This free Estyn, Curriculum and Standards Toolkit is designed to help schools quality assure teaching, learning, wellbeing, inclusion, curriculum delivery, and learner progress in a way that links clearly back to key Welsh education priorities. Each prompt has been carefully aligned with relevant Estyn inspection areas, Curriculum for Wales expectations, and Professional Standards, helping leaders gather evidence that is focused, consistent, and directly connected to the themes that matter most.
The toolkit has been structured into practical sections for lesson observation, learning walks, and book scrutiny, with related themes grouped together where appropriate. This makes it easier for leaders to explore areas such as curriculum planning, teaching and learning, assessment for learning, learner engagement, classroom environment, wellbeing, differentiation, ALN support, Welsh language and culture, curriculum coverage, progress over time, feedback, and the quality of pupils' work.
Use this toolkit to carry out focused quality assurance across your school and build a clearer picture of strengths, priorities, and improvement needs. Schools can use it independently or integrate it directly into our Flourish Quality Assurance software, where evidence from observations, learning walks, and book scrutiny can be stored, analysed, and tracked using powerful reporting tools such as heat maps and trend analysis.