These creative writing units were created through the Writing Development Group and have been trialled successfully in schools for live teaching. However, during the pandemic, the resources in their current form were adapted to be suitable for sharing with pupils either through remote teaching or for independent work. Each one should provide one-two weeks' worth of English lessons.

Teachers should consider what adaptations they will make before using these resources with students depending on the context. For example, when used in lessons with live teaching, some elements of these units lend themselves well to structured collaborative talk and others lend themselves to live modelling by the teacher.

The key principles of these units are that students should be provided with both a stimulus for writing and a model of what excellence should look like, and that students should work on a precise element of written structure and/or grammar, making them better writers, one step at a time.

Resources are included in the packs and these can also be adapted to the students' needs. Be aware if printing resources that they are colourful and that they have not been designed with space for students to use for written responses. They can, therefore, be costly for printing if printed as a whole pack, and printing the whole resource is usually unnecessary.

Feedback would be welcomed and we would love to see any examples of students' work - email joanna.kenyon@hants.gov.uk.