Designed for headteachers, school business managers and SLT, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting on school finances to your governing board without having to build a report from scratch. You’ll get: Finance Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, editable 10-page Word document covering: pupil numbers and funding impact a summary of the current budget including income, expenditure and reserves in-year budget monitoring with variance analysis a three-year financial forecast detailed income and expenditure breakdowns pupil premium allocation, strategy and impact spending aligned to school priorities and value for money benchmarking against similar schools using the DfE Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool a procurement and contract register a financial risk register SFVS and compliance checks a summary and evaluation section including recommendations for the governing board and governor questions and challenges All sections are fully editable so you can adapt the template to your school’s context and reporting cycle. For further reports to governors, visit our Honeyguide-SLS website.

The headteacher’s report to governors is essential for providing the governing body with the necessary information about the school to make informed strategic decisions, ultimately enabling them to fulfil their responsibilities. Utilise our Headteacher’s Report to Governors to ensure you share the appropriate information each term to keep governors up to date. This fully editable word document template enables you to share information such as pupil numbers, staffing, attendance, SEND, safeguarding, behaviour, welfare, quality of education and more in an easy to read and digest format. Our full 2025 Ofsted Inspection Preparation pack includes this and so much more. Visit our website for further information. Disclaimer: This resource is intended solely for informational purposes and should not be interpreted as professional advice. The information provided herein is not tailored to your specific circumstances therefore we can not guarantee the completeness, accuracy or appropriateness of the information presented. Any reliance you place on the information provided is strictly at your own risk.

Involving and reporting to governors is an important aspect of subject leadership. Keep link governors and the wider governing body informed and up to date on the work you have understaken in your subject area as subject lead with these helpful templates. More subject leadership resources can be found on our website.

An annual safeguarding report to governors has a dual function: It generates a report for the governing body, allowing them to monitor the school’s safeguarding practices and ensure adherence to the statutory guidance outlined in the KCSIE 2024. It enables the governing body to verify that the school is fulfilling its safeguarding obligations and provides supporting evidence for Ofsted inspectors during assessments of safeguarding practice. Utilise our Annual Safeguarding Report to Governors to ensure you share a summary of appropriate safeguarding information each year to keep governors up to date. This fully editable word document template enables you to share information such as DSL, safer recruitment, staff training including prevent duty, information on new starters, volunteers and visitors, single central record (SCR), policies and procedures, curriculum and online safety, referrals and multi-agency work and more in an easy to read and digest format. Our full Ofsted Inspection Preparation pack includes this and so much more. Visit our website for further information. Disclaimer: This resource is intended solely for informational purposes and should not be interpreted as professional advice. The information provided herein is not tailored to your specific circumstances therefore we can not guarantee the completeness, accuracy or appropriateness of the information presented. Any reliance you place on the information provided is strictly at your own risk.

A policy and process/report form that will guide governors through visits and ensure they are carried out in a professional, evaluative and sensitive manner. Designed to gather key strategic information that will contribute effectively to school self evaluation.

Designed for headteachers, deputy heads and attendance leads / attendance champions, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting attendance data and strategy to your governing board, without having to build a report from scratch. You’ll get: Attendance Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, 9-page editable Word document covering: whole-school attendance data attendance by pupil group and year group year-on-year comparisons session-by-session analysis CME and alternative provision tracking attendance improvement strategies multi-agency partnership work known barriers to attendance a strengths and areas for development evaluation, including a dedicated section for governor questions and challenges All sections are fully editable so you can adapt the template to your school’s context and reporting cycle. Further governor reports can be found on our Honeyguide SLS website.

Speaking and Listening Lesson for KS4 Speaking and listening preparation. Students act as the board of governors for a school.

An example form to be filled in by Governors when they carry out their visits. This provides concrete written evidence towards school improvement for Ofsted etc. Preview shows top part of the document.

Example report for governors with some pointers of advice about what to include. The page has an example how to display numerical data and analyse it.

An editable document that outlines a scheme of delegation for a primary school governing body.

Jimmy Governor Handout Handout activities Include: Text Overview Student Questions Page Source Analysis Template – can be used for pictures or used to work with the overview text. 2 KWL Templates Scroll/Coin/Stamp and Book cover template pages Brain Break Activity Word Search Template Extension Task Template

Jimmy Governor Word Search

This handy 18-page editable document (.docx format) is designed to help school finance governors to support and challenge their setting’s headteacher, principal or academy head when planning and setting the school budget. It contains reflective questions to be used in a constructive dialogue in the following areas: Budget planning Budget risk factors, contingency and compliance Income School improvement Contracts and benchmarking Staffing Pupil numbers and class sizes Pupil premium and SEND Deficit and recovery planning (use if applicable to your setting) Budget variation For each question, there’s space to note any discussion outcomes as well as the evidence you’ve gathered to support budget planning decisions. It can be used by both maintained schools and academies where governors or local board members support the academy’s headteacher to plan the budget. Whether you’re a finance link governor, the chair of a governor finance committee or a school leader looking to support your governors, this checklist allows you to work collaboratively and ensure that governors are fulfilling one of the governing body’s core functions of ensuring the sound, proper and effective use of the school’s financial resources.

