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.
This EYFS Leader Folder Checklist is ideal for any EYFS lead looking for ideas and guidance on the documentation they might want to include in their EYFS leader file, regardless of whether it’s kept digitally or in a paper-based folder.
The checklist is designed to save your time in wondering what to include in an EYFS leader folder by helping you to consider the different documents you might need. Each suggestion has handy notes about what to include and you can tick them off once completed, allowing you to stay on top of keeping your EYFS file organised.
The checklist is split into the following helpful sections:
EYFS Improvement and Leadership
Curriculum and Assessment Information
Pastoral Information
Communication and Involvement
Staffing, Training and Development
Governors and External Advisors
This editable EYFS leadership folder template is ideal for new early years leads or those wishing to refine how they store and organise their EYFS information. For further support with creating, building and organising an effective early years leader folder, this template along with many more are also included in our full EYFS Leader Folder Pack.
Further EYFS leadership resources can be found on our website, honeyguide-sls.co.uk
This EYFS Self-Evaluation Bundle is ideal for any EYFS leader looking for a structured and guided way to evaluate actions, improvements and development points in their early years setting across the year.
The EYFS self-evaluation form (SEF) template is carefully structured and is aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Handbook so you can evaluate your provision’s current strengths and areas for development based on a robust set of criteria, which include:
Quality of Education, including Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact
Behaviour and Attitudes
Personal Development
Leadership and Management
Each of the above sections contains sets of reflective questions, allowing you to be critical and accurate in your early years self-evaluation. Alongside each section are ideas for where you can find multiple sources of evidence to back up your judgement. A further template - Quality of Education Self-Evaluation - is also included. This document allows you to dig deeper into the effectiveness of the teaching and learning that your early years setting provides, allowing you to RAG-rate your provision in different areas. This can then inform your next steps for improvement.
Also included are the EYFS Ofsted Grade Descriptor Grids, which are fully aligned to the latest 2024 Ofsted School Inspection Handbook and which you can use to support your decision-making when self-evaluating your strengths and weaknesses.
The editable EYFS SEF template and accompanying documents are ideal for new early years leads or those wishing to refine their EYFS SEF writing process. Often, these sorts of documents are kept - either digitally or paper-based - in an EYFS leader file. For further support with creating, building and organising an effective early years leader folder, this template along with many more are also included in our full EYFS Leader Folder Pack.
Further EYFS leadership resources can be found on our website, honeyguide-sls.co.uk
his EYFS Safeguarding and Welfare Checklist is ideal for any EYFS leader who’s looking to explore safeguarding and child welfare in their setting. It’s suitable for EYFS leaders in both school-based settings as well as group-based providers such as nurseries and preschools, and is built from all of the safeguarding and welfare requirements in section 3 of the EYFS statutory framework for group and school-based providers (and therefore isn’t applicable to childminders).
The checklist walks you through different criteria about welfare and safeguarding in the EYFS, allowing you to identify your current strengths and make a plan for any areas of development. The following broad areas are included in the checklist:
Child Protection
Recruitment
Training and Qualifications
Staff Ratios
Child Health
Behaviour
Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND)
Premises and Equipment
Record Keeping
Each section can help you to critically reflect on your safeguarding procedures and processes, allowing you to keep every child safe as well as ensuring compliance with safeguarding requirements in the EYFS.
Every early years leader should ensure they’re aware of their setting’s strengths and levels of compliance when it comes to safeguarding as well as ensuring any weaknesses are addressed quickly. This information should be regularly reviewed so it’s ideal to keep copies and records together, such as in an EYFS leader folder. For further support with creating, building and organising an effective early years leader folder, this template along with many more, are also included in our EYFS Leader Folder Pack.
Further EYFS leadership resources can be found on our website, honeyguide-sls.co.uk
Whether you’re a new early years leader looking to create your first EYFS leader file or are an experienced foundation stage lead wanting to ensure your EYFS folder contains all the documents you need, this EYFS Leader Folder Pack is ideal for you. With 31 editable templates and full guidance, it’ll walk you through what you could include in your EYFS leader folder - digital or paper-based - and why you need to include it. Suitable for EYFS leaders who work within a primary school as well as those in group-based settings such as nurseries and preschools, this pack will save you both time and energy in creating your subject leader file.
