Subject Leadership Resources

Whether you're a new subject leader creating your first subject folder or an experienced curriculum coordinator wanting to ensure your documentation is comprehensive and well-organised, this Subject Leader Folder Pack provides everything you need.

You'll get:

☑️ Full Subject Leader Folder Guidance (17 pages) – walks you through what to include in your folder and why, organised into six clear sections: Subject Overview, Subject Leadership Documents, Curriculum Planning and Intent, Curriculum Monitoring and Implementation, Curriculum Impact, and Feedback and CPD

☑️ 26 Fully Editable Templates – including checklists, self-evaluation forms, monitoring tools, action plans, feedback surveys and CPD planning documents

☑️ Subject Folder Checklist – guides you through which documents to include and helps you plan your folder structure

☑️ Intent, Implementation and Impact Tools – checklists and templates to help you evidence the three I's in your subject

Suitable for primary subject leaders across all national curriculum subjects. All templates are fully editable Word documents so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.

Are you stepping into your first subject leadership role? Congratulations! Balancing the responsibilities of leadership and teaching can be challenging, but fear not. Honeyguide is here to support you on this exciting journey. Our comprehensive resource for new subject leaders provides you with all the ideas for tasks to complete in your first week, half-term and term as a subject leader. Designed to be fully editable, adapt and amend it with support from a mentor in school to tailor it to your new role. Let us support your thinking and workload so you can find balance as a new subject leader.

Whether you're a new early years leader looking to create your first EYFS leader file or are an experienced foundation stage lead wanting to ensure your EYFS folder contains all the documents you need, this EYFS Leader Folder Pack is ideal for you. With 31 editable templates and full guidance, it'll walk you through what you could include in your EYFS leader folder - digital or paper-based - and why you need to include it. Suitable for EYFS leaders who work within a primary school as well as those in group-based settings such as nurseries and preschools, this pack will save you both time and energy in creating your subject leader file.

Struggling to get organised as a subject leader? This digital download is here to help! It contains a subject overview section that can help you to plot your priorities and goals for the academic year, plus three termly sections with monitoring templates for lesson observations, lesson drop-ins, book looks, planning scrutiny, pupil voice and more!

Containing 86 beautifully designed and printable pages, this subject leader planner will help you to keep all of your details, notes and ideas in a central place so you can keep on top of subject monitoring and all of the other tasks associated with subject leadership. Simply print it out and off you go... but first, choose your style from the six available! 👇

This Subject Leader Folder Checklist is ideal for any subject leader looking for ideas and guidance on the documentation they might want to include in their subject leader file, regardless of whether it's kept digitally or in a paper-based folder. 

The checklist is designed to save your time in wondering what to include in a subject leader folder by helping you to consider the different documents you might need. Each suggestion has handy notes about what to include and you can tick them off once completed, allowing you to stay on top of keeping your subject leader file organised. 

The checklist is split into the following helpful sections:

• Subject Improvement and Leadership
• Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact
• Pastoral Information
• Communication and Involvement
• Staffing, Training and Development
• Governors and External Advisors

This editable subject leadership folder template is ideal for new subject leads or those wishing to refine how they store and organise their subject information. For further support with creating, building and organising an effective subject leader folder, this template along with many more are also included in our Subject Leader Folder Pack.

Designed for headteachers, deputy heads and subject leaders, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting on individual subject provision to your governing board without having to build a report from scratch.

You'll get:

☑️ Subject Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, editable 8-page Word document that can be used for any subject. The subject report covers:

• curriculum intent including subject rationale, key concepts and evidence base
• short and long-term subject improvement priorities
• pupil progress and attainment data by group including disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND
• assessment approaches and gap analysis
• achievements and staffing updates
• quality of teaching and subject monitoring including learning walks and book looks, reading and vocabulary and oracy in the subject
• SEND and inclusion including adaptive teaching strategies
• staff and pupil feedback
• subject CPD and staff meetings
• link governor visit summaries
• a strengths and areas for development evaluation including governor questions and challenges

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

Ideal for subject leaders preparing termly or annual subject reports to governors.

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