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.

Looking for a way to monitor your school policies? Wanting to know when policies are due for renewal and which ones require governor approval? Utilise this fully editable word document policy tracker template to keep on top of the policy cycle and ensure you are fully compliant. Our full Ofsted Inspection Preparation Pack includes this and so much more. Visit our website for more information - 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.

Looking to recruit a new school administrator, school administrative assistant or school office manager? If you’re wondering what tasks could help you to recruit the right person for your setting or what questions to ask at interview, this School Administrator Interview Pack can support you throughout the entire interview day. Included in this school administrator interview pack are two different editable interview tasks plus a wide variety of example interview questions and potential answers so you can find a brilliant member of admin staff for your school. The job description and person specification for will also support you in advertising for a new office-based admin or clerical role so you attract the right candidates. Use these, alongside the interview tasks and school administrator interview questions to create a recruitment package that’s tailored to exactly what your school is looking for in a new office staff member or manager. While the pack is tailored towards appointing a new school administrator, it can be used to support the recruitment process for any similar job role, including office assistant, school receptionist, clerical assistant, school office manager or a school secretary. It includes questions and specifications for both an administrative assistant as well as a more senior school office managers, so the pack can be used flexibly to suit your recruitment requirements. Further resources can be found on our website Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk

Have you got a Head of Department interview coming up? These helpful example Head of Department interview questions include suggested responses for answers to help you prepare and succeed at interview. For more recruitment resources and guidance, visit our website honeyguide-sls.co.uk

For safeguarding training and upskilling purposes, we’ve created some examples of common safeguarding scenarios, with practical advice about how to respond to help you keep children safe. Ideal for INSET training, utilise this safeguarding scenario on Staff Concerns - Dismissing Child on Child Abuse with your team to discuss what the current concerns are, immediate next steps, further action and what could be done differently. Every setting that works with or comes into contact with children will have different needs for safeguarding and child protection. Our safeguarding scenarios are designed to be used alongside your school safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures. Whether you’ve encountered a safeguarding issue or you want to make sure your team are prepared, our scenarios highlight the steps you should take and open up points for discussion and reflection as a team during CPD sessions and refreshers. Looking for more scenarios? Check out the others we have on all areas of safeguarding as outlined in KCSIE on our website Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk For more support on safeguarding, you can download our Safeguarding Audit Pack. You can find more safeguarding information and safeguarding resources by visiting Honeyguide SLS. Disclaimer: It is important to note that this resource addresses potentially sensitive and/or distressing subjects and is intended to be used for training purposes only. It may also contain strong language as well as terms, themes and content that depict child abuse, neglect and exploitation. All of this could elicit emotional responses and be triggering for staff using it. You must read the full resource before use and it is your duty to carefully assess its appropriateness based on your staff and your context. If you deem it to be suitable, you must ensure that adequate support is accessible for anyone who may be impacted by the content. 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.

For safeguarding training and upskilling purposes, we’ve created some examples of common safeguarding scenarios, with practical advice about how to respond to help you keep children safe. Ideal for INSET training, utilise this safeguarding scenario on bullying with your team to discuss what the current concerns are, immediate next steps, further action and what could be done differently. Every setting that works with or comes into contact with children will have different needs for safeguarding and child protection. Our safeguarding scenarios are designed to be used alongside your school safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures. Whether you’ve encountered a safeguarding issue or you want to make sure your team are prepared, our scenarios highlight the steps you should take and open up points for discussion and reflection as a team during CPD sessions and refreshers. Looking for more scenarios? Check out the others we have on all areas of safeguarding as outlined in KCSIE at Honeyguide SLS. For more support on safeguarding, you can download our Safeguarding Audit Pack. You can find more safeguarding information and resources by visiting our website Honeyguide SLS. Disclaimer: It is important to note that this resource addresses potentially sensitive and/or distressing subjects and is intended to be used for training purposes only. It may also contain strong language as well as terms, themes and content that depict child abuse, neglect and exploitation. All of this could elicit emotional responses and be triggering for staff using it. You must read the full resource before use and it is your duty to carefully assess its appropriateness based on your staff and your context. If you deem it to be suitable, you must ensure that adequate support is accessible for anyone who may be impacted by the content. 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.

