School Stakeholder Survey Pack

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

This helpful pack provides pre-populated pupil, parent and staff surveys that span all major areas of school life, giving you a broad, triangulated picture of how your school is experienced across safeguarding, behaviour, curriculum, inclusion, personal development, leadership and more. Because the questions are mapped to Ofsted's evaluation framework and designed to complement the questions inspectors ask parents, pupils and staff directly, the data you collect is immediately usable for self-evaluation and inspection readiness.

This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback across the whole school, 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 whole-school 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 and mapped to Ofsted's key evaluation areas

☑️ Nine question and statement banks covering all major evaluation areas: achievement, attendance and behaviour, curriculum and teaching, inclusion, leadership and governance, personal development and well-being, early years, safeguarding, and post-16 provision

☑️ 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 parent and carer survey next steps planning tool – a unique action-planning document that maps poor parent feedback to targeted routes forward and suggested audit and improvement actions 

☑️ 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 23-page PDF guidance document covering the full survey cycle, including how Ofsted use surveys such as Parent View, and a free worked example to help you interpret and act on your results

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

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School Stakeholder Survey Pack

School Stakeholder Survey Pack

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What's in this School Stakeholder Survey Pack?

This pack provides a complete, end-to-end system for gathering, analysing and acting on stakeholder feedback across all major areas of school life. 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 spanning personal development and well-being, safeguarding, curriculum and teaching, behaviour, culture and ethos, achievement, and inclusion. The second version uses a Likert scale (Strongly agree to Strongly disagree) with ten closed questions and two open questions, covering the same evaluation areas with more complex language and adding questions on behaviour and personal development. Every question in both versions is labelled with its Ofsted evaluation area, making it straightforward to map responses to your self-evaluation. 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 learning and progress, safety and well-being, communication and partnership, and confidence in the school. Questions address whether parents feel their child is happy and settled, making good progress, safe and well looked after, and supported in their individual needs; whether the school deals effectively with bullying; whether it communicates well and handles concerns properly; and whether parents feel their child is being encouraged to take part in all areas of school life. Each question is labelled with its Ofsted evaluation area. Includes guidance on timing, distribution, anonymity and what to do with a small sample. The questions are designed to complement and extend the questions asked in Ofsted's own Parent View survey.

☑️ Staff Feedback Survey – 12 closed questions and 2 open questions using a four-point Likert scale, covering behaviour, leadership and governance, curriculum and teaching, safeguarding, personal development, inclusion and staff well-being. Questions address whether pupils behave well, whether the school has a positive culture and ethos, whether the curriculum is well planned and sequenced, staff confidence in subject knowledge and delivery, whether pupils feel safe, whether bullying is handled effectively, whether personal development and well-being are actively promoted, whether staff feel well supported by leaders, whether staff feel confident meeting the needs of pupils with SEND and those who face barriers to learning, whether leaders take reasonable steps to manage workload and well-being, whether the school has high expectations for all pupils, and whether leaders act on staff feedback. An optional role field allows responses to be grouped by teaching and support staff, which can reveal whether support staff feel as well informed about school priorities and leadership decisions as classroom teachers. Includes guidance on timing, distribution and target response rates.

☑️ Nine Question and Statement Banks – a complete set of question and statement banks covering all major Ofsted evaluation areas: achievement, attendance and behaviour, curriculum and teaching, inclusion, leadership and governance, personal development and well-being, early years, safeguarding, and post-16 provision. Each bank contains a broad selection of additional prompts across pupil, parent and staff groups, for use in interviews, focus groups or informal conversations, or to replace questions in the pre-populated surveys when a particular area warrants more targeted investigation.

☑️ Parent and Carer Survey Next Steps Planning Tool – a unique action-planning document not included in any of the topic-specific survey packs. This tool maps each parent survey question to a set of targeted routes forward for use when poor feedback is received. For example:

  • poor feedback on pupil safety links to safeguarding audit and action plan, safeguarding logs, behaviour records, and further pupil and staff surveys
  • poor feedback on SEND support links to a SEND and inclusion audit, intervention reviews and parent forums
  • poor feedback on communication links to parent engagement review, newsletter and website review, and events planning
  • poor feedback on learning support links to attainment data, curriculum and teaching audit, pupil progress meetings and data tracking.

This tool helps leaders move from raw survey results to structured improvement planning quickly and efficiently.

☑️ 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 – a 23-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. 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 (except for the PDFs) are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.

Who should use this School Stakeholder Survey Pack?

