Are you wanting to apply for SLT or DH? Then this Covering letter and personal statement section of the application form is for you. I am a Deputy Head and due to the success of my UPS application letters, I have decided to share one of the keys to my success in achieveing an interview for SLT / DH roles with 100% success. This has been a successful template for all applications which have resulted in 100% interview success, but it is also specific to the school applied for and their needs, tailoring the skillset described inline with what they are looking for. I hope this provides you with a scaffold to formulate your own covering letter and personal statement. The rest, on the day of interview, is down to you, but this is certainly a starting point for you to add in your strengths and areas of successes. I hope this is helpful for those of you who are starting your journey from SLT into DH or beyond.

This is a three stage plan that has been modelled on TFW (Pie Corbett) and is likely to be varied once in teaching mode (so feel free to amend) but is linked to the preparation of KS1 SAT's on nocturnal animals. I hope that you find it useful - please leave some feedback.

Here is a letter of application required to request consideration to increase from Main Payscale to Upper Pay Scale. Evidence is general to most teachers, who wish to progress, with some elements that are specific to my previous role within a school. I have also have an application for applying for UPS2 also on my resources. Both applications have been successful and are current with current teaching standards.

Having been asked for my letters previously used - I thought this may help others. Here is a further application to progress up the Upper Pay Scale. I have also added my original letter of application as an additional resource from M6 to UPS1. General notes will suit all suitable teachers looking to progress up the Pay Scale or move onto Leadership Payscale. Specific evidence relating to myself provides you with relevant examples to adapt and amend to suit your roles within and across your school. hope this helps. Both applications have been successful, but feedback is always welcome.

As part of a child’s journey through school, I have created a whole school pledge for my school. I have given you the working document and an example of a Welcome Board that we are putting into our school. This is evidence for our work towards educating the whole child and developing our cultural capital experiences into our school journey. There is a template to complete your own passports for a child to complete through their school journey too… you could laminate these and have them displayed in your classroom or add R-6 to create your own personalised passports for every child. Its is SEND friendly and promotes cultural capital experiences in school. Uses SASSON PRIMARY font - so please amend accordingly to ensure spacing and design suit your school fonts.

Chapter by chapter resource to be used alongside the class reading of the titled book. This can either be used as a whole class resource or small group guided reading sessions. The questions have been written in SAT style questioning as much as possible so that children have early exposure to this style without seeing an actual paper. Reading a few chapters as a class book or in sessions once per week, the children then answer a range of summary, retrieval, inference etc questions the information from the text. A written unit of Narrative is also being created if interested.

The Dangerous Alphabet is a children’s favourite in my class. It is a tale of adventure, piracy, danger, and heroism told in twenty-six alphabetical lines, although even the alphabet is not to be relied upon here. A delightfully dangerous journey of two MCs. Within this 14 day unit your class will: revise speech , brackets for parenthesis, commas in a list, co-ordinating and subordinating conjunctions, verb forms and how to edit and improve a piece of writing. they will plan and write their own alphabetical narrative, a narrative poem and a setting description (all of which can then be used to assess against age related expectations). The unit includes: A planning overview - sequenced to the way I teach it, but can easily be amended to suit the needs of your own class. Worksheets used for each lesson provided and broken down into SPAG and English. Some differentiated. A previously guided example to model what I aim to achieve with the narrative. Please note: our school font is ‘Sasson Primary’, therefore when you download you may need to adjust layout to accommodate your schools font. I wanted to provide editable versions so cannot avoid this.

Themed work using the video of Avatar in order to write an INDEPENDENT write for their FINAL WRITE BOOKS (Our assessment record) and how to edit and improve their writing. This unit follows on from my initial assessment task for the first week back in September. I will then continue with instructional writing (upload to follow) and then Narrative writing. An assessed piece of writing. The unit of work contains the following resources: Teaching sequence / overview PPT for the whole unit of writing - with teaching notes and examples in the notes sections Learning toppers / worksheets that are to be used within the unit for each lesson Photos to support final write Learning objectives added Editable resources so that you can amend to suit your needs and differentiate to suit your own class attractive resources to inspire and ignite engagement - I know my children love how I design my learning objectives! Please leave constructive feedback so that I can continue to work on developing the resources. Many thanks for looking at my work today :)

Here is my Timetable for the first week back to school, not all my own ideas and a lot of them have been from BALSE who I work with - I am making the resources if you would like them then please inbox me. Please leave feedback

