Note that this is the 2026 NAW resource
An assembly resource / or talking tool for tutors or subject staff to explore the world of apprenticeships.
The resource explains what an apprenticeship is, with video links to support with this.
There are numerous links including to the national apprenticeship uk list; virtual resources for teachers and parents as well a students (kahoots, quizzes etc), as well as the links to virtual work expereince opportunities for students aged 13+.
password protected to ensure colleagues in teams cannot alter your data by accident and leave you trying to work out information!!!-** password is Summer2016. **
A tracker / mark book for classroom teachers, heads of department and heads of faculty, which allows colleagues to enter a % for any student assessment, piece of work, exam question, automatically converting to a grade 1-9 - these grades are based on boundaries offered as guidance from OCR, AQA and Edexcel for History, Geography and RS, but are editable for any teacher and course / subject.
Tracker colour codes students assessment against their target grades which can be whole numbers or + and - also. The tracker sheet takes all the hard work out of the data for colleagues, but averaging student performance for Y10 and Y11 separately and combined, as well as incorporating any mock exams. The tracker automatically generates intervention groups based on students who are currently off target, predicted to be off target, are borderline grades and / or are in key groups such as PP, SEN and Boy/Girl. The tracker has the ability to assume where students will be in 6-8 assessments time if the rate of progress remains the same, and can also visually show in tabular and graphical form if the measured gaps are closing or widening. For a head of faculty, there is the tab which allows any students studying in more than one area to be seen on a comparative level across the subjects. Takes the stress and time consuming data trawls away - simply enter a % and let the work be done for you! There is a full guide written and within the tracker. It is an absolute MUST for any department which can be used for KS4 and KS3.
A thought provoking assembly to ask all pupils to consider their hopes, dreams, aspirations and futures - looking at obstacles along the way as well as those people that have overcome adversity who pupils will look to, admire and certainly know. They include Walt Disney; Eminem; Beyonce; Barack O’Bama; Rowan Atkinson Nadia Murad and Malala Yousafzai.
The assembly has embedded videos to inspire and motivate pupils to be the best version of themselves and to dream, set goals and to dream even bigger.
The assembly thinks about the future and not remaining in the past - inventions and accomplishments from the past that have changed our world as we know it - without dreaming big and believing we would never accomplish!
Links to National careers 2025 website, virtual work placements and green careers quiz.
Also gives pupils a glimpse into some unusual careers and their salaries - always gets a few laughs and uuggghhs!
Music is embedded for the entrance and exit of the assembly also.
National Apprenticeship Week resource, giving an introduction to apprenticeships, along with links to apprenticeships, games and activities, videos from employers and the skills they look for in an apprentice, along with links to activities for parents and virtual work experiences with 17 employers.
Informative, interactive and engaging for all years.
Ideal for SEND or new starters for teachers and students to get to know one another - asks questions of likes and dislikes; what is important to the student; what they like to do independently and what they would like support with. 3 different templates which students can all be involved with completing.
Very simple, yet focused overview of all the important progress measure needs when analysing student performance, gaps and interventions.
Tabular form for ease of use, which allows teachers, HODs and HOFs to pin point the key indicators of performance and progress to enable accurate interventions and impact to be measured.
Useful for all teachers at all levels and Key stages, which gives a very simple aids for students in their writing for Geography and History which gives examples and suggestions of specialist terms to include in their work for each of the areas.
Totally editable for all staff to add / amend / remove terms from the pyramids which makes these useful for all subjects across school at all levels.
A Y7 SOW with resources and an assessment which looks at how identity is shaped and formed, and how religious identity is formed and how it impacts on daily lives.
The assessment is created in such a way as to look at the 3 strands covered in GCSE assessment of knowledge, understanding and evaluation and is simple to mark against the 1-9 criteria for specialists and non specialists.
All resources are provided for each lesson!
An assembly aiming to allow pupils to consider their futures and aspirations. Pupils are given the opportunity to consider where they see themselves and what goals they have for each stage of their education and life.
Considers whether pupils set targets or whether they make excuses.
Get pupils to consider if they have thought about the achievements of the famous, and whether they consider it down to luck or something else. An examination of some key people in the public eye, who despite adversity have achieved big through hard work and determination and aspiration. This is about pupils considering how they approach their challenges and how they are setting goals for themselves. If they can dream it, they can make it.
There is some thought about reflection, resilisence and aspiration.
Pupils then take a look at some key achievements in history that have shaped the world today - without the risk taking; without the aspiration and without the hard work - we wouldn’t have the world we have today.
Links to videos / music and narrative are at the bottom of each slide. It will need some personal amendments to match your school such as adding a picture of your own school and a picture of a pupils timetable.
An assembly which asks pupils to consider what the dream is; the goal; the ambition.
An assembly that talks about opportunities and experiences on offer to them in school and in life
An assembly which talks about achievements not being down to luck, but as a result of measured risk, resilience, resourcefulness and hard work and determination.
This assembly talks about how people have had knock backs, been told it will never work - but without ambition, dreams and determination we wouldn’t be where we are today.
The assembly asks pupils to reflect on life, school and how they tackle challenge.
An assembly which allows you to tap into National careers week and provides links to NCW virtual fairs and unusual careers - this is about you working through with young people that having goals and aspirations links to their future careers
Speaker notes and links are at the bottom of slides if required
An easy resource which allows teachers, heads of department, line managers and leaders to audit the coverage of important skills / concepts and processes at key stage 3, to enable the best possible progress and results at GCSE.
