- School year planner for 2023/24: template
Use our editable, printable 2023/24 calendars to keep up with important dates and deadlines for your primary, secondary or all-through school. They include statutory deadlines, religious holidays, and national and international initiatives.
- Budget management: annual to-do list and guidance
Download and use our budget checklist to track tasks by month across the financial year, and get advice on the main things you need to consider.
- Create an anti-racism action plan to suit your school community
Find out how feedback from your school community should inform your anti-racism action plan, so you can address the specific problems faced in your school. Learn how to set specific objectives, meaningful actions and achievable milestones, and how to measure progress so you know your school's on the right track.
- Computing infrastructure: review and procurement
Find out what's included in your school's IT infrastructure and what to consider when reviewing it and procuring new equipment or systems.
- How to work with your chair of governors
Read about how you can effectively work with your chair of governors, and understand what the role of the chair involves and how it differs to your own.
- Setting your digital strategy: where to start
Creating a digital strategy is much easier if you consider it as part of your wider school or trust improvement planning. Find guidance and resources to help you get started.
- CPD reports to governors: template
Use our template and guidance to report to governors about continuing professional development (CPD).
- How to maximise the impact of governor visits
School visits are an important part of your governors' monitoring role. Get tips on how to make sure their visits are effective, and use our templates to help structure the conversations.
- Division of responsibilities: headteacher and governing board
Understand the difference between strategic and operational responsibilities, and download a checklist of key tasks that governing boards should perform to meet their statutory duties. Find questions your board might ask to support and challenge your decisions.
- Budget planning: how-to and templates
Get to grips with your budget planning. Use our template 5-year budget plan spreadsheets to help you model a range of scenarios and then cost your chosen one in detail.
- Marketing to parents and carers: make your school stand out
Let prospective parents and carers know about your school's unique selling points. Adapt our template marketing plan to make sure you're getting the most out of your social media, newsletters and website.
- How governors monitor educational performance
Understand your governing board’s duty to monitor educational performance in your school, and what information you can provide to help them do their job well.
- School budget monitoring: questions to discuss
With finances squeezed, use this guide to help you make the most of your budget monitoring meetings. See what to cover and use our questions to help you spot issues and identify next steps.
- How to protect a school from cyber attacks
Cyber security should be a top priority for schools. Find out how and when to check if your systems and processes are good enough, and follow our links to free tools, training and support.
- SEND and AP improvement plan: summary
Dig into the SEND and alternative provision (AP) improvement plan details. Understand how the government intends to reform the SEND and AP system, see what’s being done and get an idea of timelines.
- Increasing the published admission number (PAN)
Find out who's responsible for increasing your published admission number (PAN), and how to prepare if an increase is coming.
- Managing your published admission number (PAN)
Read advice on admitting pupils above the published admission number (PAN), how to increase or reduce your PAN, and appeal your admission authority's decision.
- Capital funding: condition improvement fund
Get to grips with everything you need to know about the condition improvement fund (CIF). Find out if you're eligible, what it can cover and how much you could get.
- Integrated curriculum and financial planning (ICFP): checklist and guidance
Find out more about integrated curriculum and financial planning (ICFP), which can help you improve your school's financial efficiency and maximise resources. Download and use our checklist to guide you through the process.
- Inclusive recruitment and development: using data to improve your practice
Get tips on how to collect and use data to help you determine where your HR practices could be more inclusive. Find out what steps to take to improve equality for your staff.