Preparing for Ofsted Inspection

🔒 Fully aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

This three-part pack gives headteachers a complete toolkit for preparing governors ahead of an Ofsted inspection. It covers the inspection process itself, the questions inspectors could ask across all nine evaluation areas, and a ready-to-use PowerPoint for running a governor preparation session. 

You'll get:

☑️ Ofsted Inspection Preparation Questions for Governors and Trustees – a comprehensive 38-page rehearsal tool organised around the nine evaluation areas of the 2025 School Inspection Toolkit, with inspector-style questions, guidance on what each question is exploring, tips for answering and a notes column for governors to record their own examples and evidence in advance

☑️ Ofsted Inspections – Guidance for Governors – a clear, accessible PDF overview of how the current inspection framework works, what governors' roles are during inspection and how to prepare; designed to be shared with governors in advance of the inspection

☑️ Ofsted Inspection Governors and Trustees Update Briefing PowerPoint – a structured 34-slide presentation for the headteacher to use in a governor preparation meeting, covering the key changes to the framework, what happens in the governance meeting during an inspection and discussion prompts across the main evaluation areas

Ideal for headteachers, deputy headteachers and chairs of governors preparing their governing board ahead of a Section 5 inspection. All documents (except the PDF) are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.

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

Gathering meaningful feedback on attendance and behaviour from pupils, parents and staff takes more than sending out a form. It requires careful planning, well-designed questions, a structured approach to analysis and a clear process for sharing findings back with your school community.

This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about attendance and behaviour, 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 survey templates covering pupils (two versions for different age/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, so you can adapt or extend the surveys to suit your school's context

☑️ 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.

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

Understanding how well your school includes and supports every pupil – those with SEND, those who are disadvantaged, those known to children's social care and those who face less visible barriers to learning – requires more than your own professional judgement. It requires the voices of pupils, parents and staff, gathered systematically and analysed in a way that leads to meaningful action.

This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about inclusion, 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, including targeted questions for pupils and families of children with SEND, disadvantaged pupils, pupils known to children's social care and those facing other barriers to learning

☑️ 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.

🔒 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.

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

The quality of your curriculum and teaching sits at the heart of what Ofsted evaluates but knowing how well it lands with pupils, parents and staff requires more than lesson observations and assessment data. The perspectives of the people experiencing your curriculum every day are a vital part of the picture, and gathering those views well takes careful planning and the right questions.

This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about curriculum and teaching, 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 curriculum design and sequencing, teaching quality, challenge and support, reading and language development, assessment, evidence-informed practice and professional collaboration

☑️ 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.

🔒 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.

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

Gathering meaningful stakeholder feedback on leadership and governance requires a different kind of question design. You are not asking pupils, parents or staff to pass judgement on your leadership team – you are exploring whether the school has a culture where people feel listened to, valued and confident that decisions are made in their best interests.

Getting this right means moving beyond satisfaction ratings and asking questions that surface genuine experience of culture, communication and trust. This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about leadership and governance, 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 strategic vision and communication, leadership culture and trust, pupil voice and involvement, parent partnership and transparency, staff well-being and workload, and accountability and improvement

☑️ 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

☑️ A 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

🔒 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.