I am an assistant head who has over 10 years teaching experience. I have created resources to support you with your own wellbeing and to help you manage a healthy work-life balance so that you can focus on your class. You will find a variety of lessons and templates to support your year group as well as the whole school. I hope you enjoy these well designed sessions.
I am an assistant head who has over 10 years teaching experience. I have created resources to support you with your own wellbeing and to help you manage a healthy work-life balance so that you can focus on your class. You will find a variety of lessons and templates to support your year group as well as the whole school. I hope you enjoy these well designed sessions.
Have you ever been ill and had supply cover you short notice? Have you ever worried that someone has covered you and not known anything about the school or children? Don’t fear, this helpful resource will ensure that anyone who takes your class has all the information they need!
A clear and concise resource that identifies:
Who SLT are
School timetable
Plan of the building
General information
Health and safety (fire points etc)
Essential medical information
Essential SEN and behaviour information
Feedback of the day - chance for the supply to share how the day went.
Feel free to review my resource!
You might also like my inexpensive transition booklet:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/transition-booklet-to-support-moving-year-groups-13012509
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Five essential resources for improving your own and your school’s behaviour management:
1) Behaviour Rota - Make sure it is clear which member of SLT is on duty for reflection time. This will reduce the anxiety of teachers and pupils as they will know exactly what room to go to and who will be working with them.
2) Behaviour Tracker - For SLT to log behaviour concerns of children who have been in missed play 3x. Keep track of those children who are regularly attending so that you can put in place a behaviour strategy form and involve the parents.
3) Reflection Time Slips - For teachers to give their children to take to reflection time. This will allow the SLT member to clearly identify what happened - think about how many children have ever said to you, “I’m not sure what I’ve done.” This will certainly prevent this happening!
4) Reflection Time Response - Remember: children aren’t sent to reflection time to be told off but to discuss and reflect on their actions when they are calm and ready to explain. There is usually a reason children will act out, so this is the time where they can express their own needs and reflect on what went wrong.
5) ABC chart - Keep track of children who display behaviour issues, can you spot any recurring triggers? You will often find there is a specific time or lesson that triggers specific responses.
You may also find my Wave 1 strategy sheet for SEND pupils beneficial:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wave-1-strategy-sheet-tracker-for-send-pupils-with-plan-do-review-supporting-sheet-13012052
You can find more free and inexpensive resources at my shop:
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All you need to run a smooth training session to all staff members. It includes CPD slides, assessment guidance, warm up activity examples as well as effective art pedagogies.
Each resource is ready to go, to be shared with your staff members: bright, engaging and clear.
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This is a complete set of end points for every subject for each primary year group. It uses the national curriculum statements to pin point what each child should know in each strand by the end of each year. All ready to go with statements clearly organised and tracked through.
Download these to save yourself time setting up progression documents. Great to use alongside case studies when talking to OFSTED. Build up your confidence and make sure you can boast about how each subject progresses at your school.
All reviews welcome.
If you like these, may also find the following resource useful:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/subject-leadership-monitoring-forms-evaluation-schedule-and-supporting-questions-13012343
For PSHE and PD specialists that follow the Jigsaw scheme of work. Here is an editable and visual curriculum road map/pathway for each year group and each jigsaw piece:
Being Me in My World
Celebrating Differences
Dreams and Goals
Healthy Me
Relationships and Changing Me
OFSTED love it as a visual resource for staff, children and visitors to quickly see the path of the curriculum and how it fits together and builds from one year groups to another. It is ready to go or you can edit it to add in any extra Personal Development strands that link to each piece.
Don’t forget to leave a postive review if you have found this useful and supportive!
You may also find my skills progression documents useful for other curriculum areas:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/foundation-curriculum-end-points-and-skills-progression-13012590
Or what about a subject leader resource pack, which includes pupil voice questionnaires as well as observations proformas: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/subject-leadership-monitoring-forms-evaluation-schedule-and-supporting-questions-13012343
Have you or your staff ever wondered what makes a good piece of art work? Have you ever found it difficult to assess a child’s art pieces?
Michelle Gaugy sums it up pretty nicely by saying: Every work of art has two primary elements: technical skill and creative imagination, which can be thought of as graph lines that meet somewhere.
Generally, we say that an artwork is “better” - the higher the meeting point is of these two elements for a particular work, that is, maximum imaginative skill combined with maximum technical skill gives the best art…mostly.
