Start Point: New To Deputy Headship
This free, editable checklist maps out your key priorities and tasks for your first weeks and term in the role as a DHT, whether you're a first-time deputy or an experienced SLT member moving to a new school.
£0.00
Unit price perStart Point: New To Assistant Headship
This free New to Assistant Headship checklist maps out your key priorities and tasks as you step into your first senior leadership role, helping you navigate the shift from middle leadership, understand what's now expected of you and help you hit the ground running.
£0.00
Unit price perWhat issue do you need to attend to right now?
Explore all resources for Senior Leaders
Sort by:
56 products
56 products
🎒Updated for the 2025-2026 academic year
Review your school's equality and diversity provision with this comprehensive audit toolkit designed for school leaders.
This pack gives you everything you need to conduct a systematic evaluation of how well your school promotes equality, challenges discrimination and supports diverse communities.
You'll get:
☑️ Full editable audit tool (24 pages) – comprehensive questions across six key areas: policies and procedures, pupil experience and voice, curriculum teaching and learning, staff development and recruitment, community engagement and partnerships, learning environment, and leadership and strategic planning
☑️ Supporting templates – editable action plan, document checklist, question bank and one-page summary template for reporting to governors or trustees
☑️ 18-page equality and diversity audit guidance document – practical instructions on planning your audit, who to involve, what evidence to collect, and how to use your findings to strengthen provision and meet your duties under the Equality Act 2010
🔎 Want a closer look? Click here to preview the audit pack🔗
👉 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 plus three essential good practice audits.
🎒Updated for the 2025-2026 academic year
Conduct a thorough audit of your school's mental health and wellbeing provision with this comprehensive toolkit designed specifically for school leaders.
Reflecting current expectations and DfE guidance on mental health in schools, this pack gives you everything you need to evaluate your provision, identify gaps and create an actionable improvement plan.
You'll get:
☑️ Full editable audit tool (38 pages) – comprehensive questions covering pupil wellbeing, staff mental health, PSHE delivery, pastoral support systems, early intervention, partnerships with external agencies and whole-school culture
☑️ Supporting templates – action plan to prioritise your findings, document checklist to gather evidence, question bank to support your work with stakeholders, and one-page summary template for reporting to governors or trustees
☑️ 18-page mental health audit guidance – step-by-step instructions on planning and conducting your audit, including what evidence to gather, who to involve and how to approach this sensitive area systematically
All templates are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context, whether you're a small primary, large secondary or special school.
🔎 Want a closer look? Click here to preview the audit pack🔗
👉 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.
🔒 Fully aligned with the Ofsted 2025 School Inspection Toolkit
Streamline your school improvement journey with practical tools designed specifically for headteachers, senior leaders and school improvement teams. This detailed pack provides everything you need to create robust self-evaluation forms, strategic improvement plans and post-Ofsted action plans that drive meaningful change.
What you'll get:
- Complete 24-page Self-Evaluation Form template aligned to the 2025 Ofsted framework with guided support commentary, plus editable Ofsted Grade Descriptor Grids
- Ready-to-use School Improvement Plan template plus comprehensive checklist to ensure the key SIP areas are covered
- CPD Plan and Cycle templates with Staff Confidence Survey to support improvement and staff development
- Headteacher's Report to Governors template for report to the governing board
- Pupil, Parent, Staff and Governor Question Bank for gathering stakeholder voice
- Step-by-step 34-page guidance covering all aspects of school improvement planning with practical examples and reflection prompts
Perfect for: Headteachers, deputy heads, assistant heads, and senior leadership teams leading whole-school improvement initiatives. Especially valuable for leaders who are new to writing a SEF or a SIP, and schools preparing for inspection, implementing new improvement strategies, or responding to Ofsted framework changes.
🔎 Want a closer look? Click here to preview the update pack🔗
Including the most up-to-date 2026 information from the Working Together to Improve School Attendance guidance, this pack provides you with easy-to-digest guidance, editable templates, multiple training PowerPoints and eye-catching attendance posters to give you a full starting package for how to tackle pupil absence and improve attendance levels.
Want to know what's inside the pack? View a preview version of the guidance and accompanying templates, posters and presentations!
🔒 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.
🔒 Fully aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit
This comprehensive preparation pack helps headteachers, deputies and senior leaders feel confident and ready when the initial Ofsted phone call arrives. Built around the current Ofsted inspection process for 2026, including the structured 90-minute planning call, it provides everything you need to navigate and feel confident about both the notification and planning conversations with inspectors.
You'll get:
☑️ Complete process guide covering both the notification call and the new three-part planning call structure, including timing expectations, attendee arrangements, and the role of the nominee
☑️ Example phone call questions template with realistic scenarios based on the 2025 framework to help you practise responses and build confidence
☑️ Ready-to-use crib sheet for essential figures and contacts, plus notification list to inform all stakeholders promptly
☑️ Post-call action checklists covering staff briefing and inspection day logistics
☑️ Ofsted documentation folder checklist and inspection responsibilities list to delegate tasks clearly across your team and get everyone prepared for when the call does come
Ideal for leaders who want to transform inspection anxiety into confident preparation, ensuring they can focus on representing their school effectively, rather than worrying about what Ofsted will ask during the phone call and what you'll say in response.
Please note; this pack covers the initial Ofsted phone call (the notification call and planning call) that schools receive prior to a full inspection. It does not cover the processes for monitoring phone calls which take place if a school is due a monitoring inspection or a focused monitoring inspection.
🔎 Want a closer look? Click here to preview the Ofsted Phone Call Preparation Pack🔗
👉 Looking for further support on preparing for inspection? These resources are also available as part of the full Ofsted Inspection Preparation Pack too.
Looking to support your school's staff members to develop the skills they need to thrive in their roles? This Skills Audit Pack allows staff to explore their role-specific strengths and weaknesses, which can then be used to plan effective professional development pathways and career progression routes, aid in performance management and appraisal cycles, and retain teachers and other staff members by valuing the contributions they bring to your school's team. Ideal for heads, MAT leaders and anyone with responsibility for CPD, this handy pack contains exactly what you need to uncover your school's strengths and plan for professional development & growth.
Looking to explore multiple subjects in your setting with a consistent approach in 2025? Wanting to quality assure learning in different subjects and build your subject leaders' skills in monitoring and improvement? Tailored for heads, trust leads, senior leaders and those with responsibility for their school's curriculum, this massive set of deep dive audits for every subject will help you to consider intent, implementation and impact questions across the breadth of your entire curriculum, allowing you to plan for improvement and (if you feel you need to) prepare for Ofsted.

