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.
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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.
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🔒 Fully aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit
Understand Ofsted's case sampling approach and prepare your school with confidence using this comprehensive support pack.
Case sampling is central to how Ofsted evaluates inclusion during inspections, with inspectors closely following approximately six pupils throughout the inspection to understand their experiences, the support they receive and the progress they're making. This pack gives you the practical tools and guidance you need to understand this process, identify eligible pupils in your school and conduct your own case sampling as part of your monitoring cycle.
You'll get:
☑️ Complete guidance on Ofsted's case sampling process – Understand which pupils are eligible, how inspectors gather evidence and what happens during the planning call and inspection activities
☑️ Templates to identify and track vulnerable pupils – Move beyond obvious SEND and disadvantaged groups to identify context-specific vulnerable pupils, with structured prompts and tracking tools to prepare for confident discussions with inspectors
☑️ Practical frameworks for conducting your own case sampling – Step-by-step templates for gathering evidence, analysing findings and taking action, helping you see what inspectors would see and strengthen your provision before inspection
☑️ Ready-to-use preparation and communication resources – Comprehensive checklist covering all aspects of preparation, plus example letters and messages for parents and carers if their child is selected for case sampling
All templates are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context. Perfect for headteachers, SLT and school leaders wanting to prepare their team and build confidence and understanding of the Ofsted inspection process.
👉 Looking for further support on preparing for inspection? These resources are also available as part of the full Ofsted Inspection Preparation Pack too.
Designed for headteachers, deputy heads and attendance leads, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting attendance data and strategy to your governing board, without having to build a report from scratch.
You'll get:
☑️ Attendance Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, 9-page editable Word document covering:
- whole-school attendance data
- attendance by pupil group and year group
- year-on-year comparisons
- session-by-session analysis
- CME and alternative provision tracking
- attendance improvement strategies
- multi-agency partnership work
- known barriers to attendance
- a strengths and areas for development evaluation, including a dedicated section for 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, attendance leads and attendance champions preparing termly or annual 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 behaviour leads, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting behaviour data and strategy to your governing board without having to build a report from scratch.
You'll get:
☑️ Behaviour Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, 10-page editable Word document covering:
- exclusions, suspensions and behaviour sanctions
- bullying and discriminatory incidents
- behaviour by pupil group
- behaviour incidents by category and year group
- attitudes to learning
- behaviour policy review dates
- behaviour strategies and interventions
- multi-agency partnership work
- behaviour survey feedback
- a strengths and areas for development evaluation, including a dedicated section for 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 behaviour leads preparing termly or annual 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, data protection officers and school business managers, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting on data protection compliance to your governing board without having to build a report from scratch.
You'll get:
☑️ Data Protection Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, editable Word document covering:
- UK GDPR compliance status
- policy and privacy notice review dates
- staff training completion
- individual rights requests including subject access requests
- third-party data processor agreements
- Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs)
- data breaches and ICO reporting
- a strengths and areas for development evaluation, including sections for upcoming challenges 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, data protection officers, school business managers and senior leaders preparing termly or annual data protection 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
🔄 Updated for 2026
A strong governing board starts with an honest picture of where it stands. This pack gives chairs of governors, clerks and headteachers the tools to evaluate board skills and knowledge systematically, helping the governing body to identify gaps, plan for governor recruitment and supporting governor development with confidence.
You'll get:
☑️ Governing Body Skills Matrix and Action Plan – maps the collective skills and experience your governors bring to the board across ten categories, identifies gaps and turns findings into a prioritised recruitment and training plan
☑️ Governing Body Knowledge Audit – evaluates the board's knowledge across ten governance areas, with example evidence and suggested actions built in to help you assess where you are and plan next steps
☑️ Governing Body Profile – a quick-reference record of every governor's appointment details, roles, training dates and declared interests, designed to be updated annually and whenever the board composition changes
☑️ Governing Body Self-Evaluation Form – a RAG-rated self-evaluation framework covering eight key areas of governance effectiveness, with evidence prompts and a summary table to agree priorities and next steps as a board
Ideal for chairs of governors, vice-chairs, clerks to governors and headteachers who are carrying out an annual governance review, organising governor CPD or improving governor effectiveness through role and succession planning.
🔒 New for 2026 and fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025
Understanding how well your school includes and supports every pupil – those with SEND, those who are disadvantaged, those known to children's social care and those who face less visible barriers to learning – requires more than your own professional judgement. It requires the voices of pupils, parents and staff, gathered systematically and analysed in a way that leads to meaningful action.
This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about inclusion, 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, including targeted questions for pupils and families of children with SEND, disadvantaged pupils, pupils known to children's social care and those facing other barriers to learning
☑️ 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.
🔒 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.
🔒 New for 2026 and fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025
Gathering meaningful stakeholder feedback on achievement involves more than asking whether pupils are making progress. To build an accurate and actionable picture, you need questions that get beneath surface-level satisfaction, exploring how well pupils across different groups are supported to achieve, how parents understand and engage with their child's learning, and how confident staff feel in assessing, tracking and addressing underachievement.
This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about achievement, 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 progress and understanding across the curriculum, attitudes to learning and motivation, communication and vocabulary, support for overcoming gaps, SEND and individual needs, preparation for the future, breadth of curriculum achievement and assessment practice
☑️ 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
☑️ An 18-page guidance document covering the full survey cycle, and a free worked example to help you interpret and act on your results
All documents (except the PDFs) are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.