So on that note… here is some free guidance on how to support you and your staff in having the confidence to assess children’s art!
Reviews are welcomed.
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Schools, alongside parents, have a vital role in preparing children and young people to negotiate the challenges and opportunities of an increasingly complex world. Personal Development deals with real-life issues affecting our children, families and communities. It relates to the social, health and economic realities of their lives, experiences and attitudes including relationships. It supports students to be healthy (mentally and physically), safe (on and off line) and equip them to thrive in their relationships and careers.
Therefore, it essential that you map out the Personal Development curriculum so that it can provide all children with opportunities for them to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse community. Children should be encouraged to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community. The Personal Development Curriculum is integral to the development of children’s values in order for them to become positive citizens in an ever-changing community.
This Personal Development Plan is broken down into categories across each term, including British Values, Curriculum and Resources and Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development (SMSC), so that you can assess the quality of the provision your setting provides.
This resource is useful for teachers and senior leaders. This may also be a good tool to use with a link governor or the wider governing body. This plan covers all aspects of personal development as outlined in the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework (EIF).
This fully editable word document enables you to represent your setting most effectively.
For other great resources such as PSHE Road Maps follow this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/learning-journey-road-map-of-the-jigsaw-pshe-curriculum-13012606
Or if you’re interested in other subject spelist areas head here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/subject-leadership-monitoring-forms-evaluation-schedule-and-supporting-questions-13012343
This Wave 1 Strategy Tracker is to support your children who display SEND needs. It needs to be updated by the teacher to see what works for each child with an additional need. This tracker can be used to support teachers in using strategies for a range of needs, including: ASD, dyslexia, ADD and ADHD. It can also be used alongside applying for an EHCP, evidence for IEPs and as support for parents to give them reassurance in what is in place in school. As a supporting document, I have also attached a plan, do, review template to track each intervention that has been put into place.
Teachers should choose a few strategies from this form and review at regular intervals. If the child is not responding positively, then they will need to move to Wave 2 strategies.
Please find this helpful template for a rapid action plan (RAP). It covers all the things you need to map out staff meetings, teacher training, CPD and subject specialist time for your staff across each term. It can also help with tracking cover and supply teachers on days where your teachers will be out of class.
Enjoy this free resource and feel free to review.
If you like this, you may also find my personal development template helpful:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/personal-development-plan-including-british-values-and-smsc-13012821
You might also like my subject monitoring forms:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/subject-leadership-monitoring-forms-evaluation-schedule-and-supporting-questions-13012343
Check out my other resources and supportive documentation on my online shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise
This is a set of templates needed to complete your subject leadership monitoring. They can be used as they are or edited to make it more specialist for your subject and school. All ready to go with a suggested evaluation schedule, including when to complete monitoring, OFSTED supporting deep dive questions from training sessions and discussion prompts for middle leaders.
Download these to save yourself time setting up templates for:
Monitoring report
Questions for Pupil Interview
Subject Leader Progress Reports
Lesson Observation Proforma
Work Scrutiny Proforma – 2 templates
Action Plans
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**A simple, easy to use proforma to track your SLT meetings. **
Reviews welcome.
This goes hand in hand with my free rapid action template:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/rapid-improvement-plan-template-13010836
Alternatively, you might like my performance management/pupil progress resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pupil-progress-meeting-data-pack-analysis-13014100
or how about my Personal Development template:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/personal-development-plan-including-british-values-and-smsc-13012821
If your focus is on behaviour, you may like this resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/behaviour-concern-forms-and-reflection-time-slips-13014031
Relevant English pupil conferencing questions for primary school children but easily adaptable for secondary. Choose from over 60 deep and meaningful questions, clearly split into topics of these main areas:
General Lessons,
Assessment,
Reading,
Exercise Books,
SPAG,
Wellbeing
Each section have a summary box for the strengths and next steps for each area.
Be confident that when Ofsted arrive you can clearly discuss what the understand, what they can do and what the children are likely to say.
These questions could be adapted to other subjects easily.
All reviews welcome.
If you like this free resource, you may also enjoy my monitoing log:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/subject-leadership-overview-of-monitoring-log-13014821
or other subject specialist monitoring forms:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/subject-leadership-monitoring-forms-evaluation-schedule-and-supporting-questions-13012343
Here is a clear, concise overview template of all the subject monitoring you have completed across the year. They can be used as they are or edited to make it more specialist for your subject and school.
