Behaviour Lead Ofsted Inspection Preparation Bundle

This pack provides everything you need to understand your role as behaviour lead during inspection and prepare confidently for focused leadership meetings, case sampling discussions and other interactions with Ofsted inspectors. The pack is fully aligned with the 2025 School Inspection Toolkit.

You'll get:

☑️ Behaviour Lead Inspection Role Guidance PDF covering when and how you'll engage with inspectors, what happens during focused leadership meetings, case sampling discussions and learning walks, what inspectors want to understand from you and how attendance and behaviour connects across all evaluation areas. The guidance includes common questions behaviour leads have about inspection and practical advice for feeling confident and prepared.

☑️ Example Ofsted Behaviour Lead Questions template featuring realistic questions you might be asked during inspection conversations to help you practise articulating your approach and identify any areas to strengthen your evidence base

☑️ Attendance and Behaviour Leader Action Checklist with prompts for key actions to build your knowledge of the inspection framework and prepare yourself and your team

☑️ Attendance and Behaviour Inspection Readiness Tool allowing you to compare your current practice against toolkit statements, identify strengths and any areas to address, and document what evidence demonstrates your behaviour systems and culture

☑️ Ofsted Grade Descriptor Grids giving you an editable version of the School Inspection Toolkit grading statements so you can use the attendance and behaviour evaluation area and see where behaviour culture and systems connect to other areas such as safeguarding, inclusion, personal development and well-being, and leadership and governance

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

This pack is for behaviour leads, behaviour coordinators, deputy headteachers with behaviour responsibility and pastoral leaders with responsibility for behaviour in all phases who want to feel confident and prepared for Ofsted inspection. It's particularly valuable if you're new to leading behaviour, if you haven't experienced an inspection under the current framework or if you simply want to understand your specific responsibilities during the inspection process.

Assistant headteachers, headteachers, senior pastoral staff and behaviour link governors will also find this pack useful for understanding how attendance and behaviour is evaluated during inspection and what inspectors want to explore during learning walks and focused leadership discussions.

This focused pack helps you tackle the most common concerns behaviour leads have when preparing for inspection:

"What will inspectors ask me about behaviour systems and culture?" The Example Ofsted Behaviour Lead Questions resource explores the key themes inspectors investigate, from how your school establishes high expectations for behaviour to how incidents of bullying, discrimination or child-on-child violence are addressed. Use these to practise articulating your approach and ensure you can explain the thinking behind your behaviour leadership.

"How do I know if our attendance and behaviour meets the inspection framework?" The Attendance and Behaviour Inspection Readiness Tool helps you compare your current practice against each toolkit statement, identifying what evidence demonstrates your provision, who can speak to it and what specific examples you have. This systematic approach ensures you're confident about where you stand.

"What do I need to do to get myself and my team ready for behaviour scrutiny?" The Attendance and Behaviour Leader Action Checklist provides clear prompts for building your knowledge of how attendance and behaviour is inspected, from understanding focused leadership meetings to knowing which evaluation areas you contribute to beyond attendance and behaviour itself.

"Where does attendance and behaviour fit within the wider inspection framework?" The Ofsted Grade Descriptor Grids give you the complete toolkit in an editable format, highlighting not just the attendance and behaviour evaluation area but also where your work connects to safeguarding, inclusion, personal development and well-being, and leadership and governance.

"How can I demonstrate that our behaviour approaches are having impact on pupils?" The guidance and tools help you articulate how you establish and maintain high expectations, explain how you support staff to manage behaviour consistently, show evidence from behaviour data and incident logs, and demonstrate how pupils generally behave well and show positive attitudes to learning.

The following resources can help you if Ofsted preparation is on your mind.

Ofsted Inspection Preparation Pack - this focused SENDCo guide already forms part of the comprehensive preparation pack, which also contains support for many other school leadership roles as well as providing in-depth support across all nine evaluation areas and other pre-inspection tasks.

Attendance and Behaviour Audit Pack – take your behaviour evaluation deeper with comprehensive audit questions that go beyond inspection readiness to help you continuously improve your behaviour systems, monitor culture and strengthen consistency throughout the year.

Everything You Need to Start Leading Behaviour – support new behaviour leads to establish effective systems, develop staff confidence in managing behaviour and create a positive culture where all pupils can thrive and learn.