Workload: get to the heart of what's overloading your staff with 'keep, tweak or ditch'

What's different about this?

• It's a quick way to separate tasks that are "unnecessary" from those that have an actual impact on pupil outcomes
• Staff drive it: all staff are involved and have their views heard on the real, sometimes hidden, impact of tasks on their own workload
• It brings about real change: if enough staff vote to 'ditch' or 'tweak' something, that's what the school does

It’ll work for you if you're ...

• Open to making big changes to reduce staff workload
• Willing to put everything your school does on the table – nothing is sacred
• Willing to have honest and sometimes challenging conversations with your staff 

Secondary schools could adapt the steps below to run this exercise within departments, or at a whole-school and department level, depending on your structure and context. Kensington Primary