Staff Wellbeing and Workload Management

Are you stepping into the role of Attendance Lead but feeling unsure where to begin or how to get a grip on everything at once? Firstly, congratulations! And secondly, you're in exactly the right place – this free Honeyguide checklist is here to support your thinking from the very first day.

As an Attendance Lead, you're responsible for one of the most complex and data-driven challenges in school leadership – one that cuts across safeguarding, SEND, pastoral care, family engagement and school improvement all at the same time. That can feel like a lot, especially at the start! This checklist breaks it down into clear, manageable tasks across your first few weeks, your first half-term and your first full term, so you can approach the role with confidence and clarity.

Whether you're a newly appointed Attendance Lead or Attendance Champion, stepping up from a pastoral or admin role, or taking over from a previous postholder mid-year, this checklist will help you hit the ground running. Ideal for new Attendance Leads, Attendance Champions, Senior Attendance Champions and anyone with combined attendance and pastoral responsibilities.

Are you a new school governor wondering where to begin? Or are you a headteacher, governance lead or chair of governors looking for a practical induction resource to share with someone joining your board? Either way, this free Honeyguide checklist is exactly what you need.

Becoming a school governor is genuinely important work but the role can feel bewildering at first. Understanding the difference between strategic and operational governance, getting to grips with school data, fulfilling safeguarding responsibilities and preparing for link governor visits all take time and guidance. This checklist breaks it all down into clear, manageable tasks, from the reading you should do before your very first meeting through to the contributions you should be making by the end of your first full term.

Whether you're a parent governor, a community governor, a staff governor or a co-opted governor, this resource will help you settle into the role with confidence. 

👉 For heads and SLT looking for ideas of what tasks they could undertake to support a new governor, see our free Start Point: Supporting a New Governor Checklist too!

Updated for 2026

For senior mental health leads, headteachers and pastoral leaders who need a structured, comprehensive way to report on school well-being and personal development to their governing board.

You'll get:

☑️ School Well-being and Personal Development Report to Governors – a fully editable 11-page Word document covering:

• strategic leadership of well-being including the Senior Mental Health Lead, whole-school strategy and Mental Health Support Team arrangements
• strategic well-being objectives
• pupil well-being data and monitoring
• pupil mental health and emotional well-being provision across universal, targeted and specialist levels, plus safeguarding and crisis protocols
• personal development including PSHE, RSE, British values, SMSC, physical health, online safety, careers education and pupil leadership
• pupil feedback and voice
• well-being of vulnerable and disadvantaged groups
• anti-bullying data
• staff well-being data and monitoring
• staff initiatives and support
• workload and working conditions
• staff feedback
• parent, carer and community well-being
• staff training
• well-being challenges and emerging concerns
• policies and procedures
• a structured evaluation and improvement section including governor questions and challenges.

All sections are fully editable so you can adapt the template to your school's context and reporting cycle.

Ideal for senior mental health leads, headteachers and deputy headteachers preparing termly or annual well-being and personal development reports to governors.

👉 Looking for more governor report templates? This template and others are part of our Reports to Governors Template Bundle