A Church School Leader's Toolkit Sept 2025

Developed by the Lincoln Diocesan team, this is a new resource designed to support church school leaders to implement effective processes for school development, monitoring, self-evaluation and improvement. It links directly to both SIAMS and Ofsted (2025) accountability frameworks.

This resource provides tools to support:

-           Leadership through the vision in all strategic and operational work

-           Effective processes for monitoring and evaluation for leaders and governors

-           Tools to support self-evaluation against the new Ofsted Toolkit and SIAMS framework

-           Resources templates to support the monitoring process including for subject leaders

-           Guidance for governors including those in specific roles such as Governor for Special educational needs, Pupil Premium, RE and Collective worship.

Useful templates, proformas and questions to support monitoring for an effective church school are included throughout.

This resource is accompanied by two spreadsheet documents. These provide templates for self-evaluation against Ofsted (2025), the SIAMS framework and materials to support strategic and annual development planning. A further example of a template for a Head Teacher’s report to governors is also included.