Improving School Standards Resources

🔒 Fully aligned to the final Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

New for 2025, this curriculum and teaching audit pack helps heads, deputies, SLT and curriculum leaders review their curriculum design (intent) and the delivery of it (implementation) across eight key areas. Fully aligned with the Ofsted 2025 School Inspection Toolkit, it supports self-evaluation, curriculum planning, inspection preparation and whole-school improvement.

☑️ Comprehensive curriculum and teaching audit document with structured prompts across eight key themes: strategic leadership of curriculum and teaching, securing strong foundations for all pupils, school and subject curriculum design, teaching practice and delivery, inclusive curriculum and teaching, professional development and continuous improvement, culture and collaboration, and evaluating impact 
☑️ Complete audit toolkit includes action plan template, curriculum and teaching evidence checklist, staff, pupil, parent/carer and governor question bank, a one-page SLT/governor summary and step-by-step guidance on conducting an effective audit
☑️ Fully editable templates allow you to adapt all materials for your school's specific context and priorities

Ideal for curriculum leaders, heads and SLT conducting curriculum reviews, evaluating teaching quality, planning school improvement or preparing for Ofsted inspection.

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👉 This audit pack is part of our Complete School Leadership Audit Set, which includes eleven audits in one purchase, saving you money whilst ensuring you can evaluate your entire school provision across all Ofsted evaluation areas plus plus three essential good practice audits.

This Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact Statement Checklist is ideal for any curriculum or subject leader who's looking to either write a curriculum statement from scratch or review and refine their existing statement.

It walks you through the stages of intent, implementation and impact, and offers helpful suggestions about what to include for each section, such as:

• Curriculum Intent - subject vision and purpose, curriculum goals, cultural capital, key themes and concepts, and curriculum sequencing
• Curriculum Implementation - curriculum design, teaching and learning strategies, resourcing, professional development, feedback and adaptive teaching
• Curriculum Impact - pupil outcomes, assessment data, pupil engagement, community and parent involvement, and whole-school impact

Sometimes called a "three I's" statement, your curriculum intent, implementation and impact statement is a vital document to have, as it supports teachers and leaders to understand how your subject is taught. It is also a key document to have on your school website as it can be viewed by external parties, such as prospective parents or Ofsted, to understand how your subject is taught. 

So if it's been a while since you looked at your statement, or if you don't have one in place at all, this editable checklist is ideal to save you time and energy when wondering what to include in a curriculum impact, implementation and impact statement, allowing you to get going straight away on writing or revamping yours.

A curriculum intent, implementation and impact statement also plays a key role for subject leaders in deeply understanding the rationale for their subject and is a key component of any subject leader folder. For further support with creating, building and organising an effective subject leader folder, this template along with many more are also included in our Subject Leader Folder Pack.

Looking to plan and prepare an effective continuous professional development cycle? Whether you’re wondering how to explore the training needs of all staff within your team or want to ensure you have a combination of whole-school and individual-focused support, this CPD Planning and Preparation Pack can support you throughout the process.

🔒 Fully aligned with the Ofsted 2025 School Inspection Toolkit

This ready-to-use SEF template takes the complexity out of school self-evaluation, providing clear frameworks and prompts that reflect how inspectors actually assess schools against the 2025 Ofsted Inspection Framework. Designed specifically for headteachers, deputy heads, and senior leadership teams who need efficient, evidence-based evaluation tools.

What you get in the pack

Two comprehensive documents that work together:

☑️ Self-Evaluation Form Template Complete editable evaluation framework with detailed prompts for all evaluation areas, evidence source suggestions for each section, and structured format ensuring comprehensive coverage. Fully editable to save hours of formatting time covering the following areas:

• Safeguarding - comprehensive prompts covering culture, policies, training, and multi-agency working
• Inclusion - SEND provision, disadvantaged pupils, pupil premium strategy, and accessibility
• Curriculum and Teaching - curriculum design, sequencing, assessment, and professional development
• Achievement - progress tracking, foundational knowledge, and outcomes analysis
• Attendance and Behaviour - culture, expectations, intervention strategies, and data analysis
• Personal Development and Well-being - PSHE, careers education, character development, and life preparation
• Leadership and Governance - strategic planning, performance management, and stakeholder engagement
• Early Years - EYFS curriculum, assessment, and transition planning (where applicable)
• Post-16 Provision - study programmes, careers guidance, and progression outcomes (where applicable)

☑️ Ofsted Grade Descriptor Grids Current grade descriptors aligned to the latest inspection toolkit, helping you accurately assess performance against the standards inspectors actually use.

• Quality of Education
• Behaviour and Attitudes
• Personal Development
• Leadership and Management
• Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) (if applicable to your setting)
• Sixth-Form Provision (if applicable to your setting)

Perfect for headteachers planning and reviewing their SIP, senior leaders conducting annual reviews, or governing bodies seeking structured evaluation processes. It's particularly valuable for new headteachers or leadership teams wanting to ensure comprehensive coverage of all inspection areas or those wishing to refine their SEF writing process.

👉 For those seeking deeper guidance on how to write a SEF, our School Evaluation and Improvement Pack is also available - it contains this editable SEF template too, plus templates for writing a school improvement plan, full PDF guidance and further supportive resources. If you're thinking about your SEF as part of Ofsted preparation, it's available in the full Ofsted Inspection Preparation Pack too.

This bundle is perfect for headteachers, trust leaders, governance professionals and SLT members who wish to be consistent in the way they report information to their governing board. The thirteen editable reporting templates will help your governing board to gain a clearer picture in each of the areas, which include school finance, safeguarding, subject reports, wellbeing, pupil premium and more. Each template contains space for data and commentary, allowing governors to build a picture of the school's current position and the reasons behind this.

Regular reports to the relevant governor committees, the full governing board or your local board members allows all of your governors to make more effective strategic decisions because they'll hold a deeper understanding of the school. It can also support governors to share how they hold school leadership to account to ensure compliance, which is a crucial part of the Ofsted leadership and management judgement and a key feature of an effective governing board.

👉 For support with a specific link governor role, the relevant report to governor template is also available in our individual link governor support packs. These packs also include full audits that can be used in a collaborative manner between schools leaders and governors, plus a role and responsibilities document to support link governors with their specific roles.

Thinking of conducting surveys to support school improvement and aid you and your team in leading change? Whether you’re hoping to gather feedback about a particular area of your school, aiming for an overall summary or unsure where to begin, this School Stakeholder Survey Pack can support you throughout the process.