For safeguarding training and upskilling purposes, we’ve created some examples of common safeguarding scenarios, with practical advice about how to respond to help you keep children safe. Ideal for INSET training, utilise this safeguarding scenario on online safety (misogyny) with your team to discuss what the current concerns are, immediate next steps, further action and what could be done differently. Every setting that works with or comes into contact with children will have different needs for safeguarding and child protection. Our safeguarding scenarios are designed to be used alongside your school safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures. Whether you’ve encountered a safeguarding issue or you want to make sure your team are prepared, our scenarios highlight the steps you should take and open up points for discussion and reflection as a team during CPD sessions and refreshers. Looking for more scenarios? Check out the others we have on all areas of safeguarding as outlined in KCSIE on our website Honeyguide SLS. For more support on safeguarding, you can download our Safeguarding Audit Pack. You can find more safeguarding information and resources by visiting honeyguide-sls.co.uk Disclaimer: It is important to note that this resource addresses potentially sensitive and/or distressing subjects and is intended to be used for training purposes only. It may also contain strong language as well as terms, themes and content that depict child abuse, neglect and exploitation. All of this could elicit emotional responses and be triggering for staff using it. You must read the full resource before use and it is your duty to carefully assess its appropriateness based on your staff and your context. If you deem it to be suitable, you must ensure that adequate support is accessible for anyone who may be impacted by the content. 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.

Want to check that staff understand Part One of KCSIE 2024? These Quick Quizzes are time-saving and adaptable, meaning you create quizzes on your school’s internal platform or cherry pick questions for use in meetings and briefings. Each quiz document has 10 multiple-choice questions but the answers aren’t obvious, helping to assure you that staff really do know safeguarding inside and out. These 6 editable quiz documents contain 10 multiple-choice questions each. They cover the following safeguarding aspects: KCSIE and Principles of Safeguarding Staff Safeguarding Roles and Responsibilities Types of Abuse and Neglect Specific Safeguarding Issues Concerns about Staff and Procedures Safeguarding Beyond the Family Setting Our full pack of 6 Safeguarding Quizes can be found at Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk for £10. This can help to reinforce messages from the safeguarding training you’ve already delivered and it keeps safeguarding at the forefront of staff member’s minds. For monitoring and quality assurance purposes, it’s also a great way to show that you’re delivering regular updates to staff. Please note though that these 12 snapshots do not cover all aspects of safeguarding in Part one of KCSIE. Looking for safeguarding scenarios as outlined in KCSIE? Try Honeyguide SLS. For more support on safeguarding, you can download our Safeguarding Audit Pack. You can find more safeguarding information and resources by visiting Honeyguide SLS. Please note the following disclaimer attached to this resource bundle: These resources address potentially sensitive and/or distressing subjects and are intended to be used for training purposes only. They may also contain strong language as well as terms, themes and content that depict child abuse, neglect and exploitation. All of this could elicit emotional responses and be triggering for staff using them. You must fully read each snapshot before use and it is your duty to carefully assess their appropriateness based on your staff and your context. If you deem each one to be suitable, you must ensure that adequate support is accessible for anyone who may be impacted by the content.

Are you stepping into your first subject leadership role? Congratulations! Balancing the responsibilities of leadership and teaching can be challenging, but fear not. Our comprehensive resource for new subject leaders provides you with all the ideas for tasks to complete in your first week, half-term and term as a subject leader. Designed to be fully editable, adapt and amend it with support from a mentor in school to tailor it to your new role. Let us support your thinking and workload so you can find balance as a new subject leader. Themes covered in this comprehensive document include: School Improvement Teaching, Learning and Assessment Building Relationships Community Engagement Leadership and Management Governance and External Advisors Policies and Procedures Network Building Personal and Professional Development Personal Life For more resources, visit out website 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.

Are you recruiting for a new assistant or deputy headteacher? Are you wondering how to effectively shortlist applications? Or are you applying for an assistant or deputy headteacher role and wondering how applications are shortlisted? This fully editable resource will help you to fairly and consistently shortlist candidates so that you interview the ones best suited to your school needs. Accompanied with this resource, are template letters to send to successful and unsuccessful candidates at both the interview and shortlisting stages. Looking for interview tasks or job descriptions, 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… The focus is to demonstrate that they can examine selected curriculum planning documents from your school and engage in a conversation with a senior leader or a curriculum leader, exploring the advantages and obstacles associated with them. 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. The template includes space for them to note their considerations and recommendations. Looking for more interview tasks, take a look at our other options or interview task bundle. 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.

