Train staff on how to forge positive parent-teacher relationships in order to work together to support pupil behaviour. Ideal for behaviour leads or anyone looking to strengthen staff behaviour management in this area, this PowerPoint training session, designed to last for up to an hour, allows for collaboration and discussion, and is perfect for INSET days or staff meetings on behaviour management CPD. This training session can be found on our website Honeyguide SLS for £5. A 28-slide PowerPoint designed to last between 30 minutes to 1 hour, this time-saving and ready-to-go CPD session on behaviour management focuses on the benefits of building parent-teacher relationships. This then leads into how staff can use this positive home-school relationship to discuss a student’s behaviour should issues arise. The Routes Forward section is split into three parts, covering: How to build relationships with parents as a teacher or member of the support staff team Why we need to communicate behaviour and how to do it, with real-life examples to support you How to enlist parental support and get them to support your behaviour management efforts in school

Support staff in tackling inappropriate language in your school with this engaging and thought-provoking CPD session. Ideal for school leaders and those with oversight of behaviour, this PowerPoint allows you to present effective CPD to teachers, teaching assistants and others to look at why pupils use inappropriate language, how staff can prevent it and how best to address it when it does occur. Budget-friendly and flexible, it’s perfect to use in staff meetings or training sessions, saving you hours of prep time. This 27-slide PowerPoint, designed to last between 30 minutes to 1 hour, is a ready-made CPD session on behaviour management, focusing on the issue of inappropriate language use by pupils. It covers the basics of what inappropriate language is, such as swearing, discriminatory language and gang slang, and looks at the underlying reasons why pupils may use these terms. The Routes Forward section is split into two parts: how to prevent inappropriate language use by pupils in the first place, and how to address it when it does occur. Going beyond the issue of just swearing, the training session allows you to explore different root causes, such as peer pressure, safeguarding or a simple misunderstanding, and gives practical strategies on how to address bad language in line with your school’s behaviour policy. The PowerPoint is fully editable but equally can be used ‘as is’ to present directly to the staff members of your choosing. Each slide is carefully crafted to keep staff engaged with prompt questions and considerations for your school. It’s a huge time-saver for school leaders who know they need to address the issues surrounding pupil language use - it allows you to deliver a consistent approach to different staff groups, with the flexiblity built in to dive deeper into specific aspects. You can get this on our website Honeyguide SLS for £5. For more resources, visit Honeyguide SLS

Created from the latest 2023 version of the Prevent duty, this training and audit bundle provides school leaders, DSLs and those responsible for staff training with a comprehensive package to use with all staff. The engaging PowerPoint presentation, designed to last between 30 minutes to 1 hour, is ideal for a staff meeting, INSET session or twilight to raise awareness of what the Prevent duty is and the signs that staff need to be aware of. Covering key terminology (e.g. radicalisation, extremism, ideology, permissive environments and terrorism), it walks staff through how and why people become radicalised and what can be done to lower this risk and prevent pupils from experiencing harm. The bundle also includes four additional resources to support your training efforts, which can be used during or after the session. These are: A Safeguarding Scenario on radicalisation based on real-life that allows staff to discuss the signs and indicators then share how they would follow this up. A Quick Quiz containing 10 questions and answers based on the content of the presentation. Use these to check staff understanding at the end of the session or send questions at a later date to see how much has been retained. A Safeguarding Snapshot on the Prevent duty, ideal for displaying in your staff-only spaces or sending as an e-bulletin. A one-page training handout that summarises the key information in the training presentation, perfect for disseminating after the session. This pack is available on our website for £5 on our website Honeyguide SLS You can find more safeguarding resources by visiting our website.

