- Headteachers: exit tasks and handover checklists
If you're leaving your role as a headteacher, use our checklists to tick off your exit tasks and ensure a smooth handover for the incoming head. You'll also find extra support if your successor is new to headship.
- Performance management: checklists
Share our checklist with your line managers so they know what’s expected of them. Plus, audit your whole-school performance management procedures, so you can make sure you're compliant.
- Staff members: exit checklists
Download our checklists to be completed when a member of staff leaves your school. Find out what jobs need to be done by both the leaving staff member and by the school.
- Handover checklist for school business managers
Download our handover checklist to help your new SBM settle into the role. It includes tasks and information related to finance, premises management and HR.
- Early career teacher (ECT) induction: checklist
Download our checklist to make sure you're following statutory requirements before and during early career teacher (ECT) inductions.
- Headteacher appraisal: step-by-step process and templates
Use our guidance for leaders in multi-academy trusts (MATs) to help you manage the appraisal process for headteachers in your schools. Download our templates and checklist so you can be confident you've got everything covered. - New headteachers: taking your first steps
Use our checklist to find out what to do before you start, and get guidance on what you should prioritise in the early weeks of headship - so you can confidently hit the ground running in your new headteacher role.
- Staff living on the school site
Find practical advice on handling safeguarding and contract issues when you have staff living on your school site. Download our template risk assessment to manage safeguarding and stay Ofsted-compliant, also our checklist so you know who is responsible for what.
- Staff induction: your step-by-step guide
Use our tips and checklist to plan effective staff induction so that new employees buy into your school's culture and settle into their role well.
- Learning walks: guidance, templates and questions
Your one-stop-shop to plan and carry out a successful learning walk, using our suggested focus areas, checklist and templates. Get to grips with how to successfully analyse your findings and plan future actions.
- How to recruit internally
Learn how to recruit existing staff into a new role at your school fairly, and download our handy checklist to make the process easier.
- Checks for new school staff, governors and trustees
Use our checklist to stay compliant with all the pre-employment checks you need to carry out and record for new staff, volunteers, governors and trustees.
- Key stage leader: model job description
Download our model job description and person specification for a key stage 1 or key stage 2 phase leader who is also a classroom teacher.
- Supporting our community through cost-of-living challenges: staff briefing
Get your staff up to speed with what they need to know about the impact of cost-of-living challenges. Re-cap key safeguarding concerns, how to spot the signs a pupil might be struggling, and get tips on how to have sensitive conversations with families.
- Teachers (KS1 and KS2): performance objectives
Use our example performance objectives to help you create your own for Key Stage (KS) 1 and KS2 teachers, including teachers working across the Key Stages.
- Conditions of service for teachers: the STPCD and the Burgundy Book
Find out whether the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD) and Burgundy Book apply in your school and get an overview of the key requirements they cover.
- Deputy vs assistant headteacher: role comparison
Understand the similarities and key differences between deputy and assistant headteachers and get to grips with which might work best in your school.
- UK GDPR – the basics: staff briefing
Give staff a 30-minute overview of the key principles and requirements of data protection law with our adaptable presentation, facilitator notes, quick quiz and staff handout. Get your staff up to speed on the UK GDPR and how to stay compliant in your school.
- Recruitment resources for key roles
Get the resources you need to navigate each stage of the hiring process, including model job descriptions and curated lists of interview questions for critical roles across your school.
- Behaviour guidance for September 2022: staff briefing
The DfE has overhauled its behaviour guidance. Use our presentation to get your staff up to speed on the key changes and what this means for them, including how they should manage incidents of challenging behaviour and promote expected behaviour in your school.