Strategies for improvement
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Highlights from school evaluation and improvement
Developing an ethos and vision
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- How to develop and embed your school's vision Collaborate with governors to develop a vision that represents where your school aspires to be. Turn your aspirations into reality by keeping your vision at the heart of every decision you make and bringing your community on board.
- Making sustainability a strategic priority Mobilise your school or trust to embed environmental sustainability into its vision, strategy and practice, in line with the DfE's sustainability strategy. Find out how to get started and get your whole school or trust community involved.
- School vision statements: examples If your vision statement is due for a review, take a look at these examples of how different schools set out their values.
Gaining accreditation and awards
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Learning from good and outstanding practice
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- Developing an 'outstanding' school: examples of strategies Get advice from our associate experts on what makes a school 'outstanding' and how you can get there. You'll find features of 'outstanding' practice for each Ofsted judgement.
- Features of 'outstanding' EYFS settings Learn why Ofsted judged 3 Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) settings to be ‘outstanding’. Watch what an 'outstanding' early years’ classroom looks like in practice, and use our resources to improve your provision.
- Journey to become an 'outstanding' school: case studies Get advice and inspiration from other schools about how they turned the dial to push school improvement, and to go on to be rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted.
Planning and supporting school improvement
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- Action plan for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Use our template and completed example to inspire you and save you time when developing your EYFS action plan. See examples from other schools to see how they've done it.
- Action plans for writing (primary) Download and adapt our Key Stage (KS) 2 writing action plan template to help you create your own. Find suggestions on how to improve writing in your school, and see examples from other schools.
- Collaborating with other trusts and schools Explore how your multi-academy trust (MAT) can collaborate with other trusts and maintained schools. We explain what sorts of partnerships you can form, and advise on how to set up these collaborations to ensure they’re worth your time.For Trust Leaders