An HSE resources customised to include checks for compliance with paragraphs 11; 12; 25; 26; 27 of the independent school standards within the classroom. This is to be used by a person responsible for conducting Health & Safety checks across the whole school.

An HSE resources customised to include checks for compliance with paragraphs 11; 12; 25; 26; 27 of the independent school standards within the classroom. This is to be used by each teacher with in their classroom.

Lesson Plan Evaluation Template - for school leaders to evaluate short to medium term planning.

Formal Observation Summary Template

This template was adapted from The Key and amended To be used in conjunction with the “Book Scrutiny Subject Template” You can use it to summarise findings from 5 subjects at a time. Some of the focus questions have been removed, others amended slightly and new questions added to help evaluate the effectiveness of curriculum implementation.

This template was adapted from The Key and amended to check 5 books at a time. Some of the focus questions have been removed, others amended slightly and new questions added to help evaluate the effectiveness of curriculum implementation. To be used in conjunction with the “Book Scrutiny Summary Template”

These are detailed notes prepared for a training workshop for Independent school leaders. The document covers self-evaluation, improvement planning, continuous improvement and effective implementation.

Effective self-evaluation is a critical first step towards school improvement. Getting it right ensures a clear identification of a school’s strengths and areas for improvement. Armed with this information, school leaders can reinforce the practice that underpins the school’s strengths and outline actions and procedures to address areas for improvement. This guidance document outlines key strategies to get it right.

This is a guidance document for school leaders to support their improvement planning process. Effective improvement plans rely on the accurate identification of areas for improvement through self – evaluation. For this reason, this document should be read in conjunction with “Self-evaluation-getting it right!”

All independent schools in England must meet the independent school standards (ISS). It is a condition of their registration with the Department for Education (DfE) and the single most important piece of legislation for any independent school that aims to keep its doors open. The latest inspection statistics published by Ofsted (at the time this guidance was last updated) showed that approximately 27% of schools failed meet the ISS during standard inspections between September 2019 and March 2020. The same data showed that 58% of schools who had previously failed to meet the standards were unable to demonstrate compliance during follow-up progress monitoring inspections. We developed a 4 - step strategy which, if implemented effectively, will help school leaders ensure consistent compliance with the ISS. This strategy was put together specifically to address all the reasons schools fail to meet the ISS. Here are these 4 steps.

If you have just been inspected and it didn’t go well, you are not going to be in a good place. You most certainly feel disappointed, maybe angry, perhaps you don’t agree with the outcome and are looking at ways of challenging it. Unfortunately, you can’t afford to spend too much time in that state because you will most likely be receiving a progress monitoring inspection in as little as 6 months! Here is a strategy you can follow in order to quickly recover from a poor inspection outcome. This guidance document is for the leaders of non-association independent schools.

An audit tool for use by school leaders to accurately evaluate the extent to which their schools meet the requirements of the Independent School Standards (2014). This tool was created with reference to DfE and Ofsted guidance: It is written in plain English. Not all of the wording of the standards is included on this document. Instead, for each standard, there is a set of questions that require a yes/no response to determine if your school meets the requirements of the standard. This audit tool comes in a word and pdf version. Feedback from Dan Tipp: Director of Belong Learning “We used your independent school standards audit tool recently - very helpful” Version 9(a) - September 2023 All updates made in September 2023 are highlighted – some changes are related to updates in the relevant guidance while others have been made to make requirements clearer, to make distinctions between policy and implementation and to hopefully make it easier to use. It also has this additional line under paragraph 32 *Information about your school’s remote education provision – get a template here (and there’s a hyperlink)

This package is for the leaders of non-association independent schools. This package includes: guidance about coordinating the self-evaluation process a self-evaluation template Ofsted’s grading criteria a grading sheet It helps you evaluate your school’s provision against the latest Ofsted evaluation criteria, your school’s own vision/mission/values statement and additional criteria that you might like to add. It comes in word version.

This template makes it possible for school leaders to monitor every aspect of the schools provision. It includes criteria from the most up to date version of Ofsted’s “Non-association independent school inspection handbook” and a section for you to add criteria from your school’s vision, mission, value statements. This tool comes in a word and excel version.

Critical Incident Summary Log - this should be used in conjunction with the critical incident log sheet. It is a way for summarising incidents by type to make it possible to monitor trends. For schools that do not have a management information system that records critical behaviour incidents.

For schools that do not have a a management information system for recording critical behaviour incidents.

This template is for Independent Schools only. The checklist refers to the requirements of paragraph 32 of the independent school standards.

This is for schools who admit pupils by referral from local authority commissioners.

Staff Survey

Survey Questionnaire for Pupils