Have you got solid recruitment processes but need some fresh ideas for interview tasks? This bundle includes templates for nine different tasks that allow you to explore the skills and attributes of candidates - perfect for ensuring a positive recruitment and hiring process. These editable templates can be used on an interview day to determine the suitability of a candidate for a post in your school: Interview Task - Action Plan Interview Task - Assembly Interview Task - Curriculum Planning Interview Task - Data Analysis Interview Task - Goldfish Bowl Interview Task - In-Tray Exercise Interview Task - Lesson Observation Interview Task - Meeting With Pupils Interview Task - Presentation What if I want more guidance on the whole recruitment process? We’ve currently got a great resource for school leaders wishing to recruit an assistant or deputy headteacher or SENDCo, where you can find the above interview tasks as well as full guidance, interview questions, person specification, job descriptions and more: Honeyguide SLS

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

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.

Have you got solid recruitment processes but need some fresh ideas for interview tasks? This bundle includes templates for nine different tasks that allow you to explore the skills and attributes of candidates - perfect for ensuring a positive recruitment and hiring process of a SENDCo. These editable templates can be used on an interview day to determine the suitability of a candidate for a post in your school: Interview Task - Action Plan Interview Task - Assess Whole School SEND Interview Task - Data Analysis Interview Task - In-Tray Exercise Interview Task - Lesson Observation Interview Task - Plan a Parent Event Interview Task - Presentation Interview Task - Prioritisation of Duties Interview Task - Pupil Scenario What if I want more guidance on the whole recruitment process? We’ve currently got a great resource for school leaders wishing to recruit a SENDCo, where you can find the above interview tasks as well as full guidance, interview questions, person specification, job descriptions and more at Honeyguide SLS.

Looking to recruit a new classroom teacher, including early career teachers (ECTs)? If you’re wondering what questions to ask ECTs and early-stage teachers at interview to recruit the right candidate for your school, or what interview tasks you can set to help candidates demonstrate their skills, this ECT and Class Teacher Interview Pack can support you to prepare for an ECT and class teacher interview. This pack is also ideal for anyone applying for the role, including interview questions with example responses of what to include in your answer. Included in this Class Teacher and ECT interview pack are four different editable interview tasks plus a wide variety of example interview questions so you can find an excellent teacher who is the best fit for your school. The job description and person specification for will also support you in advertising for a new ECT or classroom teacher so you attract the right candidates. Use these, alongside the interview tasks and class teacher and ECT interview questions to create a recruitment package that’s tailored to exactly what your school is looking for in a new classroom practitioner. Want more interview and recruitment resources? Take a look at our website Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk

This pack is available on our website Honeyguide SLS for £8.50. Looking to recruit a new school business manager, school business lead or finance officer? If you’re thinking about the interview process and what tasks and questions to ask at interview to recruit the right candidate for your school, this School Business Manager (SBM) Interview Pack will support your thinking and save you time in the recruitment process A pack with accompanying templates to help your school setting plan and prepare the interview day, including interview questions and tasks, when recruiting a SBM, school finance manager, bursar or similar. This pack contains shortened guidance that allows you to consider the setup of the interview day itself, but if you’re new to recruitment or want to ensure the entire recruitment process is smooth, you may find it help to purchase the Recruitment, Interview and Employment Compliance Guidance Pack alongside this interview pack. Included in this school business manager interview pack are four different editable interview tasks plus a wide variety of example interview questions so you can find a brilliant school finance operations lead and business manager for your school or academy trust. The job description and person specification will also support you in advertising for a new SBM so you can attract the right candidates. Use these, alongside the interview tasks and school business manager interview questions to create a recruitment package that’s tailored to exactly what your school is looking for in a new finance, business and operations lead. For more resources, visit out website Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk 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.

