🔒 Fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

This early years audit pack helps heads, SLT and EYFS leaders review practice across seven key areas of their early years provision, from strategic leadership to teaching, learning and readiness for Year 1. Fully aligned with Ofsted's 2025 School Inspection Toolkit, it supports self-evaluation, curriculum planning and school improvement with comprehensive tools designed specifically for maintained schools with early years children on roll and maintained nursery schools.

☑️ Comprehensive 51-page early years audit document with detailed prompts across 7 key themes including leadership, curriculum, teaching, achievement, well-being and welfare, inclusive practices, and continuous improvement
☑️ Complete audit toolkit to support the full audit process, including action plan template, question bank, one-page summary and document checklist to support preparation and monitoring
☑️ Step-by-step 20-page guidance document on how to effectively audit early years provision, fully updated with the latest Ofsted framework requirements

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

Designed for school-based early years provision, including Reception and any nursery, preschool or foundation stage setting led and managed by the school. Ideal for EYFS leaders, heads and senior leaders driving improvement or preparing for inspection under the 2025 Ofsted framework.

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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.

🔄 Updated for 2026

Supporting your curriculum link governor effectively takes structure, clarity and the right tools. This pack gives you a great starting point with six fully editable resources designed to strengthen curriculum governance in your school, whether your link governor is new to role or needs more support to be highly effective.

You'll get:

☑️ Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact Questions for Governors and Trustees – 14 pages of structured questions to support meaningful collaboration between the curriculum link governor and key school staff such as the curriculum lead, headteacher or SLT, plus a triangulating evidence section and an action plan template to document next steps

☑️ EYFS Questions for Governors and Trustees – focused questions to help the curriculum governor and early years lead build a deeper understanding of the school's current early years foundation stage strengths and areas for development

☑️ Early Reading and Phonics Questions for Governors and Trustees – structured questions to evaluate the school's current position on early reading and phonics, which can be used alongside the EYFS questions for a fuller picture

☑️ Curriculum, Subject and EYFS Reports to Governors Template – three clear, structured templates covering the reporting on the full curriculum, individuals subjects (reusable across multiple subjects) and the EYFS, giving the full governing board the insight they need

☑️ Curriculum Link Governor Roles and Responsibilities – an editable outline of the curriculum governor's key responsibilities, ideal for onboarding a new governor or bringing clarity to an existing role

All resources are fully editable so you can adapt them to reflect your school's context and needs.

If you're looking to explore your school's provision and curriculum in Expressive Arts and Design (EAD) for your early years children, this audit pack gives you the perfect starting point. Aimed at primary school settings, the audit can be used by EYFS leads, year 1 leaders & teachers, KS1 phase leaders and curriculum leaders to explore how effectively your school gives children broad and exciting EAD learning opportunities and where there are chances to develop this even further. Links are also made between the EYFS and the National Curriculum subjects in Year 1 to provide support for that crucial transition, and is ideal if you're looking to provide a cohesive curriculum offer between the early years and KS1.

Looking to explore your EYFS provision in-depth and build confidence for an upcoming Ofsted inspection or deep dive in 2025? This pack is tailor-made for EYFS leaders who are based in primary school settings (either with or without a preschool / nursery) and is designed to mirror how Ofsted inspectors use the Education Inspection Framework (EIF) to assess the effectiveness of a setting. With audits for each area of the EIF and separate deep dive audits for the seven EYFS areas of learning, this bundle helps you to consider your setting's strength and weakness so you can plan for improvement and (if you feel you need to) prepare for Ofsted.

If you're looking to explore your school's provision and curriculum in Communication and Language for your early years children, this audit pack gives you the perfect starting point. Aimed at primary school settings, the audit can be used by EYFS leads, year 1 leaders & teachers, and curriculum leaders to explore how effectively your school gives children broad and exciting learning opportunities to speak, listen, develop their vocabulary and build their early communication skills. Links are also made between the EYFS and the National Curriculum subjects in Year 1 to provide support for that crucial transition, and is ideal if you're looking to provide a cohesive curriculum offer.

This EYFS Leader Folder Checklist is ideal for any EYFS lead looking for ideas and guidance on the documentation they might want to include in their EYFS leader file, regardless of whether it's kept digitally or in a paper-based folder. 

The checklist is designed to save your time in wondering what to include in an EYFS leader folder by helping you to consider the different documents you might need. Each suggestion has handy notes about what to include and you can tick them off once completed, allowing you to stay on top of keeping your EYFS file organised. 

The checklist is split into the following helpful sections:

• EYFS Improvement and Leadership
• Curriculum and Assessment Information
• Pastoral Information
• Communication and Involvement
• Staffing, Training and Development
• Governors and External Advisors

This editable EYFS leadership folder template is ideal for new early years leads or those wishing to refine how they store and organise their EYFS information. 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.

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.

This EYFS Learning Environment and Resource Audit Bundle is ideal for any EYFS leader who's looking to explore how the learning environment and resources across their early years setting supports children's early development. 

The Learning Environment Audit template walks you through different reflective questions about your areas of indoor provision, outdoor provision and how you structure your spaces and resources to support development in the seven areas of learning. This allows you to identify the current strengths of your EYFS spaces and rooms, and make a plan for any areas of development. The following types of questions are included - why not see if you can answer them about your setting?

• Are items and equipment labelled? Is this in a child-friendly font? Are photographs also used?
• Is furniture adapted for any children with special educational needs and/or disabilities?
• What natural materials are available for children to interact with and observe?
• What first aid provision is in place for the outdoor space(s)?

Questions like these can help you critically reflect on your early years learning environment in order to makes changes to give your children the best possible experiences. Also included is an EYFS Resource Audit and Inventory template which covers the types of early years resources, furnishings and equipment that you might have. This can help you to identify any gaps in your resource stock as well as finding where old equipment needs replacing or updating. This template also allows you to consider different resource types, such as those that support different areas of learning, sensory and therapeutic resources, technology and digital resources, and health and safety equipment.

The learning environment and the resources available are crucial to children's development in the early years foundation stage, and your efforts in providing the best possible provision is something you may wish to evidence in a EYFS leader file. For further support with creating, building and organising an effective early years leader folder, these templates (along with many more) are also included in our full EYFS Leader Folder Pack.

If you're looking to explore your school's provision and curriculum in Literacy for your early years children, this audit pack gives you the perfect starting point. Aimed at primary school settings, the audit can be used by EYFS leads, year 1 leaders & teachers, and curriculum leaders to explore how effectively your school gives children broad and exciting  learning opportunities in early literacy, including comprehension, word reading and early writing and mark-making. Links are also made between the EYFS and the National Curriculum subjects in Year 1 to provide support for that crucial transition, and is ideal if you're looking to provide a cohesive curriculum offer.