Ex Head Teacher in Special Education, now retired and doing things differently. My resources cover a wide range of school related topics that help to develop staff expertise and wider 'whole school development'. My resources also include numerous PSHE/Life Skill modules I have written and delivered in AP and SE.
Ex Head Teacher in Special Education, now retired and doing things differently. My resources cover a wide range of school related topics that help to develop staff expertise and wider 'whole school development'. My resources also include numerous PSHE/Life Skill modules I have written and delivered in AP and SE.
This is a mini module for any PSHE or Life Skill programme that focuses on Communication, objectives for the module are as follows:
For students to understand what is meant by the word communicate.
To explore different ways of communication and ways in which students can become better at communicating their feelings with others.
To understand what is meant by interpersonal communication and how this can be used effectively
To understand the concept of using body language to help identify feelings
The module can be modified to suit the ability and needs of your students, I wrote this for Year 9 Life Skills in my PRU.
A useful Self-Assessment sheet that can be used in Careers lessons to track personal skills and work completed during the careers module: Can be adapted to a range of different subjects where it will prove to be a useful end of module/topic self-assessment record for the student and the teacher
Introducing Relationships Education
This is an ideal module of work to introduce the importance of positive relationships at home and in school. The 5-6 week module identifies clear lesson by lesson planning and resources that focuses on relationships at home, in school and with friends and encourages students to reflect upon their own experiences.
A module of work for upper KS3 or KS4 students, written to introduce students to the dangers of alcohol. This SOW would fit as part of any whole school PSHE or Life Skills Programme for mainstream or Alternative Provision.
This question bank fits nicely with supporting the writing of a Career Personal Statement (See booklet as part of my resources). It allows for reflection and wider career management by asking key questions about a students aspirations and future.
Quizzes 11 and 12 to add to your Collection.
Quiz 11 is the second Grime Slang Quiz, whilst the gangs and Guns Quiz has been added as a bonus.
All of the Quizzes are written for a student who does not engage with mainstream school and has daily tutoring, however he writes grime music and has an interest in the history of guns and warfare.
Both can be included in PSHE sessions that are focused on crime or Grime.
A Learning Diary that enables any student or teacher the ability to monitor and track evidence of student work; this Learning Diary proved to be a very useful document in my School, to help record the successes of a student who could not engage fully in a mainstream curriculum. However, the student was an excellent citizen around the school, who developed his abilities through engagement of non-academic work which we needed to record.
The Diary/Log can also be used in formal lesson for students to record evidence of their work - the format of the template allows for this flexibility.
Student attendance continues to come under scrutiny since the Covid Pandemic.
The Tracking and Monitoring attendance package contains the appropriate monitoring tools and associated resources/letters/templates to effectively track student attendance in any school. Alongside the resources are appropriate letters that align to different stages of the tracking and an overall monitoring chart to be used by the attendance officer, to track referrals and cases which require additional follow up. In addition I have added monthly Red/Amber/Green Letters which are an additional monthly resource to inform parents of their students attendance and how it aligns to school expectations.
I have also added a template that helps staff to identify historical attendance and exemplar narrative to help you use the appropriate language used by monitoring agencies.
I have used this bundle of tools to track attendance in all of my roles in the past 6 years and it has proved very effective and easy to use.
Updated to include…the individual student Action Plan and a tracking document aimed at evidencing actions taken to support improvement in attendance across the school - for the complete package for improving attendance see the resource called Strategic Improvement of School Attendance.
A module of work that can be easily slotted in to any PSHE or Careers Programme for KS3 or KS4. The module focuses on student aspirations and their hopes for the future; it’s lesson by lesson format helps students to identify their own skills and those which employers may look for. It links in to job adverts and helps students obtain a better understanding of adverts when looking for potential jobs/careers. It concludes with students reflecting upon what it takes to become successful and what they need to do to achieve their life ambitions.
Are you looking to refresh elements of your PSHE/Relationships/Life Skills curriculum in readiness for the start of the new school year.
