The Teaching Coach is a platform to help teachers, leaders and support staff by providing a range of quality pastoral, teaching and career resources.
You will find a host of resources here from form times and assemblies through to interview prep, application letters, professional development and guidance. Not to mention, lessons, schemes of work and learning resources.
If you can't see what you need, you can email me at: theteachingcoach@hotmail.com.
The Teaching Coach is a platform to help teachers, leaders and support staff by providing a range of quality pastoral, teaching and career resources.
You will find a host of resources here from form times and assemblies through to interview prep, application letters, professional development and guidance. Not to mention, lessons, schemes of work and learning resources.
If you can't see what you need, you can email me at: theteachingcoach@hotmail.com.
This resource is designed to be used as method of reflecting on the support for students in school including any additional provision which may be need putting in place as a result of exclusion or isolation.
It allows for good opportunity to consider if all angles have been covered of behaviour concerns before planning further support.
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This resource is an 8 week selection of numeracy activities to be used in form time. This resource includes the numeracy task itself as well as possible solutions.
At the end of the 8 weeks, there is a final competition - this can be used to put forms head to head or could be used by form tutors individually.
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This reflection sheet is a fun, light hearted way for tutors to reflect on the year just gone. It is perfect for the end of the year and to get tutors reflecting on their form tutor role, their highlights and their low lights.
I have had great success with this in the past a tutors generally appreciate the opportunity to feedback as well as the opportunity to reflect in a informal way on their year.
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This resource is a light hearted survey aimed at gaining feedback from staff in your team.
The survey is designed to be informal enough to encourage feedback which is genuine whilst staff understand that the importance of reflection and planning for the future.
When using this, I would encourage staff to be honest but constructive.
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This resource includes a student led conference pro forma.
This resource can be used during a student led conference or as part of a interview with student reflecting on the the year and setting the targets for the next.
This can be used with parents or can be used between tutor/teacher/head of year and student.
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This bundle includes four resources which are perfect for a personal development, PSHE day or teamwork day. This resources include:
design a school session
what makes a great learner session
what makes a successful school session
growth mindset session
This bundle can be used to help students explore the purpose of school as well as how students can be better learners. The bundle also includes a session on designing a school and a session exploring growth mindset.
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This resource is a form session or PSHE session which requires student to ‘design their own school’.
It explores gives suggestions for what you might include in the building of a school as well as a budgeting price list for students to make extras for their school building.
This session involves presenting to staff (of choice) at the end and those staff may judge the best school.
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In this resource, you will find 5 letter templates for use as Head of Year. These have been collated using my experience as Head of Year as well as having seen request for letter templates from new pastoral leaders. These are not from a specific school but have been edited and created for the purpose of sharing.
This resource includes:
1 x behaviour warning letter
1 x bus/school transport warning letter
1 x lunch time behaviour warning letter
1 x homework letter
1 x uniform, equipment and late letter
Please remember to always tailor letters to your context and to your community. I do not recommend simply copying these over and sending them out - they will need adjusting for your specific setting. They are intended to be a starting point.
These are perfect for heads of year who are just beginning the role as well as experienced heads of year who do not want to reinvent the wheel.
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This resource is an example application letter for the position of SENCo in a secondary school.
This letter should be developed by including your own examples of where you have completed the points referenced and the impact of that work as well as your learning from the work you have completed – using the spaces to help you do this. This letter is for guidance only and should not be used exclusively to apply for a SENCo role but instead used to support the writing of your own letter. Letters should always be tailored to the school you are applying to and your own experiences. This example includes more ideas than you may wish to include in your own letter and is intended to highlight a variety of content you could use.
This template is over 5 pages long and full of ideas which you could use or remove.
This resource is aimed a secondary school SENCo role, but could provide ideas for other stages of education also.
Please note: covering letters should not exceed 2 pages in length.
I never recommend sending blanket templates for prospective roles and always advise an application is tailored to you and the school.
This is a document compiled from various Head of Year job descriptions, as well as my own knowledge of what is required of Heads of Year as they move through the year groups. I have also included an overview of the characteristics often associated with Heads of Year.
