Achievement Survey Pack

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

Gathering meaningful stakeholder feedback on achievement involves more than asking whether pupils are making progress. To build an accurate and actionable picture, you need questions that get beneath surface-level satisfaction, exploring how well pupils across different groups are supported to achieve, how parents understand and engage with their child's learning, and how confident staff feel in assessing, tracking and addressing underachievement.

This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about achievement, 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 pupil survey in two versions (emoji scale for younger or less confident pupils; Likert scale for older or more able pupils), a parent survey and a staff survey – all aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 

☑️ A question and statement bank covering progress and understanding across the curriculum, attitudes to learning and motivation, communication and vocabulary, support for overcoming gaps, SEND and individual needs, preparation for the future, breadth of curriculum achievement and assessment practice

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

All documents (except the PDFs) are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.

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Achievement Survey Pack

Achievement Survey Pack

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What's in this Achievement Survey Pack?

This pack provides a complete, end-to-end system for gathering, analysing and acting on stakeholder feedback about achievement. Every document is aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit, and the survey templates are pre-populated so your team can get started without having to build surveys from scratch.

You'll get:

☑️ Pupil Feedback Survey (two versions) – the first version uses a four-point emoji/faces scale and is designed for younger pupils or those who may find the Likert format more challenging; it includes eight closed questions and one open question covering learning and progress, support when stuck, knowing how to improve, attitudes to work, pride in achievement, vocabulary development, confidence in class, and readiness for the next year. The second version uses a Likert scale (Strongly agree to Strongly disagree) with ten closed questions and two open questions, covering the same themes with more complex language and adding questions about preparation for future stages and careers guidance. Both versions avoid a neutral midpoint to encourage pupils to express a preference.

☑️ Parent Feedback Survey – 12 closed questions and 2 open questions using a four-point Likert scale, covering attainment and progress, breadth of learning and curriculum achievement, individualised support (including for pupils with SEND and those in receipt of pupil premium), communication and understanding, and readiness for the future. Includes guidance on timing, distribution, anonymity and what to do with a small sample.

☑️ Staff Feedback Survey – 12 closed questions and 2 open questions using a four-point Likert scale, covering confidence in identifying and assessing pupil progress, curriculum breadth and knowledge development, addressing gaps and adapting provision, communication and vocabulary across the curriculum, support for disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND, and CPD and professional development. An optional role field allows responses to be grouped by teaching and support staff, which can reveal differences in experience – for example, whether support staff feel as well informed about pupil targets and progress data as classroom teachers, or whether staff delivering interventions have a different view of the effectiveness of gap-closing provision. Includes guidance on timing, distribution and target response rates.

☑️ Question and Statement Bank – a broad selection of additional prompts across all three stakeholder groups, organised by theme, for use in surveys, interviews or informal conversations. Pupil themes include: progress and understanding across the curriculum, attitudes to learning and motivation, communication, language and vocabulary, support for learning and overcoming gaps, SEND and individual needs, and preparation for the future. Parent themes include: attainment and progress, breadth of learning and curriculum achievement, individualised support, communication and understanding, and readiness for the future. Staff themes include: understanding progress and attainment, curriculum breadth and knowledge development, addressing gaps and adapting provision, communication and vocabulary and learning across the curriculum, disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND, and monitoring, evaluation and professional development.

☑️ Survey Analysis Template – tally tables for recording closed responses question by question, open question theme tables for grouping qualitative feedback, a summary and next steps section for capturing key findings and actions, and an Overall Summary Triangulation table with RAG ratings to bring together responses from all three stakeholder groups in one place.

☑️ Pre-Survey Checklist – a step-by-step checklist taking you from clarifying the purpose of your survey through to distributing it, analysing results and updating your school improvement plan, so nothing gets missed at any stage of the process.

☑️ Survey Letter Templates – four editable letter templates: a notification letter and a feedback letter for parents, and a notification letter and a feedback letter for staff, ready to adapt for your school.

☑️ Guidance Document – an 18-page guide covering every stage of the survey cycle, from planning and design through to analysis, reporting and acting on difficult results, with practical advice for leaders at all stages of experience.

