This complete scheme of work, inspired by the Jane Constantine ‘The Write Stuff Approach’, contains everything you need to deliver an inspiring and engaging scheme based on C.S Lewis’, ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’. There are 9 complete lessons contained in this pack, including in-depth PowerPoint presentations, worksheets for the main activities, Inspiration Stations, starter tasks and plenaries throughout. Included in the scheme is also a summative assessment project in which pupils are tasked to continue the narrrative as part of an ‘Independent Write’. The content of this scheme has been created in line with DfE guidance, ensuring lessons are progressive, scaffolded and allow children to attain key learning objectives in English. Jane Constantine’s ‘The Write Stuff Approach’ - Improving Outcomes in Writing As a school, we have adopted ‘The Write Stuff’ by Jane Constantine to bring clarity to the mechanics of writing. ‘The Write Stuff’ follows a method called ‘Sentence Stacking’ which refers to the fact that sentences are stacked together and organised to engage children with short, intensive moments of learning that they can then immediately apply to their own writing. This approach makes sure that all of our children are exposed to high quality texts that stimulate quality responses to reading, high quality writing and purposeful speaking and listening opportunities. Our curriculum ensures that all children have plenty of opportunities to write for different purposes. We encourage writing through all curriculum areas and use quality reading texts to model examples of good writing. Writing is taught through a number of different strategies. We believe that children need lots of rich speaking and drama activities to give them the imagination and the experiences that will equip them to become good writers.

Formal pupil leadership provides important benefits for both the pupil and the school. Prefects have the potential to influence the school environment and the behaviour of their fellow pupils by becoming advocates for positive change in the school community. It has been proven that when children actively participate in leadership in school life, and their ideas and opinions are listened to and valued, they feel respected and encouraged to make further contributions. The benefits to the school and the pupils include: Developed communication and interpersonal skills Improved academic performance for students involved Greater commitment to the school’s ethos from the wider student body Positive influences on the atmosphere and culture of the school A strengthened school spirit and sense of comradery Increased co-operation from all pupils A network of support for the pupil body. Included within the pack is everything you could possibly need to set up a Prefect System in your school. The bundle includes: Rationale Policy Code of Conduct Role Description Application Form Contract Reward System Overview Club Week Proposal Form Fundraiser Letter Reward Cards Assembly PowerPoint All resources are editable and easy to amend for your school setting. Check at our school website for more information: https://pottonmiddle.co.uk/school/key-stage-3-potton-prefects/

An assembly all about the impact that random acts of kindness can have. It explores why we need to be kind to each other, the effect small acts can have on our family, friends and the wider communities and in turn our own wellbeing. The assembly lasts between 15 - 20 minutes, including a short clip from YouTube. The assembly is very easy to follow and is also editable. Enjoy! :-) I do not own any of the images or videos used as part of this assembly. All rights are reserved for the original authors.

A successful covering letter linked to the job description and person specification of a Deputy Headteacher. You will find within the letter examples of how I linked my quantifiable experiences to the intended impact, highlighting my suitability to the role. I hope it is useful to those looking to apply for a Deputy Headteacher position.

This complete scheme of work - inspired by the Jane Constantine ‘The Write Stuff Approach’ and Cornerstones Topic, ‘A Child’s War’ - contains everything you need to deliver an inspiring and engaging scheme based on The Blitz, Evacuees and WWII. There are 7 complete lessons contained in this pack, including in-depth PowerPoint presentations, worksheets for the main activities, starter tasks and plenaries throughout. The summative assessment tasks pupils to bring together their ‘stacked writing’ from the previous lessons into one whole piece in the form of a newspaper article. The content of this scheme has been created in line with DfE guidance, ensuring lessons are progressive, scaffolded and allow children to attain key learning objectives in English. Jane Constantine’s ‘The Write Stuff Approach’ - Improving Outcomes in Writing As a school, we have adopted ‘The Write Stuff’ by Jane Constantine to bring clarity to the mechanics of writing. ‘The Write Stuff’ follows a method called ‘Sentence Stacking’ which refers to the fact that sentences are stacked together and organised to engage children with short, intensive moments of learning that they can then immediately apply to their own writing. This approach makes sure that all of our children are exposed to high quality texts that stimulate quality responses to reading, high quality writing and purposeful speaking and listening opportunities. Our curriculum ensures that all children have plenty of opportunities to write for different purposes. We encourage writing through all curriculum areas and use quality reading texts to model examples of good writing. Writing is taught through a number of different strategies. We believe that children need lots of rich speaking and drama activities to give them the imagination and the experiences that will equip them to become good writers.