This pack includes:
EYFS Leader Folder Checklist
EYFS Curriculum Overview Checklist
EYFS Summary Overview
EYFS Leader Yearly Planner
EYFS Ofsted Grade Descriptor Grids
EYFS Self-Evaluation Form
EYFS Safeguarding and Welfare Checklist
EYFS Improvement Plan
EYFS Improvement Plan Checklist
EYFS Action Plan
EYFS Leader Self-Review
EYFS Intent, Implementation and Impact Checklist
EYFS Intent, Implementation and Impact Statement Checklist
Quality of Education Self-Evaluation
Learning Walk Template (EYFS)
Work Scrutiny Template (EYFS)
EYFS Cultural Capital, Personal Development and Enrichment Audit
EYFS Intervention and Provision Mapping
EYFS Provision Map
EYFS Learning Environment Audit
EYFS Resource Audit and Inventory
EYFS Pupil Progress Meeting
EYFS Link Governor Meeting Report
EYFS Report to Governors
EYFS Pupil Voice Survey
EYFS Staff Voice Survey
EYFS Parent Feedback Survey
Staff EYFS Knowledge Audit
EYFS Practitioner Skills Audit
Professional Development Plan and Record
Supervision Meeting Template
Further EYFS leadership resources can be found on our website, honeyguide-sls.co.uk
If you’re looking to explore your school’s provision and curriculum in Understanding the World (UW) for your early years children, this audit pack gives you the perfect starting point. Aimed at primary school settings, the audit can be used by both EYFS leads, year 1 leaders & teachers, and curriculum leaders to explore how effectively your school gives children broad and exciting UW learning opportunities and where there are opportunities to develop further. Links are also made between the EYFS and the National Curriculum subjects in Year 1 to provide support for that crucial transition, and is ideal if you’re looking to provide a cohesive curriculum offer.
Further EYFS leadership resources can be found on our website, honeyguide-sls.co.uk
If you’re looking to explore your school’s provision and curriculum for physical development for your early years children, this audit pack gives you the perfect starting point. Aimed at primary school settings, the audit can be used by both EYFS leads, year 1 leaders & teachers, and curriculum leaders to explore how effectively your school gives children broad and exciting physical development learning opportunities in order to develop their gross and fine motor skills. Links are also made between the EYFS and the National Curriculum subjects in Year 1 to provide support for that crucial transition, and is ideal if you’re looking to provide a cohesive curriculum offer.
Further EYFS leadership resources can be found on our website, honeyguide-sls.co.uk
If you’re looking to explore your school’s provision and curriculum in Communication and Language for your early years children, this audit pack gives you the perfect starting point. Aimed at primary school settings, the audit can be used by EYFS leads, year 1 leaders & teachers, and curriculum leaders to explore how effectively your school gives children broad and exciting learning opportunities to speak, listen, develop their vocabulary and build their early communication skills. Links are also made between the EYFS and the National Curriculum subjects in Year 1 to provide support for that crucial transition, and is ideal if you’re looking to provide a cohesive curriculum offer.
Further EYFS leadership resources can be found on our website, honeyguide-sls.co.uk
If you’re looking to explore your school’s provision and curriculum in Literacy for your early years children, this audit pack gives you the perfect starting point. Aimed at primary school settings, the audit can be used by EYFS leads, year 1 leaders & teachers, and curriculum leaders to explore how effectively your school gives children broad and exciting learning opportunities in early literacy, including comprehension, word reading and early writing and mark-making. Links are also made between the EYFS and the National Curriculum subjects in Year 1 to provide support for that crucial transition, and is ideal if you’re looking to provide a cohesive curriculum offer.
