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 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 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
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
Looking to recruit a new attendance co-ordinator? If you’re wondering what tasks to set and what interview questions to ask a prospective attendance lead to recruit the right candidate for your school, this Attendance Co-ordinator Interview Pack can support you throughout the entire process, from advertising to employment.
Included in this attendance co-ordinator interview pack are two different editable interview tasks plus a wide variety of example interview questions and answers so you can find a brilliant attendance manager for your school. The job description and person specification for will also support you in advertising for a new attendance lead so you attract the right candidates. Use these, alongside the interview tasks and attendance coordinator interview questions to create a recruitment package that’s tailored to exactly what your school is looking for in a new attendance co-ordinator.
While the pack is tailored towards appointing a new attendance co-ordinator, lead or champion, it can be used to support the recruitment process for any roles that focus on monitoring and improving school attendance, including school attendance officer, attendance coordinator, attendance manager, attendance lead or any other roles, such as an assistant head, DSL or pastoral lead who also holds responsibility for attendance.
Further interview resources can be found on our website, honeyguide-sls.co.uk
Safeguarding CPD for staff. Train staff on spotting the signs and indicators of sextortion with this flexible safeguarding training pack. With a ready-made presentation to deliver to your staff team, an accompanying safeguarding scenario on sextortion, quiz questions and answers, a discussion prompt and a one-minute guide to send and display, this whole pack works seamlessly to train staff in safeguarding and keeping children safe.
Created from the latest guidance for education settings on sharing nudes and semi-nudes and to support schools to embed the advice made in the Financially motivated sexual extortion: an alert for education settings from CEOP, this helpful bundle contains four resources that work together to create a full training package about safeguarding and sextortion. You can use it to train your team on what sextortion is, what the signs and indicators are and how you can best support your students in response to this rapidly increasing threat to children’s safety. The bundle contains:
Staff Training Presentation - Sextortion: A ready-to-deliver 20-slide PowerPoint presentation that outlines what sextortion is alongside its signs and indicators, followed by slides that allow staff to consider and discuss what puts pupils at greater risk, other factors to be aware of and what actions they should take. The presentation has built in discussion questions and finishes with a scenario and quiz to check staff understanding about sextortion.
Scenario - Sextortion: An editable scenario that outlines a fictional situation where child sexual extortion (sextortion) is occurring. It also includes full commentary and guided considerations for the DSL or staff member leading the child protection training. Use it to gauge how effectively staff can identify the signs of abuse as well as how they’d respond in a real-life context, including further actions they’d take.
Quiz and Discussion - Sextortion: There are five challenging multiple choice quiz questions that test your staff members’ understanding of sextortion, plus a discussion prompt that can be used to kickstart your training session or as a follow-up question a few weeks later.
Safeguarding Snapshot - Sextortion: This one-page, one-minute guide is perfect for following up the session by using as a training handout, displaying in your staff-only spaces or sending as part of a safeguarding e-bulletin.
Further safeguarding training CPD resources can be found on our website, honeyguide-sls.co.uk
Keep your staff updated with this easy-to-use staff training bundle.
Train staff on spotting the signs and indicators of emotional abuse with this flexible safeguarding training pack. With a ready-made presentation to deliver to staff, two accompanying safeguarding scenarios on emotional abuse, quiz questions, a discussion prompt and a one-minute guide to send and display, this whole pack works seamlessly to train staff in safeguarding and keeping children safe.
Created from content in KCSIE 2023, this helpful bundle contains four resources that work together to create a full training package about safeguarding and emotional abuse
Staff Training Presentation - Emotional Abuse: A ready-to-deliver 21-slide PowerPoint presentation that outlines the signs and indicators of emotional abuse, followed by slides that allow staff to consider and discuss what puts pupils at greater risk, other factors to be aware of and what actions they should take. The presentation has built in discussion questions and finishes with the choice of two scenarios and a quiz to check staff understanding about emotional abuse.
Scenario - Emotional Abuse (Mistreatment, Language and Bullying) / Emotional Abuse (Restrictive Parenting): Two editable scenarios that outline fictional situations where emotional abuse is occurring. It also includes full commentary and guided considerations for the DSL or staff member leading the child protection training. Use them to gauge how effectively staff can identify the signs of abuse as well as how they’d respond in a real-life context, including further actions they’d take.
