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.
Due to hold an English moderation meeting? Needing to organise it all yourself?
Utilise these Primary English Moderation year group templates to support the process and your colleagues when assessing pupils work. Also included is an action plan for completion after the moderation process, so as subject leader, English coordinator or a senior leader, you can think about the next steps for writing going forward, which will feed into the whole school improvement plan (SIP) and English subject development plan.
These two fully editable word document resources are suitable for English leads, curriculum coordinators and senior leaders.
Our full Primary English Writing Moderation Pack can be found for £10 on our website Honeyguide SLS.
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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.
This pack is available for £10 on our website Honeyguide SLS.
A full guidance pack about how to run a primary writing moderation staff meeting, including the steps that an English subject leader or a curriculum leader could take to successfully plan the meeting. This will help you to organise your thoughts, including how to communicate exactly what staff need to bring and how to organise the paperwork you’ll need so there’s no last minute rushing required!
The guidance and resources are built on the KS1 and KS2 teacher assessment framework for pupils in year 2 and 6 respectively, allowing staff to work through each writing moderation checklist and moderate judgements for the teacher assessment data they’ll need to submit.
For teachers in other year groups, there are moderation statements built from the programme of study in the English national curriculum so staff can moderate their assessment judgements but also look for gaps in learning within each key stage in order to support their lesson planning.
This pack is suitable for English subject leaders, curriculum leaders or those with responsibility for assessment or the quality of education will benefit from this pack to give them head space when planning out vital moderation meetings across the year. Senior leaders and headteachers will also find it useful to support new English subject leaders in running their first moderation meeting.
Key questions answered:
What is moderation?
What is a moderation meeting?
How is the local authority involved in writing moderation?
Why is moderation important?
What role do subject or curriculum leaders play in moderation?
When is the best time to do writing moderation?
How does moderation work for different year groups in a primary setting?
What do I need to do when planning a moderation meeting?
What should I do during the moderation meeting?
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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 to explore the primary writing, SPAG and spoken language in-depth and build confidence about an upcoming English Deep Dive? Tailored for primary English subject leaders, this bundle helps you to consider intent, implementation and impact questions when exploring writing and its components, 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:
Writing, SPAG and Spoken Language Deep Dive and Subject Evaluation Audit (Primary) - over 100 deep dive questions about all aspects of primary writing and spoken language to ask stakeholders, including senior leaders, subject leaders, teachers and pupils. As a subject leader of English, writing or oracy, you can utilise these to reflect on the current picture of writing and spoken language in your school and explore specific areas further when listening to staff and pupil voice. Many literacy subject leads find it useful to practise them with other leaders to build their own confidence in preparation for a English Ofsted deep dive.
Writing, SPAG and Spoken Language Subject Knowledge Question Bank - content-specific questions for spoken language, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation (SPAG) covering EYFS, KS1 and KS2 . They’re ideal if you’re wanting to explore the finer details of staff members’ English writing subject knowledge.
Deep Dive Process Overview - use this to structure your internal deep dive in writing, 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 writing or GPS sessons and looking through work or folders.
Whether you have an Ofsted inspection due or not, conducting an internal deep dive can help you to identify your subject’s strengths and weaknesses. Use it as a collaborative process that can support other staff members to develop and use your findings to report back to SLT, governors or trustees as part of your curriculum quality assurance.
This pack is available on our website for £12.50.
You can find more curriculum resources by visiting Honeyguide SLS
This Improving Literacy in Secondary - Audit Template Bundle contains two editable templates that allow you to audit your literacy provision in a secondary school setting by using EEF recommendations on improving literacy. It’s ideal if you know literacy development needs to take place because it’s stopping your pupils from reaching their full potential, and the bundle allows you to audit your current strengths and weaknesses, including how reading, writing and other literacy skills can be taught through the full range of curriculum subjects that your school teaches.