Want to check that staff understand safeguarding issues, including harmful practices? These Quick Quizzes are time-saving and adaptable - why not create a quiz on your school’s internal platform or cherry pick questions for use in meetings and briefings to keep staff thinking about safeguarding? Each quiz document has 10 multiple-choice questions but the answers aren’t obvious, helping to assure you that staff really do know safeguarding inside and out. They cover the following safeguarding aspects: The Prevent Duty Extremism and Radicalisation Prejudice and Discrimination Harmful Practices Safeguarding Signs and Indicators Recap Other Forms of Harm and Abuse Created from the most up-to-date information from the 2024 KCSIE, each quiz document contains 10 challenging questions that ask staff to recall safeguarding information and identify safeguarding issues. For example: Which of the following definitions best describes ‘radicalisation’? a) The process of a person legitimising support for, or use of, terrorist violence b) When pupils discover extremist material online c) The process of those with extremist viewpoints contacting vulnerable people and manipulating them to change their opinions d) When a person converts to another religion because they’ve been influenced by someone else Which of the following is false about Female Genital Mutilation? a) It is illegal. b) Those with familial ties to certain countries where FGM is more prevalent are at higher risk. c) It has long-lasting harmful consequences for the girl/women. d) It is always conducted abroad by community elders. Human trafficking, forced labour, debt bondage and organ harvesting all fall under which of the following umbrella terms? a) Extremism b) Modern slavery c) Exploitative Labour Practices (ELP) d) Domestic servitude

Is your setting looking to recruit a new headteacher, principal, head of school or executive head? If you’re a chair of governors, a trustee or MAT leader looking for the right interview questions to ask a prospective headteacher, as well as interview tasks that will test their strengths and skills, this Headteacher Interview Pack is here to support you through the process. Equally, if you’re a assistant or deputy head, aspiring headteacher or due to attend an interview for a headteacher position soon, this pack will help you to feel prepared. This pack with accompanying templates is designed help your school setting plan and prepare the interview day, including interview questions and tasks, when recruiting a headteacher. This pack contains concise guidance that allows you to consider the setup of the interview day itself, but if you’re new to recruitment or want to ensure the entire recruitment process is smooth, you may find it help to purchase the Recruitment, Interview and Employment Compliance Guidance Pack alongside this interview pack. Included in this headteacher and principal interview pack are nine different editable interview tasks plus a wide variety of example interview questions so you can find a brilliant headteacher to lead your your school. The job description and person specification for will also support you in advertising for a new head so you attract the right candidates. Use these, alongside the interview tasks and headteacher interview questions to create a recruitment package that’s tailored to exactly what your school is looking for in a new school leader. While the pack is tailored towards appointing a new headteacher, it can be used to support the recruitment process for any similar role, such as an academy headteacher, a head of school, executive head or a school or college principal. You can find further interview preparation resources on our website at honeyguide-sls.co.uk

Looking to recruit a new head of year, phase leader or key stage leader? This adaptable Head of Year, Phase and Key Stage Interview Pack can support you appoint a new middle leader. It includes a wide range of interview questions for the different types of role and will allow you to prepare interview tasks that let the prospective candidates show their middle leadership skills, so you can appoint the right head of year, key stage or phase for you setting. This pack is also really helpful for anyone applying for the role so they can know what to expect, including example question with what to look for in a answer response. Included in this HoY, Phase and KS Leader interview pack are four different editable interview tasks plus a wide variety of example interview questions so you can find a brilliant middle leader for your school. The job description and person specification for will also support you in advertising for a new phase lead, head of key stage or year group leader, so you attract the right candidates. Use these, alongside the interview tasks and HoY, Phase and Key Stage interview questions to create a recruitment package that’s tailored to exactly what your school is looking for in a new middle leader. Visit our website, Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk for more interview packs, resources & lots more.

Looking to recruit a new head of department, head of faculty or subject team leader? If you’re wondering what interview questions to ask when recruiting a HoD, or what interview tasks would allow prospective department leads to demonstrate their leadership and subject knowledge skills, this Head of Department Interview Pack can support in planning an interview day to choose the best-fit candidate for your school or college. This pack is also ideal for those applying for the role, with example questions and suggested responses for answers. Included in this head of department interview pack are four different editable interview tasks plus a wide variety of example interview questions so you can find a brilliant head of faculty or curriculum subject team leader for your school. The job description and person specification for will also support you in advertising for a new department head so you attract the right candidates. Use these, alongside the interview tasks and HoD interview questions to create a recruitment package that’s tailored to exactly what your school is looking for in a new head of department, faculty or similar curriculum leader role. For further supportive resources and interview packs, visit our website - Honeyguide-sls.co.uk

