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  “You can understand what the words actually are”:a critical investigation into how far film and drama can be effective in developing Year 8 students’ understanding of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 

  Soutter, Olivia (Faculty of Education, 2018-01-04)

  This study explores the efficacy of different strategies for teaching Shakespeare through student responses to watching ‘Romeo and Juliet’ on stage and screen, and through their own participation in drama-based activities ...
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  ‘This might sound silly but..’ :a critical investigation into how creative use of poetry teaching supports students’ learning of a curriculum set novel 

  Marsh, Olivia (Faculty of Education, 2018-01-04)

  This study explores how the class novel can be taught using a holistic approach to the English curriculum, incorporating poetry into the study of a novel. The investigation focuses on a Year 7 class using performance ...
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  A critical analysis of how Knowledge Organisers and Recall Practice can be used to facilitate learning. An Action Research project of Year 7 pupils studying cells and organisation 

  Smailes, Nathan (Faculty of Education, 2018-01-04)

  The use of cognitive methods has been studied in detail in psychological research, yet there have been few studies that have attempted to implement them. This paper analyses some of the ways in which knowledge organisers ...
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  “Can you even fall in love with yourself?”:using music and drama to enable all students to access Latin literature 

  Rushton, Emily (Faculty of Education, 2018-01-04)

  This study explores how the incorporation of musical and dramatic activities into the teaching of Latin literature affects a student’s ability to access the more complex themes of the narrative, and their overall enthusiasm ...

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