The templates included in this bundle are:
Improving Literacy in Secondary Schools - Audit - explore disciplinary literacy, vocabulary, reading, writing, structured talk and interventions across your setting with this audit. (23-page document)
Disciplinary Literacy - Audit - dig deeper in disciplinary literacy and how staff from different departments support the teaching of literacy through their subject specialisms. Duplicate and disseminate the audit to different subject teams, allowing them to consider how effectively they currently support your school’s endeavours to improve literacy. (3-page document)
The Improving Literacy audit contains the EEF recommendations, split into handy, digestible sections so you can work through the audit at a pace to suit your school and your capacity. There are questions you may wish to ask staff for each section, as well as the specialised audit on disciplinary literacy, allowing you to RAG-rate your current position and identify next steps. The bundle is ideal for any leader in secondary with responsibility for improving literacy, reading and writing, raising standards and pupil outcomes, or curriculum improvement leaders. Those with responsibility for pupils interventions, tutoring or catch-up may also find this pack supportive.
In secondary schools, the challenge of improving pupil literacy exists beyond just the subject of English, but how can secondary teachers with other subject specialisms be supported to see literacy as being integral to students’ learning? This bundle, created from EEF literacy research, is designed to help those with responsibility for raising standards in literacy in secondary schools to identify their setting’s current strengths and weaknesses in reading, writing, speaking and listening across the breadth of all subjects. From this, an action plan can be created to develop staff skills in supporting pupils with literacy needs no matter what subject is being taught.
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Literacy audit for Reception and EYFS provisions. Literacy audit only.
The comprehensive EYFS deep dive and audit pack can be found on our website Honeyguide SLS for £17.50.
Looking to explore the primary Reading and Phonics in-depth and build confidence about an upcoming Reading Deep Dive? Tailored for primary English subject leaders, this bundle helps you to consider intent, implementation and impact questions when exploring reading and phonics, 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:
Reading and Phonics Deep Dive and Subject Evaluation Audit (Primary) - over 100 deep dive questions about both reading and phonics to ask stakeholders, including senior leaders, subject leaders, teachers and pupils. As a subject leader of English, reading or phonics, you can utilise these to reflect on the current picture of reading and phonics in your school and explore specific areas further when listening to staff and pupil voice. Many literacy subject leads find it useful to practise them with other leaders to build their own confidence in preparation for a Reading Ofsted deep dive.
Reading and Phonics Subject Knowledge Question Bank - content-specific questions for both reading and phonics covering EYFS, KS1 and KS2 . They’re ideal if you’re wanting to explore the finer details of staff members’ reading and phonics subject knowledge.
Deep Dive Process Overview - use this to structure your internal deep dive in early reading and phonics, 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 reading or phonics sessons, listening to pupils read and looking through work or folders.
Whether you have an Ofsted inspection due or not, conducting an internal deep dive can help you to identify your subject’s strengths and weaknesses. Use it as a collaborative process that can support other staff members to develop and use your findings to report back to SLT, governors or trustees as part of your curriculum quality assurance.
This pack is available on our website for £12.50.
You can find more curriculum resources by visiting honeyguide-sls.co.uk
This Literacy Interventions - Audit Template Bundle contains three editable templates that allow you to audit and analyse the effectiveness of your current provision to support pupils struggling with literacy, including reading, writing and phonics.
The templates included in this bundle are:
Intervention and Provision Mapping in Literacy - this audit is broken into three sections - writing, reading and phonics - and covers a myriad of possible strategies for supporting pupils, either through quality first teaching, targeted support or group work. It allows you to audit your current offering for pupils who need extra support and make a plan of action for any identified gaps. (25-page document)
Supporting Struggling Readers in Primary Schools Audit - focused specifically on struggling readers, this template allows you to audit the leadership of reading, identification of gaps, CPD, monitoring and information sharing, and pupil voice. (12-page document)
Supporting Struggling Readers in Secondary Schools Audit - covering the same areas as the primary-based audit, this document allows secondary leaders to explore how struggling readers are identified and supported from year 7 onwards as part of a whole-school approach. (12-page document)
Some pupils find reading and writing challenging, and this can be down to a multitude of reasons. If you’re looking to investigate how to support struggling readers and writers, this bundle will support you - it contains audit-style questions for you to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of your current provision, allowing you to create an action plan to help pupils who need the most support.
This bundle is available on our website honeyguide-sls.co.uk for £7.50
Due to hold an English moderation meeting? Needing to organise it all yourself?
Utilise this English moderation meeting checklist to ensure you have thought of everything you need to, and our email template so that you can inform colleagues of everything they will need to bring with them in good time.
These two fully editable word document resources are suitable for English leads, curriculum coordinators and senior leaders.