Does it feel like your to-do list is spiraling out of control as the end of the school year rapidly approaches? Don’t panic - Honeyguide’s comprehensive End-of-Year Checklist is here to support you every step of the way. We cover all the essential tasks you need to consider, from completing administrative duties to arranging leavers and goodbye assemblies. Stay organised, ensure a smooth transition and make the most of this critical period with our practical checklist. With Honeyguide by your side, you can confidently navigate the end of the summer term and set the foundation for a successful new academic year. A 10-page fully editable checklist to support your thinking as the end of the school year approaches. Work through the list, delete any tasks that aren’t relevant to your school and plan when you’ll need to complete relevant tasks by. Crucially, consider who tasks can be delegated to as there are many jobs that need to be completed by the end of the school year but they don’t all need to be done by you. Add any tasks not mentioned that are specific to your setting and keep this to-do list updated as you get towards the end of the summer term. Then celebrate your successes with a well-deserved summer holiday break! Visit Honeyguide SLS website for more resources and 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.

**This resource is currently on sale on our website for £15, visit Honeyguide SLS A full guidance pack with accompanying templates to help you navigate your school improvement journey and ensure your school development documents are linked and comprehensive. It includes detailed information and resources on action planning and improvement as well as performance management, CPD, stakeholder voice, governors and external advisors. If you’ve started your school improvement planning for the year ahead, or if you’re feeling a little overwhelmed and unsure of where to begin, then this pack can support you throughout that process. Filled with useful points to consider and ways to move your thinking forward, it’s useful for new and experienced leaders alike. Throughout the pack, we’ll explain concepts, guide your thinking and provide scaffolds if you need them so you can focus on adapting everything to the needs of your pupils and staff, allowing you to be confident and well-prepared for that school improvement journey ahead. When you make your purchase, you’ll receive the whole pack, including: A 33 -page Guidance PDF in full colour containing all the guidance, research and information you need. A low-colour, print-friendly version of the same PDF. Nine fully editable and easy-to-use templates that can be adapted for your setting. These include: Post-Ofsted Action Plan Self-Evaluation Form School Improvement Plan (SIP) School Improvement Plan Checklist Ofsted Grade Descriptor Grids CPD Plan and Cycle Template Staff CPD Survey Headteacher’s Report to Governors Pupil, Parent, Staff and Governor Question Bank Our full Ofsted Inspection Preparation pack, CPD and so much more can be found by visiting Honeyguide-sls.co.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.

A subject improvement plan (also called a subject development plan) is used to identify the strengths and weaknesses of a particular subject and helps to establish priorities, set long-term goals and monitor overall progress towards them. The plan typically includes information such as the current provision, main areas for development and desired outcomes. Our fully editable word document template provides a comprehensive outline for you to set your short term and long term priorities, linked to the whole school improvement plan (SIP). 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.

Wondering how you can support individual pupils with their attendance, including identifying barriers, addressing push and pull factors and creating attendance intervention and reintegration plans? This bundle, ideal for attendance officers, mangers, leads and co-ordinators, supports you to help reduce persistent absenteeism and improve student attendance. Persistent Absentee Log - use this to track your persistent absentees to ensure you take swift action to improving pupil attendance. Attendance Follow-Up Log - this is ideal for keeping records on how you’ve followed up on attendance issues, allowing you to see successes and room for improvement. Individual Attendance Audit - use this to explore health-related, home-related, academic, social, transport, pupil-based and other barriers to attendance. This is ideal to consider a range of factors before digging deeper into the pupil’s views and the voices of other key stakeholders. Working Together to Improve Attendance - Discussing Barriers - This document allows you (or a pupil’s trusted adult) to choose from over 40 questions to start a conversation with an individual pupil about what helps them to come to school and what makes it harder. This vital insight can help the child to feel heard and valued, as well as allowing you to create a plan that’s going to get them back into school. Working Together to Improve Attendance - Push and Pull Factors - This document, which includes its own worked example, allows you to gather the stakeholder views about push factors that influence an individual child’s attendance towards being in school and pull factors that create challenges or resistance for them. By hearing insight from parents/carers and key staff, a plan can be created together. Working Together to Improve Attendance - Reintegration Plan - this template supports you in creating an attendance intervention plan that’s tailored to removing and reducing the attendance barriers for an individual pupil. It has space to include who’s responsibile for each action as well as how often the plan will be reviewed to ensure it’s working. Individual Attendance Plan - this plan is a more formal version of the reintegration plan, with space to record meeting notes, attendance history, educational welfare officer involvement, targets, expectations and any specialise support needed. This bundle is ideal for attendance officers, managers, leaders and co-ordinators who want to focus their efforts on putting personalised plans into place for pupils where attendance and absence causes concern. This pack is available on our website for £7.50 Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk

