This resource is a ‘behaviour reflection board’. This worksheet can be used to encourage students to reflect on their behaviour and to consider influences on their behaviour, their dislikes and likes as well as their triggers and how the believe they are best motivated. This is designed to be completed by students individually or in groups and students be used to help plan a course of action. It can be paired with a behaviour action plan to share with staff as well as a behaviour contract. I’d love to know if you find this useful. Please follow me on: facebook.com/teachcoach

This document contains a 3 page improvement plan for a year group. This includes generic ideas for focus points of the year group: attendance, year group cohesion etc. as well as for planning assemblies and an interform competition. Remember to visit my page at: www.facebook.com/teachcoach

In this document you will find an attendance action plan. This includes split the year group into waves and plan actions for each wave of poor attendance. It includes the actions that should be taken from 100% attendance-90% and includes priorities to be completed by a pastoral leader. It also includes a comment about monitoring and how attendance should be monitored alongside this plan. Please follow me on: facebook.com/teachcoach

This resource is Set 1 of potential Head of Year or Head of House interview questions and includes 15 key questions you are likely to be asked on a Head of Year or pastoral middle leader interview. The list is, of course, not definitive, but the questions are based on experiences in 3 successful interviews for Head of Year posts. You can find the bundle of more interview questions here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/head-of-year-pastoral-role-interview-questions-12297802 Please follow me on: facebook.com/teachcoach

This 15-20 minutes assembly is centred on: the definition of self esteem and confidence how to identify low self esteem how we can affect other people’s self worth and confidence directly or indirectly how we can support someone to be more confident encourage students to be more confident in themselves Please follow my page: www.facebook.com/teachcoach

This is an assembly focused on anti-bullying. It covers a variety of topics including: a link to a starter video from Pixar which begins to explore the treatment of those different to ourselves defines bullying exploration of words closely linked to the definition and those which are most powerful linked to bullying exploration of the different types of bullying and what they look like exploration how bullying makes people feel and the impact on others an activity used in the assembly to encourage students to recognise how bullying may feel provides the case study of Felix Alexander - who took his own life after being bullied, including a video interview with his mum Lucy - a very powerful video. facts about bullying how we can stop bullying Please make sure you follow me on: facebook.com/teachcoach

This resource aims to develop teacher understanding on how to support best learning and revision. It is not specific to exams, but covers ‘learning effectively’ which applies to both exam preparation as well as learning in general in lessons time. The resource covers: how the brain works and how the brain learns, including the science behind learning a new skill how to build new knowledge pathways in the brain interleaved learning spaced learning concept mapping/retrieval practice failure as a learning tool collaborative retrieval as a learning tool This session also includes: 3 videos (not owned by me - included to develop knowledge) a ‘starter’ and a ‘plenary’ for use in the CPD a midpoint learning check an activity for department to spend time thinking about their practice You can also find a PDF of ‘revision strategies’ attached as a follow up for staff. This is a great activity for teachers of all experience but would be especially good for RQTs or NQTs who may just be starting to think about how students learn. This could also be good for form tutors of Y11 and Y10 to think about in preparation for exams. Please make sure you follow me on facebook: facebook.com/teachcoach

This resource includes over 3 pages of interview questions I have collated from various sources for pastoral assistant principal interviews. It covers every aspect of being a pastoral senior leader and includes spaces for you to print and write your answers to support preparation for interview. Please ensure you follow me: facebook.com/teachcoach

This assembly focuses on the concept of Random Acts of Kindness. It focuses on the benefits of kindness and being kind to others, as well as how you can kind to one another. It also includes a youtube link about the infectious nature of kindness - which really helps to illustrate the point about helping one another. Please follow on facebook: facebook.com/teachcoach

In this resource you will find guidance on prioritisation in tray task. This guidance goes through the purpose of an in tray like this, including why they’re used, how to ace them and things to avoid! This document also provides an example prioritisation task for you to practice prior to the interview. Make sure you follow me: facebook.com/teachcoach

This assembly is ready to be used and consists of sections on: why we should give to charity the history of charities how we can support charities celebrity links with charities It also includes 3 powerful videos which are designed to get students to reflect on their own views of charity and how they can move forward to support charities more or how they can be more giving themselves. The assembly also contains a choice of slides for the opening - you can chose from a slide set up for ‘International Charity Day’ or you can chose a slide set up with ‘The Importance of Charity’. This means the assembly can be used for either occasion. Please follow me on facebook: facebook.com/teachcoach Please leave a review if this is useful.

This resource is an assembly which aims to tackle the consequences of rumour spreading in a year group. I created this assembly after there was a spike of rumours circulating my year group to help educate students about the dangers of gossiping about others. The main activity of the assembly involves using the ‘toilet roll’ example of demonstrate how once rumours have been shared, they cannot be controlled or ‘rewound’ - in a similar way to trying to roll toilet roll back onto the tube. The assembly also tackles how you can assess whether you should share infomation about others. If you find this assembly useful, please leave a review and please consider following my page: https://www.facebook.com/teachcoach/

In this resource you will find a 2 page example letter of application for an assistant principal. This resource includes many ideas you could include your own letter as well as providing you a useful structure for organising your own application or supporting statement. This is intended to be a starting structure only and should be developed using your own ideas.

This resource includes an hour long session (at least!) on how to stretch and challenge students as well as how to support them. This includes loads of ideas on how to differentiate for a variety of different learners and has plenty of quick strategies for staff to implement. Including: staff discussion about what diffentiation is staff reflecting on their current use of differentiation addressing misconceptions a video focused on supporting more able students 20 quick ways to support low ability 20 ways to stretch high ability suggestions for further reading ideas of for long term support and stretch This CPD also includes an editable booklet for staff to use during the CPD and I have included many of the templates referenced in the CPD which can be shared directly with staff to edit and use themselves. A complete CPD ready to use! Please follow me: facebook.com/teachcoach

This resource is a list of FREE Open University courses which are useful for staff. These courses are not mine - they are from Open University. I have simply compiled the list. Please like my page on: www.facebook.com/teachcoach

In this resource you will find an editable document of templates for making your own scratch cards for rewards! You will also find the guide for how to make these and where you can buy the stickers to help you make them too. These are great for use as a motivational tool and are excellent to reward students in an engaging and different way. You can purchase scratch off stickers here: Rose Gold: https://amzn.to/3yOsQcb Silver: https://amzn.to/2SBW8dw Gold: https://amzn.to/3uvTmE7 Multi coloured: https://amzn.to/3fA4E65 Please make sure you follow me on facebook.com/teachcoach

This resource is an example form time rota which includes the daily tasks tutors should be completing and a reminder of expectations for tutors in each form time. It should be used flexible and assembly can switched to a different day depending on your school. Please follow me at: facebook.com/teachcoach