Self-Evaluating Your School: Leading to Creating Your Own Report Card

How confident are you that your school's self-evaluation judgements are accurate, evidence-based and aligned with Ofsted's current inspection framework?

The new Ofsted framework places a strong emphasis on understanding your school's strengths, areas for improvement and the evidence that sits behind your judgements.

Self-Evaluating Your School – Leading to Creating Your Own Report Card is a comprehensive practical resource designed to help senior leaders make sense of the evaluation schedule, challenge their own judgements and confidently identify the evidence that supports them.
It brings together the key information you need to carry out a thorough self-evaluation and naturally leads you towards creating your own school Report Card.
Everything you need to support your self-evaluation in one place

The publication considers all eight assessed areas for primary schools:
* Safeguarding
* Inclusion
* Curriculum and teaching
* Achievement
* Attendance and behaviour
* Personal development
* Early years
* Leadership and governance

For each area, the relevant Ofsted evaluation judgements are clearly set out, alongside practical guidance to help you consider where your school currently sits.
The publication also includes the latest inclusion checklist, helping you to consider this important area in greater depth.

Challenge your judgements
For each of the five Ofsted judgements:
Urgent attention | Attention needed | Expected standard | Strong | Exceptional
you'll find an accessible 'in a nutshell' summary, followed by questions designed to help you challenge and test your school's current position.

The questions are tailored to where you believe your school currently sits, helping you to consider:

* Are we judging ourselves accurately?
* What evidence do we have to support our judgement?
* What might we have overlooked?
* What does continued improvement look like for us?
* What do we need to do next?
* Move from judgement to evidence
* A key part of effective self-evaluation is being able to demonstrate why you have reached a particular judgement.

This publication provides a step-by-step approach to creating your own self-evaluation statement, prompting you to identify the evidence that supports your decision and helping you pinpoint the actions needed to continue your school's improvement journey.

Rather than simply asking "Where are we?", it helps you explore:
Where are we? → What evidence tells us this? → What do we need to do next?

From self-evaluation to your own Report Card.  Your self-evaluation naturally leads into the creation of your own school Report Card.

The publication includes a practical proforma for summarising your self-evaluation statement, with reminders of what should be included.
An interactive link also makes it easy to move between your judgements and the relevant questions you need to consider.
Build confidence in your school's judgements

This resource is designed to help senior leaders:
* Get to grips with the new Ofsted evaluation schedule
* Understand what will be considered across each assessed area
* Make more confident and informed self-evaluation judgements
* Challenge whether judgements are accurate
* Identify the evidence needed to support those judgements
* Recognise the actions needed for continued improvement
* Develop clear self-evaluation statements
* Move naturally from self-evaluation towards creating a school Report Card

Everything you need to support confident, evidence-based self-evaluation in one comprehensive publication.

Already purchased Creating Your Own Report Card?
This is a new publication, rather than a replacement for Creating Your Own Report Card.
If you have previously purchased Creating Your Own Report Card, you will receive the updated version of that resource free of charge, bringing it in line with the latest Ofsted framework changes.

Self-Evaluating Your School – Leading to Creating Your Own Report Card goes further. It focuses on the self-evaluation process behind your Report Card, providing a much more comprehensive framework for reviewing your school's position, challenging your judgements and identifying the evidence and actions that underpin them

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Format: eBook / powerpoint
Pages: 195
Publisher: Focus Education Publishing Ltd
Published Date: September 2026

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