An essential ally for school leaders at all levels. Comprehensively planned CPD, reliable resource packs and extensive guidance created with you in mind.
An essential ally for school leaders at all levels. Comprehensively planned CPD, reliable resource packs and extensive guidance created with you in mind.
Thinking about how you can make staff safeguarding training more regular? This informative Safeguarding Snapshot provides a one-page glance at the specific safeguarding issue of Child Criminal Exploitation CCE (Serious Violence). Display it in a staff room or send it in a safeguarding e-bulletin to enhance your safeguarding training offer.
Designed from the most up-to-date information from the 2023 KCSIE, each of our snapshots cover the key signs and indicators of that particular safeguarding issue. They detail which groups of pupils could be at more risk and other factors that staff should be aware of. They end with suggested actions to get staff thinking about how they can prevent harm and keep children safe. Our full pack of 12 Safeguarding Snapshots can be found on our website 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 safeguarding 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.
Thinking about how you can make staff safeguarding training more regular? This informative Safeguarding Snapshot provides a one-page glance at the specific safeguarding issue of Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE). Display it in a staff room or send it in a safeguarding e-bulletin to enhance your safeguarding training offer.
Designed from the most up-to-date information from the 2023 KCSIE, each of our snapshots cover the key signs and indicators of that particular safeguarding issue. They detail which groups of pupils could be at more risk and other factors that staff should be aware of. They end with suggested actions to get staff thinking about how they can prevent harm and keep children safe. Our full pack of 12 Safeguarding Snapshots can be found on our website 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 safeguarding 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.
Thinking about how you can make staff safeguarding training more regular? This informative Safeguarding Snapshot provides a one-page glance at the specific safeguarding issue of Children Missing Education CME. Display it in a staff room or send it in a safeguarding e-bulletin to enhance your safeguarding training offer.
Designed from the most up-to-date information from the 2023 KCSIE, each of our snapshots cover the key signs and indicators of that particular safeguarding issue. They detail which groups of pupils could be at more risk and other factors that staff should be aware of. They end with suggested actions to get staff thinking about how they can prevent harm and keep children safe. Our full pack of 12 Safeguarding Snapshots can be found on our website Honeyguide SLS 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 safeguarding resources by visiting honeyguide-sls.co.uk
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.**
Want to check that staff understand Part One of KCSIE? This Quick Quiz is time-saving and adaptable, meaning you can create quizzes on your school’s internal platform or cherry pick questions for use in meetings and briefings. The 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. This Quiz focuses on Online Safety and Abuse Occurring Online.
Our full pack of 6 Safeguarding Quizes can be found on our website Honeyguide SLS for £7.50
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.
Want to check that staff understand Part One of KCSIE? This Quick Quiz is time-saving and adaptable, meaning you can create quizzes on your school’s internal platform or cherry pick questions for use in meetings and briefings. The 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. This Quiz focuses on Child-on-Child Sexual Violence and Harassment
Our full pack of 6 Safeguarding Quizes can be found on our website Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk for £7.50
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.
Want to check that staff understand Part One of KCSIE? This Quick Quiz is time-saving and adaptable, meaning you can create quizzes on your school’s internal platform or cherry pick questions for use in meetings and briefings. The 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. This Quiz focuses on Physical Abuse and Neglect
Our full pack of 6 Safeguarding Quizes can be found on our website Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk for £7.50
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 thinking about how to improve attendance on a strategic level? This bundle supports exactly that, with attendance audits, action plans, strategy documents and more. Designed from the latest guidance in Working Together to Improve School Attendance, it allows attendance officers, leads and co-ordinators to look at the bigger picture of attendance in their schools then use their findings to address gaps.
Included in this pack:
Attendance Audit - over 70 questions for you to reflect on your setting’s practice, including sections on attendance policy & procedures, analysing barriers, exploring attendance trends and patterns, attendance intervention, communication and safeguarding, and attendance enforcement. Find your current strengths and areas of improvement.
Attendance Action Plan - use the gaps identified in your audit and turn them into tangible actions with this handy plan.
Attendance Strategy - create this whole-school document, which contains prompts to help you, to share your vision and benchmarks for attendance with staff, governors/trustees and other stakeholders.
Attendance Template Letters - Use these to pre-populate your own letters on your school’s headed paper or insert the text into your management information system (MIS) to save time when informing parents of their child’s absence levels. There are 15 individual letters covering a range of situations, such as concerns about authorised absences, invites to attendance meetings, term-time holiday requests and more.
Attendance Co-Ordinator Job Description - whether you’re called an attendance officer, leader, manager, co-ordinator or something else, this document covers the responsibilities of the role and includes a person specification. It’s perfect if you’re looking to firm up your (or your attendance coordinator’s) responsibilities or if you’re looking to appoint someone to this post.
