Free School Leadership Resources

This safeguarding training calendar is designed to help you plot safeguarding training topics across the school year to allow a drip-feed approach, rather than relying on only delivering safeguarding CPD in one session during September INSET. Designed from the latest Keeping Children Safe in Education, the training calendar offers suggestions of what you could cover in each term, including abuse, neglect, exploitation, child-on-child abuse, extremism and radicalisation, harmful practices, staff safeguarding duties and more.

While the safeguarding training topics are organised into terms, you can - and should - use calendar flexibly based on the unique needs of your pupils and setting by ticking off when you've covered a certain theme. Should you wish to take a particular safeguarding issue further, helpful resources are linked into the calendar to deepen your safeguarding training offer for your staff. And best of all? This resource is free!

👉Looking for more safeguarding support? We've got a wealth of resources, from training bundles on individual safeguarding issues and safeguarding scenarios, to full packs covering all your safeguarding CPD needs for the Autumn, Spring and Summer term, as well as KCSIE updates and Prevent Duty training, plus support for DSLs and safeguarding governors.

This budget planning checklist and calendar set is designed to help you with staying on top of managing your budget across the school year. The editable budget planning checklist has suggested tasks to attend to when planning your next budget, including for school improvement planning, curriculum budgeting and expenditure, staffing and payroll, pupil premium and SEND. There are also suggestions for when to follow up and monitor each element across the school year. The accompanying calendar provides a month-by-month overview, giving you a quick and easy breakdown of what to explore each month when it comes to monitoring your budget - you could print it out and pin it to your noticeboard as a handy reminder (plus there's a print-friendly version included too). And best of all? This pack is free!

👉Looking for more budget support? This template is also available in the full School Budget Management Pack, which can also help you to upskill yourself on financial management, identify where cost savings can be made and work with your finance governors. This pack offers you best value for money if you want to get a better grip on your budget, but each strand is also available as a separate purchase should you need to explore a single area of budget management: School Budget Planning and Cost Saving Toolkit, School Budget Management Skills Bundle and Budget Planning Questions for Governors.

Plan your September INSET with less stress.

This free checklist gives you a clear, structured run-through of everything that needs to happen before and on INSET day, including training content, safeguarding updates, logistics, staff induction, school improvement priorities and more. Work through it as a team with space to note deadlines and delegate tasks across your team, and start the year without the last-minute scramble. Ideal for headteachers, deputies, SLT, DSLs and anyone leading INSET planning.

☑️ Ideas for your INSET days – ideal for September planning

☑️ Space to personalise your approach, including delegation and key deadlines

☑️ Prompts for safeguarding, statutory updates and sharing your school improvement priorities

☑️ Editable Word format – use digitally or print and scribble

☑️ Includes links to ready-made training packs and resources if you need them

Every summer term brings the same pressure: too much to do, not enough time to do it.

This free end-of-year checklist gives headteachers and senior leaders a clear, structured overview of everything that needs to happen before the doors close for summer – from pupil transition, end-of-year performances and statutory reporting to site maintenance, staff wellbeing and autumn term preparation.

All tasks include a notes column, delegation field and deadline tracker so you can distribute responsibilities across your team rather than carrying everything yourself. And best of all? The resource is free! ☀️