Our full Primary English Writing Moderation Pack can be found for £10 on our website Honeyguide SLS.
For more information, visit Honeyguide SLS.
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 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
This Improving Literacy Across Your Setting Bundle contains four editable templates and five beautiful posters that allow you to audit and monitor your reading provision in order to build a strong culture of reading. It’s ideal if you’re a more experienced literacy lead who already understands The Reading Framework guidance, and you just want to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of reading across your setting. While much of the bundle links to teaching in a primary setting (because this is where children learn the skills of reading), it’s also applicable to secondaries and those looking to understand how reading is taught in primary so they can support their secondary students who need help with their reading, phonics, fluency and comprehension.
The templates included in this bundle are:
The Reading Framework - Audit - use this to explore key recommendations in each section of The Reading Framework, including language comprehension, phonics, reading fluency, book stock, reading for pleasure, reading across the curriculum, teaching reading, assessments, intervention, reading in secondaries, staff understanding and more. (46-page document)
Paired Talk - Monitoring Template - A simple but effective template that gives you prompts on what to look for when observing paired talk between pupils and how this support language development to aid reading. (1-page document)
Staff Reading Aloud - Monitoring Template - use this handy template to see how effectively staff use story time and other read aloud sessions to model reading skills and promote a love of reading. (1-page document)
Using Talk to Support Childrens Thinking - Monitoring Template - this quick-and-simple template gives you prompts to look for when observing adult-child interactions that help to develop a pupil’s language comprehension (1-page document)
If you’ve identified that improving standards in Reading across your setting is a priority, this bundle is here to support you. Created from the DfE’s key documents, The Reading Framework, it allows you to audit your current provision across all disciplines of reading, including language comprehension, phonics, reading fluency, book stock, reading for pleasure, reading across the curriculum, teaching reading, assessments, intervention and more.
Available at honeyguide-sls.co.uk for £7.50
This Improving Literacy in Primary - Audit Template Bundle contains three editable templates that allow you to audit your literacy provision in a primary school setting by using EEF recommendations on improving literacy. It’s ideal if you’re a more experienced literacy lead who already understands the EEF research into literacy, and you just want to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of reading, writing, phonics, spelling, transciption and language comprehension across your setting.
The templates included in this bundle are:
Preparing for Literacy (EYFS) - Audit - explore communication and language, early reading and writing, and how to audit literacy in the early years, including for pre-school and nursery-aged children. (12-page document)
Improving Literacy in KS1 - Audit - analyse your strengths and development points in KS1 literacy, including speaking and listening, phonics, reading comprehension, writing composition, transcription and spelling, assessments, and intervention. (21-page document)
Improving Literacy in KS2 - Audit - use this to explore your KS2 literacy provision, including language, reading fluency, reading comprehension, writing composition, transcription, sentence construction, assessment, and interventions. (24-page document)
Each template contains the EEF recommendations, split into handy, digestible sections so you can work through the audit at a pace to suit your school and your capacity. There are suggestions of what each recommendation could be look like in practice plus questions you may wish to ask staff, allowing you to RAG-rate your current position and identify next steps. The three documents are all set up with this structure, allowing consistency across your setting, so it’s ideal for English subject leads, literacy leaders, curriculum leaders or anyone with responsibility for writing, reading, phonics and spoken language.
If you’re wondering about the provision your setting offers in literacy, including your current strengths and weakenesses, this bundle is ideal to take the first step in exploring your pupils’ experiences of reading, writing, phonics, spoken language and more. Created from EEF literacy research and recommendations, these helpful documents allow you to RAG rate your provision and identify steps for improvement.
More available at Honeyguide-SLS website.
Looking to improve literacy across your setting? This comprehensive pack includes full guidance underpinned by EEF research, the DfE’s The Reading Framework, and key Ofsted commentary, which will support any school leader to understand how literacy improvement can be achieved across different literacy disciplines. It also contains 13 editable templates so you can audit your provision and find your strengths and weaknesses, allowing for long-term improvement for the benefit of every pupil.
A huge pack containing full guidance, 13 editable temples and 5 stunning, printable posters to support you in improving literacy in your setting.
