A great covering letter for a Mathematics Head of Faculty/Department position. It has many of the key areas that leadership is looking for. You will just need to chop and change some of the details, but it will provide you with a solid foundation and starting point.

A simple activity that allows students to demonstrate understanding of some of the key areas of the unit by drawing.

A resource that includes all of the key information related to the energy, population, resources and industry in India. I had my pupils create a mindmap about each key heading. Promotes independent work and allows the teacher to support students as they work. I printed this on A3 & in colour & laminated them. This way they can be kept & used for many years.

A 57 page revision guide designed for OCR A, paper 3 (Skills, Statistics & Fieldwork). Areas covered are: Grid References. Scale. Distance. Height. Fieldwork. Statistics. Q & A analysis. Synoptic Q & A. It differs from a conventional guide because on each page it provides students with actual tasks to complete. E.g. sorting, linking, drawing, SPaG, spot the mistakes etc. At the back there are dozens of questions that pupils can use the guide to help answer. The 2 statistic pages were printed on A3, laminated & provided to the pupils as last minute revision, whilst they were waiting to go into the exam hall. I printed lots off in colour and charged students £2 as well as providing them with a copy on disc. Some students just wanted a free disc copy & printed it at home. Please see my other guides. Although designed for OCR, most of the content is the same for other exam boards and it is very easily amended. This took dozens of hours to create and will be an superb time save resource that will really support students of all ability.

A 37 page revision guide for OCR GCSE Geography. Has command word breakdown & exemplar answer sections along with higher level detail needed for longer answer success. Lots of detail to allow pupils to access the learning needed for the more complex and longer mark questions. Although created for OCR A & B, it can easily be amended for Edexcel & AQA. I used it as a revision tool before the mock & final examinations.

All the resources needed to deliver a fantastic lesson about how geography helped to sink the Titanic. My kids love this one. Students use the all info sheet to access the learning. This provides them with all of the information needed. They then complete the A3 mindmap. There is a mini sorting activity that enables pupils understanding to be tested (once the mindmap is complete). I have included a simple teacher feedback sheet too. To save time in marking. This is a really fun & engaging lesson that the kids love doing. This is a series of lessons that takes roughly 4 or 5 to complete.

A letter outline that gives some ideas and structure as to how to construct a letter when making the transition to SLT. You will need to add your own experience and ideas, but should give you the basis of your covering letter. The more whole-school initiatives that you can add, the better. Remember to always look at the needs of the school that you are applying to and address those in your letter.

A great activity that uses the middle earth lord of the rings & hobbit base map to allow students to firstly describe a pre-plotted journey and then to create their own journey. The journey is divided up into kilometer sections to make understanding scale more straight forward. Task includes a success criteria that allows pupils to calculate their success.

A lesson on the human activity on rivers. Flood defence & causes. Suitable for all age groups and specifications. Resources really allow for independent learning and provide all of the ingredients needed for all abilities of students to access the learning. It also has a quick GCSE style test that puts learning into context. 2 to 3 lessons worth of content.

An editable resource that allows any departmental area to lay out a clear structure and sequence of learning. This is a superb way to demonstrate the building and intent of your course. It is easy to follow and demonstrate the key areas related to the new OFSTED framework. The example is a geography one, but it can be edited to incorporate the content of any subject area.

This is a range of editable resources that are brilliant to evidence the key areas relating to the new OFSTED frame work and subsequent Deep Dive questioning that Heads of Faculty will have to undertake. They cover most of the curriculum based questions and are a superb way to evidence all of the things that HoDs need to show. The resources will need your own T&L and content adding to them, but are a framework to a successful Deep Dive process and a fantastic starting point. Please contact me for further help and support. Resource 1: Rose Graph. Designed to show that leaders the providers have created a curriculum that is coherently planned and sequenced towards cumulatively sufficient knowledge and skills for future learning. It shows building and links between year groups and themes. Resource 2: National curriculum content. This resource enables a HoD to map out all of the Nation Curriculum coverage. OFSTED look for this in a curriculum design and plan. This demonstrates very clearly when all areas are covered and amount of NC coverage. Resource 3: Learning Journey. These are simple, but effective ways to demonstrate the path and direction of learning throughout a half term/term at KS3 or 4. They provide learners with this knowledge and demonstrate a clear end point. I normally end with a mini project type task/activity. e.g. create a board game. Resource 4: Assessment Mapping. This takes a little time, but is a great way to demonstrate that over the course of study, the teaching is designed to help learners to remember in the long term the content they have been taught. It shows that teachers and leaders use assessment well, is timely, used to check understanding and recall is thorough. Resource 5: Low stakes testing. This simple format is used (in conjunction with the assessment mapping grid) to make sure that learning from across all half terms is covered thoroughly. Resource 6: Homework ideas. This allows teachers to demonstrate how they are supporting learners to recover, recap and recall information. It has a section to add QR code links and why the student is undertaking this particular activity. Tasks are also designed to require little to no marking and to be fun and engaging. You will obviously use this same format for your subject area but it will need populating with your own subject materials.

A great lesson that enables students to create a tracing paper (GIS) overlay that identifies areas that are prone to flooding. It works bes by photocopying onto tracing paper. This can easily be done by changing the settings on the photocopier.

Homework ideas for the GCSE AQA geography specification. They include QR codes that link to on-line resources. These tasks require little to no marking, are fun and engaging and support the development of cultural capital in terms of creating great global citizens.

A bank of low stakes tests that relate to Paper 1 (Physical environment) for AQA GCSE geography. These can easily be edited to link to your current schemes of learning, but are a fantastic starting point.

A wide range of home-learning activities that can be used across a range of year groups. These asks are designed to be fun and engaging and require very little or no marking. These activities include QR codes that link to video clips and are activities that will support the development of well-rounded global citizens.

All resources needed to teach kids how material is transported in a river. e.g. traction. It includes PowerPoint, worksheet and feedback.

Small (mini) projects designed to be conducted around your school grounds. They require students to conduct data collection, presentation, methods, evaluate and create conclusions. The maps used will need changing for your school, but this is simply just a matter of copying it from Google maps. This will save you a lot of time and effort. I have included one PowerPoint to enable you to amend it as you see fit. My kids loved doing these and we schedule them in for the end of the year.

A fully resources lesson to provide students with and overview of the distribution of rainforests & deserts. Students describe the distribution and then look at effective ways to describe graphs. This is an important geographical skill that supports pupils in picking up those easy marks in assessments. The lesson has a focus upon the climate & location of deserts & tropical rainforests, but another layer for other ecosystems can easily be added. I print the rainforest map onto tracing paper which the kids then put the base map in order to create a very simplified GIS map.

A lovely and simple lesson that allows pupils to understand what jobs may be available in the future. It also enables pupils to practice and develop their note-taking skills. With particular reference to putting texts into their own words. It was planned as an integral part of the KS3 Geography curriculum, but can also be used for PSHCE at a whole-school level.

A full lesson (powerpoint & resources) that enables pupils to develop a wide range of skills alongside learning about development indicators and how the world is so uneven. Pupils analyse statistics and data. Present the data in a number of ways using the scaffolded frameworks. Look at analysis strategies. Explain some of the data to explain why it varies. This is best printed on A3.