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

Needing to improving attendance across your school? This full pack takes the latest information from the DfE’s Working Together to Improve School Attendance and provides you with easy-to-digest guidance, editable templates, multiple training PowerPoints and eye-catching attendance posters to give you a full starting package for how to tackle pupil absence and raise attendance levels. A huge pack containing full guidance, 19 editable temples, 7 separate training PowerPoints and 8 stunning, printable posters to support you in improving attendance in your setting. We’ve broken the pack down into the following three strands so you can use strategies to improve student attendance from a range of different angles: This pack is available on our website for £20 Honeyguide SLS

Thinking about doing a spot check on your safeguarding and child protection procedures or wondering what Ofsted will ask about safeguarding when they visit? This pack, perfect for school leaders and DSLs, has been designed to give you the tools to gather a snapshot view of safeguarding in your setting, allowing you to gain insight into how others could view your safeguarding practice. Fully up to date with the latest 2023 Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) and the September 2023 changes to safeguarding in the Ofsted School Inspection Handbook, this bundle is designed to support DSLs, school and trust leaders. It contains five fully editable templates that allow you to gather information about the effectiveness of your current safeguarding practices over a short period of time, similar to how Ofsted would gather safeguarding information during an inspection. The questions within are designed in a safeguarding deep dive style and you can pick and choose from the huge range available if you’re looking to test out how robust your safeguarding processes are, meaning you can use the pack multiple times where needed. You can gather information about your school’s culture of safeguarding by using the following editable documents in this bundle pack: Included: Safeguarding Deep Dive Questions Safeguarding Spot Check Questions Safeguarding Deep Dive Questions for Pupils Single Central Record Monitoring Checklist Safeguarding Document Checklist This pack is available on our website for £10 Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk

Have you made a list and are you checking it twice? No?! Well don’t worry - we’ve done the list part for you! We know just how frantic the run up to the end of the Autumn term can be with organisation for all the Christmas-themed activities, performances, dinners and more, let alone the actual teaching, learning and leadership part! That’s why we’ve created this Christmas and term-end checklist so you can get ahead, stay organised, delegate and make it to the end of term! This checklist includes: School-based tasks covering aspects that you may want to wrap up before the Christmas holidays and the start of the Spring term in January. This includes elements such as: evaluating this term’s progress towards your school improvement plan or subject action plan milestones collecting and analysing data for your subject or whole school, including triangulation of any data anomalies considering your CPD offer and what needs to take place next, including plans for January INSET days ensuring line management duties (such as appraisals) have been completed, as well as considering processes for staff who are leaving and joining your setting consider parental and stakeholder engagement so far and how you can start the new term smoothly ideas for any catch-up tasks that you might have missed, such as checking your risk register to see if it’s up to date. It wouldn’t be Christmas in school without overbooking the timetable with millions of activities, so use the Christmas-based tasks part of the list to keep organised for all your festive events, including: considering all aspects of organisation and prep for your Christmas performances, plays or assemblies expectations around Christmas-themed activities for pupils, including how much of your planned curriculum needs to still be taught making arrangements for the school Christmas dinner planning how you can be involved with different community events this Christmas organising your staff Christmas do getting ready for January (because no-one wants to take down the Christmas tree during the January INSET day…) You can find more supportive resources by visiting Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk

Wondering how you can support staff with ongoing safeguarding training or enhance your safeguarding training offer? This bundle, containing 12 unique safeguarding scenarios, is perfect to fulfil this need, providing you with real-life examples of situations your pupils and staff could face. With guided considerations for the DSL or safeguarding lead included, use these scenarios in staff meetings, INSET days or twilights so staff can discuss and respond, allowing you to feel confident in providing a robust safeguarding training offer, including: Emotional Abuse (Mistreatment, Language and Bullying) Physical Abuse (Fabricated Illness) Child-on-Child Abuse (Abuse in Intimate Relationships) Child-on-Child Abuse (Sexual Violence) Online Safety (Sexual Harassment) Youth-Produced Sexual Imagery (Sexting / Consensual Sharing of Nude and Semi-Nude Images and/or Videos) Child Criminal Exploitation (County Lines) Initiation and Hazing Type Violence and Rituals Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) Children Absent from Education and Children Missing Education (CME) Staff Concerns (Dismissing Child-On-Child Abuse) Staff Concerns (Intimate Care) This pack is available on our website for £15 Honeyguide-SLS.co.uk For more support on safeguarding, you can download our Safeguarding Audit Pack. You can find more safeguarding information and resources by visiting Honeyguide SLS. Disclaimer: It is important to note that this resource addresses potentially sensitive and/or distressing subjects and is intended to be used for training purposes only. It may also contain strong language as well as terms, themes and content that depict child abuse, neglect and exploitation. All of this could elicit emotional responses and be triggering for staff using it. You must read the full resource before use and it is your duty to carefully assess its appropriateness based on your staff and your context. If you deem it to be suitable, you must ensure that adequate support is accessible for anyone who may be impacted by the content.

