A successful supporting statement used to apply for a Headteacher position. This resource would also be suitable and applicable for a Head of School position. This is also suitable to use for a position within a trust or federation, and demonstrates how to share your breadth of experience broken down into categories specific to those used in in job descriptions.
Happy to help further. :) Good luck!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE ANIMAL FARM LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE 30-PAGE ANIMAL FARM COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of George Orwell’s allegorical novella ‘Animal Farm.’ The lessons enable students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key features of plot, character, context, and language, in addition to considering the key messages being offered by Orwell.
All of the resources that you need are included in the bundle: informative and engaging whole lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, activities, and lesson plans.
The bundle is made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, including:
- The Russian Revolution;
- Old Major’s Dream;
- The Rise of the Pigs;
- Dictatorship;
- Squealer;
- The Ending (Orwell’s Message)
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging.
Looking for an in-tray task to support the recruitment process for an assistant or deputy headteacher? This task requires the candidate to order and prioritise a set of communication tasks and provide a suggested response with any further actions needed. They would need to demonstrate their ability to delegate, manage time, work under pressure and meet deadlines.
This fully editable resource is useful for those recruiting for an assistant headteacher or deputy headteacher position, as well as those applying as a candidate for the role to help prepare for the interview. Included are 6 different tasks, with template information including space for candidates to add their response to each piece of communication and their intended next steps. You may also find this task useful to support coaching and mentoring conversations with staff members who need support in prioritisation.
Looking for more interview tasks, take a look at our other options or interview task bundle.
Visit our website to find more Honeyguide SLS.
Disclaimer: This resource is intended solely for informational purposes and should not be interpreted as professional advice. The information provided herein is not tailored to your specific circumstances therefore we can not guarantee the completeness, accuracy or appropriateness of the information presented. Any reliance you place on the information provided is strictly at your own risk.
A template with tips on how to create your own eye-catching journey
Size is preset to fit A3 paper
With location pin bank, red roadwork boxes (for even more detail, such as curriculum links) and there are even some vehicles parked ready in the car park - just get creative!
Includes help notes that can be over typed
This is a powerpoint document
Looking to recruit an assistant or deputy headteacher or looking to apply for the role? This bundle will support you with the interview process. It includes example interview questions with guidance on what to look for in the response, as well as 9 example interview tasks that can be fully edited to meet the needs of your school.
Visit our website to find more Honeyguide SLS.
Disclaimer: This resource is intended solely for informational purposes and should not be interpreted as professional advice. The information provided herein is not tailored to your specific circumstances therefore we can not guarantee the completeness, accuracy or appropriateness of the information presented. Any reliance you place on the information provided is strictly at your own risk.
A PowerPoint complete with interactive tasks and activities to guide teachers to reflect on their use of questioning in the classroom. The CPD session can also be used for practitioners carry out independent CPD.
The PowerPoint draws upon the latest academic research and educational thought to inspire teachers to become more effective in their questioning so that id rives the progress of children.
A series of interactive activities are used throughout to enable staff to consider, discuss, and debate how to design and use questions. Educators learn about the difference between closed and open questioning and why effective questioning is needed in the classroom.
The session also includes true/false statements about what makes good questioning, as well as how to sequence, scaffold, and plan for questions.
The session includes an opportunity to rethink and challenge what they know about questioning, with the opportunity to review an open question of their choice when creating a plan that challenges them to consider the many factors and prerequisites of knowledge and skill needed before posing questions. Such as:
-Where does this question fit in the curriculum and specification?
-What key knowledge is linked to this question?
-What prior learning needs to be recalled to be able to answer this question?
-What abstract concepts students need to understand
-What skills are needed to answer this question?
-What subject specific vocabulary & keywords do pupils need to know and would I expect in answer to this question?
-What possible misconceptions pupils could give to my question?
-What would a top and bottom level answer to my question look like?
Packed with useful and practical tips that will empower and up-skill educators to pose and ask questions in their classroom that drive progress.
