Curriculum Audit Pack (2025)

This audit pack gives you a full set of editable tools to help you evaluate and improve your school’s curriculum provision. Every document is designed to support strategic self-evaluation, save time and help you plan next steps with clarity. You’ll get:

☑️ A 29-page editable Curriculum Audit document

This is key curriculum audit document has structured reflection questions and prompts across eight key curriculum areas. It includes space to evaluate strengths, identify gaps and consider a wide range of evidence. The eight areas are:

• Curriculum leadership and strategic vision
• Curriculum breadth, ambition and coherence
• Reading, writing and mathematics across the curriculum
• Inclusion, curriculum access and adaptation
• Subject and phase leadership
• Curriculum implementation and monitoring
• Partnerships and stakeholder engagement
• Evaluating impact and continuous improvement

Work through it at your own pace with colleagues and stakeholders.

☑️ Action plan template

A simple, editable Word document to help you capture priorities and set clear, strategic next steps.

☑️ Document checklist

Helps you identify and gather the key curriculum documents that support your school’s self-evaluation.

☑️ Question bank

Editable questions to support curriculum-focused pupil voice, staff feedback, parent/carer engagement and governor scrutiny – ideal for triangulating evidence.

☑️ One-page summary template

A flexible Word template for sharing key findings with SLT, governors or trust leaders.

☑️ PDF guidance: Auditing your School's Provision

An 11-page printable guide to help you audit effectively, with practical tips on planning, reviewing and involving others in the process. A print-friendly version is included.

Every document is provided in an editable Word format, except for the PDF guide. A free update will be available in September once the final Ofsted framework is published.

This audit pack is designed for anyone with responsibility for leading, evaluating or improving the curriculum in a school, including headteachers, deputy heads, assistant heads and curriculum leads, as well as phase leaders or subject leaders with wider curriculum responsibilities.

It’s particularly useful for those overseeing curriculum planning, implementation and impact, whether at whole-school level or within a phase. Leaders preparing for Ofsted can use the pack to structure their self-evaluation and highlight how curriculum decisions are informed by evidence and pupil need.

Senior leaders and trust executives can also use the pack to support broader improvement work, including line management, curriculum reviews across schools, and shaping trust-wide expectations around curriculum leadership and delivery. It’s a practical tool for evidencing strengths and gaps ahead of inspection under the Ofsted 2025 framework.

This audit pack is based on the best practice in schools and the structure and themes from the draft 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit. The final version is expected in September 2025. As soon as the final framework is published, we’ll review and update this resource to ensure full alignment.

If you’ve already purchased the pack, you’ll receive the updated version for free – no need to buy again.

Will the updated version be very different?

This all depends on the outcomes of the consultation but at the moment, the audit pack reflects the key areas and language in the consultation draft. However, we’ll make sure any structural or wording updates from Ofsted are carefully reflected.

Can I still use the pack now?

Yes, definitely! It’s been designed to help schools reflect, plan and take action without waiting. All the audit questions and themes are grounded in best practice and real school priorities, so you can use the pack confidently as part of ongoing self-evaluation, curriculum reviews or preparation for inspection.

Do I need to do anything to get the updated version?

No. Once the resource is updated, we’ll send you a product update email which will give you instructions to redownload. You can also log into your account on our website at any time to re-download the latest version from your order history.

If you’re reviewing your curriculum provision, these related resources can help you strengthen subject leadership, support governance and explore staff knowledge more deeply.

Monitoring Start Point: Teacher Subject Knowledge

A simple reflection tool to help subject leaders and line managers gauge how confident staff feel with subject-specific knowledge and pedagogy – ideal for planning support or CPD.

Curriculum Link Governor Support Pack

Helps link governors ask informed questions, understand curriculum responsibilities and contribute meaningfully to strategic conversations about intent, implementation and impact.

Personal Development and Well-Being Audit Pack

A companion audit tool that supports whole-school self-evaluation of pupil well-being, personal development and inclusion – useful for triangulating wider curriculum impact.

Have a look at what's in the pack here: Curriculum Audit Pack