This pack is designed for headteachers and deputy headteachers who want to gather a broad, triangulated picture of how their school is experienced across all major evaluation areas in a single, manageable survey exercise. It is particularly valuable at the start of a new self-evaluation cycle, when a new headteacher wants to take stock of the school's strengths and areas for development, or when leaders want to gather whole-school stakeholder evidence efficiently without running multiple topic-specific surveys simultaneously.

Senior leaders and middle leaders with responsibility for specific evaluation areas will find the nine question and statement banks especially useful. Once the whole-school survey has identified areas of strength or concern, the banks provide a ready pool of more targeted questions for follow-up focus groups, one-to-one conversations or supplementary surveys in those specific areas.

Trust executives and school improvement leads working across multiple schools will find the consistent structure of the surveys – and the clear Ofsted evaluation area labelling – makes it practical to gather comparable whole-school data across settings and identify patterns and priorities at trust level. The triangulation table in the analysis template supports cross-school review conversations and can inform decisions about where additional support or deeper investigation is most needed.

How can this pack help school leaders gather meaningful whole-school stakeholder feedback?

This pack helps you tackle the most common challenges leaders face when planning and running whole-school stakeholder surveys.

"How do I run a meaningful stakeholder survey that covers all the areas Ofsted will consider, without it becoming unwieldy for parents and pupils to complete?"
The pre-populated surveys are deliberately concise – the pupil emoji-scale survey has eight closed questions, the Likert-scale version has ten, and the parent and staff surveys each have twelve – while collectively spanning all major Ofsted evaluation areas. Every question is labelled so you can see at a glance which area it addresses. The design reflects what Ofsted's own surveys and inspector conversations tend to focus on, meaning the data you gather is directly comparable to the evidence inspectors will be seeking from your community.

"How do I turn survey results into a structured improvement plan, rather than a document that sits in a folder?"
The Parent and Carer Survey Next Steps Planning Tool is designed specifically for this. For each parent survey question, it maps poor feedback to a set of concrete next steps – whether that is commissioning a specific audit, reviewing logs and data, running a focus group or consulting additional stakeholders. This means the gap between receiving results and taking action is significantly shorter, and the routes forward are grounded in Honeyguide's wider suite of audit and improvement tools.

"How do I find out whether our school culture and ethos is experienced consistently by pupils, parents and staff, or whether there are significant gaps between what leaders believe and what the community experiences?"
The whole-school approach to this pack is precisely what makes it powerful for this question. The triangulation table in the analysis template brings together findings on culture, safety, behaviour and inclusion from all three groups in a single RAG-rated view. Where all three groups are consistent, that gives leaders confidence in their judgements. Where pupils, parents and staff tell markedly different stories about the same theme – for example, whether bullying is dealt with effectively – that divergence is itself important self-evaluation evidence.

"How do I use the survey findings to decide which areas need a deeper dive using more targeted tools?"
The nine question and statement banks are the bridge between the whole-school survey and more focused investigation. If the whole-school survey flags concerns about SEND support, the inclusion question and statement bank provides targeted prompts for follow-up conversations with parents, focus group questions for pupils and more detailed staff survey items. If post-16 provision emerges as an area requiring attention, the post-16 question and statement bank provides the same depth of coverage. The banks mean you don't have to start from scratch when you need to go further.

"How do I demonstrate to governors and inspectors that we listen systematically to our community and use what we hear to drive improvement?"
The combination of pre-populated surveys, analysis template, triangulation table and Next Steps Planning Tool provides a clear audit trail from survey distribution through to agreed actions and review dates. Keeping completed surveys and analysis on file means you have ready evidence to hand, and the structure of the pack demonstrates that stakeholder voice is embedded in the school's self-evaluation cycle rather than treated as a one-off exercise.

Looking to go deeper into surveying stakeholders?

If you want to delve into a specific survey area, rather than sending a broader survey to your stakeholders, you may find the following individual survey packs useful:

Take leadership further...

Complete School Leadership Audit Pack

The Complete School Audit Pack is the natural companion to this survey pack, containing comprehensive audit and action plan tools for all of the evaluation areas covered by the stakeholder surveys: achievement, attendance and behaviour, curriculum and teaching, inclusion, leadership and governance, personal development and well-being, early years, safeguarding, and post-16 provision. Where surveys tell you how your school community experiences each area, the audits evaluate the systems, policies and leadership practices that underpin them. Used together, the School Stakeholder Survey Pack and the Complete School Audit Pack provide the most rounded, evidence-informed approach to whole-school self-evaluation available – supporting confident leadership, robust preparation for review and a clear pathway from evidence to improvement.

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