School Improvement and Evaluation Tools

🔒 Fully aligned with the Ofsted 2025 School Inspection Toolkit

Streamline your school improvement journey with practical tools designed specifically for headteachers, senior leaders and school improvement teams. This detailed pack provides everything you need to create robust self-evaluation forms, strategic improvement plans and post-Ofsted action plans that drive meaningful change.

What you'll get:

• Complete 24-page Self-Evaluation Form template aligned to the 2025 Ofsted framework with guided support commentary, plus editable Ofsted Grade Descriptor Grids
• Ready-to-use School Improvement Plan template plus comprehensive checklist to ensure the key SIP areas are covered
  
• CPD Plan and Cycle templates with Staff Confidence Survey to support improvement and staff development
• Headteacher's Report to Governors template for report to the governing board
• Pupil, Parent, Staff and Governor Question Bank for gathering stakeholder voice
• Step-by-step 34-page guidance covering all aspects of school improvement planning with practical examples and reflection prompts

Perfect for: Headteachers, deputy heads, assistant heads, and senior leadership teams leading whole-school improvement initiatives. Especially valuable for leaders who are new to writing a SEF or a SIP, and schools preparing for inspection, implementing new improvement strategies, or responding to Ofsted framework changes.

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🔒 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.

🔒 Fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

This SEND Self-Evaluation Form (SEF) template helps SENDCos and inclusion leaders evaluate their setting's SEND provision, strengths and development areas and is aligned with all  areas of the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit.

You'll get:

☑️ SEND SEF template with structured criteria across all key areas of SEND leadership: leadership and governance, safeguarding, curriculum and teaching, attendance and behaviour, personal development and well-being, working with parents, assessment and identification, achievement, monitoring and evaluation, efficient use of resources, quality of SEND provision, and pupil perspectives

☑️ Reflective questions in each section to support critical, evidence-based evaluation of your SEND provision, plus guidance on where to find multiple sources of evidence to support your judgements

☑️ Ofsted Grade Descriptor Grids fully aligned to the 2025 toolkit, with particular focus on the Inclusion strand to inform your self-evaluation decisions

The template is fully editable so you can adapt it for your school's specific context and SEND cohort.

Who should use this template?

This is essential for SENCos, inclusion leaders and SEND coordinators responsible for evaluating provision for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities. It's particularly valuable for new SENDCos building their self-evaluation practice, or experienced leaders who need structured headspace to evaluate SEND strategically rather than getting lost in day-to-day operational demands. Headteachers and SLT with SEND oversight will also find it useful for monitoring inclusion provision.

🔒 Fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

This subject leader self-evaluation template helps curriculum and subject leaders evaluate their subject's strengths and development areas and are fully aligned with the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit.

You'll get:

☑️ Structured self-evaluation criteria across all Ofsted toolkit strands (Safeguarding, Inclusion, Curriculum and Teaching, Achievement, Attendance and Behaviour, Personal Development and Well-being, plus optional Early Years and Post-16 sections), with Curriculum and Teaching broken down in detail for subject leadership including Intent, Implementation and Impact

☑️ Reflective questions and guidance on evidence sources in each section to support critical, evidence-based evaluation of your subject provision

☑️ Ofsted Grade Descriptor Grids fully aligned to the 2025 toolkit to inform your self-evaluation decisions

The template is fully editable so you can adapt it for your subject and school context.

Who should use this template?

This is essential for subject leaders, curriculum coordinators, phase leaders and middle leaders responsible for evaluating provision in their subject area. It's particularly valuable for new subject leads building their evaluation skills, or experienced leaders refining their SEF process. Headteachers and SLT can also use it to support consistency across subject leadership teams.

🔒 Fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

This EYFS Self-Evaluation Bundle helps early years leaders evaluate their provision's strengths and development areas.

You'll get:

☑️ EYFS Self-Evaluation Form (SEF) template with structured criteria viewed through an early years lens across all Ofsted toolkit strands (Safeguarding, Inclusion, Curriculum and Teaching, Achievement, Attendance and Behaviour, Personal Development and Well-being, Leadership and Governance), with the Early Years strand explored in detail

☑️ Reflective questions in each section to support critical, evidence-based evaluation of your early years provision, plus guidance on where to find multiple sources of evidence

☑️ Early Years RAG Rating Tool so you can quickly assess your provision against core grade descriptors and identify priority areas for improvement

☑️ EYFS Ofsted Grade Descriptor Grids fully aligned to the 2025 toolkit to inform your self-evaluation decisions

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

Who should use this bundle?

This is essential for EYFS leaders, early years coordinators and reception leads responsible for evaluating provision in their setting. It's particularly valuable for new early years leads building their self-evaluation skills, or experienced leaders refining their SEF process. Headteachers and SLT with EYFS responsibility will also find it useful for monitoring and supporting early years provision.

The editable EYFS SEF template and accompanying documents are ideal for new early years leads or those wishing to refine their EYFS SEF writing process. Often, these sorts of documents are kept - either digitally or paper-based - in an EYFS leader file. For further support with creating, building and organising an effective early years leader folder, this template along with many more are also included in our full EYFS Leader Folder Pack.

AI use and ethics in schools – clear, reflective and leadership-focused.

Designed for heads, SLT, trust leaders and anyone interested in exploring effective use of AI in schools, this editable toolkit supports ethical use of AI in education by helping your school explore the risks, responsibilities and values that should guide staff use of AI tools. Use it to identify opportunities for AI to reduce workload, reflect on AI risks in schools and shape a clear, responsible and purposeful way forward for your setting.

☑️ Created for leaders reflecting on AI use and how it can benefit their school as well as potential risks
☑️ Supports school-wide discussion across seven areas of school life, including teaching and learning, assessment, administration, SEND and inclusion, parent communication, leaderships and ethical use of AI
☑️  Includes structured reflection entries with benefits, risks and discussion questions

Ideal for teams starting to explore AI, or for leaders who want to lead with clarity, not hype.

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Start meaningful conversations about AI use in schools without needing all the answers. This free editable download offers sample reflection questions across key areas of school life, plus prompts to help you think more widely about the ethical use of AI in education.

It’s designed for headteachers, SLT, trust leaders and any school leaders starting to explore how AI might support or impact their setting.

Use it to begin strategic thinking, shape SLT discussions or evaluate where AI fits into your wider school planning. You can also upgrade to the full toolkit if you're ready to go deeper.

🔒 Fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

This editable audit pack helps heads, deputies and school leaders take a clear-sighted look at how their school promotes personal development and supports pupil well-being. Built around the structure and themes in Ofsted’s 2025 School Inspection Toolkit, it offers a detailed framework to evaluate current strengths, identify gaps and shape next steps in students' personal development and well-being.

You'll get:

☑️ Comprehensive and editable 52-page personal development and well-being audit document with guiding questions and evidence prompts across six key framework areas: strategic leadership of personal development, the personal development programme, careers education, pastoral support and well-being, inclusive personal development, and evaluating impact.

☑️ Document checklist and voice-gathering question bank to support evidence triangulation when auditing, plus action plan template, one-page summary and grade descriptor grids to support next steps

☑️ 18-page audit guidance providing detailed commentary on each evaluation area

Ideal for leaders who want to reflect now, plan ahead and keep school improvement moving, regardless of when inspection is due.

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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 three essential good practice audits.