Make email work again.
Taking the insanity out of email. Some context As a headteacher I was getting around 100 emails a day. Roughly speaking these broke down as follows: I found that I got stressed if I...
Category: Resources
Supporting your childrens’ mental health
Understanding Children’s experiences will vary tremendously some will have enjoyed lockdown but most will have found it difficult and be traumatised to some degree. Some children may have had to deal with: BereavementParent made...
Covid19, Reopening Planning
A few people have asked for copies of our planning. I have uploaded editable versions. Hope they are helpful to someone!
Tracking Behaviour
This is a logging form that I used to start to track behaviour issues. It allows easy tracking of what activities were taking place. Also a thinking plan that students if ejected from a...
Learning Walk Proforma
Introduced a new learning walk pro forma. Includes all key features of an outstanding lesson.
Literacy: Crib Sheet for Staff
One of the challenges of genuinely embedding literacy across the school is to make it easy. I created this as a basic guide it is based on Ofsted guidance. It was produced on A5...
Departmental Literacy Evaluation
A quick evaluation for departments takes about 5 minutes and includes section for teachers to make improvements. (This is based on an original that I can’t source)
Literacy Plan
Despite extensive googling I did not find a policy that I liked. I produced this for my current school. It is in two halves: Interventions for children with significant literacy issues Classroom practices to...
Safe To Learn
Bullying is an issue in many schools. Certainly the school I had been involved with had a significant issue with the majority of students dissatisfied with the level of bullying and the way that...
Socratic Questions
The Socratic Questioning Technique The Socratic approach to questioning is based on the practice of disciplined, thoughtful dialogue. Socrates, the early Greek philosopher/teacher, believed that disciplined practice of thoughtful questioning enabled the student to...
