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.
All of the Year 2 and 6 objectives from the statutary guidance on one handy sheet!
The sheet is spit into Below, Expected and Greater Depth statements with easy colour coding to seperate transcription, grammar and composition statements.
Useful as a planning tool: to see what needs revisiting or even planning altogether, as well as assessing and planning for progress. I would use one sheet per child but this is not necessary.
All reviews are welcome.
You might also like to see other year group writing assessments on my online shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise
or** alternatively you might want to save money and buy each year groups in one handy inexpensive bundle:** https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13012758
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
You can find my many more reliable and time-saving resources at my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise
All reviews welcome.
Each time a child (spontaneously- meaning using their own hands) draws a pre writing shape, they are creating or further developing:
Pathways in their brain.
Strengthening their muscles inside of their hands.
Developing the understanding of how hand or soft the press down (sensory development)
Therefore it is essential to give children the opportunies to create pre handwriting shapes.
With these fun and easy to use templates, children are always able to access and improve their fine motor skills.
Be ready to surprise everyone and have the best formation you’ve seen yet!
**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
Two engaging guided reading lessons focusing on the VIPERS skills retrieval and inference. Save time using this resource, complete with a PPT, video, questions and worksheet. All the neccessary resources needed to inspire your children: enhance vocabulary, engage the children and enjoy teaching.
Questions will prompt higher order thinking and answers will be scaffolded naturally by the children. All reviews welcome.
If you like this, then check out my sequence of guided reading lessons on Leon and the Place Between:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/vocabulary-prediction-summarise-inference-reading-lessons-ks2-13014711
Don’t forget to check out my other useful and engaging lessons at my shop:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise
Three complete lessons on using speech, with an engaging powerpoint and activities to enthuse the children. An easy to use powerpoint leads you through each lesson.
Planning a conversation.
Writing dialogue (ICAPI, burger resource, prepositions, adjectives and vocabulary)
Using expression - drama activity.
Written for Year 4 but easily adaptable for all KS2 year groups. Written based on the story ‘Leon and the Place Between’. Guarenteed to engage your class. Bright, colourful, clear and memorable.
All reviews welcome.
My speaking and listening assessment tool would go perfectly with this planning, take a look on the link below:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/progressive-speaking-and-listening-assessment-tools-for-whole-school-13012777
Find my other Leon and the Place Between resources on my shop page:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise
If you’d like ready made speech lessons for UKS2, take a look here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/short-story-figurative-language-and-speech-13013503
This useful document was put together in correlation with the EEF Writing Guidance. It contains the progression of editing skills as stated in the National Curriculum, the implementation needed for successful editing skills as well as examples of how it can be used in lessons.
There is also a PDF Flipchart that can be used to support staff in using this documentation.
Feel free to review this document when you have used it.
Check out other similar and supportive resources in my shop:
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Handwriting lines to demonstrate the sizing of letters to all children.
Have the best handwriting class in school with this useful resource!
All reviews welcome.
Check out my online shop for more amazing and easy to use resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise
3 simple, ready to use templates for your whole class reading folder. Simply add in the names of all the children, highlight any SEND, PP children or those who don’t read regularly so that yourself, any visitors and teaching assistants know who to go to regularly.
Find attached:
A front cover (to keep all the information together)
1:1 readers (to keep track of who you read with daily, weekly or termly)
Weekly reading (to ensure that each child is reading at home each week)
This will ensure that you have read with every child frequently and you can keep track of their progress throughout the year.
Enjoy this simple but essential resource! Don’t forget to review it and give my online shop a glance…
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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.
The importance of speaking and listening is often forgotten about, yet is an essential life skill. Therefore, it is crucial to inspire, motivate and give children opportunities to speak in public.
An enaging assessment tool that allows children to peer and self assess their performances: great for debating and performance poetry sessions. Statements on how to engage an audience as well as improve dictation and tone are split across year groups to ensure that they are progressive across each year group.
You will also find display posters of the success criteria for Speaking and Listening so that all children know what is expected of them as they are performing.
If you think these would be useful, check out my writing assessment checklists for the whole school:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/writing-assessment-checklist-for-whole-school-13012758
You might also like my test scoring tracker:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/excel-sats-test-score-assessment-tracker-13013344
This resource can be used easily alongside my Oracy resources, which can be found on my shop page:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise
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
Here are some examples (including photos) of warm up activities to support fine motor skills and tool control with children. I would suggest completing these at the beginning of each handwriting and art session in order to develop children’s muscles and support the steadiness of their grip.
You may also want to see my assessment of art guidance, which is completely free: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/art-assessment-guidance-what-makes-good-art-13012093 or my whole school CPD on diversifying artists: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/art-cpd-for-primary-school-teachers-diversify-the-artists-you-study-13012106.
Don’t forget to make a review!
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.
Take a look at my other useful resources at my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise
A whole terms English unit including: learning journey, resources, models of excellence, powerpoints and scaffolds, based on the story of The Savage by David Almond. In particular, boys have really enjoyed this writing unit and have thrived with their writing. This unit of writing includes a character description, suspense writing, diary entry and a newspaper report.
During an apprentice write there is also a unit including the Literacy Shed video ‘Little Freak’ so that they can compare these characters. An extremely emotive video and used effectively.
Each week is structured with 1. features of writing 2. generating vocabulary 3. SPAG skills needed 4. apprentice writes 5. chance to independently embed these skills. The Savage is also available on PDF format online, so you don’t even need the book to start this writing unit off!
I hope you have as much fun with this unit as I did!
You might also find my week guided reading useful:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/david-almond-guided-reading-vipers-lessons-13013761
Let me know what you liked about the lessons.
Take a look at other writing units, such as war at my shop:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/world-war-english-unit-uks2-6-weeks-13010721