An assembly all about New Year’s Resolutions and how the turn of a new year is celebrated all across the globe. The assembly lasts between 15 - 20 minutes, including a short clip from YouTube and role play scenarios for the pupils to enjoy or participate in! The assembly is very easy to follow and is also editable. Enjoy! :-)

Completing the National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership between 2021-22 was one of my most fulfilling pedagogical achievements. In spite of the unprecedented challenges that the Covid-19 pandemic inflicted on schools throughout the UK, the trials we faced as a small, community-based village school spurred me to design a whole-school strategy that positively impacted our most vulnerable pupils. As such, I found great pride and joy in devising a project that reduced the disadvantaged attainment gap by improving pupil engagement, communication and wellbeing, therefore raising pupil progress and performance over time. The resource pack attached is my full assignment, including sponsor comments and all appendices, which are as follows: Pages 18 & 19 – “Raw Data Analysis [1.2.1]” Pages 20 & 21 – “Pupil Performance Data [2.2.3]” Pages 4 & 5 – “Sponsor Comments 1 & 2” Pages 22 & 23 – “Communications Plan [3.2.2]” Pages 24 & 25 – “Business Case [5.2.1]” Page 26 – “Risk Management Plan [5.2.2]” I am pleased to say I scored 27/28 on the project, and have shared it complete with assessor feedback so that people can see where I lost that pesky mark! I hope it is useful to those starting or finishing their NPQSL course.

This practical experiment lesson contains everything you need to inspire and engage children learning about which materials dissolve in water. The content of this lesson has been created in line with DfE guidance, ensuring lessons are progressive, scaffolded and allow children to attain key learning objectives in Science. This lesson meets the following National Curriculum ‘Working Scientifically’ statements: planning different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary; taking measurements, using a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate taking measurements, using a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate; recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs; using test results to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests; reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and a degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations; taking measurements, using a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate; recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs. I do not own the rights to any of the images or videos used as part of this resource pack. All rights are reserved for the original authors.

This practical experiment lesson contains everything you need to inspire and engage children learning about absorbency, investigating which type of paper is the most absorbent. The content of this lesson has been created in line with DfE guidance, ensuring lessons are progressive, scaffolded and allow children to attain key learning objectives in Science. This lesson meets the following National Curriculum ‘Working Scientifically’ statements: planning different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary; taking measurements, using a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate taking measurements, using a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate; recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs; using test results to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests; reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and a degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations; taking measurements, using a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate; recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs. I do not own the rights to any of the images or videos used as part of this resource pack. All rights are reserved for the original authors.

This complete scheme of work - inspired by Cornerstones’ Topic, ‘A Child’s War’ - contains everything you need to deliver an inspiring and engaging scheme that stimulates high-quality, purposeful descriptive writing. There are 4 complete lessons contained in this pack, including in-depth PowerPoint presentations, worksheets for the main activities, starter tasks and plenaries throughout. The content of this Scheme has been created in line with DfE guidance, ensuring lessons are progressive, scaffolded and allow children to attain key learning objectives in English. I do not own any of the images or videos used in this resource pack. All rights are reserved for the original authors.

Help instil a cross-curricular sense of inclusivity, and question and adapt what you’re teaching so your curriculum represents the diversity seen in modern Britain in terms of gender and sexuality. If you want to change your pupils’ understanding and attitudes around gender, race, disability religion, LGBTQ+ inclusivity, you’ll need to make changes across your whole curriculum. Keeping topics about gender and sexuality confined to a small number of PSHE or RSE lessons is unlikely to have any significant effect. Use this Equality and Diversity curriculum audit tool to help you and your colleagues think about how you can embed these topics across all areas of learning.

This complete scheme of work - inspired by Cornerstones’ Topic, ‘Frozen Kingdom’ - contains everything you need to deliver an inspiring and engaging scheme that stimulates high-quality, purposeful descriptive writing. There are 5 complete lessons contained in this pack (each of which can be treated as 2hr/‘double’ lessons), including in-depth PowerPoint presentations, worksheets for the main activities, peer assessment activity, starter tasks and plenaries throughout. The content of this Scheme has been created in line with DfE guidance, ensuring lessons are progressive, scaffolded and allow children to attain key learning objectives in English. I do not own any of the images or videos used in this resource pack. All rights are reserved for the original authors.