Further EYFS leadership resources can be found on our website, honeyguide-sls.co.uk
If you’re looking to explore your school’s provision and curriculum in Expressive Arts and Design (EAD) for your early years children, this audit pack gives you the perfect starting point. Aimed at primary school settings, the audit can be used by EYFS leads, year 1 leaders & teachers, KS1 phase leaders and curriculum leaders to explore how effectively your school gives children broad and exciting EAD learning opportunities and where there are chances to develop this even further. Links are also made between the EYFS and the National Curriculum subjects in Year 1 to provide support for that crucial transition, and is ideal if you’re looking to provide a cohesive curriculum offer between the early years and KS1.
More EYFS leadership resources can be found on our website, honeyguide-sls.co.uk
Thinking about doing a spot check on your special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) provision or wondering what Ofsted will ask about SEND when they visit? This pack, perfect for school leaders and SENDCos, has been designed to give you the tools to gather snapshot viewpoints of SEND and inclusion practices in your setting. In turn, this allows you to gain insight into how others could view your SEND provision and the steps you may need to take to keep improving it.
This pack includes:
Example SENDCo Ofsted questions
SEND subject knowledge question bank
SEND questions for pupils
SEND document and files checklist
Deep dive process overview for SEND
Deep dive evidence exploration for SEND
Further resources can be found on our website, honeyguide-sls.co.uk
Involving and reporting to governors is an important aspect of subject leadership. Keep link governors and the wider governing body informed and up to date on the work you have understaken in your subject area as subject lead with these helpful templates.
More subject leadership resources can be found on our website - Honeyguide-sls.co.uk
Want to audit the cultural capital, enrichment and personal development opportunities available in your subject area and how you can enhance these? Including careers and British Values, you’ll be able to answer any questions from Ofsted or other professionals regarding these areas in your subject.
Further subject leadership resources are available on our website - Honeyguide-sls.co.uk
Use this checklist to review your curriculum intent, implementation and impact statement to ensure it contains everything it needs on your school website for each subject area.
Further subject leadership resources can be found on our website - Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk
This Subject Leader Self-Review form serves as a summative document to record the results of your continuous and rigorous self-assessment process. There is no set time of year for its completion. It is generally best to integrate it with your usual review and planning cycle. Although it should be completed at least once a year, it is most beneficial when used as an ongoing tool.
Further subject leadership resources can be found on our website - Honeyguide-sls.co.uk
New to subject leadership, changing subject or an experienced subject leader wanting to ensure you tick everything off?
This helpful checklist planner will ensure you have considered all of the tasks you need to do as a subject leader each term and across the year.
Further resources for subject leadership can be found on our website, Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk
Whether you’re a new subject leader looking to create your first subject leader file or are an experienced subject lead wanting to ensure your subject folder contains all the documents you need, this Subject Leader Folder Pack is ideal for you. With 26 editable templates and full guidance, it’ll walk you through what you could include in your subject leader folder - digital or paper-based - and why you need to include it. Suitable for primary subject leaders, applicable to all national curriculum subjects and with amazing organisational checklists, it’ll save you both time and energy in creating your subject leader file.
The guidance is split into six easy-to-understand sections that correlate with how you can structure your subject leader folder:
Subject Overview
Subject Leadership Documents
Curriculum Planning and Intent
Curriculum Monitoring and Implementation
Curriculum Impact
Feedback and CPD
Are you seeking a comprehensive and thorough safeguarding and child protection training package for the academic year? This cost-effective, ready-to-deliver safeguarding pack aligns with Part One of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2024 and will help you deliver effective safeguarding training throughout the autumn, spring and summer terms. This pack includes a KCSIE INSET refresher PowerPoint, Prevent Duty awareness training and audit, scenarios, quizzes, a safeguarding training timetable and a safeguarding policy checklist, ensuring staff stay current on safeguarding matters year-round. This extensive safeguarding pack is an excellent time-saver for anyone responsible for delivering safeguarding training and updates at the beginning of the academic year, during INSET sessions and throughout the year.
This safeguarding training pack has been carefully designed to weave safeguarding aspects together with the theory of spaced practice in mind. This means staff can revisit content across the term and year, ensuring that they deeply understand all of the topics covered in order to keep children safe. The pack includes:
36 x editable Safeguarding Scenarios, questions and answers for interactive and collaborative staff training.
36 x Safeguarding Snapshots to display within your staff spaces or send to them each week.
18 x Quick Quizzes containing 10 multiple-choice questions each - ideal to keep tabs on if staff safeguarding knowledge is secure.
3 x ready-made Safeguarding Training Timetables (one for each term) designed to incorporate the above resources into a training programme for the academic year.
1 x PDF document on suggestions for use, giving you ideas on how you can implement each aspect effectively.
1 x Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy Checklist, enabling you to check your safeguarding policy for compliance.
1 x Prevent Duty staff training PowerPoint, audit and accompanying training materials.
1 x 73-slide Annual Safeguarding Refresher Training PowerPoint, ideal for INSET training with an accompanying 20-question Principles of Safeguarding Quiz.
11 x Safeguarding Posters for display in your setting, such as the staff room or staff toilet facilities, covering the signs and indicators of a range of safeguarding issues, including county lines, child-on-child abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, domestic abuse, neglect, bullying and more.
This pack is available for £100 on our website. Further safeguarding training resources can be found at Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk
Are you looking for a thorough and comprehensive safeguarding and child protection training INSET pack to inform school staff about the KCSIE 2024 updates this September? This cost-effective, ready-to-deliver safeguarding refresher PowerPoint, including accompanying scenarios and quizzes, is exactly what you need! In line with Part one of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2024, it’s an excellent time-saver for anyone responsible for delivering safeguarding training and updates at the beginning of the academic year, during INSET sessions and beyond.
This 73-slide Annual Safeguarding Refresher Training has been created from the most up-to-date version of the 2024 KCSIE.
Throughout the training, you’ll explore the fundamental aspects of safeguarding children and our role as school staff in helping to keep children and young people safe from harm. Utilising statutory safeguarding documentation, including Working Together to Safeguarding Children and Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2024, the training covers the signs and indicators of the following safeguarding issues:
The four types of child abuse:
Physical Abuse
Emotional Abuse
Sexual Abuse
Neglect
Other safeguarding aspects, including:
Domestic Abuse
Online Safety
Child Exploitation, including Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) and Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
Extremism, Radicalisation and Terrorism (The Prevent Duty)
Child-On-Child Abuse
Harmful Practices, including Forced Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Children Missing Education
Staff Roles and Responsibilities
Taking Disclosures, Reporting Concerns and Asking Non-Leading Questions
Whistleblowing
Throughout the training there are key safeguarding discussion points, relatable scenarios and supportive quizzes to gauge staff knowledge and understanding of the safeguarding issues and approaches to keeping children safe covered.
Further safeguarding training materials can be found at Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk
Do you have tried and trusted safeguarding INSET training but need to quickly deliver this year’s KCSIE 2024 updates to staff? Look no further - this PowerPoint and handout does exactly that! Based on the 2024 KCSIE, it’s a brilliant time-saver for anyone delivering safeguarding training and updates.
You can find this available free and more resources by visiting Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk
Looking to recruit a new pastoral lead, mental health lead or welfare office for your school? If you’re wondering what tasks can help you recruit the right candidate and questions to ask at interview to assess their skills and understanding of supporting pupils’ mental health, this Pastoral and Mental Health Role Interview Pack can support you throughout the entire process, from advertising to employment.
Included in this schools pastoral and mental health role interview pack are two different editable interview tasks plus a wide variety of example interview questions and answers so you can find a brilliant pastoral lead, mental health lead or family support worker for your school. The job description and person specification for will also support you in advertising for a new family liason office or pastoral manager so you attract the right candidates. Use these, alongside the interview tasks and pastoral and mental health role interview questions to create a recruitment package that’s tailored to exactly what your school is looking for in a new pastoral leader.
While the pack is tailored towards appointing a new pastoral and mental health lead, it can be used to support the recruitment process for any similar roles with a focus on pupil wellbeing, mental health and pastoral care, including family support workers, nurture teacher, pastoral manager, family liaison officer, welfare officer or similar.
Further recruitment and job role resources and materials can be found on our website honeyguide-sls.co.uk