Asking the right safeguarding questions can be challenging for school govenors who want to ensure the school is upholding its statutory child protection duties. It can be difficult to know what safeguarding questions to ask, what safeguarding data should be gathered, how to present this information to the full governing board and how to support and challenge the school on safeguarding. This handy template supports this process by providing questions that safeguarding link governors can ask when they conduct safeguarding visits in school. This resource is available on our website for £2 on Honeyguide SLS

Ensuring that governors are prepared to speak with inspectors during an Ofsted inspection can be challenging, especially for governing boards with a lack of engagement or understanding about the inspection process and their role in it. This ten-page audit helps to bridge the information gap between school leaders and governors to ensure that all parties have a strong understanding of the school’s strengths and development points, as well as their progress since the last inspection. It covers the following key aspects: Curriculum and learning Monitoring and evaluating impact Safeguarding and equality Leadership and staff wellbeing Stakeholder engagement Strategic direction The audit questions can be used in a versatile manner to support different sizes and forms of governing bodies, including local governing boards (LGBs). Some heads choose to work through the audit questions with their chair of governors, vice chair and/or committee chairs, who will then work with smaller groups to discuss the audit outcomes. Others may choose to work with their full governing board and go through the audit part of a full governing board meeting, identifying where governor understanding is strong and where it needs development.

Effective governors are one of a school’s strongest assets but a new governor who feels unsupported, uncertain about their role or unclear about the school’s context is unlikely to contribute with confidence from the start. This checklist is designed to help headteachers and senior leaders get governor induction right. Welcoming a new governor well takes more than sending over a few documents before the first meeting. It means taking the time to explain the strategic versus operational distinction, introducing them to the right people, building their confidence around school data and Ofsted expectations, and helping them find a link governor role where they can genuinely contribute. Done well, a strong induction process means governors who are engaged, effective and a real support to school leadership. This checklist walks you through everything you need to do, from the initial welcome through to a formal check-in at the end of their first term. It’s ideal for headteachers, deputies, governance leads and chairs of governors welcoming a new governor to the board. Also available: Looking for more support for new governors? Our New to Governance Checklist gives the new governor themselves ideas of tasks to do in their first term as a member of the governing body. Both of these checklists are available for free on our Honeyguide website.

Designed for headteachers, deputy heads, assistant heads and curriculum leads, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting on whole-school curriculum quality to your governing board without having to build a report from scratch. You’ll get: Curriculum Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, 14-page editable Word document covering: curriculum leadership and governance whole-school curriculum intent including vision, design for all pupils and evidence base curriculum breadth across all national curriculum subjects curriculum implementation including sequencing, consistency and pedagogical approach whole-school progress and attainment data by pupil group assessment across the curriculum including phonics and key stage outcomes reading and targeted reading support whole-school curriculum monitoring activities achievements and staffing updates subject leadership overview with RAG ratings enrichment and cultural capital staff and pupil feedback curriculum CPD and subject leader development curriculum policy review dates a strengths and areas for development evaluation including governor questions and challenges All sections are fully editable so you can adapt the template to your school’s context and reporting cycle. Further reports to governors can be found on our Honeyguide-SLS website

Designed for headteachers, deputy heads and behaviour / pastoral leads, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting behaviour data and strategy to your governing board without having to build a report from scratch. You’ll get: Behaviour Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, 10-page editable Word document covering: exclusions, suspensions and behaviour sanctions bullying and discriminatory incidents behaviour by pupil group behaviour incidents by category and year group attitudes to learning behaviour policy review dates behaviour strategies and interventions multi-agency partnership work behaviour survey feedback a strengths and areas for development evaluation, including a dedicated section for governor questions and challenges All sections are fully editable so you can adapt the template to your school’s context and reporting cycle. Further reports to governors can be found on our Honeyguide SLS website.

A simple frame that is compliant with the required information to be published on the school website.

Lesson 7 on what happen when Columbus return to the Caribbean and how successful he was as a Governor.

Governing bodies are responsible for the provision of school food and play a crucial role in creating and embedding a great school food culture. The School Food Plan, in collaboration with the National Governors’ Association, has produced guidance to support governors in championing a whole school approach to food and help create a culture and ethos of healthy eating. It is designed to be used alongside other School Food Plan resources including the Headteacher Checklist and What Works Well website.