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  Most things aimed at school leaders are either too vague to act on or too long to read. These manage neither. I’ve been through the Safeguarding & Child Protection and SEND & Inclusion playbooks and both are detailed where it matters and blunt everywhere else. The structure is what struck me first — you can find what you need in seconds, which sounds trivial until you’ve tried it at 8am. The templates alone have given me several things I’m taking to my team this term. Genuinely impressive work.

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  The range of artists in the Art & Design playbook is the best I’ve seen in one place — and crucially it tells you how to actually teach them, not just who they were. There’s practical guidance on what an outstanding lesson looks like, and the sketchbook and annotation material is genuinely useful for showing students the difference between weak work and strong work. Everything is clear enough to pick up and use, but there’s real depth underneath it. Plenty here to develop your own teaching from, not just resources to hand out. My team will get a lot from this one.

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  I work in a PRU, so I’m fairly sceptical of behaviour guidance written for mainstream classrooms — most of it assumes a compliance baseline we simply don’t have. Calm Classrooms, Confident Schools doesn’t. The emphasis on relationships, consistency and understanding what sits behind a behaviour is exactly right for our setting, and the strategies are realistic rather than aspirational. I’d recommend it to anyone working in alternative provision or a challenging school.

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  What sold me on Taught to Move was the coverage. Curriculum planning, lesson design, participation, inclusion, assessment, physical competence — and it threads KS3 through to GCSE and A Level rather than treating them as separate jobs. The sections on feedback and practice design are strong. Most usefully, the templates mean it’s something you hand round a department rather than something that sits on a shelf. Good for experienced staff and for anyone leading PE.

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  The Science subject playbook gets something right that is surprisingly difficult to achieve — it works equally well for the classroom teacher and the school leader. As an Assistant Headteacher, I’m constantly focused on curriculum quality, consistency and great teaching across the school, and this playbook brings those perspectives together brilliantly, with real focus on how Science is actually taught: planning, practical work, questioning, misconceptions, assessment and GCSE preparation. It’s the kind of book you genuinely use, not just read — I keep returning to it when planning lessons and reflecting on teaching across the school.

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  The KS3 Art & Design scheme of work is one of the most useful curriculum resources I’ve come across. It maps out progression clearly while still giving teachers the flexibility to bring their own creativity into the classroom. The projects are engaging, purposeful and achievable in a real school setting, balancing core practical skills, a diverse range of artists and genuine understanding of the creative process. Each unit gives structure without becoming prescriptive, empowering students to find their own artistic voice — a scheme of work a department can genuinely rely on year after year.

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