Start Point: New To Headship
This free, editable checklist maps out your key priorities and tasks for your first weeks and term in the role as headteacher. It'll give you a clear, grounding starting point when everything is competing for your attention at once.
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🔄 Updated for 2026
Supporting your behaviour link governor effectively takes structure, clarity and the right tools. This pack gives you all three – with three fully editable resources designed to strengthen behaviour governance in your school, whether your link governor is new to role or needs more support to be highly effective.
You'll get:
☑️ Behaviour Questions for Governors and Trustees – 13 pages of structured questions to support meaningful collaboration between the behaviour link governor and key school staff such as the headteacher, DHT, behaviour lead and pastoral lead, plus a triangulating evidence section and an action plan template to document next steps
☑️ Behaviour Report to Governors Template – a clear, structured template covering behaviour data (including exclusions, suspensions and bullying) and commentary, giving the full governing board the insight they need
☑️ Behaviour Link Governor Roles and Responsibilities – an editable outline of the behaviour 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.
This handy bundle focuses on exploring your financial management skills in order to effectively manage your school budget. Designed for headteachers, business managers or anyone with responsibility for finance in schools, the three resources in this pack can help you determine your current level of understanding about school budget management and, crucially, what knowledge and skills you need to develop to manage the budget effectively. For this reason, it's ideal for new heads, academy headteachers or anyone stepping into school budget management for the first time.
👉 Looking for more budget support? These templates are also available in the full School Budget Management Pack, which can also help you to plan your budget and identify where cost savings can be made.
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
Gathering meaningful stakeholder feedback on leadership and governance requires a different kind of question design. You are not asking pupils, parents or staff to pass judgement on your leadership team – you are exploring whether the school has a culture where people feel listened to, valued and confident that decisions are made in their best interests.
Getting this right means moving beyond satisfaction ratings and asking questions that surface genuine experience of culture, communication and trust. This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about leadership and governance, 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 – 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
☑️ A question and statement bank covering strategic vision and communication, leadership culture and trust, pupil voice and involvement, parent partnership and transparency, staff well-being and workload, and accountability and improvement
☑️ 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 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 PDF guidance document covering the full survey cycle, and a free worked example to help you interpret and act on your results
All documents are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.
For pupil premium leads and headteachers who need a structured, comprehensive way to report on pupil premium strategy, spending and impact to their governing board.
You'll get:
☑️ Pupil Premium Report to Governors – a fully 8-page editable Word document covering:
- named lead and governance arrangements
- pupil premium cohort and grant allocation by eligibility category (including FSM, LAC, previously looked-after children, service pupil premium and EYPP)
- barriers to learning for disadvantaged pupils
- the tiered pupil premium strategy and spending breakdown across high-quality teaching, targeted academic support and wider strategies
- progress and attainment data by term with gap analysis narrative
- intervention impact
- attendance and exclusions data for disadvantaged pupils
- pupil voice and parental/carer engagement
- disadvantaged pupil subgroup analysis
- review of the previous year's strategy and outcomes
- staff training
- a structured evaluation and improvement section including governor questions and challenges.
All sections are fully editable so you can adapt the template to your school's context and reporting cycle.
Ideal for pupil premium leads, headteachers and deputy headteachers preparing termly or annual pupil premium reports to governors.
👉 Looking for more governor report templates? This template and others are part of our Reports to Governors Template Bundle
Designed for headteachers, SENDCos and senior leaders, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting on SEND and inclusion to your governing board without having to build a report from scratch.