Suitable for all teachers, and perfect for ECT’s.
All resources included using Word document
Guidance notes for the facilitator included in the PowerPoint.
Further reading and links on final slide included
Resources in this download include:
-Question cards
-True/False Statements for card sort
-Pose and Plan Pyramids
-Question Planning Sheet
PPT and resources must not be redistributed or sold
Can be shared with staff within your school and setting
Not for resale
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Attached are two CPD sessions based around retrieval practice that I used to launch retrieval practice across our school.
The first session discusses the theory of memory, based on the principles outlined in ‘Make Learning Stick’ and ‘Why dont students like school?’, including the forgetting curve, the difference between working memory/ long term memory and cognitive load theory.
The second session discusses the main principles of retrieval practice based on Rosenshine and recent publications. The session also provides a range of examples of different retrieval activities. I have included the templates for these activities for you to share as well.
Both sessions went down extremely well with staff, and helped develop retrieval practice on a whole school level.
The resources could easily be adapted for a departmental level and also sharing with older students.
Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you.
This continuous provision planning suggests areas to be included in Nursery & Reception continuous provision & the resources to include - resources are progressive and levelled to encourage challenge. Planning also supports adult interactions by suggesting key skills & vocab to encourage/ model as the children play in each of the areas. The continuous provision plan is broken down into suggestions for High, Middle and Low Reception and High, Middle and Low Nursery - so that children of all abilities can be suitably challenged. This continuous provision planning was well received during an Ofsted visit in April 2023 as it showed how children were being challenged during child initiated time through continuous provision and adult interactions.
Print This continuous provision planning on A3 and display the planning sheets in the areas of the classroom to support staff.
The resources on continuous provision plan will remain constant throughout the year. All areas of the classroom can then be regularly enhanced when appropriate to match topics, interests or to encourage children to work here that do not usually.
All resources in the continuous provision should be stored neatly. Children need to be supported in knowing how to tidy the continuous provision effectively with photos on boxes of where things go and a photo on the shelf to signal where each box goes. As well as this a photo of the area when it is tidy could be displayed.
A progression map of skills based on the curriculum as set out from White Rose.
The document covers all year groups from EYFS through to Year 6.
Fully editable for own use. Can be adapted for own school’s approach.
REFRESHED FOR 2024
In this resource, you will find resources to help you prepare for a Head of Year or Pastoral Leader interview.
You can also find two smaller bundles here:
Pastoral Leader Interview Bundle 1: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/head-of-year-head-of-house-pastoral-role-interview-bundle-12348298
Pastoral Leader Interview Bundle 2: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/head-of-year-head-of-house-pastoral-role-interview-bundle-12425576
This ultimate bundle of resources contains everything to help you prepare for almost every area of an interview!
This includes:
3 x sets of pastoral interview questions - 45+ questions questions in total (no answers - just questions!)
set 1, set 2 and set 3 of my 5 big pastoral questions - these each include how to answer 5 common questions or scenarios posed in an interview (15 questions and answers total)
set one of my pastoral question and answers series - this details 15 questions with potential responses in bullet point form
NOTE: you may find duplication of questions in the resources above - however, they are all designed to give you breadth and depth of understanding in relation to the questions you may face on interview and the answers you could provide!
2 x data analysis prep tasks to help you hone your data skills - great for practicing data analysis as a pastoral leader
a form time quality assurance form - to help you be able to discuss what you’d look out for in a great form time and how you would quality assure your tutors
example year group planning and improvement planning documents for you to read and be able to reference ideas from
two booklets to read before your interview ‘40 Ideas for…’
a) improving attendance and behaviour
b) working across school and leading a team
guidance on the prioritisation in tray task
a 7 page PDF guide on getting ready for a pastoral leader interview including tips on what to expect, what skills you’ll need to show and what you can practice before the day!
a PDF on student panel guidance and how to ace a student panel - a task which has been included on every HOY interview I’ve attended
an example attendance improvement plan to give you plenty to talk about when you’re asked about how you would improve attendance
guidance on writing a response to a letter of concern from a parent - a common in tray task
a detailed guide to analysing data as a pastoral leader - full of top tips and hints for how to offer your best analysis from a pastoral perspective
my detailed guidance for new heads of year - this will give you a great feel for the role and how you will manage it!
