Subject Leader Support and Development Tools

Whether you're a new subject leader creating your first subject folder or an experienced curriculum coordinator wanting to ensure your documentation is comprehensive and well-organised, this Subject Leader Folder Pack provides everything you need.

You'll get:

☑️ Full Subject Leader Folder Guidance (17 pages) – walks you through what to include in your folder and why, organised into six clear sections: Subject Overview, Subject Leadership Documents, Curriculum Planning and Intent, Curriculum Monitoring and Implementation, Curriculum Impact, and Feedback and CPD

☑️ 26 Fully Editable Templates – including checklists, self-evaluation forms, monitoring tools, action plans, feedback surveys and CPD planning documents

☑️ Subject Folder Checklist – guides you through which documents to include and helps you plan your folder structure

☑️ Intent, Implementation and Impact Tools – checklists and templates to help you evidence the three I's in your subject

Suitable for primary subject leaders across all national curriculum subjects. All templates are fully editable Word documents so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.

New to leading a subject in a school or setting and unsure where to start when monitoring? This pack walks you through how to rapidly gather information about your subject so you can plan to make relevant changes and improvements. Designed to be time-efficient and work around your classroom commitments, this pack supports busy subject leaders who have no current insight about their subject to quickly get a handle on it.

Are you stepping into your first subject leadership role? Congratulations! Balancing the responsibilities of leadership and teaching can be challenging, but fear not. Honeyguide is here to support you on this exciting journey. Our comprehensive resource for new subject leaders provides you with all the ideas for tasks to complete in your first week, half-term and term as a subject leader. Designed to be fully editable, adapt and amend it with support from a mentor in school to tailor it to your new role. Let us support your thinking and workload so you can find balance as a new subject leader.

Whether you're a new early years leader looking to create your first EYFS leader file or are an experienced foundation stage lead wanting to ensure your EYFS folder contains all the documents you need, this EYFS Leader Folder Pack is ideal for you. With 31 editable templates and full guidance, it'll walk you through what you could include in your EYFS leader folder - digital or paper-based - and why you need to include it. Suitable for EYFS leaders who work within a primary school as well as those in group-based settings such as nurseries and preschools, this pack will save you both time and energy in creating your subject leader file.

Struggling to get organised as a subject leader? This digital download is here to help! It contains a subject overview section that can help you to plot your priorities and goals for the academic year, plus three termly sections with monitoring templates for lesson observations, lesson drop-ins, book looks, planning scrutiny, pupil voice and more!

Containing 86 beautifully designed and printable pages, this subject leader planner will help you to keep all of your details, notes and ideas in a central place so you can keep on top of subject monitoring and all of the other tasks associated with subject leadership. Simply print it out and off you go... but first, choose your style from the six available! 👇

This Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact Statement Checklist is ideal for any curriculum or subject leader who's looking to either write a curriculum statement from scratch or review and refine their existing statement.

It walks you through the stages of intent, implementation and impact, and offers helpful suggestions about what to include for each section, such as:

• Curriculum Intent - subject vision and purpose, curriculum goals, cultural capital, key themes and concepts, and curriculum sequencing
• Curriculum Implementation - curriculum design, teaching and learning strategies, resourcing, professional development, feedback and adaptive teaching
• Curriculum Impact - pupil outcomes, assessment data, pupil engagement, community and parent involvement, and whole-school impact

Sometimes called a "three I's" statement, your curriculum intent, implementation and impact statement is a vital document to have, as it supports teachers and leaders to understand how your subject is taught. It is also a key document to have on your school website as it can be viewed by external parties, such as prospective parents or Ofsted, to understand how your subject is taught. 

So if it's been a while since you looked at your statement, or if you don't have one in place at all, this editable checklist is ideal to save you time and energy when wondering what to include in a curriculum impact, implementation and impact statement, allowing you to get going straight away on writing or revamping yours.

A curriculum intent, implementation and impact statement also plays a key role for subject leaders in deeply understanding the rationale for their subject and is a key component of any subject leader folder. For further support with creating, building and organising an effective subject leader folder, this template along with many more are also included in our Subject Leader Folder Pack.

🔒 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.

New to leading a subject in a school or setting and unsure where to start? This pack walks you through how to rapidly gather information about teacher subject knowledge so you can plan to make relevant changes and improvements. Designed to be time-efficient and work around your classroom commitments, this pack supports busy subject leaders who want to quickly assess, enhance or improve teacher subject knowledge in their setting.