How to organise your monitoring schedule
Find out how you can monitor with purpose so you don't overload staff with unnecessary monitoring. Plus, see examples of policies from schools.
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Broadly speaking, in a primary school you'll likely decide your monitoring schedule and activities as a whole school, with input from the senior leadership team (SLT) and subject/phase leaders.
However, depending on the size and structure of your school you may do your monitoring differently, so follow the guidance that suits you. For example, if you set your monitoring schedule as a whole school but you're in a secondary, you can follow the primary guidance.
1. Don't monitor everything, select your priorities
SLT – Use your school improvement plan (SIP) to establish your monitoring priorities for the upcoming year. Clear priorities will help you avoid doing unnecessary monitoring.
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- Action plans for the Early Years Foundation Stage
- Action plans for writing (primary)
- Collaborating with other trusts and schools
- Creating a school improvement framework for your MAT
- English and maths action plans: examples (secondary)
- EYFS: school improvement plans
- How to deliver school improvement across your trust
- How to develop your long-term strategic plan
- How to get headteachers to work together to support each other
- How to involve pupils, parents and staff in trust development
- Improving teaching and learning: action plans
- Linking your school improvement plan to your budget
- Literacy and maths action plans: examples (primary)
- Long-term strategic plans: examples
- Make pupil feedback count: how one SLT hears from every pupil, every year
- Monitoring teaching and learning: tracking sheets
- Post-inspection action plan: guidance and template
- Premises development plans: template
- PSHE (primary) action plans
- Raising attainment plans
- Reading action plans (primary)
- School improvement planning: role of governors
- School improvement plan: primary
- School improvement plans based on the 2019 Ofsted framework (primary)
- School improvement plans: secondary
- School improvement plans: special schools
- School improvement plan: template, checklist and monitoring guidance
- Science action plans (primary)
- SDP vs strategic plan: what the difference is and why it matters
- SENCO action plan: template and examples
- SMSC development: action plans
- Subject action plan: template and guidance
- Talent mapping across your trust - how to get the most out of a skills database
- Teaching phonics: aims
- Trust strategic plans: template and guidance
- Trust-wide collaboration: overview
- Whole-school pastoral action plans
- Writing an effective SIP: planning guide
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