This is a document compiling other sources of information and so is not an ‘original’ from me - simply compiled to help others.
It is helpful if you are considering what a Head of Year role might include. However, it is important to remember all roles are different and each school will view the role differently.
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This bundle includes almost 40 potential questions for a Head of Year or Head of House interview.
These have been collated over the times I have been to interview as a Head of Year (or equivalent) and give a real range of the potential questions you could be asked.
These can be paired with with my other resources which focus on answering these questions - these can be found in my shop: ‘five big pastoral questions.’
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This resource is Set 3 of potential Head of Year interview questions. This includes 12 key questions you are likely to be asked on a Head of Year or pastoral Middle Leader interview.
The list is, of course, not definitive, but the questions are based on experiences in 3 successful interviews for Head of Year posts.
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This resource is Set 2 of potential Head of Year or Head of House interview questions. This includes another 17 key questions you are likely to be asked on a Head of Year or pastoral Middle Leader interview.
The list is, of course, not definitive, but the questions are based on experiences in 3 successful interviews for Head of Year posts.
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A collection of editable certificate templates I have used in the course of being a Head of Year. These templates were not originally mine, but I have edited them to suit my purposes.
Hopefully they’ll be useful to you also.
The collection includes:
1 x attendance certificate
1 x form tutor certificate
1 x improved behaviour certificate
1 x star student certificate
1 x student of the year certificate
1 x student of the half term
1 x most academic progress certificate
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This bundle includes 4 form time sessions:
1 x ‘what makes a great learner?’ session
1 x ‘what makes a successful school?’ session
1 x growth mindset session
1 x organisational skills session
These are perfect for beginning to introduce students to the concept of being great learners, getting them to think about organising themselves and becoming independent.
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A collection of assemblies - perfect for all year groups. There are 15 assembly powerpoints in this bundle.
a back to school assembly - perfect for September or after a half term!
confidence and self esteem assembly
unplugging and technology assembly
physical violence assembly
random acts of kindness assembly
rumours and gossiping assembly
choices and consequences
a halloween themed assembly
LGBT love is love
new beginnings and positive attitude
raising aspirations
charity awareness
anti bullying assembly
Each assembly is ready to use and can be used without planning!
Also included in this bundle:
editable weekly assembly slides
editable end of the term/half term reward slides
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This assembly focuses on celebrating diversity and the LGBT community. It uses images from previous campaigns and tackles some of the issues which face the community in schools.
It also explores Pride in London and the Equality Act 2010.
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This assembly focuses on the concept of Random Acts of Kindness.
It focuses on the benefits of kindness and being kind to others, as well as how you can kind to one another.
It also includes a youtube link about the infectious nature of kindness - which really helps to illustrate the point about helping one another.
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This resource is a PSHE style lesson introducing the concept of British Values. It focuses on challenging perceptions of British Values only being ‘British’ and instead focuses on asking students to think about the values as being values important to everyone. It also challenges stereotypes of what it means to be British.
The second half of this session uses Grenfell Tower as an example of how British Values can be demonstrated in a time of extreme challenge and focuses on how those in the tower and those who supported after the events demonstrated British values.
This lesson is completely ready for use and comprises of a powerpoint as well as an A3 learning mat.
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This resource is an assembly focused on ‘unplugging’. It was created for National Unplugging Day but could be used for any time you are concerned about the use of technology in your year groups.
At the end of the assembly, students are asked to volunteer their phones for a set amount of time. I chose until the end of the school day. Students were given a plastic sandwich bag and label and their wrote their name on the bag, alongside sealing the bag with a knot. On the way out of the assembly, students hand their phone in - placing them in a box. This box is then safely stored in a locked office or safe.
Students were then able to collect their phones at the end of the day. For participating, students got a reward of a text home and positive reward points.
I tried this assembly twice with my year group and each time got over 60% participation. Students were always exceptionally reflective and were often surprised by how uncomfortable they felt without their phones. This is a great way to get students reflecting on their reliance on technology and their potential overuse of phones and other electronics.
Please ALWAYS be responsible with student belongings - students handing phones in should be treated with respect and stored securely at all times.
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