The Ultimate Handbook for School Self-Evaluation

The SWIFT School Improvement Handbook is the result of 5 years work and the contribution of 50 serving Headteachers. With 800 pre-written self-evaluation statements it is the ultimate guide to self-evaluating your school.

Each aspect of what a school needs to do is laid out in a clear and concise way, following the key areas of the OFSTED framework. For each there is a description of what your school would need to be evidencing in order to be judged across a spectrum from Outstanding to Inadequate. The book is an indispensable tool that allows school leaders to identify areas for improvement and to establish success criteria for improvement initiatives. With this book you can benchmark where you are, track progress and review impact.

The requirements of local and national benchmarks (e.g. National Healthy Schools, FMSiS, Inclusion Chartermarks, IIP etc.) are also identified throughout helping you to assess where your school meets or exceeds these in detail.

Schools using this handbook have found it has saved them significant effort and time in their self-evaluation work

The SWIFT School Improvement Handbook is an invaluable tool for schools seeking a rigorous self-evaluation framework.

The materials allow a school to evaluate its strengths and weaknesses against every area of school life in a rigorous and systematic process. The key areas of the Ofsted framework are identified in four key "perspectives" as follows:

• Climate, Inclusion and Ethos
• Leadership and Management
• Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
• Standards and Achievement

Under these headings the book breaks each into sub headings, called aspects, and describes what a school needs to be evidencing in order to be graded across the spectrum from "Outstanding" to "Inadequate".

The handbook is 120 pages and wire bound for durable easy use.