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REFRESHED JUNE 2025

In this resource, you will find resources to help you prepare for a Head of Year or Pastoral Leader interview.

You can also find two smaller bundles here:

Pastoral Leader Interview Bundle 1: /teaching-resource/head-of-year-head-of-house-pastoral-role-interview-bundle-12348298

Pastoral Leader Interview Bundle 2: /teaching-resource/head-of-year-head-of-house-pastoral-role-interview-bundle-12425576

This ultimate bundle of resources contains 20 resources to help you prepare for almost every area of an interview!

This includes:

**Interview Questions:
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• 3 x sets of pastoral interview questions - 45+ questions questions in total (no answers - just questions!)

• set 1, set 2 and set 3 of my 5 big pastoral questions. These each include how to answer 5 common questions or scenarios posed in an interview (15 questions and answers total)

• set 1 of my pastoral question and answers series - this details 15 questions with potential responses in bullet point form

NOTE: you may find some duplication of questions in the resources above - however, they are all designed to give you breadth and depth of understanding in relation to the questions you may face on interview and the answers you could provide!

**Data Analysis and Interpretation:
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• 2 x progress data analysis prep tasks to help you hone your data skills - great for practicing data analysis as a pastoral leader

• 1 x attendance data analysis prep task to help practice analysing attendance data

• a detailed guide to analysing progress data as a pastoral leader - full of top tips and hints for how to offer your best analysis from a pastoral perspective

• a detailed guide to understanding and analysing attendance data as a pastoral leader and how to improve attendance within your year group

**Year Group Improvement:
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• an example year group planning and improvement planning document for you to read and be able to reference ideas from

• two booklets to read before your interview ‘40 Ideas for…’
  a) improving attendance and behaviour
  b) working across school and leading a team

**Interview & In Tray Tasks:
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• guidance on the prioritisation in tray task

• a 7 page PDF guide on getting ready for a pastoral leader interview including tips on what to expect, what skills you’ll need to show and what you can practice before the day!

• a PDF on student panel guidance and how to ace a student panel - a task which has been included on every HOY interview I’ve attended

• guidance on writing a response to a letter of concern from a parent - a common in tray task

A genuinely awesome bundle of resources to help prepare you for an interview. To aid these, there is also lots resources in my shop which you may want to consider adding to your prep!