School improvement planning
- Strategic Planning: the Key to Financial Sustainability GUIDANCE, TOOLKIT
- The School Development Plan [FMSiS] SUMMARY GUIDANCE
- Example School Development and Implementation Plan Documentation [FMSiS] TEMPLATES
- Strategies for Improving Schools: A Handbook for School Improvement Partners [Standards Site] DETAILED GUIDANCE
- Improving School Performance - a Guide for School Governors [GovernorNet] SUMMARY GUIDANCE, CHECKLIST
- A New Relationship with Schools: The School Improvement Partner's Brief - Advice and Guidance on the Role of the School Improvement Partner [NCSL] DETAILED GUIDANCE
- School Improvement Partners FAQs [GovernorNet] FAQs
- School Improvement Planning Framework [TDA] GUIDANCE, TOOLS, MATERIALS
Strategic Planning: the Key to Financial Sustainability
Setting a school budget which is informed by the school development plan (SDP) will ensure that the resources available fit in with long term plans, achieve the objectives economically and are targeted efficiently at improving the quality of educational outcomes and standards.
This practical guide aims to support schools in creating a 5 year strategic plan and recommends good practice through innovative strategies which are underpinned by sound resource planning, thus ensuring long term financial sustainability and value for money.
Using a wide range of tools this guide explains:
- How the multi-year budget should be seen as a financial expression of the school development plan
- How the educational priorities of the school determine its financial strategy
- How to manage within the limited resources available and achieve value for money
- How to manage the process of strategic planning
PDF (3.2 MB)
www.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/vfm/downloads/PDF/strategicplanning.pdf
The School Development Plan [FMSiS]
This Summary Guide has been developed by IPF as part of the Toolkit supporting the DCSF Financial Management Standard in Schools. It provides a summary of good practice and sets out the contents of a school development plan; linking the school development plan to financial plans and budgets; links to other plans; and dealing with specific issues such as legislative/regulatory change, demographic or physical local change. Links to more detailed guidance are also provided.(Word 119 KB)
www.fmsis.info/uploads/S1_5.doc
Example School Development and Implementation Plan Documentation [FMSiS]
This consists of a detailed template (around 60 pages), drawn together by IPF from examples of real School Development and Improvement Plans from an infant and a secondary school, which represent good practice and which are useful examples for schools to consider.(PDF 260 KB)
www.fmsis.info/uploads/r17.pdf
Strategies for Improving Schools: A Handbook for School Improvement Partners [Standards Site]
This guidance (around 30 pages), published in October 2004, is a handbook on school improvement. It is key to the work of SIPs and also to the work of headteachers and all others who are supporting schools to improve. For SIPs, it should equip them to support schools develop their own improvement agendas. The guidance consists of three key sections: systems to develop effective learning; the elements of effective learning; and tackling underperformance.
(Word 371 KB)
www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/sie/documents/sips.doc
Improving School Performance - a Guide for School Governors [GovernorNet]
This summary guidance, published by the National Audit Office in May 2006, has been prepared as a reference tool to help governors to identify and tackle the issues that the NAO has found to be important to school performance. The guide is divided into 13 themes, each theme setting out: key questions for governing bodies; facts and figures that give an insight into what's happening across the country; and good practice.(PDF 214 KB)
www.governornet.co.uk/linkAttachments/NAOimprovingperformance.pdf
A New Relationship with Schools: The School Improvement Partner's Brief - Advice and Guidance on the Role of the School Improvement Partner [NCSL]
This detailed guidance (around 35 pages) explains the role of school improvement partners and what is expected of them. It is intended to be a reference document for school improvement partners, head teachers, governors - particularly chairs of governors - and others interested in understanding the role. The guidance covers: the role of the SIP; work of the SIP; where a SIP has concerns; accountability and relationships; professional support for SIPs; and a data checklist.(PDF 273 KB)
www.ncsl.org.uk/media/CFC/E6/a-new-relationship-with-schools.pdf
School Improvement Partners FAQs [GovernorNet]
This provides a series of FAQs in relation to School Improvement Partners.School Improvement Planning Framework [TDA]
This area of the TDA site contains background to, and resources to support, the school improvement planning framework. Its objective is to help schools realise every child's learning potential, enabling a rise in standards and achievement. Information is structured as follows: what is the school improvement planning framework?; order a copy of the framework; resources to support the framework; resources to support events and training; popular questions.