The audit templates are comprehensive, utilising recommendations from EEF research in literacy in the early years, KS1, KS2 and secondary settings as well as the guidance in The Reading Framework from the DfE. The huge amount of content in these audits gives you flexibility in their use, such as distributing them amongst your SLT to gather a range of views so you can compare and contrast multiple assessment of your current strengths and development points. Alternatively, you can utilise an audit at the start of your improvement process, then use one of the other audit documents later down the line, providing you with a fresh perspective on continual improvement. However you choose to use them, there’s enough depth within the templates to ensure this pack can be used over a long period of time, which will help any schools experiencing steadily reducing budgets.
The posters in this pack (which also have low-colour, print friendly version) are ideal for displaying to boost the profile of reading in your school. The Gradual Release of Responsibility Model, The Simple View of Reading and the Word Reading and Spelling - A Reversible Process posters can all be displayed to prompt, remind and upskill staff about the theory and concepts that underpin teaching pupils to read. The Building Our Reading Culture poster is a great way to build and encourage a shared love of reading across your whole setting and the Reading To Your Child - Parent Information poster will help parents and families to understand the importance and joy of reading with children at home.
If you know that you need to improve literacy in your setting, this pack will help you to find a starting point and keep building upon each and every development you make, meaning your pupils can go into the next phase of their education, employment or training with the literacy skills they need to thrive.
More available on our website at honeyguide-sls.co.uk
Looking to explore multiple subjects in your setting with a consistent approach? Wanting to quality assure learning in different subjects and build your subject leaders’ skills in monitoring and improvement? Tailored for heads, trust leads, senior leaders and those with responsibility for their school’s curriculum, this massive set of deep dive audits for every subject will help you to consider intent, implementation and impact questions across the breadth of your entire curriculum, allowing you to plan for improvement and (if you feel you need to) prepare for Ofsted.
Deep Dive and Subject Evaluation Audit templates for every subject - there are over 100 deep dive questions in each individual audit document, allowing you to explore the facets of each curriculum subject based on your setting’s current needs. You can use these to conduct a deep dive yourself, share responsibility amongst your team or work with individual subject leaders, providing them with a brilliant CPD opportunity to learn about subject monitoring and what happens in an Ofsted deep dive. The subjects covered are:
English
Maths
Science
Art and Design
Citizenship (secondary only)
Computing
Design and Technology
Geography
History
Languages
Music
PE
PSHE, RSHE and RSE
RE
Subject Knowledge Question Banks
Deep Dive Process Overview
Deep Dive Evidence Exploration
Conducting a Deep Dive Guidance Document
Available on our website for £135 Honeyguide SLS
Looking to explore multiple subjects in your setting with a consistent approach? Wanting to quality assure learning in different subjects and build your subject leaders’ skills in monitoring and improvement? Tailored for heads, trust leads, senior leaders and those with responsibility for their school’s curriculum, this massive set of deep dive audits for every subject will help you to consider intent, implementation and impact questions across the breadth of your entire curriculum, allowing you to plan for improvement and (if you feel you need to) prepare for Ofsted.
Deep Dive and Subject Evaluation Audit templates for every subject - there are over 100 deep dive questions in each individual audit document, allowing you to explore the facets of each curriculum subject based on your setting’s current needs. You can use these to conduct a deep dive yourself, share responsibility amongst your team or work with individual subject leaders, providing them with a brilliant CPD opportunity to learn about subject monitoring and what happens in an Ofsted deep dive.
Available on our website for £135 Honeyguide SLS
Looking to explore multiple subjects in your setting with a consistent approach? Wanting to quality assure learning in different subjects and build your subject leaders’ skills in monitoring and improvement? Tailored for heads, trust leads, senior leaders and those with responsibility for their school’s curriculum, this massive set of deep dive audits for every subject will help you to consider intent, implementation and impact questions across the breadth of your entire curriculum, allowing you to plan for improvement and (if you feel you need to) prepare for Ofsted.
Deep Dive and Subject Evaluation Audit templates for every subject - there are over 100 deep dive questions in each individual audit document, allowing you to explore the facets of each curriculum subject based on your setting’s current needs. You can use these to conduct a deep dive yourself, share responsibility amongst your team or work with individual subject leaders, providing them with a brilliant CPD opportunity to learn about subject monitoring and what happens in an Ofsted deep dive.
Available on our website for £135 Honeyguide SLS