Quiz and Discussion - Emotional Abuse: There are five challenging multiple choice quiz questions that test your staff members’ understanding of emotional abuse, plus a discussion prompt that can be used to kickstart your training session or as a follow-up question a few weeks later.
Safeguarding Snapshot - Emotional Abuse: This one-page, one-minute guide is perfect for following up the session by using as a training handout, displaying in your staff-only spaces or sending as part of a safeguarding e-bulletin.
More safeguarding training resources can be found on our website, honeyguide-sls.co.uk
Train staff on spotting the signs and indicators of neglect with this flexible safeguarding training pack. With a ready-made presentation to deliver to staff, two accompanying safeguarding scenarios on neglect, quiz questions, a discussion prompt and a one-minute guide to send and display, this whole pack works seamlessly to train staff in safeguarding and keeping children safe.
Created from content in KCSIE 2023, this helpful bundle contains four resources that work together to create a full training package about safeguarding and neglect.
Staff Training Presentation - Neglect: A ready-to-deliver 24-slide PowerPoint presentation that outlines the signs and indicators of neglect, followed by slides that allow staff to consider and discuss what puts pupils at greater risk, other factors to be aware of and what actions they should take. The presentation has built in discussion questions and finishes with the choice of two scenarios and a quiz to check staff understanding about neglect.
Scenario - Neglect: Two editable scenarios that outlines fictional situations where neglect is occurring. They also include full commentary and guided considerations for the DSL or staff member leading the child protection training. Use them to gauge how effectively staff can identify the signs of abuse as well as how they’d respond in a real-life context, including further actions they’d take.
Quiz and Discussion - Neglect: There are five challenging multiple choice quiz questions that test your staff members’ understanding of neglect, plus a discussion prompt that can be used to kickstart your training session or as a follow-up question a few weeks later.
Safeguarding Snapshot - Neglect: This one-page, one-minute guide is perfect for following up the session by using as a training handout, displaying in your staff-only spaces or sending as part of a safeguarding e-bulletin.
Looking to recruit a new midday supervisor or wrap-around care assistant? If you’re wondering what tasks to set and interview questions to ask in order to recruit the right candidate for your school, this Midday and Wrap-Around Care Interview Pack can support you plan the interview day.
Included in this midday and wrap-around care 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 lunchtime supervisor or wrap-around care worker for your school. The job description and person specification for will also support you in advertising for a new meal time assistant (MTA) or breakfast and after-school club (BASC) staff member so you attract the right candidates. Use these, alongside the interview tasks and midday and wrap-around care assistant interview questions to create a recruitment package that’s tailored to exactly what your school is looking for in a new MTA or BASC staff member.
While the pack is tailored towards appointing a new midday supervisor or wrap-around care assistant, it can be used to support the recruitment process for any role like this that involves supervising children in a school setting, including lunchtime assistant, midday activity assistants, lunchtime supervisor, ‘dinner lady’, meal time assistant, MTA, breakfast club supervisor, after schol club supervisor or any role similar to these.
Looking to recruit a new EYFS practitioner, such as a pre-school assistant, nursery assistant or an EYFS teaching assistant? If you’re considering what questions to ask at interview to recruit the right person for your school or what tasks you can set to allow the candidate to show their skills and understanding about the early years, this EYFS practitioner Interview Pack can support you to plan an interview day.
Included in this EYFS practitioner interview pack are two different editable interview tasks plus a wide variety of example interview questions and answers so you can find a brilliant pre-school worker, EYFS teaching assistant or nursery nurse for your school. The job description and person specification for will also support you in advertising for a new early years foundation stage practitioner so you attract the right candidates. Use these, alongside the interview tasks and EYFS practitioner interview questions to create a recruitment package that’s tailored to exactly what your school is looking for in a new member of support staff who works in the EYFS.
While the pack is tailored towards appointing a new EYFS practitioner, it can be used to support the recruitment process for any EYFS support roles, including nursery assistant, pre-school assistant, early years LSA, nursery nurse, pre-school teaching assistant or any similar role where the candidate will be supporting the teaching, learning and development of children aged 0-5.
More interview resources can be found on our website, honeyguide-sls.co.uk