Christmas and End of Autumn Term Checklist

Have you made a list and are you checking it twice? No?! Well don’t worry - we’ve done the list part for you! We know just how frantic the run up to the end of the Autumn term can be with organisation for all the Christmas-themed activities, performances, dinners and more, let alone the actual teaching, learning and leadership part! That’s why we’ve created this Christmas and term-end checklist so you can get ahead, stay organised, delegate and make it to the end of term!

This checklist includes:
School-based tasks covering aspects that you may want to wrap up before the Christmas holidays and the start of the Spring term in January. This includes elements such as:

• evaluating this term’s progress towards your school improvement plan or subject action plan milestones
• collecting and analysing data for your subject or whole school, including triangulation of any data anomalies
• considering your CPD offer and what needs to take place next, including plans for January INSET days
• ensuring line management duties (such as appraisals) have been completed, as well as considering processes for staff who are leaving and joining your setting
• consider parental and stakeholder engagement so far and how you can start the new term smoothly
• ideas for any catch-up tasks that you might have missed, such as checking your risk register to see if it’s up to date.

It wouldn’t be Christmas in school without overbooking the timetable with millions of activities, so use the Christmas-based tasks part of the list to keep organised for all your festive events, including:

• considering all aspects of organisation and prep for your Christmas performances, plays or assemblies
• expectations around Christmas-themed activities for pupils, including how much of your planned curriculum needs to still be taught
• making arrangements for the school Christmas dinner
• planning how you can be involved with different community events this Christmas
• organising your staff Christmas do
• getting ready for January (because no-one wants to take down the Christmas tree during the January INSET day…)

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