EYFS Leader Folder Pack

A pack with full guidance that helps you consider what to include in a EYFS leader folder. It'll guide you through each of the templates in the pack so you can use them, adapt them and include your setting's own documentation. The guidance is split into six easy-to-understand sections that correlate with how you could structure your early years leader folder:

1. EYFS Overview
2. Leadership Documents
3. Curriculum Planning and Intent
4. Monitoring and Implementation
5. Impact and Assessment
6. Feedback and CPD

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

• A 18-page PDF in full colour, containing all the guidance, research and information you need.
• A low-colour, print-friendly version of the same PDF.
• 31 fully editable and easy-to-use Word templates that can be adapted for your setting. These include:

1. EYFS Leader Folder Checklist
2. EYFS Curriculum Overview Checklist
3. EYFS Summary Overview
4. EYFS Leader Yearly Planner
5. EYFS Ofsted Grade Descriptor Grids
6. EYFS Self-Evaluation Form
7. EYFS Safeguarding and Welfare Checklist
8. EYFS Improvement Plan
9. EYFS Improvement Plan Checklist
10. EYFS Action Plan
11. EYFS Leader Self-Review
12. EYFS Intent, Implementation and Impact Checklist
13. EYFS Intent, Implementation and Impact Statement Checklist
14. Quality of Education Self-Evaluation
15. Learning Walk Template (EYFS)
16. Work Scrutiny Template (EYFS)
17. EYFS Cultural Capital, Personal Development and Enrichment Audit
18. EYFS Intervention and Provision Mapping
19. EYFS Provision Map
20. EYFS Learning Environment Audit
21. EYFS Resource Audit and Inventory
22. EYFS Pupil Progress Meeting
23. EYFS Link Governor Meeting Report
24. EYFS Report to Governors
25. EYFS Pupil Voice Survey
26. EYFS Staff Voice Survey
27. EYFS Parent Feedback Survey
28. Staff EYFS Knowledge Audit
29. EYFS Practitioner Skills Audit
30. Professional Development Plan and Record
31. Supervision Meeting Template

The EYFS Leader Folder Checklist is a key document in helping you to plan out your early years folder. Whether you're an early years lead in a standalone setting (such as a pre-school or nursery) or whether you lead EYFS within a primary school, this checklist allows you to determine the exact EYFS leadership documents that'll match the needs of your unique setting. The EYFS Leader Folder Checklist, along with the pack guidance, will take you through the all the documents you might wish to include as well as saving you crucial thinking-time when considering what's actually needed.

Whether you decide to use the documents to create a digital EYFS leader file or whether you print them to create a paper-based version, this pack gives you a perfect way to gather all of your early years leadership documentation in one place. This can help you stay organised, keep on top of early years improvements and developments, plan out monitoring and feel prepared and confident when leaders, Ofsted or external advisors want to learn about the EYFS provision you offer in your setting.

Any EYFS leader will find this pack useful, no matter what type of EYFS provider you work within. It's particularly helpful if it’s the first time you’ve led within the early years foundation stage or if you want to build your confidence around EYFS leadership. It can also help more experienced EYFS leads who are changing setting or those seeking to review how the EYFS leader folder can be structured.

Heads and senior leaders in primary schools would also find this pack useful if you’re looking to support and develop EYFS leadership in your school, especially if used in conjunction with the Subject Leader Folder Pack, which supports primary National Curriculum subject leaders.

This pack is going to help you get a handle on the different areas of EYFS leadership and what documents will support you to be a strong and effective early years foundation stage lead. Key questions include:

• What is an EYFS leader folder?
• Why is an EYFS leader folder useful?
• How can I keep an EYFS leader folder?
• When is an EYFS folder useful to have to hand?
• What could I include as part of my EYFS overview?
• What leadership documents will I need?
• What is an EYFS self-evaluation?
• Why take the time to do an EYFS self-evaluation?
• What is an EYFS improvement plan and how is it different from an EYFS action plan?
• When is it a good idea to complete an EYFS improvement plan or action plan?
• What is an EYFS leader self-review?
• What documents do I need to support curriculum planning and intent in the EYFS?
• What are the ‘three I’s’?
• How can I measure intent?
• Why is monitoring important?
• How can I measure implementation in the EYFS?
• Why is measuring impact important?
• How can EYFS leaders measure impact?
• Why is it important to gather feedback about your EYFS provision?
• How can feedback support professional development planning?

If you want to dig more deeply into the seven areas of learning, our EYFS Deep Dive and Evaluation Audit Bundle will support you.