A genuinely awesome bundle of resources to help prepare you for an interview. To aid these, there is also some free resources in my shop which you may want to consider adding to your prep.
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Use this Teaching Assistant (TA) skills audit as part of your appraisal and performance management process, or to identify training needs.
This is also helpful for TAs to use to identify progression and next steps.
For more resources, visit out website Honeyguide SLS.
Our Skills Audit Bundle includes this and audits for a variety of other roles. Available on our website Honeyguide-SLS.uk
Disclaimer: This resource is intended solely for informational purposes and should not be interpreted as professional advice. The information provided herein is not tailored to your specific circumstances therefore we can not guarantee the completeness, accuracy or appropriateness of the information presented. Any reliance you place on the information provided is strictly at your own risk.
This bundle contains a complete series of workbooks made for GCSE Sociology students. It includes the four new workbooks made for each of the four main sections of the course (Family, Education, Crime & Deviance, and Social Stratification) and, as a bonus resource, my very popular Research Methods workbook.
The workbooks were designed for the AQA specification and adapted for the WJEC/EDUQAS specification (two versions of each workbook are included in this resource pack).
Each of the four main workbooks contains the following:
Student Progress-Check Tasks
A Personal Learning Checklist
Activity 1 - Mind-Map Overview Task
Activity 2 - Reading Comprehension
Activity 3 - Key-Work Match & Listing Tasks
Activity 4 - Online Research Tasks
Activity 5 - Reading Comprehension
Activity 6 - Bare-bones Essay Planning Task
Activity 7 - Creative Tasks (Posters & Poetry)
Activity 8 - Investigate & Report (Newspaper Article Task)
Activity 9 - Reading Comprehension
Activity 10 - Essay-Planning Activity
Activity 11- Essay Assessment
Extension Tasks (Many!)
Each contains 25+ sides of activities and is designed to be printed as a double-sided workbook. The files are in editable Word (.doc) format in-case you wish to make any amendments (e.g. changing the exam questions).
The workbooks are not designed to be a comprehensive: they each include selected readings and cover some (not all) of the topics listed in the specification.
If you are happy with your purchase and leave a 5* rating for this TES bundle, please email me ( godwin86@gmail.com ) and I will send you a FREE ‘Revision Strategy Battle Planner’ which will be useful for your Year 11 students.
Visit gcsesociology.com for more GCSE Sociology resources!
Make sure you join the main GCSE Sociology Facebook group!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/sociologygcse/
Copyright Adam Godwin (2020) - strictly not for redistribution.
Example interview questions for Head of Key Stage / Key Stage Co-ordinator / Year Group Lead / Head of Year. Used effectively to find the correct candidate this term. We used these questions for the appointment of Head of KS1, but can be applied for KS2 and upwards. Use these questions to prepare for the interview process.
Good luck! Happy to help further if needed :)
Ideal for intensive, expert CPD sessions on literacy and oracy across the curriculum for trainees, ECTs, and experienced members of staff!
What is literacy?
What is oracy?
Links to the teaching standards
The importance of reading and literacy
What does the research say?
EEF findings
Tiers 1-3 vocabulary and explicitly vocabulary teaching
Modelling and scaffolding literacy (with examples)
What does Alex Quigley say?
The importance of oracy
Using Talking Points and explicit oracy strategies
Personal inquiry classroom intervention results and impact
Rather than differentiation, many schools are thinking more in terms of scaffolding in the current climate.
The attached documents include:
a ppt used for CPD
a guidance document containing a range of strategies that can be used to scaffold work for children.