You'll get:
☑️ SEND and Inclusion Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, 15-page editable Word document covering:
- SENDCo and SEND governance arrangements
- the SEND school profile and data by need type including communication and interaction, cognition and learning, SEMH and sensory and physical needs
- referrals and assessments including EHCP timescales and annual reviews
- the graduated approach and identification of need
- progress and attainment by key stage compared to non-SEND peers
- interventions and support across all four areas of need
- TA and LSA deployment
- attendance and exclusions for pupils with SEND
- SEND funding allocation and impact including EHCP top-up funding and pupil premium
- pupil voice and parent and carer engagement
- transitions across all stages including post-16 and into adulthood
- local area partnership and local offer
- work with external agencies including educational psychology, SALT, OT and CAMHS
- inclusion across broader groups,
- specialist staff training and SENDCo capacity
- policy review dates
- a strengths and areas for development evaluation including governor questions and challenges
All sections are fully editable so you can adapt the template to your school's context and reporting cycle.
Ideal for headteachers, SENDCos, inclusion leads and senior leaders preparing termly or annual SEND and inclusion reports to governors.
👉 Looking for more governor report templates? This template and others are part of our Reports to Governors Template Bundle
Designed for headteachers, school business managers and premises leads, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting on health and safety compliance to your governing board without having to build a report from scratch.
You'll get:
☑️ Health and Safety Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, 10-page editable Word document covering:
- a health and safety summary and site update
- fire evacuation drill records and fire risk assessment dates
- the named H&S governor visit summary
- a statutory compliance checklist covering fire, legionella, asbestos, electrical testing, PAT testing, gas safety, lift inspections, playground equipment, COSHH and educational visits
- asbestos management including contractor briefing,
- water safety and legionella control
- RAAC mitigation
- incident and accident reporting and RIDDOR analysis
- insurance and liability claims
- premises issues and development
- staff training including first aid and fire warden
- educational visits and EVC management
- health and safety priorities and concerns
- infection control and public health incidents
- health and safety monitoring and inspections
- staff well-being and occupational health
- strengths and areas for development evaluation including governor questions and challenges
All sections are fully editable so you can adapt the template to your school's context and reporting cycle.
Ideal for anyone preparing termly or annual health and safety reports to governors.
👉 Looking for more governor report templates? This template and others are part of our Reports to Governors Template Bundle
Designed for headteachers, deputy heads and curriculum leads, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting on whole-school curriculum quality to your governing board without having to build a report from scratch.
You'll get:
☑️ Curriculum Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, 14-page editable Word document covering:
- curriculum leadership and governance
- whole-school curriculum intent including vision, design for all pupils and evidence base
- curriculum breadth across all national curriculum subjects
- curriculum implementation including sequencing, consistency and pedagogical approach
- whole-school progress and attainment data by pupil group
- assessment across the curriculum including phonics and key stage outcomes
- reading and targeted reading support
- whole-school curriculum monitoring activities
- achievements and staffing updates
- subject leadership overview with RAG ratings
- enrichment and cultural capital
- staff and pupil feedback
- curriculum CPD and subject leader development
- curriculum policy review dates
- a strengths and areas for development evaluation including governor questions and challenges
All sections are fully editable so you can adapt the template to your school's context and reporting cycle.
Ideal for headteachers, deputy heads and curriculum leads preparing termly or annual curriculum reports to governors.
👉 Looking for more governor report templates? This template and others are part of our Reports to Governors Template Bundle
Designed for headteachers, school business managers and senior leaders, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting on school finances to your governing board without having to build a report from scratch.
You'll get:
☑️ Finance Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, editable 10-page Word document covering:
- pupil numbers and funding impact
- a summary of the current budget including income, expenditure and reserves
- in-year budget monitoring with variance analysis
- a three-year financial forecast
- detailed income and expenditure breakdowns
- pupil premium allocation, strategy and impact
- spending aligned to school priorities and value for money
- benchmarking against similar schools using the DfE Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool
- a procurement and contract register
- a financial risk register
- SFVS and compliance checks
- a summary and evaluation section including recommendations for the governing board and governor questions and challenges
All sections are fully editable so you can adapt the template to your school's context and reporting cycle.
Ideal for headteachers, school business managers and senior leaders preparing termly or annual finance reports to governors.
👉 Looking for more governor report templates? This template and others are part of our Reports to Governors Template Bundle