Example Ofsted Attendance Questions - whether you’re due an inspection or not, this document can help you understand the types of questions Ofsted ask about attendance. Use it to reflect on the depth of knowledge about your current practice or to prepare for an inspection if you feel the need to build your confidence.
This attendance co-ordinator audit and strategy pack is available on our website for £7.50 Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk
Needing to improving attendance across your school? This full pack takes the latest information from the DfE’s Working Together to Improve School Attendance and provides you with easy-to-digest guidance, editable templates, multiple training PowerPoints and eye-catching attendance posters to give you a full starting package for how to tackle pupil absence and raise attendance levels.
A huge pack containing full guidance, 19 editable temples, 7 separate training PowerPoints and 8 stunning, printable posters to support you in improving attendance in your setting. We’ve broken the pack down into the following three strands so you can use strategies to improve student attendance from a range of different angles:
This pack is available on our website for £20 Honeyguide SLS
Thinking about doing a spot check on your safeguarding and child protection procedures or wondering what Ofsted will ask about safeguarding when they visit? This pack, perfect for school leaders and DSLs, has been designed to give you the tools to gather a snapshot view of safeguarding in your setting, allowing you to gain insight into how others could view your safeguarding practice.
Fully up to date with the latest 2023 Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) and the September 2023 changes to safeguarding in the Ofsted School Inspection Handbook, this bundle is designed to support DSLs, school and trust leaders. It contains five fully editable templates that allow you to gather information about the effectiveness of your current safeguarding practices over a short period of time, similar to how Ofsted would gather safeguarding information during an inspection. The questions within are designed in a safeguarding deep dive style and you can pick and choose from the huge range available if you’re looking to test out how robust your safeguarding processes are, meaning you can use the pack multiple times where needed. You can gather information about your school’s culture of safeguarding by using the following editable documents in this bundle pack:
Included:
Safeguarding Deep Dive Questions
Safeguarding Spot Check Questions
Safeguarding Deep Dive Questions for Pupils
Single Central Record Monitoring Checklist
Safeguarding Document Checklist
This pack is available on our website for £10 Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk
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…)
You can find more supportive resources by visiting Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk
Looking to explore Maths in-depth and build confidence about an upcoming Maths Deep Dive? Tailored for Maths subject leaders, this bundle helps you to consider intent, implementation and impact questions across the breadth of Mathematics, allowing you to consider areas of strength and weakness so you can plan for improvement and (if you feel you need to) prepare for Ofsted.
Included in the pack:
Maths Deep Dive and Subject Evaluation Audit (Primary) - over 100 deep dive questions about Maths to ask stakeholders, including senior leaders, subject leaders, teachers and pupils. As mathematics subject leader, you can utilise these to reflect on the current picture of Maths in your school and explore specific areas, such as fluency, reasoning and problem solving. Many maths subject leads find it useful to practise them with other leaders to build their own confidence in preparation for a Maths Ofsted deep dive.
Maths Deep Dive and Subject Evaluation Audit (Secondary) - KS3, KS4 and KS5 Maths deep dive questions for secondary leaders and maths department heads to consider. While there is crossover with the primary set of deep dive questions, this resource focuses on secondary Maths and includes questions about secondary-focused areas, such as the routes available for pupils who wish to take their knowledge of Maths into further education, employment or training.
Maths Subject Knowledge Question Bank - content-specific questions for Maths covering KS1, KS2 and KS3. They’re ideal if you’re wanting to explore the finer details of staff members’ maths fluency and calculation subject knowledge as well as the understanding of the reasoning and problem solving skills that pupils need to acquire.
Deep Dive Process Overview - use this to structure your internal deep dive in maths, working through the process of identifying your perceived strengths and weaknesses, observation and questioning, and creating a plan of action.
Deep Dive Evidence Exploration - a handy place to collate all your observation notes when conducting a deep dive, including observing Maths lessons, asking pupils about their learning in Maths and looking through workbooks and other maths evidence.
This pack is available on our website for £12.50.
You can find more curriculum resources by visiting Honeyguide SLS
Looking to explore secondary English or drama in-depth and build confidence about an upcoming English Deep Dive? Tailored for English department heads and/or Drama leaders, this bundle helps you to consider intent, implementation and impact questions across the breadth of both English and Drama, allowing you to consider areas of strength and weakness so you can plan for improvement and (if you feel you need to) prepare for Ofsted.
