Special Schools Quality Assurance – Lesson Observation
An editable lesson observation form created specifically for special schools, supporting a detailed, developmental review of teaching and learning. Prompts explore curriculum purpose and ambition, communication, specialist teaching approaches, regulation, assessment and independence. The form helps observers consider how teaching responds to individual needs, how adults support participation, and what pupils’ responses tell us about […]
Special Schools Quality Assurance – Environment Checklist
An editable form for reviewing how well your special school’s spaces support pupils’ access, communication, comfort and participation. Prompts cover physical and sensory access, communication supports, workstations, resources, regulation spaces, personal care and dignity, alongside shared spaces and transitions. Consider how the environment works for the pupils who use it and identify practical changes that […]
Special Schools Quality Assurance – Work Scrutiny
An editable scrutiny form that recognises the different ways pupils in special schools demonstrate their learning, including written work, practical activities, digital records and communication evidence. Prompts explore curriculum sequence and ambition, progress from individual starting points, assessment and independence. They also help reviewers consider the pupil’s own contribution and the level of adult support […]
Special Schools Quality Assurance – Lesson Visit
A focused, editable form for shorter visits to lessons in special schools, helping leaders capture useful evidence and identify points for discussion. Prompts cover learning purpose, communication, access, adult support and pupil responses. Record what you notice, capture a specific example of practice, and note anything that needs a follow-up conversation or a closer look. […]
Special Schools Quality Assurance – Learning Walk
An editable learning walk form for exploring a shared focus across a special school, from classrooms and practical activities to transitions and shared spaces. Plan your focus and route, record evidence at each stop, and bring your findings together in one summary. The form helps you consider where approaches are consistent, where provision appropriately differs, […]
Quality Assurance Framework for HE Settings
This free Quality Assurance Framework for HE Settings is designed to help higher education leaders, quality teams and programme teams carry out structured, evidence-informed reviews of provision. It provides a clear framework for evaluating practice across key areas including curriculum and programme design, learning and teaching, assessment and academic standards, student experience and support, inclusion […]
Flourish Wider QA Pack
This free Wider School Quality Assurance Pack is designed to help schools, trusts and education leaders review the wider systems, processes and culture that sit around teaching and learning. It includes a broad set of practical QA frameworks covering areas such as curriculum leadership, inclusion, SEND and disadvantage, assessment, feedback and data use, attendance, behaviour […]
How Quality Assurance Should Change to Support Foundation Subjects
How Quality Assurance Should Change to Support Foundation Subjects We’re big fans of any time an inspectorate tells us not to create more paperwork. What we’ve been hearing from our discussions with schools over the last 6 months is that they do, too. The renewed school toolkit and operating guide puts focus on whether leaders […]
EYFS Lesson Observation
Ofsted – EYFS
Drop-In Lesson Forms – ISI and Subject Focus
ISI – Primary/Secondary