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In these three PDFs, I answer 15 big pastoral questions. These are intended to support existing or new heads of year as well as being potential questions you may get asked on interview. This set includes questions like: how do you create year group cohesion? why are assemblies important? what is included in a successful form time? why is monitoring attendance important? how do you improve the resilience of your year group? what should you do with your failing FT? why are form tutors important? how do you deal with an angry parent? how do you lead a team? The answers to these questions are suggestions only – they are not necessarily definitive. If preparing for interview, I always recommend you tailor your questions to the school you’re applying to and ensure you are giving specific examples of what you’re able to offer. If in post, always remember the policies of your school.

In this bundle, you will find several resources designed to help you practice and develop your understanding of analysing data in preparation for a Head of Year/Pastoral Leader interview. A frequent in tray task for these interviews is data analysis and improvement planning. You will find: 2 x whole year group practice progress data tasks with hints and tips on how to complete 1 x select student group practice progress data task A detailed guide to analysing progress data as a Pastoral Leader 1 x attendance analysis in tray practice task These documents will give you a great way to develop your understanding of data and how to improve progress and understand analysing attendance as Head of Year. Please follow me: facebook.com/teachcoach

In this bundles you will find lots of resources to help you prepare for in tray tasks at a Head of Year interview! an overview of the interview day, organisation and in trays you can expect on a Head of Year/pastoral role interview - this covers 10 tasks you might be asked to tackle and briefly how to approach each one a detailed guide on how to analyse data as a Head of Year 2 x example progress/attainment data analysis tasks for you to practice prior to the day (whole year group practice data) 1 x example progress/attainment data analysis tasks for you to practice prior to the day (select focused cohort practice data) 1 x example attendance data analysis task for you to practice prior to the day a detailed guide on how to respond to a parental complaint letter in tray task 2 x example prioritisation in tray tasks with worked examples and space for your own completion of the task guidance on a gold fish bowl task and how these types of tasks work

This bundle includes 10 resources which are designed to support to professional development and improvement of Heads of Year and/or Pastoral Leaders. My e-booklet 40 Ideas for Heads of Year on rewards and behaviour and attendance My 2nd e-booklet on 40 Ideas on Leading Your Team and Working Across School 3 sets of professional development courses which can be taken for free A PDF guide on how to analyse data A PDF guide on how to support high ability learners as HOY Make sure you follow me: facebook.com/teachcoach

In this bundle you will find different resources to help you monitor and improve attendance. This is a comprehensive attendance bundle which contains many of the resources any Head of Year would need to track and improve attendance. A tracking and intervention spreadsheet - this conditionally formatted spreadsheet allows you to track your year group attendance weekly and allows you to track your interventions also. Attendance interview template - this is a template for used in a school attendance panel or similar meeting and is helpful to identify any concerns as well as formalise the process of monitoring attendance 6 week monitoring card - this is a card which can be printed and handed to students, or stuck into homework diaries etc, this is designed to be completed weekly with attendance and can be used to monitor the 6 week improvement period of students below thresholds of your choice (90/95 etc). Attendance improvement plan - this an example improvement plan for heads of year to use when trying to target attendance. It provides strategies and priorities for focus - much like a year group improvement plan, but just so attendance. A guide for improving and monitoring attendance Please follow me: facebook.com/teachcoach

REFRESHED FOR 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 everything to help you prepare for almost every area of an interview! This includes: 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 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! 2 x data analysis prep tasks to help you hone your data skills - great for practicing data analysis as a pastoral leader a form time quality assurance form - to help you be able to discuss what you’d look out for in a great form time and how you would quality assure your tutors example year group planning and improvement planning documents 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 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 an example attendance improvement plan to give you plenty to talk about when you’re asked about how you would improve attendance guidance on writing a response to a letter of concern from a parent - a common in tray task a detailed guide to analysing data as a pastoral leader - full of top tips and hints for how to offer your best analysis from a pastoral perspective my detailed guidance for new heads of year - this will give you a great feel for the role and how you will manage it! A genuinely awesome bundle of resources to help prepare you for an interview. To aid these, there is also some free resources in my shop which you may want to consider adding to your prep.