The Teaching Coach is a platform to help teachers, leaders and support staff by providing a range of quality pastoral, teaching and career resources.
You will find a host of resources here from form times and assemblies through to interview prep, application letters, professional development and guidance. Not to mention, lessons, schemes of work and learning resources.
If you can't see what you need, you can email me at: theteachingcoach@hotmail.com.
The Teaching Coach is a platform to help teachers, leaders and support staff by providing a range of quality pastoral, teaching and career resources.
You will find a host of resources here from form times and assemblies through to interview prep, application letters, professional development and guidance. Not to mention, lessons, schemes of work and learning resources.
If you can't see what you need, you can email me at: theteachingcoach@hotmail.com.
This is the MASSIVE form tutor bundle.
It includes loads resources (a total of 50+ activities) to help you manage form time and to reduce planning and workload.
It contains a range of resources which a great range of of form time foci!
1 x what makes a great learner? form time session
1 x 12 weekly spelling tests
20 x SPaG activities
1 x session on choices and consequencs
1 x christmas for time activities booklet
1 x numeracy maths course
1 x weekly rota for form time
1 x giant christmas quiz
1 x end of year/term giant quiz
1 x growth mindset psession
1 x pastoral form time activity booklet (KS3)
1 x learning to learn session
1 x new beginning and positive thinking session
1 x organisational skills session
1 x library/reading skills form time
1 x success lesson - setting expectations
10 x form time postcards to send home to your tutees!
3 x little inspiration cards to issue to you form for inspiration!
In this bundle, you will find 11 resources centred around anti bullying, looking after each other, positivity and confidence.
This bundles includes:
**Assemblies/form time sessions:
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I recommend chosing the first as your whole year group assembly, then others can be used easily during form time or PSHE
Anti bullying assembly - ‘choose respect’
Charity awareness - ‘kindness to others’
Choice and Consequences
Confidence and self esteem
Random Acts of Kindness
**Form time resources:
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Emotional check in worksheet - reflection on worries/fears
Inspiration cards set 1-3
5 x positive thinking posters
Student Concern Log Cards - for staff to log concerns about students
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UPDATED 2024
In this first BACK TO SCHOOL bundle, you will find resources perfect for return to lessons and the new academic year.
This includes:
10 positive postcards; back and front and using motivational and rewarding quotes
2 x sets of ‘little inspiration cards’ to motivate and inspire both yourself and students
1 x colourful weekly desk organiser page
a CPD tracker for tracking your professional development and learning
a lesson plan and evaluation pro forma
4 assessment for learning plenaries
a class tracker including sheets for class data,
detentions, assessment, interventions and homework
10 colourful classroom labels for your storage and trays
a set of ice breaker activities for meeting new groups on your timetable
a 6 page PDF of guidance for meeting a new group
a bank of 60 easy use plenaries
a reward stamper for positive student behaviour
a success lesson for setting expectations
a guide to making your own reward scratch cards to use in your lessons
3 x PDFs of collated links to free CPD opportunities ready to help you develop professionally!
1 x loyalty stamper to use with student attending interventions/extra support
This bundle is a collection of very popular resources which I have collated over the three times I have completed transition as a Head of Year. These have all recently been re-vamped!
The bundle includes:
• 1 x word document containing details of the plans for the induction day
• 1 x PPT for the ‘writing task’ on abandoned places; this provides a baseline for teachers in terms of writing and helps form tutors get a feel for the ability of students
• 1 x learning mat to match the writing task on abandoned places
• 1 x student transition booklet which students can be issued with during form time to help aid transition
• 1 x instructions for using the ‘shields’ or coat of arms; these are used during form time to help students bond and create a sense of community in their forms
• 1 x shield templates
• 1 x tour quiz for students to complete as they have their tour around school
• 1 x PPT for tutors to deliver in their first interactions with students
• 1 x over 15 ice breaker activities which can be used with forms
• 1 x student panel question to gather feedback from transition
• 1 x PPT for your first assembly with Year 7
•1 x transition rewards assembly
• 1 ‘design your own school’ form time for tutors to deliver or could be used as part of transition
In this bundle you will find different resources to help you monitor and improve attendance.