This bundle will provide you with 19 complete modules that I have written and implemented for use in a Whole School Life Skills, PSHE or Relationships Education programs. They are written in lesson plan format and outline step by step the learning activities that need to be delivered.
This bundle contains modules that are appropriate for all schools which are linked to expectations for the National Curriculum and National Association for PSHE.
Introducing Relationships Education
This is an ideal module of work to introduce the importance of positive relationships at home and in school. The 5-6 week module identifies clear lesson by lesson planning and resources that focuses on relationships at home, in school and with friends and encourages students to reflect upon their own experiences.
This is Part 3 of 3 Behaviour Support Programmes for Students.
The BSP Part 3 is a module of work that can be used with students who are at risk of FTE or indeed have received multiple FTE previously. The work would be ideally suited to students in Alternative Provision/PRU who have made mistakes, but are willing to reflect to try and improve things for themselves. It fits alongside BSP 1 which is also available.
The module consists of 6-8 lessons that cover the following topics:
What do I know about FTE?
Escape to an ideal world
My preferred future
Who is in control?
Making appropriate decisions
Stop, Think, Go
Preferred Outcomes
Looking at stress and me
Aims for the use of this Booklet:
This booklet will help schools support students in developing positive aspirations for the future; the statement produced will help teachers to address the needs of individual students (Gatesby BM 3) and then provide evidence for encounters with employers and employees (Gatesby BM 5) as in Practice Interviews, for example.
A positive Careers statement will serve any young person well and advertise their skills, achievements and experiences to future employers and for College and University applications. This extensive step by step booklet can be used for KS4 and Post 16 students alike, as both age groups would benefit from using such a statement alongside their CV.
The aim of this booklet is to guide students in to writing a Careers Statement, that helps to show off their strengths, personality and achievements during their school career and to bring together the positives of their educational journey to date.
An 8 week module for KS3/KS4 or for students in Alternative Provision.
There is a focus on how students develop their own self respect, alongside how respect should be shown for others. The module focuses on…
Respecting others
Students respecting themselves, including a number of self reflection exercises
How to develop self-respect
How others see me (the student)
writing a positive personal statement
This Bundle has been updated to include additional resources…these include:
Using appropriate language to manage behaviour incidents - for personal or staff training use
The very popular IBP template
An isolation Reflection Form
A popular Behaviour Risk Assessment template
This Extensive Bundle contains all ‘Behaviour Related Resources’ from my portfolio that have been developed throughout my career.
The Bundle aims to support staff expertise in Improving, Managing and Tracking Behaviour in a range of establishments, as well as providing proven modules of work that can be added to a Life Skills/PSHE Programme to support student self-reflection and which has had proven positive impact, in a range of settings for students from a range of diverse and complex backgrounds.
Just Look at what this pack contains
Part 1 and 2 of my Behaviour Improvement/Life Skills Module for intensive working with small groups and 1-1 situations
Behaviour Training for all staff - using appropriate language/using appropriate questioning to redirect in the classroom, appropriate transition techniques
Staff self-reflection Behaviour Management assessment
Behaviour targets that can be used to track and monitor student behaviour
Extensive work on setting up your new student code of conduct
Bullying contract and exemplar letters
Advice on improving levels of FTE in your school
Using class behaviour protocols to support your teachers
The stopping swearing life skills module that helped reduce student swearing in my PRU
Behaviour Case Study template for putting together useful case studies for inspection
A fun quiz I have recently written to show that having ADHD/ADD/ASD or similar disabilities need not stop you from being successful in life.
The aim is to use this with students who feel that their disability is hindering their life chances.
A mini module that can be incorporated into any careers Program, that prepares a student for attending an interview, or indeed to support them in preparing for any school based interview process.
A mini-module that I wrote for Life Skills lessons in my role as Head of a PRU. It challenges the students to reflect upon using more appropriate language in and around the school site and to look at alternatives to the inappropriate words students would often use.
This resource can be slotted in at any stage to a PSHE, Life Skills or Citizenship Programme.