Looking for support with recruiting a new staff member, including how to structure the recruitment and interview process as well as ensuring you’re compliant with pre-employment and safeguarding checks? This pack walks you through the entire process and is ideal for school leaders who are new to leading the recruitment process or who want to improve their confidence and understanding when employing new staff members. comprehensive guidance pack with accompanying templates to help you plan and prepare the entire recruitment process for any role in a school setting, from shortlisting and interviewing, to pre-employment and appointment. Included are thirteen different editable templates to support you in planning the full recruitment process and they’re not specific to certain roles, so can be used again and again each time you’re faced with recruiting a new staff member. However, if you’re looking for role-specific interview questions and tasks, we’ve got this too - see the “What else is available to support recruitment?” question for more details. With this pack, you’ll explore how to design your recruitment timeline, including consideration of what to include in the job description and person specification for the role. It’ll walk you through how to lead and manage an effective shortlisting process, including who to have on your interview panel, plus there are handy letter templates for each stage of the process so you can inform applicants and candidates of the outcomes whilst saving you time. Planning an interview day, including all the tasks, interviews themselves and general organisation, can be daunting but the guidance supports you with how to tackle this. Included are editable templates to plan a timetable for your interview day as well as standard school interview questions you can select from. You may wish to set candidates an interview task as well, and we’ve included a template to support your thinking around this. This pack gives an overview of some of your legal responsibilities during recruitment, including what to add and update on your single central record and the necessary pre-employment and safer recruitment checks that need to take place. Included are checklists to support this, helping you to ensure all necessary checks and processes have taken place. Further resources can be found at honeyguide-sls

Looking to recruit a classroom teacher who’ll hold additional subject leadership responsibility? If you’re wondering about what questions to ask at interview to recruit the right subject leader for your school, or what tasks you can set for a prospective class teacher and subject lead, this Class Teacher with Subject Leadership Interview Pack can support you throughout the interview process. Included in this teaching and subject leadership interview pack are four different editable interview tasks plus a wide variety of example interview questions so you can find a brilliant subject leader and classroom teacher for your school. The job description and person specification for will also support you in advertising for a more experienced teacher so you attract the right candidates. Use these, alongside the interview tasks and class teacher / subject leader interview questions to create a recruitment package that’s tailored to exactly what your school is looking for in a new classroom teacher. The pack is tailored towards appointing a new classroom teacher who’ll hold subject leadership responsibility alongside their classroom teaching commitment, which will likely be the main part of their role. If your school uses the teacher pay scales, this pack would most likely suit recruitment of someone on M3-M6, or those aiming to move into the upper pay scale in the near future. It’s designed for a teacher who already has classroom experience and is either moving into subject leadership, or who already has subject leadership responsibility, but they’re not yet leading broader, school-wide aspects, such as a phase or year group lead. Find more recruitment packs at honeyguide-sls.co.uk

Wanting to get staff up to speed on Working Together to Improve Attendance and the role they play in supporting reducing pupil absence? This training bundle, which is perfect for INSETs, staff meetings and twilights, contains engaging and collaborative training materials plus real-life attendance scenarios to meet your attendance CPD needs. Each one contains a three-stage situation that mimics the types of attendance issues that schools may encounter. First, staff can look at the initial picture presented to them and discuss what concerns around pupil attendance they may have. Then, further information is revealed, allowing staff to consider how they’d take action, as well as how other professionals and the attendance officer, manager, lead or co-ordinator can help. Lastly, staff can view the resolution and consider the next steps. The scenarios cover the following topics: Bullying and Physical & Mental Health Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) Finance Sickness-Related Absence Substance Addiction Young Carers Each scenario has an accompanying PowerPoint that details the scenario in parts and the key questions for discussion, allowing them to be used interactively during a staff meeting, INSET or twilight. Furthermore, there’s a PowerPoint called Working Together to Improve Attendance which highlights the key parts from the DfE’s own document that are applicable to teachers and support staff. This allows your team to gain a deeper understanding of why good attendance is important for every single pupil as well as considering the role that all staff have to play in reducing pupil absence. This training bundle is available on our website for £7.50 Honeyguide-sls.co.uk