This Improving Literacy in Secondary - Audit Template Bundle contains two editable templates that allow you to audit your literacy provision in a secondary school setting by using EEF recommendations on improving literacy. It’s ideal if you know literacy development needs to take place because it’s stopping your pupils from reaching their full potential, and the bundle allows you to audit your current strengths and weaknesses, including how reading, writing and other literacy skills can be taught through the full range of curriculum subjects that your school teaches. The templates included in this bundle are: Improving Literacy in Secondary Schools - Audit - explore disciplinary literacy, vocabulary, reading, writing, structured talk and interventions across your setting with this audit. (23-page document) Disciplinary Literacy - Audit - dig deeper in disciplinary literacy and how staff from different departments support the teaching of literacy through their subject specialisms. Duplicate and disseminate the audit to different subject teams, allowing them to consider how effectively they currently support your school’s endeavours to improve literacy. (3-page document) The Improving Literacy audit contains the EEF recommendations, split into handy, digestible sections so you can work through the audit at a pace to suit your school and your capacity. There are questions you may wish to ask staff for each section, as well as the specialised audit on disciplinary literacy, allowing you to RAG-rate your current position and identify next steps. The bundle is ideal for any leader in secondary with responsibility for improving literacy, reading and writing, raising standards and pupil outcomes, or curriculum improvement leaders. Those with responsibility for pupils interventions, tutoring or catch-up may also find this pack supportive. In secondary schools, the challenge of improving pupil literacy exists beyond just the subject of English, but how can secondary teachers with other subject specialisms be supported to see literacy as being integral to students’ learning? This bundle, created from EEF literacy research, is designed to help those with responsibility for raising standards in literacy in secondary schools to identify their setting’s current strengths and weaknesses in reading, writing, speaking and listening across the breadth of all subjects. From this, an action plan can be created to develop staff skills in supporting pupils with literacy needs no matter what subject is being taught. More available at honeyguide-sls.co.uk

Utilise these example premises caretaker and site agent/manager interview questions with an outline of what to include in your response and answer during interview. Further resources can be found at honeyguide-sls.co.uk

Safeguarding CPD for staff. Train staff on spotting the signs and indicators of sextortion with this flexible safeguarding training pack. With a ready-made presentation to deliver to your staff team, an accompanying safeguarding scenario on sextortion, quiz questions and answers, a discussion prompt and a one-minute guide to send and display, this whole pack works seamlessly to train staff in safeguarding and keeping children safe. Created from the latest guidance for education settings on sharing nudes and semi-nudes and to support schools to embed the advice made in the Financially motivated sexual extortion: an alert for education settings from CEOP, this helpful bundle contains four resources that work together to create a full training package about safeguarding and sextortion. You can use it to train your team on what sextortion is, what the signs and indicators are and how you can best support your students in response to this rapidly increasing threat to children’s safety. The bundle contains: Staff Training Presentation - Sextortion: A ready-to-deliver 20-slide PowerPoint presentation that outlines what sextortion is alongside its signs and indicators, followed by slides that allow staff to consider and discuss what puts pupils at greater risk, other factors to be aware of and what actions they should take. The presentation has built in discussion questions and finishes with a scenario and quiz to check staff understanding about sextortion. Scenario - Sextortion: An editable scenario that outlines a fictional situation where child sexual extortion (sextortion) is occurring. It also includes full commentary and guided considerations for the DSL or staff member leading the child protection training. Use it to gauge how effectively staff can identify the signs of abuse as well as how they’d respond in a real-life context, including further actions they’d take. Quiz and Discussion - Sextortion: There are five challenging multiple choice quiz questions that test your staff members’ understanding of sextortion, plus a discussion prompt that can be used to kickstart your training session or as a follow-up question a few weeks later. Safeguarding Snapshot - Sextortion: This one-page, one-minute guide is perfect for following up the session by using as a training handout, displaying in your staff-only spaces or sending as part of a safeguarding e-bulletin. Further safeguarding training CPD resources can be found on our website, honeyguide-sls.co.uk