This complete Scheme of Work package contains everything you need to inspire and engage children learning about Evolution and Inheritance. There are 7 complete lessons contained in this pack including in-depth PowerPoint presentations, worksheets for the main activities, starter activities and plenaries throughout. You’ll also find included within the pack lesson-by-lesson assessments, a summative assessment lesson and additional resources to support with differentiated learning. The content of this Scheme has been created in line with DfE guidance, ensuring lessons are progressive, scaffolded and allow children to attain key learning objectives in Science. Scheme Overview: Lesson 1: Changes over Time (Double Lesson) Lesson 2: Mary Anning (Contextual Study) Lesson 3: Offspring Lesson 4: Charles Darwin (Double Lesson) Lesson 5: Darwin’s Finches (Practical Double Lesson) Lesson 6: Adaptations Lesson 7: Summative Assessment I do not own the rights to any of the images or videos used as part of this resource pack. All rights are reserved for the original authors.

Perseverance is a quality that we try and instil in all of our pupils in relation to way that pupils approach their learning and how they navigate their social interactions beyond the classroom. This assembly provides an excellent opportunity to present pupils with challenges and encourage perseverance. It also highlights the importance that we focus on moral perseverance: following the good path in the face of challenges. This assembly uses pencils to convey how something seemingly boring and insignificant can in fact be quite incredible if you think outside the box and have patience. It focuses on Dalton Ghetti’s carvings made of pencils and includes the parable about the Pencil maker to illustrate to pupils how to succeed in school.

I initially struggled to find a suitable template for the Business Case when completing my NPQSL and vowed to upload it to TES once I completed my assignment. I am pleased to say I scored 27/28 on the project (which you can also download on TES) and I hope this resource is useful to those starting or finishing their NPQSL course.

Schools have an important part to play in the support system of all those in their care, and particularly in the promotion of mental well-being. Their efforts to promote the physical and mental health of the student population can positively reinforce pupils’ attainment and achievement, improving their well-being and enabling them to thrive and achieve their full potential. The focus on children’s mental health, though, serves as an important reminder to us that we must couple support for staff well-being with the same ambitions we have for our pupils. If we don’t, we will be letting down both cohorts. Are you currently hitting the mark? Use this audit tool to assess the quality of your current policies and processes for supporting staff and pupil mental health and wellbeing.

This pack of 5 ‘Daily Wellbeing Sessions’ will play an integral role in providing a dedicated daily SEMH session that develops pupils’ social, emotional and mental health. Schools have an important part to play in the support system of all those in their care, and particularly in the promotion of mental well-being. Their efforts to promote the physical and mental health of the student population can positively reinforce pupils’ attainment and achievement, improving their well-being and enabling them to thrive and achieve their full potential. The sessions can be embedded within Morning Registration, PSHE lessons, Form Time or at the end of the school day. The purpose is simple, yet unquestionably important: to provide further opportunities to develop and improve pupils’ self-esteem and wellbeing. Through the use of inspirational quotes and thought-provoking multi-media creations, candid and positive discussions can take place with pupils using these Daily Wellbeing Sessions. Enjoy! :-) I do not own the rights to any of the images or videos used as part of this resource pack. All rights are reserved for the original authors.

This pack of 5 ‘Daily Wellbeing Sessions’ will play an integral role in providing a dedicated daily SEMH session that develops pupils’ social, emotional and mental health. Schools have an important part to play in the support system of all those in their care, and particularly in the promotion of mental well-being. Their efforts to promote the physical and mental health of the student population can positively reinforce pupils’ attainment and achievement, improving their well-being and enabling them to thrive and achieve their full potential. The sessions can be embedded within Morning Registration, PSHE lessons, Form Time or at the end of the school day. The purpose is simple, yet unquestionably important: to provide further opportunities to develop and improve pupils’ self-esteem and wellbeing. Through the use of inspirational quotes and thought-provoking multi-media creations, candid and positive discussions can take place with pupils using these Daily Wellbeing Sessions. Enjoy! :-) I do not own the rights to any of the images or videos used as part of this resource pack. All rights are reserved for the original authors.

Schools have an important part to play in the support system of all those in their care, and particularly in the promotion of mental well-being. Their efforts to promote the physical and mental health of the student population can positively reinforce pupils’ attainment and achievement, improving their well-being and enabling them to thrive and achieve their full potential. The focus on children’s mental health, though, serves as an important reminder to us that we must couple support for staff well-being with the same ambitions we have for our pupils. If we don’t, we will be letting down both cohorts. This ‘Staff Wellbeing & Teaching Toolkit’ provides staff with a plethora (four pages!) of online resources that support their wellbeing and work-life balance, as well as other superb online platforms that add value to pupils’ SEMH.

I initially struggled to find a suitable template for the Communication Plan when completing my NPQSL and vowed to upload it to TES once I completed my assignment. I am pleased to say I scored 27/28 on the project (which you can also download on TES) and I hope this resource is useful to those starting or finishing their NPQSL course.