Wondering how you can support individual pupils with their attendance, including identifying barriers, addressing push and pull factors and creating attendance intervention and reintegration plans? This bundle, ideal for attendance officers, mangers, leads and co-ordinators, supports you to help reduce persistent absenteeism and improve student attendance. Persistent Absentee Log - use this to track your persistent absentees to ensure you take swift action to improving pupil attendance. Attendance Follow-Up Log - this is ideal for keeping records on how you’ve followed up on attendance issues, allowing you to see successes and room for improvement. Individual Attendance Audit - use this to explore health-related, home-related, academic, social, transport, pupil-based and other barriers to attendance. This is ideal to consider a range of factors before digging deeper into the pupil’s views and the voices of other key stakeholders. Working Together to Improve Attendance - Discussing Barriers - This document allows you (or a pupil’s trusted adult) to choose from over 40 questions to start a conversation with an individual pupil about what helps them to come to school and what makes it harder. This vital insight can help the child to feel heard and valued, as well as allowing you to create a plan that’s going to get them back into school. Working Together to Improve Attendance - Push and Pull Factors - This document, which includes its own worked example, allows you to gather the stakeholder views about push factors that influence an individual child’s attendance towards being in school and pull factors that create challenges or resistance for them. By hearing insight from parents/carers and key staff, a plan can be created together. Working Together to Improve Attendance - Reintegration Plan - this template supports you in creating an attendance intervention plan that’s tailored to removing and reducing the attendance barriers for an individual pupil. It has space to include who’s responsibile for each action as well as how often the plan will be reviewed to ensure it’s working. Individual Attendance Plan - this plan is a more formal version of the reintegration plan, with space to record meeting notes, attendance history, educational welfare officer involvement, targets, expectations and any specialise support needed. This bundle is ideal for attendance officers, managers, leaders and co-ordinators who want to focus their efforts on putting personalised plans into place for pupils where attendance and absence causes concern. This pack is available on our website for £7.50 Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk

Are you thinking about how to improve attendance on a strategic level? This bundle supports exactly that, with attendance audits, action plans, strategy documents and more. Designed from the latest guidance in Working Together to Improve School Attendance, it allows attendance officers, leads and co-ordinators to look at the bigger picture of attendance in their schools then use their findings to address gaps. Included in this pack: Attendance Audit - over 70 questions for you to reflect on your setting’s practice, including sections on attendance policy & procedures, analysing barriers, exploring attendance trends and patterns, attendance intervention, communication and safeguarding, and attendance enforcement. Find your current strengths and areas of improvement. Attendance Action Plan - use the gaps identified in your audit and turn them into tangible actions with this handy plan. Attendance Strategy - create this whole-school document, which contains prompts to help you, to share your vision and benchmarks for attendance with staff, governors/trustees and other stakeholders. Attendance Template Letters - Use these to pre-populate your own letters on your school’s headed paper or insert the text into your management information system (MIS) to save time when informing parents of their child’s absence levels. There are 15 individual letters covering a range of situations, such as concerns about authorised absences, invites to attendance meetings, term-time holiday requests and more. Attendance Co-Ordinator Job Description - whether you’re called an attendance officer, leader, manager, co-ordinator or something else, this document covers the responsibilities of the role and includes a person specification. It’s perfect if you’re looking to firm up your (or your attendance coordinator’s) responsibilities or if you’re looking to appoint someone to this post. Example Ofsted Attendance Questions - whether you’re due an inspection or not, this document can help you understand the types of questions Ofsted ask about attendance. Use it to reflect on the depth of knowledge about your current practice or to prepare for an inspection if you feel the need to build your confidence. This attendance co-ordinator audit and strategy pack is available on our website for £7.50 Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk