🔒 Fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

This subject leader self-evaluation template helps curriculum and subject leaders evaluate their subject's strengths and development areas and are fully aligned with the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit.

You'll get:

☑️ Structured self-evaluation criteria across all Ofsted toolkit strands (Safeguarding, Inclusion, Curriculum and Teaching, Achievement, Attendance and Behaviour, Personal Development and Well-being, plus optional Early Years and Post-16 sections), with Curriculum and Teaching broken down in detail for subject leadership including Intent, Implementation and Impact

☑️ Reflective questions and guidance on evidence sources in each section to support critical, evidence-based evaluation of your subject provision

☑️ Ofsted Grade Descriptor Grids fully aligned to the 2025 toolkit to inform your self-evaluation decisions

The template is fully editable so you can adapt it for your subject and school context.

Who should use this template?

This is essential for subject leaders, curriculum coordinators, phase leaders and middle leaders responsible for evaluating provision in their subject area. It's particularly valuable for new subject leads building their evaluation skills, or experienced leaders refining their SEF process. Headteachers and SLT can also use it to support consistency across subject leadership teams.

This Subject Cultural Capital, Personal Development and Enrichment Audit is ideal for any subject leader who's looking to explore how their subject develops their pupils' personal qualities, offers enriching and broad educational experiences and promotes equality, diversity and fundamental British Values. For schools that have early years children, there's an EYFS version of this audit also included in the bundle.

The audit walks you through different reflective questions about your subject, allowing you to identify your current strengths 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 subject?

• What opportunities do we offer through extracurricular [subject] clubs and activities? How do we ensure all pupils can access these?
• What opportunities are there within the local community to provide rich cultural experiences for our pupils in [subject]?
  
• Are pupils given the opportunity to make their own decisions in [subject], for example, with independent activities, free-choice time, clubs, book choices?

Questions like these can help you critically reflect on your subject in order to makes changes to give your pupils the best possible experiences as well as celebrating your successes in enriching your pupils' lives. Aligned with the Ofsted School Inspection Handbook, it'll help you to show how pupils get the best opportunities in the subject you lead (and if you're a curriculum leader, we've got a Personal Development Audit that covers the entire curriculum too!)

Understanding your subject's impact on pupils' cultural capital and personal development is a key component of subject leadership, and is something you may wish to evidence in a subject leader file. For further support with creating, building and organising an effective subject leader folder, this template along with many more are also included in our Subject Leader Folder Pack.

Updated to meet the safeguarding and welfare requirements in the September 2025 EYFS statutory framework for group and school-based providers, this EYFS Safeguarding and Welfare Checklist is ideal for any EYFS leader who's looking to explore safeguarding and child welfare in their setting. It's suitable for EYFS leaders in both school-based settings as well as group-based providers such as nurseries and preschools, and is built from all of the safeguarding and welfare requirements in section 3 of the EYFS statutory framework for group and school-based providers (and therefore isn't applicable to childminders).

The checklist walks you through different criteria about welfare and safeguarding in the EYFS, allowing you to identify your current strengths and make a plan for any areas of development. The following broad areas are included in the checklist:

• Child Protection
• Recruitment
  
• Training and Qualifications
• Staff Ratios
• Child Health
• Behaviour
• Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND)
• Premises and Equipment
• Record Keeping
• Safer Eating
• Whistleblowing

Each section can help you to critically reflect on your safeguarding procedures and processes, allowing you to keep every child safe as well as ensuring compliance with safeguarding requirements in the EYFS.

Every early years leader should ensure they're aware of their setting's strengths and levels of compliance when it comes to safeguarding as well as ensuring any weaknesses are addressed quickly. This information should be regularly reviewed so it's ideal to keep copies and records together, such as in an EYFS leader folder. 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 EYFS Leader Folder Pack.

This Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact Statement Checklist is ideal for any curriculum or subject leader who's looking to either write a curriculum statement from scratch or review and refine their existing statement.

