Personal Development and Well-being Survey Pack

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

Personal development is one of the most far-reaching areas Ofsted evaluates, covering everything from character and resilience to careers, mental health, British values and enrichment. Knowing what pupils, parents and staff actually think about how well your school delivers in this area is essential for honest self-evaluation, and gathering that feedback well takes more than a quick questionnaire.

This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about personal development and well-being, 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 covering pupils (two versions for different age and ability groups), parents and carers, and staff – each ready-made with closed and open questions aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

☑️ A question and statement bank with additional prompts across all three stakeholder groups, covering opportunities and participation, life skills, well-being and support, preparation for the future, British values, school culture and careers

☑️ A survey analysis template with structured tables for tallying responses, identifying themes and triangulating findings across all three groups

☑️ A pre-survey checklist to help you think through the logistics before you launch and survey letter templates – ready-made notification and feedback letters for parents and staff

☑️ Comprehensive guidance on planning, administering, analysing and sharing survey findings, including how to handle difficult results and a free worked example that helps you learn how to effectively analyse and triangulate survey data

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

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Personal Development and Well-being Survey Pack

Personal Development and Well-being Survey Pack

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What's in this Personal Development and Well-being Survey Pack?

This pack provides a complete, end-to-end system for gathering, analysing and acting on stakeholder feedback about personal development and well-being. 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: Personal Development and Well-being – two versions to suit different age groups and abilities. The first uses a four-point emoji/faces scale with simpler language, suitable for younger pupils or those who may find self-expression more challenging. Questions cover whether adults help them develop teamwork and resilience, whether there are clubs and activities they enjoy, whether they have leadership opportunities, whether adults notice their achievements and whether they feel proud of their progress. The second uses a Likert scale (Strongly agree to Strongly disagree) with more developed language, covering life skills, knowing where to get help with their well-being, adaptive support, enrichment opportunities, leadership, resilience, recognition, future readiness and respect for diversity. Both versions include open questions asking pupils what the school does well and what could be improved. Both avoid a neutral midpoint to encourage pupils to express a clear preference.

☑️ Parent Feedback Survey: Personal Development and Well-being – a 12-question closed survey plus two open questions, using a four-point Likert scale. Questions cover personal development and character growth, confidence and resilience, life skills, leadership opportunities, enrichment and extracurricular activities, well-being partnership, mental health support, values, future readiness and communication about what is available. Includes guidance on timing, distribution, anonymity and how to aim for a meaningful response rate.

☑️ Staff Feedback Survey: Personal Development and Well-being – 12 closed questions and two open questions, designed to gather professional views on how meaningfully personal development is embedded across the curriculum and wider school life, including opportunities for resilience and leadership, access for disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND, British values, careers provision and pupil well-being. Also covers school culture, high aspiration, pastoral identification processes and staff training. Includes an optional role field so responses can be grouped by teaching and support staff if useful. Guidance on timing, distribution and achieving a meaningful return rate is included.

☑️ Personal Development and Well-being Question and Statement Bank – a broad bank of additional questions and statements across all three stakeholder groups, organised by theme. Pupil themes include opportunities and participation, personal development and life skills, well-being and support, preparation for the future, and respect, values and equality. Parent themes include personal development and well-being support, communication and involvement, inclusion and equality, and future readiness and careers. Staff themes include embedding personal development, supporting pupil well-being, and school culture and inclusion. The bank includes open questions to prompt richer qualitative responses from all three groups.

☑️ Survey Analysis: Personal Development and Well-being – structured analysis templates for each stakeholder group, each with a closed questions tally table, an open questions theme table and a summary and next steps section. An Overall Summary Triangulation table brings findings from all three groups together and uses a RAG rating system to identify shared strengths, areas of concern and themes where stakeholder responses diverge.

☑️ Pre-Survey Checklist – a step-by-step checklist covering every stage of the survey process, from clarifying your purpose and confirming questions through to closing the survey, analysing responses, feeding back to the community and updating your school improvement plan.

☑️ Survey Letter Templates – four ready-made letter templates: a notification letter to parents and carers, a notification letter to staff, a feedback letter to parents and carers and a feedback letter to staff. Each is editable and structured to support clear, professional communication throughout the survey process.