☑️ Worked Example – a PDF case study showing how the analysis template works in practice, using a scenario focused on achievement, progress and support for different groups of pupils. It can be read as a standalone guide or used alongside your own data, and is equally useful for new leaders approaching stakeholder surveys for the first time and experienced leaders looking to strengthen their approach.

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

Who should use this Achievement Survey Pack?

This pack is designed for headteachers, deputy headteachers and senior leaders with responsibility for monitoring pupil outcomes and leading school improvement. It is particularly valuable when you want to complement your attainment and progress data with the lived experience of pupils, parents and staff, for example, when beginning a new self-evaluation cycle, when scrutinising the achievement of specific groups, or when preparing evidence for review.

Assessment leads, data leads and curriculum leads will also find this pack useful, particularly where responsibility for evaluating pupil outcomes sits within a specific role. The staff survey is well suited to capturing views from both teaching and support staff, and the optional role field makes it straightforward to identify differences in experience between staff who teach, those who deliver interventions and those who work closely with specific pupil groups.

Trust executives and school improvement leads working across multiple schools will find the pack a practical tool for gathering comparable data on achievement across settings. The consistent structure across pupil, parent and staff surveys makes it easy to identify patterns and anomalies at trust level, and the triangulation table in the analysis template supports a structured approach to cross-school review.

How can this pack help school leaders gather meaningful feedback on achievement?

This pack helps you tackle the most common challenges leaders face when planning and running stakeholder surveys on achievement.

"How do I find out whether pupils feel well supported when they are falling behind or struggling with their learning?"
The pupil surveys directly address this. The emoji-scale version asks whether teachers help when work is hard or pupils get stuck, while the Likert-scale version asks whether adults help effectively when pupils do not understand something and whether pupils know what they need to do to improve. Together, these give you a picture of whether support for learning is visible and meaningful to pupils across different year groups and abilities.

"What can I do to find out whether parents understand how their child is assessed and what progress looks like?"
The parent survey includes questions on whether parents feel informed about their child's achievement, whether targets and next steps have been shared clearly, and whether they feel confident about the accuracy and fairness of the school's assessment. The open question asking what the school could do differently to support attainment, progress or readiness for the future often generates particularly actionable feedback in this area.

"How can I find out whether staff feel confident identifying underachievement and addressing gaps quickly?"
The staff survey includes questions specifically designed to surface this, covering confidence in identifying when pupils are falling behind, ability to use assessment information to plan next steps, access to tools and support for addressing underachievement, and whether the impact of interventions is being evaluated. The optional role field means you can compare responses from classroom teachers and support staff, which can highlight where understanding of gap-closing provision or access to data is inconsistent.

"How do I gather evidence that disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND are achieving as well as their peers?"
The staff survey asks directly whether teachers feel confident adapting provision for disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND without lowering expectations, and whether they track the progress of these groups systematically. The parent survey includes questions on whether children are given the right help to overcome gaps and whether those with SEND are supported to make progress from their individual starting points. Used together, these provide a triangulated view of how effectively the school is meeting the needs of its most vulnerable learners.

"How can I use pupil voice to evidence that the school values achievement across the whole curriculum, not just in English and maths?"
Both pupil surveys ask whether pupils feel they are learning and progressing across subjects, and the Likert-scale version includes a question on whether teachers help pupils learn and use vocabulary across different subjects. The parent survey asks specifically whether parents feel the school values achievement in all areas of the curriculum. The Question and Statement Bank also contains further prompts on breadth of curriculum achievement for use in focus groups or follow-up conversations.

Want to build on your work on pupil outcomes, progress and achievement?

Browse the full range of Honeyguide achievement resources to find tools that support every stage of your self-evaluation and school improvement work in this area.

Take leadership further...

Achievement Audit Pack (2025)

The Achievement Audit Pack goes further than surveying stakeholder views by allowing you to evaluate the systems, processes and leadership practices that underpin pupil outcomes across the school. Where surveys tell you what pupils, parents and staff experience and perceive, the audit examines the structures behind those experiences, from how assessment information is used to plan teaching, to how leaders monitor the progress of specific groups and evaluate the impact of intervention. Strong survey data is a valuable component of a robust achievement audit, and together they provide the rounded, evidence-informed self-evaluation that gives leaders confidence in their understanding of outcomes and what is driving them.

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