Included in the pack:
Secondary English and Drama Deep Dive and Subject Evaluation Audit - over 100 deep dive questions about English and Drama to ask stakeholders, including senior leaders, subject/department leaders, teachers and pupils. As Drama or English department lead, you can utilise these to reflect on the current picture of English and Drama in your school and explore specific areas, such as reading, writing, spoken language, grammar, linguistics and performance. Many English / Drama leads find it useful to practise them with other leaders to build their own confidence in preparation for a English Ofsted deep dive.
Secondary English and Drama Subject Knowledge Question Bank - content-specific questions for English and Drama covering KS3 and KS4. They’re ideal if you’re wanting to explore the finer details of staff members’ English or Drama subject knowledge.
Deep Dive Process Overview - use this to structure your internal deep dive or shallow dive in secondary English and Drama, working through the process of identifying your perceived strengths and weaknesses, observation and questioning, and creating a plan of action.
Deep Dive Evidence Exploration - a handy place to collate all your observation notes when conducting a deep dive, including observing English lessons or Drama sessions, asking pupils about their learning in English and Drama, and looking through any English work, drama performance recording or other evidence.
This pack is available on our website for £12.50.
You can find more curriculum resources by visiting Honeyguide SLS
Wondering how you can support staff with ongoing safeguarding training or enhance your safeguarding training offer? This bundle, containing 12 unique safeguarding scenarios, is perfect to fulfil this need, providing you with real-life examples of situations your pupils and staff could face. With guided considerations for the DSL or safeguarding lead included, use these scenarios in staff meetings, INSET days or twilights so staff can discuss and respond, allowing you to feel confident in providing a robust safeguarding training offer, including:
Emotional Abuse (Mistreatment, Language and Bullying)
Physical Abuse (Fabricated Illness)
Child-on-Child Abuse (Abuse in Intimate Relationships)
Child-on-Child Abuse (Sexual Violence)
Online Safety (Sexual Harassment)
Youth-Produced Sexual Imagery (Sexting / Consensual Sharing of Nude and Semi-Nude Images and/or Videos)
Child Criminal Exploitation (County Lines)
Initiation and Hazing Type Violence and Rituals
Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
Children Absent from Education and Children Missing Education (CME)
Staff Concerns (Dismissing Child-On-Child Abuse)
Staff Concerns (Intimate Care)
This pack is available on our website for £15 Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk
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.
Looking to recruit a classroom teacher who’ll hold additional subject leadership responsibility? If you’re wondering about what questions to ask at interview to recruit the right subject leader for your school, or what tasks you can set for a prospective class teacher and subject lead, this Class Teacher with Subject Leadership Interview Pack can support you throughout the interview process.
Included in this teaching and subject leadership interview pack are four different editable interview tasks plus a wide variety of example interview questions so you can find a brilliant subject leader and classroom teacher for your school. The job description and person specification for will also support you in advertising for a more experienced teacher so you attract the right candidates. Use these, alongside the interview tasks and class teacher / subject leader interview questions to create a recruitment package that’s tailored to exactly what your school is looking for in a new classroom teacher.
The pack is tailored towards appointing a new classroom teacher who’ll hold subject leadership responsibility alongside their classroom teaching commitment, which will likely be the main part of their role. If your school uses the teacher pay scales, this pack would most likely suit recruitment of someone on M3-M6, or those aiming to move into the upper pay scale in the near future. It’s designed for a teacher who already has classroom experience and is either moving into subject leadership, or who already has subject leadership responsibility, but they’re not yet leading broader, school-wide aspects, such as a phase or year group lead.
Find more recruitment packs at honeyguide-sls.co.uk
Is your setting looking to recruit a new headteacher, principal, head of school or executive head? If you’re a chair of governors, a trustee or MAT leader looking for the right interview questions to ask a prospective headteacher, as well as interview tasks that will test their strengths and skills, this Headteacher Interview Pack is here to support you through the process. Equally, if you’re a assistant or deputy head, aspiring headteacher or due to attend an interview for a headteacher position soon, this pack will help you to feel prepared.
This pack with accompanying templates is designed help your school setting plan and prepare the interview day, including interview questions and tasks, when recruiting a headteacher. This pack contains concise guidance that allows you to consider the setup of the interview day itself, but if you’re new to recruitment or want to ensure the entire recruitment process is smooth, you may find it help to purchase the Recruitment, Interview and Employment Compliance Guidance Pack alongside this interview pack.
Included in this headteacher and principal interview pack are nine different editable interview tasks plus a wide variety of example interview questions so you can find a brilliant headteacher to lead your your school. The job description and person specification for will also support you in advertising for a new head so you attract the right candidates. Use these, alongside the interview tasks and headteacher interview questions to create a recruitment package that’s tailored to exactly what your school is looking for in a new school leader.