As a subject leader, a subject self-evaluation is a process that allows you to assess the effectiveness of your subject area across a period of time (usually an academic year). It typically includes analysing any pupil performance data available, gathering feedback from students and staff, evaluating the effectiveness of teaching and the resources available, and reviewing the curriculum. A key part of the self-evaluation is understanding it’s not just recalling what happened but highlighting the impact that subject leadership has had.
We’ve included two fully editable word document templates for you to self evaluate your subject area:
Self-Evaluation Form – Concise: a shorter form for making a broader evaluation. This is less time consuming and more useful when you already have a good understanding of your subject area in your setting. It can also be used when your subject area doesn’t require rapid improvement and just needs less invasive monitoring to keep it on track.
Self-Evaluation Form – In-Depth: a longer form that covers the Ofsted grade descriptors and allows you to make an in-depth judgement about the current status of your subject area in your school. This is useful if you want to get to know your subject well, if you know you need to make rapid changes or if you believe your school will be inspected and you want to use this to bolster your confidence and understanding.
Our full subject leader pack includes this and so much more. Visit honeyguide-sls.co.uk for further information.
Disclaimer: This resource is intended solely for informational purposes and should not be interpreted as professional advice. The information provided herein is not tailored to your specific circumstances therefore we can not guarantee the completeness, accuracy or appropriateness of the information presented. Any reliance you place on the information provided is strictly at your own risk.
A comprehensive staff training package on Adaptive Teaching.
The complete training package covers:
Module 1 and 2-Overview of key principles and approaches to adaptive teaching.
Understanding Student Diversity:
Recognising and valuing diversity in the classroom.
Identifying students’ individual strengths, needs, and learning profiles.
Differentiating Instruction:
Module 3 and 4- Understanding the concept of differentiation and its role in adaptive teaching.
Strategies for modifying content, process, and product to meet the needs of diverse learners.
Personalised Learning:
Creating personalised learning experiences tailored to students’ interests, abilities, and preferences.
Using formative assessment data to inform instruction and provide targeted support.
Module 5 and 6-Creating Inclusive Classrooms:
Strategies for creating inclusive learning environments that promote participation, collaboration, and belonging.
Addressing barriers to learning and fostering a culture of acceptance and respect.
Using Technology to Support Adaptive Teaching:
Exploring technology tools and resources to enhance adaptive teaching practices.
Integrating digital platforms, apps, and assistive technologies into instruction.
This covers Modules 1 and 2 and the remaining modules are available to purchase.
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Many, many years ago, my brother was at university and complained that he couldn't revise. back in the old days, before league tables, no one taught you how to revise and the results were generally not published. So no one had taught my brother, or me for that matter, how to revise. Being 7 years older and having been through university already, I write out a long letter and included loads of ideas about how to revise. from this letter a booklet was born. the letter was written in the early 90's and the first booklet was written in 2001. (That's how old I am!) This version was completed 2 years ago for the school where I currently work. The aim of this booklet is to make it more interesting to the kids. Revision is hard work and there are simpler ways to break the information down, but it involves effort and planning. I have also looked at the changes in attitude, diet and exercise that aids good revision! I was aiming at getting my brother off his Pot Noodle and Stella diet!
I hope this is of use and please let me know if it is, AND if I need to improve certain bits! I am never happy with something and am always sure it can be improved!!
I was recently tasked with delivering a staff meeting about good practice when teaching Maths. It went down quite well with the other staff at my school so thought I'd upload my accompanying SMART on here. I covered concepts such as challenge, reasoning, real-life and practical opportunities etc. I was also able to point people in the direction of useful documents to aid with the planning and delivery of Maths, especially in relation to achieving greater depth.
There is more on this in my blog post: http://www.missbritton.co.uk/tips-for-teaching-maths/
A fact sheet aimed at teachers, not students.
There is no substitute for in depth subject knowledge, but there is often little time to develop it. This is a knowledge organiser for teachers, to be used as a spring board for planning.
It contains everything you need to know about Earth and Space (up to GCSE-ish level), including common misconceptions and their related truths.
Also includes child-friendly book recommendations.
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