Allows gaps to be easily identified and challenged / addressed to ensure maximum coverage and delivery to ensure students are adequately prepared for GCSE courses.
The audit allows colleagues to track across the 5 yr course (Y7-11) the skills and processes which are covered in teaching time, and the depth to which they are taught.
The assessment objectives are also audited to ensure full preparation for the GCSE examination, and full breadth and depth of AO's are covered throughout the course.
Any gaps are quickly identified, and can be bridged in future teaching, units of work and topics.
Ideal for all departments, non specialists, NQTS and leaders.
The tracker allows anyone who is involved with careers, college applications and supporting of pupils into the next phase of their post 16 journey, the opportunit to strategically manage, prioritise and measure impact of 1:1 meetings, course applications and vulnerability to NEET.
The tracker scores pupils based on LAC; PP; EAL; SEND; YJT; Ethnicity; Gender; ability and more, and identifies cohorts of pupils who would require priority for 1:1 to reduce potential NEET .
The tracker also identifies pupils who have a vulnerability around their current grades, and any unrealistic level of courses they may have applied to at post 16 provisions.
The tracker filters pupils who have not yet had 1:1; not yet applied for college courses and again enables collegaues to prioritise and measure impact.
The tracker produces a full summary for careers leaders to enable static reports for PP; Gender; ability; course level; 1:1 and much more!
All you have to do is input your information and let the tracker do the rest!
The tracker will give each pupil a numerical value and this will enable you to target your pupils who are vulnerable to NEET.
There is no password to protect the sheet so its straight in and on with it!
Any questions, just ask!
A detailed scheme of work with starter activity linked to literacy, detailed suggested activities and links to videos / clips; interactive and engaging using the skills of knowledge, understanding and evaluation. The scheme takes students through the idea of creation, purpose and life beyond death. Assessment materials are included using life without levels. Can be used by a specialist or non specialist.
Ideal resource for anyone responsible for the SMSC in school or in departments - can be used by all colleagues to audit the current position of SMSC and colour the RAG column to show current and progress. There are more resources to this pack which cannot be attached to this file, so I have uploaded them as a separate pack which contains possible OFSTED questions, SMSC in starters and SMSC in detail.
An interactive unit of work which encourages students to think about society, the rights and wrongs and intentions by God. Students work through various themes of responsibility, intention, fault and blame and then begin to rebuild the world with all beliefs and rights considered.
This assembly focuses on students looking at how we and the world prejudge people, situations, events, lessons, experiences based on the "whats in front of us" rather than what is beneath the surface.
Oskar Schindler - prejudged as a German, doing awful things to Jews yet he was actually helping them
Stephen Hawking - prejudged by the way he looks, yet is the most intelligent man!!
The clips link to susan boyle - prejudged but went on regardless and achieved
James arthur - difficult home circumstances and troubled start but again went on to achieve
Ussain Bolt - assumptions he would win, but other athletes still tried and Ussain came 3rd!
Goes onto audience participation - i had two teachers all with food covered in chocolate (cheese, garlic, pasta etc) and pretended it was foul things (a bit like bush tucker trial!) and had a chocolate coin at the end for them - the point of it being that sometimes life, lessons, work, experiences are hard and not great, but to get the end prize the grade, the result, the overcoming of fear, that we have to go through these things to be better!).
Music is "we could be heroes"
second part to resource pack one which included the audit and other associated materials. This pack is an add on to the last which includes the possible OFSTED questions, starters and settlers for SMSC and SMSC in detail.
password protected to ensure colleagues in teams cannot alter your data by accident and leave you trying to work out information!!!-** password is Summer2016. **
A tracker / mark book for classroom teachers, heads of department and heads of faculty, which allows colleagues to enter a % for any student assessment, piece of work, exam question, automatically converting to a grade 1-9 - these grades are based on boundaries offered as guidance from OCR, AQA and Edexcel for History, Geography and RS, but are editable for any teacher and course / subject.
Tracker colour codes students assessment against their target grades which can be whole numbers or + and - also. The tracker sheet takes all the hard work out of the data for colleagues, but averaging student performance for Y10 and Y11 separately and combined, as well as incorporating any mock exams. The tracker automatically generates intervention groups based on students who are currently off target, predicted to be off target, are borderline grades and / or are in key groups such as PP, SEN and Boy/Girl. The tracker has the ability to assume where students will be in 6-8 assessments time if the rate of progress remains the same, and can also visually show in tabular and graphical form if the measured gaps are closing or widening. For a head of faculty, there is the tab which allows any students studying in more than one area to be seen on a comparative level across the subjects. Takes the stress and time consuming data trawls away - simply enter a % and let the work be done for you! There is a full guide written and within the tracker. It is an absolute MUST for any department which can be used for KS4 and KS3.
An assembly that explored prejudgement and the implications - linked to life; linked to situations; linked to people; linked to their personal journeys both academic and socially.
The assmebly explores what is meant by prejudgement and how society often judges someone or something by their outward appearance alone - how people make assumptions about something based on the way it looks.
Explore famous people and the prejudgement that could be made about someone or WAS made about someone, and how those prejudgements have been wrong.
Then look at studies and life and how we often prejudge something before we find out the detail - exams; something new such as work placement; coursework etc
Moral of the assembly then given and pupils aksed to not prejudge but actually make an informed judgement for themselves based on fact and exploration.
Fun element added to assembly where you ask staff to come and try the “delicious looking truffles” -some are truffles and some are not, they are coooked sprouts covered in chocolate! Don’t judge something by the way it looks!