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 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

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 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

Use this School Business Manager (SBM) skills audit as part of your appraisal and performance management process, or to identify training needs. This is also helpful for SBMs to use to identify progression and next steps. For more resources, visit our website Honeyguide-sls.co.uk Looking to identify the skills and development points for your setting’s school business manager (SBM)? Or perhaps you’re a school business manager or in a school finance role and you want to explore role-specific strengths and weaknesses as part of your ongoing development, or even when looking for a new job role. No matter the situation, this handy pack contains exactly what you need to uncover strengths and plan for professional development & growth. Included is a 15-page template covering the different areas of skills that a school business lead may need. These are split into handy sections, such as self-management and personal skills, resource and financial management, estate and site management, school improvement, and more, so the skills audit can therefore be used flexibly. Questions include: In what ways am I taking a lead role in the development and implementation of school improvement plans, ensuring a strategic approach to enhance the overall quality of education and school effectiveness? How am I actively engaged in long-term budget management, considering factors such as value for money, future costs and alignment with the school’s values and vision? How do I assess necessary repairs and site improvement projects against the available budget, ensuring a strategic allocation of financial resources for optimal impact? How do I engage and collaborate with the governing body on financial planning?

Looking to identify the skills and development points of your school’s administrator? Or perhaps you’re a school administrator, office assistant or receptionist who wants to explore their role-specific strengths and weaknesses as part of ongoing development or when looking for a new role. No matter the situation, this handy pack contains exactly what you need to uncover strengths and plan for professional development & growth. A quick-and-easy pack to audit the skills of a school administrator. This pack contains concise guidance to support you in effectively utilising the skills audit, whether you’re line managing a member of office staff or whether you’re a school secretary, administrator or clerical assistant yourself who’s wanting to evaluate their strengths and areas for improvement. Included is a 9-page template covering the different areas of skills that a school administrator may need. These are split into handy sections, such as data protection, administration and data entry, and working with others so they can be used flexibly. Questions include: What measures do you take to ensure the secure handling and storage of pupil records and information? Can you support various administrative processes, such as enrolment and registration? Are you familiar with a range of school-specific software systems? How do you feel when new software is introduced? How do you demonstrate the school’s ethos and values? Further resources can be found at honeyguide-sls.co.uk

Use this Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SENDCo) skills audit as part of your appraisal and performance management process, or to identify training needs. This is also helpful for SENDCos to use to identify progression and next steps. For more resources, visit our 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.

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

Use this Headteacher skills audit as part of your appraisal and performance management process, or to identify training needs. This is also helpful for Deputy or Assistant Headteachers to use to identify progression and next steps towards Headship. For more skills audit resources for this role and others, visit our 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.

Looking to explore the subject of Design Technology in-depth or hoping to feel more confident about an upcoming DT Deep Dive? Tailored for DT subject leaders, this bundle helps you to consider intent, implementation and impact questions that are specific to Design Technology, 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 this pack: DT Deep Dive and Subject Evaluation Audit (Primary) - over 100 deep dive questions about DT to ask stakeholders, including senior leaders, subject leaders, teachers and pupils. As Design and Technology subject leader, you can utilise these to reflect on the current picture of DT in your school and explore specific areas further when listening to staff and pupil voice. Many Design and Technology subject leads find it useful to practise them with other leaders to build their own confidence in preparation for a DT Ofsted deep dive. DT Deep Dive and Subject Evaluation Audit (Secondary) - KS3, KS4 and KS5 Design & Technology deep dive questions for secondary leaders and DT department heads to consider. While there is crossover with the primary set of deep dive questions, this resource focuses on secondary DT and includes questions about secondary-focused areas, such as the routes available for pupils who wish to take their knowledge of Design and Tech into further education, employment or training. DT Subject Knowledge Question Bank - content-specific questions for Design and Technology covering KS1, KS2 and KS3. They’re ideal if you’re wanting to explore the finer details of staff members’ DT subject knowledge. Deep Dive Process Overview - use this to structure your internal deep dive in DT, 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 DT lessons, asking pupils about their learning in DT and looking through work, products and portfolios. 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 our website Honeyguide SLS.