This is a comprehensive attendance bundle which contains many of the resources any Head of Year would need to track and improve attendance.
A tracking and intervention spreadsheet - this conditionally formatted spreadsheet allows you to track your year group attendance weekly and allows you to track your interventions also.
Attendance interview template - this is a template for used in a school attendance panel or similar meeting and is helpful to identify any concerns as well as formalise the process of monitoring attendance
6 week monitoring card - this is a card which can be printed and handed to students, or stuck into homework diaries etc, this is designed to be completed weekly with attendance and can be used to monitor the 6 week improvement period of students below thresholds of your choice (90/95 etc).
Attendance improvement plan - this an example improvement plan for heads of year to use when trying to target attendance. It provides strategies and priorities for focus - much like a year group improvement plan, but just so attendance.
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This bundle includes 5 assemblies centred around kindness, anti bullying and supporting others.
The assemblies included are:
anti bullying assembly
charity awareness assembly
random acts of kindness assembly
a rumours and gossiping assembly
confidence and self esteem assembly
These are perfect for anti bullying week or use spaced throughout the year.
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In this bundle you will find 8 form time resources which contain over 60 different form activities/resources.
This includes literacy and numeracy tasks, mindset and attitudes sessions as well learning to learn sessions, sessions on organisational skills and designing your own school as well as sessions on what makes a great learner.
Specifically this bundle includes:
A ‘what makes a great learner?’ which explores growth mindset and how to learn at your best
20 SPag activity tasks which can be used in form time
A successful school session exploring what makes a great school and expectations of learners
A form time numeracy challenge which includes 8 weeks of numeracy content
A pastoral form time booklet with 34 different form time tasks
A 20 page literacy booklet which can be used in form time
Sessions on learning to learn including a focus on memory and organisation
12 weekly spelling tests
a growth mindset form time
content for 10 literacy based sessions for form time including spelling tests
Perfect for form times!
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This resource was created for KS4 students - specifically those getting ready for mocks or final exams.
The session focuses on challenging myths and misconceptions about revision. Each task centres around dispelling different myths and references a paralymic sportsman to encourage students to reflect on the myths they use to tell themselves they can’t revise effectively.
This resource also looks at ‘the curve of forgetting’ and the importance of staged revision. It also explores revision environment, challenges the perception that students don’t need to plan revision, and the ideas of ‘highlighting notes’ counting as revision. Finally, it asks students to review their learning and create a plan for how to ‘target’ their revision. It also has an extension task to create a success criteria for revising.
This powerpoint also comes with a learning mat which can be used in the sessions. Perfect for an isolated lessons on revision.
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This resource includes three sessions on learning to learn skills including:
-Memory and planning skills
-Organisational skills
-Growth mindset and resilience skills
This is great for use during form time or PSHE skills.
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This resource includes an assembly or form time on consequence and responsibility - actions and choices.
This assembly includes a focus on:
a linking image starter task to think about consequence
situations in which there are actions and consequences
a discussion of the meaning of consequence - explicitly drawing on Newton’s Third Law, Butterfly Effect Theory and looking a the concept of karma.
the teenager brain and its understanding of consequences
responsibilities of students within school
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In this resource, you will find an assembly or form time on mindset and attitude.
This session begins with a discussion about new beginnings and the importance of getting a new beginning every day.
This then slides into the discussion around mindset changing outcomes and includes a link to a youtube clip which demonstrates the power of a positive mindset.
This follows into 6 steps or actions you can take to create or move toward a positive mindset.
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In this bundle, you will find 13 resources designed to help inspire and motivate students.
This resource includes:
2 x sessions/form times on growth mindset and how tackle challenges
an anxiety worksheet
emotional worksheet
confidence worksheet
confidence and self esteem assembly
3 sets of inspiration cards
a set of positive thinking posters
random act of kindness assembly
positive thinking and mindset/new beginnings assembly
charity/kindness awareness assembly
This is a bundle of resources for a Head or Head of House.
This is the 2nd half of bundle 1.
Bundle 1 can be found: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/head-of-year-head-of-house-pastoral-bundle-1-12396619.
These are different bundles and contain different resources. This means you can buy both bundles for a complete set of resources or can buy which ever of the two is best suited for your needs.
This second bundle includes:
staff reflection activities for use at the end of terms/half terms
attendance tracking documents
attendance interview template for interviewing students with poor attendance
an informal and formal behaviour contract (2 resources)
anxiety and worry worksheet
behaviour reflection worksheet
behaviour improvement plan template for individual students
head of year certificates for use in assemblies
3 sets of positive thinking cards
venn diagrams to help understand your year group
student led reflection progress sheet to prepare for parents’ evenings
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This is a massive bundle of resources for a Head or Head of House.
This is bundle 1 of 2.
Bundle 2 can be found: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/head-of-year-head-of-house-pastoral-bundle-2-12396623.
Please note: these are different bundles and contain different resources. This means you can buy both bundles for a complete or can buy which ever of the two is best suited for your needs.
This first bundle includes:
7 form time sessions including on growth mindset, organisational skills, creating your own school, what a successful school and great learners might look like
2 literacy/numeracy tasks/challenges for form time and 1 30 page literacy booklet
8 assemblies ready to use assemblies on: charity, rumours and gossiping, random acts of kindness, raising aspiration, the danger of violence in schools, LGBT, technology awarness, confidence and self esteem
2 PDFs ‘40 Ideas for Heads of Year’ on attendance, rewards, behaviour, leading your team and working with external partners
Remember: you can find bundle 2 here: www.tes.com/teaching-resource/head-of-year-head-of-house-pastoral-bundle-2-12396623
This attendance bundle includes four resources:
a detailed tracking excel document for logging attendance % and any interventions - this is conditionally formatted and ready for use!
a interview template to support an attendance action plan - this includes working with parents
a 6 week attendance monitoring card for students
A larger bundle of attendance resources can be found: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/attendance-bundle-attendance-tracking-improving-attendance-12440824
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This resource is an attendance interview/action plan template.
It includes space for student/parent and staff to discuss attendance issues and space to write up agreed short and long term strategies.
It also includes space for three final targets and a space to review targets.
It also contains space to write current attendance, previously used interventions and a space for parent/staff/student signatures.
Great as a part of an intervention for poor attendance.
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In this resource you will find ready to use ‘concern cards’. These are cards which can be used by staff and by students to ‘log’ concerns with form tutors or heads of year.
Cards can be kept in a space outside an office alongside a lockable box or safe space.
Students or staff can then complete the cards to refer a concern.
These are then picked up by head of year and they decide who can deal with the concern.
These can be used by staff or students to refer other pupils or by pupils to self refer.
These have been used successfully and with impact.
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In this bundle you will find resources which will be useful form tutors and for form time.
This bundle includes:
FORM ACTIVITIES:
a powerpoint of an 8 week numeracy challenge
a powerpoint of 20 literacy form time activities
2 literacy booklets with over 60 pages of literacy activities
a growth mindset form time
an organisation skills development form time
a form time/lesson on success and how to start the year right
a document full of ice breaker activities to get to know your form/class
INSPIRATION ACTIVITIES:
a behaviour contract - for targeting those key students early!
Set 1, 2 and 3 of my ‘Little Inspiration Cards’ - these are perfect for printing and handing to students to inspire them throughout the day
100 lesson behaviour challenge to get your form started right!
EMOTIONAL WELLBEING:
a self esteem check in board
an anxiety check in board
an emotional check in board
…all 3 perfect for targeting students emotional well being and encouraging them to reflect on their emotions as we return to school.
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In this bundle, you will find four reflection worksheets.
These are focused on four different areas:
emotional check in
self esteem improvement
anxiety improvement
behaviour reflection
All of these boards were created to help students self regulate their emotions and to become aware of their thoughts and feelings.
All of them seek to challenge negative thoughts and to help adults supporting students gain a better understanding of student feelings as well as students gaining a better understanding of themselves.
All of these have been designed using research in the specific area and pull on research to ensure tasks are appropriate and effective.
At £4 - these sheets work out at just £1 each.
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This worksheet is designed to be used with students to help them reflect on their anxiety and to manage feelings of anxiety also.
The tasks are not designed to be completed in any specific order. Students may complete in whatever order they like.
This works well with my other ‘check in’ boards on emotional wellbeing and self esteem. These can be found in my TES shop.
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