For safeguarding training and upskilling purposes, we’ve created some examples of common safeguarding scenarios, with practical advice about how to respond to help you keep children safe. Ideal for INSET training, utilise this safeguarding scenario on domestic abuse with your staff to discuss what the current concerns are, immediate next steps, further action and what could be done differently. Every setting that works with or comes into contact with children will have different needs for safeguarding and child protection. Our safeguarding scenarios are designed to be used alongside your school safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures. Whether you’ve encountered a safeguarding issue or you want to make sure your team are prepared, our scenarios highlight the steps you should take and open up points for discussion and reflection as a team during CPD sessions and refreshers. Looking for more scenarios? Check out the others we have on all areas of safeguarding as outlined in KCSIE. For more support on safeguarding, you can download our Safeguarding Audit Pack. You can find more safeguarding information and resources by visiting Honeyguide SLS Disclaimer: It is important to note that this resource addresses potentially sensitive and/or distressing subjects and is intended to be used for training purposes only. It may also contain strong language as well as terms, themes and content that depict child abuse, neglect and exploitation. All of this could elicit emotional responses and be triggering for staff using it. You must read the full resource before use and it is your duty to carefully assess its appropriateness based on your staff and your context. If you deem it to be suitable, you must ensure that adequate support is accessible for anyone who may be impacted by the content. 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.

For safeguarding training and upskilling purposes, we’ve created some examples of common safeguarding scenarios, with practical advice about how to respond to help you keep children safe. Ideal for INSET training, utilise this safeguarding scenario on taking disclosures with your staff to discuss what the current concerns are, immediate next steps, further action and what could be done differently. Every setting that works with or comes into contact with children will have different needs for safeguarding and child protection. Our safeguarding scenarios are designed to be used alongside your school safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures. Whether you’ve encountered a safeguarding issue or you want to make sure your team are prepared, our scenarios highlight the steps you should take and open up points for discussion and reflection as a team during CPD sessions and refreshers. Looking for more scenarios? Check out the others we have on all areas of safeguarding as outlined in KCSIE. In addition, our Safeguarding Audit Pack can be found in our store or on our website Honeyguide SLS. You can find more resources by visiting our website Honeyguide SLS. Disclaimer: It is important to note that this resource addresses potentially sensitive and/or distressing subjects and is intended to be used for training purposes only. It may also contain strong language as well as terms, themes and content that depict child abuse, neglect and exploitation. All of this could elicit emotional responses and be triggering for staff using it. You must read the full resource before use and it is your duty to carefully assess its appropriateness based on your staff and your context. If you deem it to be suitable, you must ensure that adequate support is accessible for anyone who may be impacted by the content. 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.

Support staff in responding to challenging pupil behaviour by exploring calm responses, a practical and positive behaviour management strategy. Ideal for behaviour leads or anyone looking to strengthen staff behaviour management skills, this PowerPoint training session, designed to last for up to an hour, allows for collaboration and discussion, and is perfect for INSET days or staff meetings on behaviour management. This training session can be foundon our website Honeyguide SLS for £5. A 26-slide PowerPoint designed to last between 30 minutes to 1 hour, this time-saving and ready-made CPD session on responding calmly as an effective behaviour management strategy focuses on reducing behaviour escalation and creating a more positive learning environment. The Routes Forward section is split into three parts, covering: How staff can evaluate their own natural reactions to difficult situations, and how this can sometimes make responding calmly more difficult What support staff can seek, including scripting conversations to plan ahead for common behaviour issues How to avoid common pitfalls which lead to behaviour escalating, such as public confrontation between a pupil and staff member