EYFS Self-Evaluation Bundle

🔒 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.