland melt ponds from orbit — and a figure drawn for the page where none does, as in mathematics. Each one carries the knowledge a top-band answer turns on, the vocabulary, and the misconceptions that cost marks.

Not a knowledge organiser turned on its side. An organiser is portrait, sold by key stage, and revised from after the teaching; a knowledge mat is one landscape page on one topic, led by its images rather than its headings, and meant to be on the table during it.

One guide a subject, with every part of the course on a page of its own.

For A level students, and the teachers who set their revision

Built on the DfE’s A level subject content, which every exam board’s specification has to follow, so a guide holds whichever board a student is sitting. Every guide puts the core ideas beside a figure, with worked examples, the misconceptions that cost marks, and questions to test yourself on. One guide covers a subject, part by part, so a student can revise the course from a single document rather than a stack of them.

Written for A level students revising on their own, and for the teachers who set that revision. Wording from the DfE and Ofqual is quoted exactly; everything a board decides for itself is left to its specification.

A whole-staff hour, ready to deliver rather than ready to adapt.

For whoever runs the training

Calm Classrooms · The Second Question · Every Adult Notices · Ask Before You Tell · Becoming an Outstanding Classroom Practitioner

Sixty minutes, timed to the minute. Each session is two files: the slide deck the room watches, and the facilitator pack the person at the front holds — run sheet, handout, the cards staff work from, an evaluation slip and the three-week follow-up. Nothing to make.

Works from eight staff to a hundred and twenty. Roughly a third of every hour is spent rehearsing out loud, which is the part that annual training never has room for.