Curriculum and Quality of Education Audit

Have you conducted a curriculum and quality of education audit before? Wondering where to begin or wanting to ensure you cover all areas of the quality of education in the Education Inspection Framework (EIF)? A quality of education audit can be a valuable tool for schools to evaluate and improve their educational offer and to support pupil learning and achievement. It provides a comprehensive evaluation of the school’s educational practices, identifies areas for improvement, and establishes a clear roadmap for continuous improvement. It also allows you to gather the views from all stakeholders, including staff, pupils, parents, carers and governors, as well as evaluate your school curriculum intent, implementation and impact. 

This comprehensive guidance pack with accompanying templates is designed to help you audit the curriculum and quality of education practices, policies and procedures in your setting. This audit pack is designed to help you identify areas of strength and weakness in the school’s curriculum and quality of education and to provide recommendations for improvement. 

Throughout the pack, we’ll explain concepts, guide your thinking and provide scaffolds if you need them so you can focus on adapting everything to the needs of your pupils and staff, allowing you to be confident and well-prepared before, during and after conducting an audit.

Headteachers, deputy headteachers, assistant headteachers, curriculum leaders and members of the senior leadership team wishing to develop their understanding of the quality of education judgement area and seeking to assess, evaluate and improve the curriculum and quality of education in the setting. This pack is suitable for new and experienced school leaders.

This pack is brilliant when looking to prepare for an inspection, but what about the staff you lead?

Our pack has been designed with leaders at all levels in mind, ensuring that it is easy-to-digest and understand, and accompanied by example templates for use in your school. Once you have read a section, share it with your team so you can begin to encourage distributed leadership and upskill your SLT.

When you make your purchase, you'll receive a ZIP file containing the whole pack, including:

• A 13-page PDF in full colour containing all the guidance, research and information you need.
• A low-colour, print-friendly version of the same PDF.
• 5 fully editable and easy-to-use templates that can be adapted for your setting. These include:

1. Quality of Education Audit
2. Quality of Education Action Plan
3. Ofsted Grade Descriptor Grids
4. Quality of Education Document Checklist
5. Quality of Education Question Bank

Key questions answered in this pack:

• What is a quality of education audit?
• Why is a quality of education audit useful?
• What sources of evidence can be used in a quality of education audit?
• How will Ofsted inspect the quality of education?
• How can I conduct a quality of education audit?
• How can I use the quality of educationaudit to inform next steps?

The resources in this pack are also available in other packs we've got on site. We’ve done this with school leaders in mind so you can pick the ones to best suit your needs and context.

If you’re not sure if this pack is for you, see if any of the following options suit you better:

Need all of the support available, including everything linked to Ofsted?

• Ofsted Inspection Preparation Pack

Want to focus on auditing other areas?

• Audits, Website Compliance and Recruitment Pack - this contains all of the audits we have available, including this one and the following list.
• Curriculum and Quality of Education Audit
• Mental Health and Wellbeing Audit
• Behaviour and Attitudes Audit
• Personal Development Audit
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Audit
• Safeguarding Audit
• SEND Audit

Want to look at school improvement?

• School Evaluation and Improvement Pack

Need support with the Ofsted phone call?

• Ofsted Phone Call Preparation Pack