Here is a weeks worth of planning to complement the clip from the film Avatar. Ideal for new teachers to use to assess children’s writing at the start of the year. The planning and lesson toppers have also been provided alongside the powerpoint and peer editing proforma my children will use. Our topic work for Year 5 is space - so this fits perfectly as an initial assessment. I have included our writing targets to show you what I am initially assessing for as they enter the year. This initial assessment can then be followed with a non-chronological report and instructional writing. Please see my other resources. Thank you for viewing my resource. If purchased, please could you be so kind as to leave me some feedback so that I can continue to improve the resources that I make. Thank you :)

Landscape art inspired by the English Artist, David Hockney. Whole unit from skills to application to evaluation: Looking at examples and identifying lines, patterns and tones used. Water colour wheels / Oil pastel blending techniques Practicing key Skills - Hockney viewfinder Applying key skills - inspired piece Collecting ideas for final piece - local area study Planning and designing - final piece Applying taught skills - final piece Self and peer evaluations Focus is on line and pattern making using a range of media - graphite pencils, water-colours and oil pastels. Learning Outcomes: LO: To study a range of different pieces from famous artists/designers. LO: To collect ideas in my portfolio for use in future work. LO: To innovate on the work of others to make it my own. LO: To experiment with ideas and techniques before deciding upon my final piece. LO: To use pieces studied to develop my own work. LO: To use a range of techniques to give different effects in my work. LO: To work across a range of media with some control. LO: To evaluate my portfolio and explain what I have done well and what I could do to improve. LO: To look at other people’s work and explain what they have done well and what they could do to improve. PLEASE NOTE: I am not an artist, I am a primary teacher - but this is my own work that I use to model to the children so please edit and make it your own if you choose. Lesson Plans Lesson learning objective toppers, Worksheets, Pattern and Line example resource for the children, Images to show modelled examples, PowerPoint Presentation for the whole unit with step-by-step guides. If you like the planning, have examples of how you used it in your class or have any constructive feedback - I would love to hear from you. Thank you in advance

One of my favourite units of work that just works every time and inspires such imaginative and creative, yet thorough and detailed instructional writing. This complete unit of work is linked with other learning units I have created for my Year 5 class based on the video clip of discovering the planet of Pandora. This is the complete unit of 9+ sessions (depending on timings of your lessons) where children will write a non-chronological report on their mythical creature from Pandora and then a detailed set of instructions to inform the reader how to care for their creature as a pet. Resources include the PPT needed for all lessons, lesson worksheets and toppers with learning objectives for all lessons, SPaG suggestions suited to the key language features, model writes and a summary of the teaching sequence. Also included is an additional creative writing task linked to the Fantastic Beasts which could be used within class or set as a creative writing homework. The children love this unit as their first lesson inspires them using the text - Fantastic Beasts and Animalium to inspire their creations and report writing. Please leave constructive feedback if you do use my planning so that I can continnue to develop my lessons and resources for you. Thank you in advance and I do hope you and your children enjoy this unit. :)

Great resource for assessment and to ensure that you keep children’s learning ticking over with their basic arithmetic skills throughout the term. These are the skills that often get forgotten if not regularly ticked over by the children. These 12 tests (a complete terms worth) are simple, yet effective and should save you a lot of time whilst giving a consistent structure. My class love ‘Fluency Friday’ and enjoy the challenge to achieve a score greater than last time. They have a simple format and repeatedly revise written calculation methods, factors, prime and multiples, converting measures, time and includes other number skills that vary each week. If you find them useful and save you time, please could you leave a review and I will send you a free set of half term tests - thank you for viewing and purchasing in advance :)

Here is a structured approach I have implemented in my school to ensure that we minimise gaps in learning and **reduce cumulative dysfluency. ** We use this to encourage our teachers to revisit previous learning, assess current learning and ensure that teachers regularly implement ‘deliberate practise’ into children’s daily routines. A range of ‘deliberate practise’ tasks have been added to provide initial ideas for all teachers to think about and can select from in order to suit their specific needs within the classroom. The ppt includes the intent, implementation and impact of this approach to encourage whole staff buy in and support the implementation of the approach. I have made it plain so that you can add your school logo and colours accordingly. The main overview slide doubles as a classroom prompt and uses widgit effectively to support learners too. Let me know what you think - your feedback is a gift :)

