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What’s new across The Key from November 2024
Take a look at our new resources around STEM provision, and book on to our 4-class secondary subject leadership course – launching in January 2025.
- How to make STEM a strategic priority in your school or trust
Help your school or trust put STEM at the forefront of its vision, strategy and practice. Find out how effective your current provision is, monitor your school or trust's practice, and ensure your whole school community has the chance to get involved.
- STEM: role of the link governor
Find out how to carry out your role as a STEM link governor effectively. Learn what the role entails and use our questions to hold leaders to account. Download our planner to organise your first year in the role.
- Questions to ask about STEM
Find out what questions to ask subject leaders or department heads, or your school/trust leaders, about STEM provision in your school or trust. Download our questions to take with you to your meeting.
- Secondary subject leadership
Master the skills you need to lead your subject (and team) with confidence, from setting your curriculum intent to maximising impact. You’ll connect with peers who lead your subject, quiz your trainer and leave with the skills you really need to lead and the confidence to handle any conversation about your curriculum.
Resources you might have missed
A round-up of our new and updated resources from the last month from across The Key:
Pay and appraisals
- Your board’s role in teachers' pay progression
- Pay statements and outcome letters for teachers: templates
- Teachers' pay policy: models and examples
- Teacher appraisal policy: model, checklist and examples
- How to review your teachers' pay policy
- Teaching and learning responsibility (TLR) payments
- Pay committee: terms of reference
- Headteacher pay progression
- Upper pay range (UPR): additional responsibilities
Ofsted
Safeguarding
- Instagram: parent factsheet
- Female genital mutilation (FGM): staff factsheet
- Forced marriage: safeguarding scenario
- Financially motivated sexual extortion ('sextortion'): parent and staff factsheets
Exclusions and suspensions
- Independent review panels: role of the exclusions panel chair
- Independent review panels: membership and procedures
- Independent review panel hearings: procedures
- How to consider a suspension of 5 days or fewer in a term
Administration and finance
- Dogs in school: guidance, model policy and risk assessment
- Capital funding: condition improvement fund
- Funds and freebies: monthly highlights
- Compliance hub
- UK GDPR – practical data protection for non-teaching staff
Policies
- How to review your admissions policy
- Emergency or critical incident plan: guidance and examples
- CCTV policy: model and examples
Academies and MATs
- How to follow up an Ofsted inspection at one of your schools
- Adding a school to your MAT: resource toolkit
Governance
- The governing board: purpose and responsibilities (maintained schools)
- Dealing with complaints: a summary for boards
#ShareSomeJoy 🎁
Get into the festive spirit this holiday season by adding a message to our #ShareSomeJoy noticeboard. Celebrate the incredible achievements of your colleagues and peers, and make someone's day a bit brighter, too.
Plus, new for 2024: if you’re short on time or struggling to find the right words, use KeyGPT ✨ to help you create a thankful note, or even a short festive poem!
Post your message and you’ll be entered into a prize draw to win a 12-month Whole School membership to The Key, and, if you win, we’ll also send a gift to the person you thanked, too – joy all round.
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