🔒 Fully aligned to the 2025 School Inspection Toolkit

Help your governors walk into the Ofsted governor meeting with the lead inspector ready to answer with confidence.

This 38-page editable document is a structured rehearsal tool for governing boards, organised around all nine evaluation areas of the 2025 School Inspection Toolkit.

You'll get:

☑️ Inspector-style questions across all nine evaluation areas – safeguarding, inclusion, curriculum and teaching, achievement, attendance and behaviour, personal development and well-being, leadership and governance, early years and post-16 provision – phrased as inspectors are likely to ask them in the governance meeting

☑️ "What the inspector is exploring" column – grounded in the expected standard descriptors from the 2025 toolkit, so governors understand the purpose behind each question, not just the question itself

☑️ Tips for answering – practical guidance on how to approach each question, including which governor role or committee is most likely to hold the relevant knowledge

The template is a fully editable Word .docx so you can adapt it for your school's specific context.

Ideal for headteachers leading governor preparation sessions, chairs of governors and governance professionals preparing boards for a Section 5 inspection.

👉 This template is also available in the Governors Ofsted Inspection Preparation Bundle, which also contains a ready-made governor update PowerPoint and governor guidance to help your governing body feels prepared for Ofsted inspection.

🔄 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.

🔄 Updated for 2026

Effective link governors ask strong questions and this pack gives them the tools to do exactly that. Each set of structured questions supports a different link governor role, giving governors a practical starting point for exploring their area in depth, collaborating meaningfully with school leaders and fulfilling their strategic responsibilities with confidence. Whether you're supporting new governors or strengthening the skills of your board, these resources help shift governors' questions from operational to genuinely strategic.

You'll get:

☑️ Attendance and Behaviour – structured questions to support governors in exploring attendance systems, behaviour culture, policies and practice

☑️ Curriculum, Early Reading and EYFS – questions covering curriculum intent, implementation and impact, early reading and phonics, and EYFS provision

☑️ Safeguarding, SEND and Inclusion – questions across safeguarding, SEND, equality and accessibility, and pupil premium and disadvantaged pupils

☑️ Finance, GDPR and Health and Safety – questions to support governors in evaluating financial management, data protection and H&S compliance

☑️ Staff, Pupil and Community Wellbeing – questions to help governors explore staff workload and wellbeing provision across the school

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

👉 To support a specific link governor role, these questions are also available in our individual link governor support packs. These packs include the relevant questions plus a report to governor templates and a role and responsibilities document.

🔒 Fully aligned to the 2025 Ofsted Inspection Toolkit and Framework and all 2025-2026 statutory guidance

This bundle is perfect for headteachers, trust leaders, governance professionals and SLT members who wish to be consistent in the way they report information to their governing board. The fourteen editable reporting templates will help your governing board to gain a clearer picture in each of the areas, which include reports for:

• attendance
• behaviour
• curriculum
• data protection
• EYFS
• finance
• headteacher's report to governors
• health and safety
• looked-after children
• pupil premium
• annual safeguarding report
• school well-being and personal development
• SEND and inclusion
• subject (can be used multiple times for different subjects)

Each template contains space for data and commentary, allowing governors to build a picture of the school's current position and the reasons behind this.

Regular reports to the relevant governor committees, the full governing board or your local board members allows all of your governors to make more effective strategic decisions because they'll hold a deeper understanding of the school. It can also support governors to share how they hold school leadership to account to ensure compliance, which is a crucial part of the Ofsted leadership and governance judgement and a key feature of an effective governing board.

👉 For support with a specific link governor role, the relevant report to governor template is also available in our individual link governor support packs. These packs also include full audits that can be used in a collaborative manner between schools leaders and governors, plus a role and responsibilities document to support link governors with their specific roles.

🔄 Updated for 2026

Clear roles make for more effective governors. This pack gives you ten fully editable roles and responsibilities templates for different link governor roles so every member of your governing board understands their purpose, their priorities and how to fulfil their responsibilities with a genuinely strategic focus.

You'll get:

☑️ Ten editable link governor roles and responsibilities templates – covering attendance, behaviour, curriculum, finance, GDPR and data protection, health and safety, pupil premium, safeguarding, SEND and staff, pupil and community welfare

☑️ Clarity for every governor – each template sets out the key duties, relevant policies, staff relationships and strategic focus for that role, so governors know exactly what they should be doing and why

☑️ Ready to use or adapt – use as-is or customise to reflect your school's context; templates can also serve as governor role terms of reference documents if needed

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

👉 For support with a specific link governor role, the relevant link governor role and responsibilities template is also available in our individual link governor support packs. These packs also include a full set of link governor questions that can be used in a collaborative manner between schools leaders and governors, plus a reporting to governor template so governors have a better understanding of the school, leading to more effective governance.

AI use and ethics in schools – clear, reflective and leadership-focused.

Designed for heads, SLT, trust leaders and anyone interested in exploring effective use of AI in schools, this editable toolkit supports ethical use of AI in education by helping your school explore the risks, responsibilities and values that should guide staff use of AI tools. Use it to identify opportunities for AI to reduce workload, reflect on AI risks in schools and shape a clear, responsible and purposeful way forward for your setting.

☑️ Created for leaders reflecting on AI use and how it can benefit their school as well as potential risks
☑️ Supports school-wide discussion across seven areas of school life, including teaching and learning, assessment, administration, SEND and inclusion, parent communication, leaderships and ethical use of AI
☑️  Includes structured reflection entries with benefits, risks and discussion questions

Ideal for teams starting to explore AI, or for leaders who want to lead with clarity, not hype.

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Start meaningful conversations about AI use in schools without needing all the answers. This free editable download offers sample reflection questions across key areas of school life, plus prompts to help you think more widely about the ethical use of AI in education.

It’s designed for headteachers, SLT, trust leaders and any school leaders starting to explore how AI might support or impact their setting.

Use it to begin strategic thinking, shape SLT discussions or evaluate where AI fits into your wider school planning. You can also upgrade to the full toolkit if you're ready to go deeper.

🔒 Fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

This leadership and governance audit pack helps headteachers, senior leaders and governors evaluate strategic leadership and oversight across six key areas. Fully aligned with the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit, it supports self-evaluation, effective governance and whole-school improvement.

☑️ Editable leadership and governance audit document covering six sections including strategic leadership, governance, staff well-being and workload, professional learning and expertise, parental, professional and community engagement, and evaluating impact and continuous improvement

☑️ Action plan template, document checklist, question bank and one-page summary template to support effective auditing and evaluation

☑️ Comprehensive guidance document with detailed information on leadership and governance aligned to the 2025 Ofsted framework and how to audit your provision effectively

☑️ Unique alignment map showing how leadership oversight connects to deeper evaluation in other school audits, helping leaders and governors plan cohesive self-review

Ideal for headteachers, executive heads, principals, senior leadership teams, academy trustees, local governors and trust leaders reviewing school leadership and governance, evaluating impact and planning for improvement.

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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.

🔒 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.