Subject Leadership Resources

Struggling to get release time to monitor History or having to complete subject monitoring in your PPA? This Ten-Minute Subject Monitoring in History Pack provides a solution to the challenges of having a high level of accountability as a primary subject leader but not having the time to complete the monitoring activities necessary - often because of factors beyond your control, such as the school budget, booking supply or getting cover.

Ten-minute subject monitoring works by identifying different time slots where you can be away from your teaching commitments in order to conduct a precise and focused subject monitoring activity on one element, such as a book look focusing on one strand of the History curriculum or a single 10-minute lesson drop-in. So rather than trying to find a full afternoon's cover to conduct a term or half-term's worth of monitoring, you can spread monitoring across a term by choosing slots where teaching and learning in your own classroom won't be impacted.

Aimed at primary History subject leads (or those line managing a History subject leader), this pack walks you through the entire process and is full of ideas on how to find and utilise ten-minute time slots for subject monitoring, as well as what you should be looking for in your monitoring when it comes to substantive knowledge and concepts, disciplinary knowledge and concepts, plus the chronological knowledge and historical terms and phenomena pupils need to grasp.

Want to know what's inside the pack? View a preview version of the guidance and accompanying template to get a deeper understanding of how ten-minute subject monitoring can help you!

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.

This Subject Cultural Capital, Personal Development and Enrichment Audit is ideal for any subject leader who's looking to explore how their subject develops their pupils' personal qualities, offers enriching and broad educational experiences and promotes equality, diversity and fundamental British Values. For schools that have early years children, there's an EYFS version of this audit also included in the bundle.

The audit walks you through different reflective questions about your subject, allowing you to identify your current strengths and make a plan for any areas of development. The following types of questions are included - why not see if you can answer them about your subject?

• What opportunities do we offer through extracurricular [subject] clubs and activities? How do we ensure all pupils can access these?
• What opportunities are there within the local community to provide rich cultural experiences for our pupils in [subject]?
  
• Are pupils given the opportunity to make their own decisions in [subject], for example, with independent activities, free-choice time, clubs, book choices?

Questions like these can help you critically reflect on your subject in order to makes changes to give your pupils the best possible experiences as well as celebrating your successes in enriching your pupils' lives. Aligned with the Ofsted School Inspection Handbook, it'll help you to show how pupils get the best opportunities in the subject you lead (and if you're a curriculum leader, we've got a Personal Development Audit that covers the entire curriculum too!)

Understanding your subject's impact on pupils' cultural capital and personal development is a key component of subject leadership, and is something you may wish to evidence in a subject leader file. 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.

Struggling to get release time to monitor Music or having to complete subject monitoring in your PPA? This Ten-Minute Subject Monitoring in Music Pack provides a solution to the challenges of having a high level of accountability as a primary subject leader but not having the time to complete the monitoring activities necessary - often because of factors beyond your control, such as the school budget, booking supply or getting cover.

Ten-minute subject monitoring works by identifying different time slots where you can be away from your teaching commitments in order to conduct a precise and focused subject monitoring activity on one element, such as a work scrutiny focusing on one strand of the Music curriculum or a single 10-minute lesson drop-in. So rather than trying to find a full afternoon's cover to conduct a term or half-term's worth of monitoring, you can spread monitoring across a term by choosing slots where teaching and learning in your own classroom won't be impacted.

Aimed at primary Music subject leads (or those line managing a Music subject leader), this pack walks you through the entire process and is full of ideas on how to find and utilise ten-minute time slots for subject monitoring, as well as what you should be looking for in your monitoring when it comes to declarative knowledge, procedural knowledge and tacit knowledge, plus the three pillars of Music - technical, constructive and expressive skills.

Want to know what's inside the pack? View a preview version of the guidance and accompanying template to get a deeper understanding of how ten-minute subject monitoring can help you!

Struggling to get release time to monitor Geography or having to complete subject monitoring in your PPA? This Ten-Minute Subject Monitoring in Geography Pack provides a solution to the challenges of having a high level of accountability as a primary subject leader but not having the time to complete the monitoring activities necessary - often because of factors beyond your control, such as the school budget, booking supply or getting cover.

Ten-minute subject monitoring works by identifying different time slots where you can be away from your teaching commitments in order to conduct a precise and focused subject monitoring activity on one element, such as a book look focusing on one strand of the Geography curriculum or a single 10-minute lesson drop-in. So rather than trying to find a full afternoon's cover to conduct a term or half-term's worth of monitoring, you can spread monitoring across a term by choosing slots where teaching and learning in your own classroom won't be impacted.

Aimed at primary Geography subject leads (or those line managing a Geography subject leader), this pack walks you through the entire process and is full of ideas on how to find and utilise ten-minute time slots for subject monitoring. It also explores what you should be looking for in your monitoring when it comes to the four strands of substantive knowledge in Geography; locational knowledge, place knowledge, environmental, human and physical processes and geographical skills, as well as disciplinary knowledge in Geography.

Want to know what's inside the pack? View a preview version of the guidance and accompanying template to get a deeper understanding of how ten-minute subject monitoring can help you!

This Subject Intervention and Provision Map Bundle is ideal for any subject leader who's looking to explore what additional support is given to pupils in their subject.

Aimed at primary subject leaders, this mini bundle contains two useful editable Word templates. The Subject Intervention and Provision Audit allows you to look in-depth at your subject and the provision, adaptations, differentiation and intervention on offer. This template is split into three handy sections that cover the following:

• Quality First Teaching
• Targeted Pupil Support
• Group Intervention

This allows you to explore the current offer for pupils who need additional support to attain well in your subject as well as changes that could be made to further improve outcomes for pupils. You can then use the Subject Provision Map to give an overview of the different types of provision and support available in different year groups as well as summarising the general strategies used by all staff to support learning. 

Understanding how pupils who need extra help, such as pupils with SEND or disadvantaged pupils, are supported in your subject is a key component of subject leadership, and is something you may wish to evidence in a subject leader file. 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.