My class enjoyed the novel ’ Wonder’ and so have been able to draw upon the ideas that surround the book and film and correspond these to the short film ‘Little Freak’ - which can be found on the ‘Literacy Shed’ website or ‘youtube’. This is a small unit of work created following SAT’s and useful to secure final learning objectives before the EOY data collection for Year 6. Would be suitable for UKS2 mixed class also. The resources are based on the Literacy Shed inital planning but have been adapted and modified to suit my class/needs and style. Genres include: setting and character descriptions, monologue and diary writing, narrative writing and persuasive letter writing. Resources can be provided if requested - all ready to use and correspond to the slides - each one made to suit my school standards. Happy to provide if your happy to give constructive feedback too - I love to share and always look for ways in which to improve.

Here is a two week unit of work based on the wonderful book ‘The Land of Neverbleieve’ to create non-chronological report. Other influences have been taken from ‘The Atlas of Imaginary Islands’ and used to create independent learning activities from. The plan is for Year 5 and is detailed with differentiations to create their own imaginary islands. Included in the unit: Detailed lesson plan PPT to support each lesson Lesson activities sheets / toppers for writing books for each lesson Suggested SPaG lessons in addition to the ones included Model text to scaffold learners Other suggested genres of writing included

Using the narrative written by Ben Miller, I have created a unit of writing for the children to recreate their own short story using the class read as their inspiration. This is suitable for UKS2 , but can easily be adapted to for LKS2. The text is original story is brilliantly written and the story structure screams from the page allowing children to recognise the key structures of the genre. By the end of the unit, the children will have revised and practised 4 key areas of SPaG required for meeting end of KS2 writing expectations and written their innovated short story using a model text as inspiration. I have written my own class model text based upon the book that has not been provided… this has been written with my class and writing targets in mind. This is an optional addition to the unit of work, however it has not been included within these resources. Please leave a review and email if you wish to see my written class model. additional comprehension work based on the original text can also be used here, which can also be found in resources. Within this unit of work I have included: 6 SPaG worksheets linked to the text (verb forms, active and passive voice, subordinating conjunctions and using inverted commas) 9 Lesson worksheets/toppers that go with the lesson structure QR codes to support the research of black holes Planning - teaching sequence

Short unit of work - explanation writing - documents have been saved into the newest format - imaging is not representative of the actual piece of work resourced. Planning overview of each session provided covering the following areas: Children identifying the key features of different texts to create a writing toolkit. Use the class toolkit to identify features used in the model text. Box up the text to identify key structure of the text. Understand and try varied sentence structures used within explanation texts - using information provided to try there own x 2 sessions Guided research and model write of explanation text - Hindenburg disaster - RESEARCH pages provided as suggestions Research for independent write - Why the titanic sank Proof reading and editing work Peer assessment All learning toppers provided - some differentiation in writing skills being assessed after their final writes. Specific SPaG lessons suggested as starters to each lesson. Slide of structures / key skills and tasks provided.

This is a detailed and scaffolled set of lessons that allow UKS2 children to write a detailed setting description using a range of writing skills. Included in this unit is the following: Plannning overview for this unit and other ideas I have used in other lessons PowerPoint Presentation - sectioned into the 8 different lessons / SPaG revision skills and learning activities Lesson toppers with writer’s toolkits and NC learning objectives. Examples provided Suggestions for model texts and SPaG lessons to use from https://grammarsaurus.co.uk/ Other units using the texts are: Non-Chronological report writing and recount (Diary Entry)

This resource contains teaching and learning tasks / slides and all of the lesson activity toppers needed to teach this short unit. additional resources for model texts have not been included but can be found at: https://grammarsaurus.co.uk/portal/ (A fantastic variety of model texts - suitable for all ages / stages and abilities can be found here) Fact or opinion - Commas in a list – share thoughts on the bacon flavoured toothpaste – think about the audience Identify key features – then use some of these to have a go at writing a persuasive advert for the toothpaste Practise skill of persuasive devices – model on a product Look at model text for Maid 3000 – then share write Shoe-umbrella (model text provided) Innovate own for handipants using the shared write as a scaffold AFOREST – skills - Planning an object/tool for a fictional character. (model write provided) Independent write of persuasive advert - fictional character. Recap AFOREST skills - Planning for class teacher Independent write Peer editing Write up final write