This would work perfectly alongside my in depth monitoring forms, which include:
Monitoring report
Questions for Pupil Interview
Subject Leader Progress Reports
Lesson Observation Proforma
Work Scrutiny Proforma – 2 templates
Action Plans
Take a look here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/subject-leadership-monitoring-forms-evaluation-schedule-and-supporting-questions-13012343
All reviews welcome.
Save time with this excel spread sheet, which RAG rates your children and colour codes them based on their test scores. It automatically tracks progress in scores across terms to show the value that has been added.
Clearly set out into Maths, Reading and SPAG, there is room to input:
All test scores
Raw scores
Scaled Scores
Value added
Pupil characteristics
Take a look at the photos of the resource to see an example!
If you like this resource, check out my SEN tracker - helpful for teachers, phase leaders and SLT:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wave-1-strategy-sheet-tracker-for-send-pupils-with-plan-do-review-supporting-sheet-13012052
You may also be interested in my writing assessment tools:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/writing-assessment-checklist-for-whole-school-13012758
Reviews welcomed.
This clear tool allows anyone - teacher, phase leader and SLT - to track the termly progress of pupils in every class/year group.
There are three data drops: Term 2, 4 and 6. This editable tracker is based off of using Target Tracker but is adaptable for any platform you use, even if it is you completing the tracking based off of test scores.
There are seven main sections:
TARGETS
PROGRESS AND CONVERSION RATES
ATTAINMENT
% at ARE
SPAG (Y6 Only)
DISADVANTAGED PUPILS
PUPIL PROGRESS MEETING
This useful and concise document will give you a clear summary of where your children are working at, who is making expected progress (or hopefully exceeding that), summaries of interventions, Pupil Premium, disadvantaged and SEN children.
With this great data pack you will clearly be able to identify children who have gaps and need to make accelerated progress. Go to your pupil progress meetings with all the knowledge you need about your children.
You may also like my handy, inexpensive excel spreadsheet to track scores of children’s tests scores: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/excel-sats-test-score-assessment-tracker-13013344
How about my writing assessment sheets for all years (currently part of a money saving bundle): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/writing-assessment-checklist-for-whole-school-13012758
Finally, you may like my speaking and listening assessment resources for the whole school: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/progressive-speaking-and-listening-assessment-tools-for-whole-school-13012777
Reviews are welcomed.
A useful document to support teachers in having a succinct method and practice of teaching. Here are 10 Pedagogy principles relating to art and quotes to support the ideas behind them.
Make your school have a clear and unified idea on how art should be taught with this evidence based resource.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular resources for teaching and leading Art:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise/Art and design
This Art CPD for the whole school includes the following information:
-Why we need to diversify artists
-Which groups we need to represent more in art
-Examples of diverse artists
-How we can include new artists in our teaching
The purpose of this CPD is to look at your Art Overview and ensure that it covers a huge range of artists. This small bundle offers you an example plan of lessons for Years 2 on the theme of India, a template for planning diverse artists, example artists for each year group with links to other NC subject areas and a CPD flipchart to deliver the session.
I hope you enjoy the resource and that it saves you valuable time in organising your schools Art Overview- feel free to review it below.
You may also like my free art resources:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/art-warm-up-activities-to-support-fine-motor-skills-and-tool-control-13012076
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/art-assessment-guidance-what-makes-good-art-13012093
Have you ever found that children struggle when moving to a new class or year group? These bright, engaging booklets could be the answer you have been looking for.
Here is an editable booklet for you to add photos and details of your school. This booklet isn’t only for your SEND children but can support all children in your class as well as the parents. Think about how many parents you meet for the first time at parents evening who still don’t know your name or where the class is. This booklet is perfect all.
Reviews are welcomed.
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Allow the children to keep track of their weekly arithmetic scores and see their progress. This useful resource will ensure that children are confident that they are making improvements rather than focusing on the number they get each week.
This has worked really well for my lower ability children as they are able to see clearly across each week and term how much their scores have increased.
I hope your children enjoy it as much as my own!
Reviews always welcomed.
You may also enjoy my other assessment trackers:
Writing: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/writing-assessment-checklist-for-whole-school-13012758
NFER/SATS/other test scores: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/excel-sats-test-score-assessment-tracker-13013344
Wave 1 strategy sheets: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wave-1-strategy-sheet-tracker-for-send-pupils-with-plan-do-review-supporting-sheet-13012052
Pupil progress: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pupil-progress-meeting-data-pack-analysis-13014100