It walks you through the stages of intent, implementation and impact, and offers helpful suggestions about what to include for each section, such as:

• Curriculum Intent - subject vision and purpose, curriculum goals, cultural capital, key themes and concepts, and curriculum sequencing
• Curriculum Implementation - curriculum design, teaching and learning strategies, resourcing, professional development, feedback and adaptive teaching
• Curriculum Impact - pupil outcomes, assessment data, pupil engagement, community and parent involvement, and whole-school impact

Sometimes called a "three I's" statement, your curriculum intent, implementation and impact statement is a vital document to have, as it supports teachers and leaders to understand how your subject is taught. It is also a key document to have on your school website as it can be viewed by external parties, such as prospective parents or Ofsted, to understand how your subject is taught. 

So if it's been a while since you looked at your statement, or if you don't have one in place at all, this editable checklist is ideal to save you time and energy when wondering what to include in a curriculum impact, implementation and impact statement, allowing you to get going straight away on writing or revamping yours.

A curriculum intent, implementation and impact statement also plays a key role for subject leaders in deeply understanding the rationale for their subject and is a key component of any subject leader folder. For further support with creating, building and organising an effective subject leader folder, this template along with many more are also included in our Subject Leader Folder Pack.

This Subject Leader Folder Checklist is ideal for any subject leader looking for ideas and guidance on the documentation they might want to include in their subject 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 a subject 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 subject leader file organised. 

The checklist is split into the following helpful sections:

• Subject Improvement and Leadership
• Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact
• Pastoral Information
• Communication and Involvement
• Staffing, Training and Development
• Governors and External Advisors

This editable subject leadership folder template is ideal for new subject leads or those wishing to refine how they store and organise their subject information. For further support with creating, building and organising an effective subject leader folder, this template along with many more are also included in our Subject Leader Folder Pack.

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.

🔒 Fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

This EYFS Self-Evaluation Bundle helps early years leaders evaluate their provision's strengths and development areas.

You'll get:

☑️ EYFS Self-Evaluation Form (SEF) template with structured criteria viewed through an early years lens across all Ofsted toolkit strands (Safeguarding, Inclusion, Curriculum and Teaching, Achievement, Attendance and Behaviour, Personal Development and Well-being, Leadership and Governance), with the Early Years strand explored in detail

☑️ Reflective questions in each section to support critical, evidence-based evaluation of your early years provision, plus guidance on where to find multiple sources of evidence

☑️ Early Years RAG Rating Tool so you can quickly assess your provision against core grade descriptors and identify priority areas for improvement

☑️ EYFS Ofsted Grade Descriptor Grids fully aligned to the 2025 toolkit to inform your self-evaluation decisions

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

Who should use this bundle?

This is essential for EYFS leaders, early years coordinators and reception leads responsible for evaluating provision in their setting. It's particularly valuable for new early years leads building their self-evaluation skills, or experienced leaders refining their SEF process. Headteachers and SLT with EYFS responsibility will also find it useful for monitoring and supporting early years provision.

The editable EYFS SEF template and accompanying documents are ideal for new early years leads or those wishing to refine their EYFS SEF writing process. Often, these sorts of documents are kept - either digitally or paper-based - in an EYFS leader file. 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.

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.

This Subject Intervention and Provision Map Bundle is ideal for any subject leader who's looking to explore what additional support is given to pupils in their subject.

Aimed at primary subject leaders, this mini bundle contains two useful editable Word templates. The Subject Intervention and Provision Audit allows you to look in-depth at your subject and the provision, adaptations, differentiation and intervention on offer. This template is split into three handy sections that cover the following:

• Quality First Teaching
• Targeted Pupil Support
• Group Intervention

This allows you to explore the current offer for pupils who need additional support to attain well in your subject as well as changes that could be made to further improve outcomes for pupils. You can then use the Subject Provision Map to give an overview of the different types of provision and support available in different year groups as well as summarising the general strategies used by all staff to support learning. 

Understanding how pupils who need extra help, such as pupils with SEND or disadvantaged pupils, are supported in your subject is a key component of subject leadership, and is something you may wish to evidence in a subject leader file. For further support with creating, building and organising an effective subject leader folder, this template along with many more are also included in our Subject Leader Folder Pack.