☑️ Personal Development and Well-being Stakeholder Feedback and Survey Guidance – an 18-page guidance document covering the full survey cycle. It includes advice on why surveys matter, how to choose questions and formats, how to encourage participation, how to analyse results (including how to handle negative feedback constructively) and how to share findings with your school community in a way that drives genuine improvement.

☑️ Worked Example: Analysing and Triangulating Survey Data – a PDF case study built around a realistic school survey scenario on behaviour, bullying and safety. It walks you through the full process of survey preparation, analysis and action planning, with realistic data and commentary so you can see exactly how to interpret results, spot patterns across stakeholder groups and decide what to do next. It can be read straight through as a learning tool or used alongside your own survey data as a reference point – useful for new leaders and experienced ones alike.

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

Who should use this Personal Development and Well-being Survey Pack?

This pack is designed for headteachers, deputy heads and senior leaders who want to gather structured, meaningful feedback on personal development and well-being from across the school community. It is particularly valuable when you are preparing for inspection, reviewing your personal development curriculum or looking to build a stronger evidence base for self-evaluation in this area.

Pastoral leaders and well-being leads will find it a practical tool for understanding how well pupils feel supported with their mental health and emotional well-being, and whether the school's pastoral systems are visible and accessible to families. The parent survey asks directly about partnership working and communication, which can surface gaps leaders may not otherwise be aware of.

Subject leaders and those with responsibility for PSHE, RSHE, careers or enrichment provision will also benefit from the question bank, which includes staff-facing prompts about how personal development is integrated into teaching, how careers education is embedded across subjects and what CPD staff have received to support them in this area.

For trust executives and school improvement leads working across multiple schools, the structured analysis and triangulation templates make it straightforward to compare findings across settings or to support individual schools in developing a more systematic approach to gathering personal development evidence.

How can this pack help school leaders gather meaningful feedback on personal development and well-being?

This pack helps you tackle the most common challenges leaders face when planning and running stakeholder surveys on personal development and well-being.

"How do we find out whether pupils feel the school is genuinely preparing them for the future?"

The older pupil survey asks directly whether the school has helped pupils think seriously about careers, further education and life skills, and whether they feel the school helps them develop resilience and practical skills like teamwork and communication. The question bank includes further prompts on careers advice, understanding different job paths and feeling prepared for what comes after school – all areas that inspectors ask pupils about directly under the 2025 framework.

"How do we know whether our enrichment offer is reaching all pupils?"

The staff survey asks specifically whether all pupils, including those who are disadvantaged or have SEND, can access personal development opportunities – and whether extracurricular provision is effective and well attended. The parent survey asks whether pupils are actively encouraged to take part and whether the school communicates clearly about what is available. Triangulating these responses helps leaders identify whether gaps in access are recognised consistently across all three groups or whether there is a discrepancy worth exploring.

"How can we find out what parents actually know about our well-being support?"

The parent survey includes questions about whether parents feel confident their child knows who to speak to if they are struggling with their feelings or mental health, and whether the school works in partnership with them on pastoral needs. These questions often reveal whether the school's well-being offer is genuinely well-communicated or whether it is more visible to staff than to families.

"How do we know whether British values and character education are being delivered consistently?"

The staff survey asks whether British values are embedded meaningfully across the curriculum and school life, whether personal development is integrated purposefully into daily teaching and whether staff have received CPD to support this. Comparing staff responses with what pupils report about respect, values and their sense of being prepared for life in modern Britain can highlight inconsistencies worth addressing.

"Will this support us for Ofsted?"

Under the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit, personal development is evaluated as a standalone area covering character, well-being, enrichment, British values and careers. Inspectors speak to pupils about the opportunities available to them, how well the school prepares them for life beyond school and whether they feel supported as individuals. Running your own surveys and keeping completed surveys and analysis on file means you have ready evidence that your school listens systematically to its community and acts on what it hears.

Want to build on your personal development and well-being work?

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Take leadership further...

Personal Development and Well-being Audit Pack

If you are planning to survey stakeholders about personal development and well-being, pairing this with the Personal Development and Well-being Audit Pack will give you a much fuller picture. Stakeholder surveys tell you how pupils, parents and staff experience personal development in your school – but an audit goes further, helping you evaluate your policies, systems and practice against what the evidence says should be in place. Strong surveying is itself a component of a robust audit, and together the two tools provide the kind of rounded, evidence-informed self-evaluation that supports confident leadership and inspection readiness.

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