Curriculum, Achievement & Pupil Development

If you're looking to explore your school's provision and curriculum in Literacy for your early years children, this audit pack gives you the perfect starting point. Aimed at primary school settings, the audit can be used by EYFS leads, year 1 leaders & teachers, and curriculum leaders to explore how effectively your school gives children broad and exciting  learning opportunities in early literacy, including comprehension, word reading and early writing and mark-making. Links are also made between the EYFS and the National Curriculum subjects in Year 1 to provide support for that crucial transition, and is ideal if you're looking to provide a cohesive curriculum offer.

If you're looking to explore your school's provision and curriculum in Communication and Language for your early years children, this audit pack gives you the perfect starting point. Aimed at primary school settings, the audit can be used by EYFS leads, year 1 leaders & teachers, and curriculum leaders to explore how effectively your school gives children broad and exciting learning opportunities to speak, listen, develop their vocabulary and build their early communication skills. Links are also made between the EYFS and the National Curriculum subjects in Year 1 to provide support for that crucial transition, and is ideal if you're looking to provide a cohesive curriculum offer.

🔒 Fully aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

Ofsted inspection can feel daunting when you're an assessment lead, especially if you're new to the role or haven't experienced an inspection under the current framework.

Designed specifically for assessment leads, this focused preparation pack translates the 2025 School Inspection Toolkit into practical guidance about your role during inspection. You'll understand when and how you'll engage with inspectors, what questions they're likely to explore and how to demonstrate how assessment is used effectively to support pupils' learning and track their progress across the school.

You'll get:

☑️ Assessment Lead Inspection Role Guidance –  clear explanation of when you'll be involved during inspection, what happens during focused leadership discussions and work scrutiny, and what inspectors want to understand from you

☑️ Example Ofsted Assessment Lead Questions – realistic questions you might be asked during inspection conversations, helping you practise articulating your approach and identify any areas to strengthen

☑️ Further supporting documents – including a leader action checklist to build your inspection knowledge, an inspection readiness tool to evaluate your current practice against toolkit statements, and editable grade descriptor grids highlighting achievement and assessment across the framework

This Ofsted assessment lead resources pack helps to build your confidence to articulate your work clearly and supports you to prepare effectively without creating unnecessary workload. All templates are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context and use them as part of your ongoing assessment leadership, not just for inspection preparation.

👉 Looking for further support on preparing for inspection? These resources are also available as part of the full Ofsted Inspection Preparation Pack too.

If you're wondering about the provision your setting offers in literacy, including your current strengths and weaknesses, this bundle is ideal to take the first step in exploring your pupils' experiences of reading, writing, phonics, spoken language and more. Created from EEF literacy research and recommendations, these helpful documents allow you to RAG rate your provision and identify steps for improvement. 

If you're looking to explore your school's provision and curriculum in Understanding the World (UW) for your early years children, this audit pack gives you the perfect starting point. Aimed at primary school settings, the audit can be used by both EYFS leads, year 1 leaders & teachers, and curriculum leaders to explore how effectively your school gives children broad and exciting UW learning opportunities and where there are opportunities to develop further. Links are also made between the EYFS and the National Curriculum subjects in Year 1 to provide support for that crucial transition, and is ideal if you're looking to provide a cohesive curriculum offer.

Designed for headteachers, deputy heads and curriculum leads, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting on whole-school curriculum quality to your governing board without having to build a report from scratch.

You'll get:

☑️ Curriculum Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, 14-page editable Word document covering:

• curriculum leadership and governance
• whole-school curriculum intent including vision, design for all pupils and evidence base
• curriculum breadth across all national curriculum subjects
• curriculum implementation including sequencing, consistency and pedagogical approach
• whole-school progress and attainment data by pupil group
• assessment across the curriculum including phonics and key stage outcomes
• reading and targeted reading support
• whole-school curriculum monitoring activities
• achievements and staffing updates
• subject leadership overview with RAG ratings
• enrichment and cultural capital
• staff and pupil feedback
• curriculum CPD and subject leader development
• curriculum policy review dates
• a strengths and areas for development evaluation including governor questions and challenges

All sections are fully editable so you can adapt the template to your school's context and reporting cycle.

Ideal for headteachers, deputy heads and curriculum leads preparing termly or annual curriculum reports to governors.

👉 Looking for more governor report templates? This template and others are part of our Reports to Governors Template Bundle

If you're looking to explore your school's provision and curriculum in Expressive Arts and Design (EAD) for your early years children, this audit pack gives you the perfect starting point. Aimed at primary school settings, the audit can be used by EYFS leads, year 1 leaders & teachers, KS1 phase leaders and curriculum leaders to explore how effectively your school gives children broad and exciting EAD learning opportunities and where there are chances to develop this even further. Links are also made between the EYFS and the National Curriculum subjects in Year 1 to provide support for that crucial transition, and is ideal if you're looking to provide a cohesive curriculum offer between the early years and KS1.

🔒 New for 2026 and fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

Gathering meaningful stakeholder feedback on post-16 provision requires a different frame from surveys elsewhere in the school. Post-16 students are well placed to reflect critically on whether their courses are stretching them, whether they received genuinely useful guidance when choosing their programme and whether provision is equipping them for life beyond school. Parents of post-16 students often feel less visible in the school community than they did lower down, and staff working in sixth form contexts bring specific expertise and perspectives that whole-school surveys rarely capture in enough depth.

This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about post-16 provision, and because the core survey templates come pre-populated with carefully considered questions, you can move from planning to distribution with minimal preparation time.

You'll get:

☑️ Three ready-to-use surveys – a student survey using a Likert scale for independent completion, a parent survey and a staff survey – all aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 

☑️ A question and statement bank covering curriculum challenge and teaching quality, advice, guidance and course fit, inclusion and belonging, careers and future plans, work experience and wider opportunities, student voice, curriculum structure and assessment, intervention and academic support, and preparation for adulthood

☑️ A survey analysis template with tally tables, open question theme tables, a summary and next steps section, and an Overall Summary Triangulation table with RAG ratings

☑️ A pre-survey checklist to guide you through each stage of the process, and four survey letter templates for communicating with parents and staff before and after the survey

☑️ An 18-page PDF guidance document covering the full survey cycle, and a free worked example to help you interpret and act on your results

All documents are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.

🔒 New for 2026 and fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

Gathering meaningful stakeholder feedback on early years provision requires a different approach to surveys in other parts of the school. Children in the early years cannot complete written surveys independently, parents are often the primary source of evidence about how well their child has settled and how supported they feel at home, and staff feedback in this context needs to go beyond general teaching confidence to address the specific demands of early years pedagogy, assessment and care.

This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about early years provision, and because the core survey templates come pre-populated with carefully considered questions, you can move from planning to distribution with minimal preparation time.

You'll get:

☑️ Three ready-to-use surveys – a child survey using a supported emoji/faces scale for use with a known trusted adult, a parent survey and a staff survey – all aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 

☑️ A question and statement bank covering feeling safe and secure, engagement and learning experiences, communication and interaction, relationships and social development, confidence and motivation, settling and transitions, support for learning and development, understanding the curriculum and pedagogy, teaching interactions and assessment, inclusion and SEND, environment and routines, and safeguarding and supervision

☑️ A survey analysis template with tally tables, open question theme tables, a summary and next steps section, and an Overall Summary Triangulation table with RAG ratings

☑️ A pre-survey checklist to guide you through each stage of the process, and four survey letter templates for communicating with parents and staff before and after the survey

☑️ An 18-page PDF guidance document covering the full survey cycle, and a free worked example to help you interpret and act on your results

All documents are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.