Subject Leadership Resources

Struggling to get release time to monitor Computing or having to complete subject monitoring in your PPA? This Ten-Minute Subject Monitoring in Computing Pack provides a solution to the challenges of having a high level of accountability as a primary subject leader but not having the time to complete the monitoring activities necessary - often because of factors beyond your control, such as the school budget, booking supply or getting cover.

Ten-minute subject monitoring works by identifying different time slots where you can be away from your teaching commitments in order to conduct a precise and focused subject monitoring activity on one element, such as a work scrutiny focusing on one strand of the Computing curriculum or a single 10-minute lesson drop-in. So rather than trying to find a full afternoon's cover to conduct a term or half-term's worth of monitoring, you can spread monitoring across a term by choosing slots where teaching and learning in your own classroom won't be impacted.

Aimed at primary Computing subject leads (or those line managing a Computing subject leader), this pack walks you through the entire process and is full of ideas on how to find and utilise ten-minute time slots for subject monitoring, as well as what you should be looking for in your monitoring when it comes to declarative knowledge and procedural knowledge, plus the three pillars of Computing - computer science, information technology and digital literacy.

Want to know what's inside the pack? View a preview version of the guidance and accompanying template to get a deeper understanding of how ten-minute subject monitoring can help you!

Updated in line with the 2026 Ofsted Framework

Designed for headteachers, deputy heads and subject leaders, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting on individual subject provision to your governing board without having to build a report from scratch.

You'll get:

☑️ Subject Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, editable 8-page Word document that can be used for any subject. The subject report covers:

• curriculum intent including subject rationale, key concepts and evidence base
• short and long-term subject improvement priorities
• pupil progress and attainment data by group including disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND
• assessment approaches and gap analysis
• achievements and staffing updates
• quality of teaching and subject monitoring including learning walks and book looks, reading and vocabulary and oracy in the subject
• SEND and inclusion including adaptive teaching strategies
• staff and pupil feedback
• subject CPD and staff meetings
• link governor visit summaries
• a strengths and areas for development evaluation including governor questions and challenges

All sections are fully editable so you can adapt the template to any subject and your school's reporting cycle.

Ideal for subject leaders preparing termly or annual subject reports to governors.

👉 Looking for more governor report templates? This template and others are part of our Reports to Governors Template Bundle

🔒 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.