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Management Resources

Health and Safety
Item	Notes	Format
Playground Risk Assessment	Example risk assessment carried out on a playground.	Word doc.	yes
Risk Assessment Blank	Blank risk assessment form which can be customised for your school.	Word doc.	yes
Risk Summary Record	Simple record but useful for keeping track of all your risk assessments and Review due dates.	Word doc.	yes
H&S Booklet	H&S guidance booklet issued by the H&S Executive.	pdf.	yes
H&S Training Course	A H&S training course developed for school staff. Self-contained booklet that can be printed or used electronically via a projector. Ideal inset day activity or completed over a number of twilights . Easily delivered by non-experts. Cost £15.	pdf.
Medicine - parent form	Typical medicine in school form - easily amended for your school

Human Resources
Item	Notes	Format	Free Download
Induction Programme Checklist	Decide on what is in your induction programme for new staff and then tailor this simple record to suit your school's needs.	Word doc.	yes
Job Person Spec	Useful doc to complete before appointing! Know what you are looking for before the interview stage but also useful to use with the appointed staff.	Word doc.	yes
Staff Handbook	Structure covers all the usual sections eg. school times, assemblies, register marking, resources etc etc Contents section hyperlinks to appropriate sections making it ideal to place on the school network and view via computer screen, or projector. Also, prints to A4. Tailor the contents to fit your school procedures. If you haven't got a Staff handbook this will save you hours of time. Cost £15	Word doc.

Finance
Item	Notes	Format	Free Download
Budget/Out-turn	Simple single sheet for school budget and out-turn figures. Requires you to group your cost centres but worth the effort. use as a working tool to gradually build your budget and out-turn.This is the sort of financial report that your main management system should produce but doesn't. Ideal for use with stakeholders such as govenors etc who only need an overview not several pages of data.	Excel file	yes
Budget Calendar	Typical schedule of tasks to complete during the financial year. Illustrates how at one point you are dealing with 3 different budgets!	pdf.	yes
Budget Alignment with SDP guidance	Budgets should be aligned with the school's priorities in the SDP. Use this guidance to check how well your school is doing.	pdf.	yes

Community Cohesion
Item	Notes	Format	Free Download
Official guidance doc.	DCSF guidance doc. Explains duty on schools from Sept 2007 to promote community cohesion. This is now a potential check item during Ofsted inspection.	pdf.	only available to School Centre members join now
Community Cohesion Overview	Single sheet - provides overview of law and possible school approaches to responsibilities.	pdf.
Respect for All Audit tool	Produced by Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. 'This audit tool is designed to help teachers, school managers and local authorities assess their current inclusion and race equality practice and to work out what their priorities for improvement should be. ' Useful audit tool of current practice if completed as a staff group - can create discussion and ideas for improvement.	Word doc.

Pupil Progress Monitoring
Item	Notes	Format	Free Download
School Attainment Monitoring Record Beta	How easy is it to see how your pupils are progressing overall? This simple record allows you to track each cohorts progress through school. Record includes Value Added, KS1 L2+ L3, KS2 L4+ L5, Reading/Writing/maths 2 sub-level progress. Single file so easy to share across network. Enables pupil progress data to be used in classrooms. Beta version available now. Let us know you are using it and report the good/bad points.	Excel xls	only available to School Centre members join now
Easy Markbook Demo	Try out the Easy Markbook. Easy to use electronic markbook for use by the class teacher. The demo version allows marks to be recorded for one subject and free text notes. Available in full version on the Product Solutions page.	Excel xls
RAISEonline guidance	Useful guidance with screen shots for users new to Raiseonline.	pdf.

School Improvement Planning
Item	Notes	Format	Free Download
School Improvement Plan Audit	How well is your school improvement plan put together and is it effective. Use this simple single sheet audit tool based on 'best practice' to identify potential improvements.	pdf.	yes
School Improvement Plan Guidance	Clear simple guidance on SIP creation and monitoring roles. Useful staff training resource.	pdf.	only available to School Centre members join now
School Improvement Plan Demo	Demo version of our School Improvement Plan template. Store your whole SIP in 1 file. Only available to members in School Centre.	Word .doc

Curriculum Resources

Maths
Item	Notes	Format	Free Download
Early Number Toolbox Trial Version	A number enrichment programme for pupils up to Yr2. The programme is contained within a single Excel file and is intended to be delivered to individual pupils and small groups direct from a computer screen or via a projector. Initially developed for use with pupils experiencing difficulties in Mathematics but suitable for extending number knowledge and language with all pupils.	Excel file	only available to School Centre members join now

English
Item	Notes	Format	Free Download
Make a Sentence	A SmartNotebook file containing sentence making screens for R and Yr1 pupils. Use the included screens to make lots of screens that include the words you wish to teach.	.notebook file	yes

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