While the pack is tailored towards appointing a new headteacher, it can be used to support the recruitment process for any similar role, such as an academy headteacher, a head of school, executive head or a school or college principal.
You can find further interview preparation resources on our website at honeyguide-sls.co.uk
Use this School Business Manager (SBM) skills audit as part of your appraisal and performance management process, or to identify training needs.
This is also helpful for SBMs to use to identify progression and next steps.
For more resources, visit our website Honeyguide-sls.co.uk
Looking to identify the skills and development points for your setting’s school business manager (SBM)? Or perhaps you’re a school business manager or in a school finance role and you want to explore role-specific strengths and weaknesses as part of your ongoing development, or even when looking for a new job role. No matter the situation, this handy pack contains exactly what you need to uncover strengths and plan for professional development & growth.
Included is a 15-page template covering the different areas of skills that a school business lead may need. These are split into handy sections, such as self-management and personal skills, resource and financial management, estate and site management, school improvement, and more, so the skills audit can therefore be used flexibly. Questions include:
In what ways am I taking a lead role in the development and implementation of school improvement plans, ensuring a strategic approach to enhance the overall quality of education and school effectiveness?
How am I actively engaged in long-term budget management, considering factors such as value for money, future costs and alignment with the school’s values and vision?
How do I assess necessary repairs and site improvement projects against the available budget, ensuring a strategic allocation of financial resources for optimal impact?
How do I engage and collaborate with the governing body on financial planning?
Looking to identify the skills and development points of your school’s administrator? Or perhaps you’re a school administrator, office assistant or receptionist who wants to explore their role-specific strengths and weaknesses as part of ongoing development or when looking for a new role. No matter the situation, this handy pack contains exactly what you need to uncover strengths and plan for professional development & growth.
A quick-and-easy pack to audit the skills of a school administrator. This pack contains concise guidance to support you in effectively utilising the skills audit, whether you’re line managing a member of office staff or whether you’re a school secretary, administrator or clerical assistant yourself who’s wanting to evaluate their strengths and areas for improvement.
Included is a 9-page template covering the different areas of skills that a school administrator may need. These are split into handy sections, such as data protection, administration and data entry, and working with others so they can be used flexibly. Questions include:
What measures do you take to ensure the secure handling and storage of pupil records and information?
Can you support various administrative processes, such as enrolment and registration?
Are you familiar with a range of school-specific software systems? How do you feel when new software is introduced?
How do you demonstrate the school’s ethos and values?
Further resources can be found at honeyguide-sls.co.uk
Use this Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SENDCo) skills audit as part of your appraisal and performance management process, or to identify training needs.
This is also helpful for SENDCos to use to identify progression and next steps.
For more resources, visit our website 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.
Looking for support with recruiting a new staff member, including how to structure the recruitment and interview process as well as ensuring you’re compliant with pre-employment and safeguarding checks? This pack walks you through the entire process and is ideal for school leaders who are new to leading the recruitment process or who want to improve their confidence and understanding when employing new staff members.
comprehensive guidance pack with accompanying templates to help you plan and prepare the entire recruitment process for any role in a school setting, from shortlisting and interviewing, to pre-employment and appointment.
Included are thirteen different editable templates to support you in planning the full recruitment process and they’re not specific to certain roles, so can be used again and again each time you’re faced with recruiting a new staff member. However, if you’re looking for role-specific interview questions and tasks, we’ve got this too - see the “What else is available to support recruitment?” question for more details.
With this pack, you’ll explore how to design your recruitment timeline, including consideration of what to include in the job description and person specification for the role. It’ll walk you through how to lead and manage an effective shortlisting process, including who to have on your interview panel, plus there are handy letter templates for each stage of the process so you can inform applicants and candidates of the outcomes whilst saving you time.
Planning an interview day, including all the tasks, interviews themselves and general organisation, can be daunting but the guidance supports you with how to tackle this. Included are editable templates to plan a timetable for your interview day as well as standard school interview questions you can select from. You may wish to set candidates an interview task as well, and we’ve included a template to support your thinking around this.
This pack gives an overview of some of your legal responsibilities during recruitment, including what to add and update on your single central record and the necessary pre-employment and safer recruitment checks that need to take place. Included are checklists to support this, helping you to ensure all necessary checks and processes have taken place.
Further resources can be found at honeyguide-sls
Use this Headteacher skills audit as part of your appraisal and performance management process, or to identify training needs.
This is also helpful for Deputy or Assistant Headteachers to use to identify progression and next steps towards Headship.
For more skills audit resources for this role and others, visit our website 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.