Extended school self-evaluation toolkit

In the London Borough of Hounslow, ContinYou was asked to conduct an audit of 23 schools (a range of primary and secondary schools) and place them on a continuum of progress.

To do this ContinYou has developed an audit toolkit called ‘How are we doing? A self-evaluation toolkit for extended schools’. It is designed to encourage the involvement of headteachers, Governors, parents, students, partner agencies, etc. Alongside the audit toolkit, an action plan has been developed to enable each school to move to the next point on the continuum.

ContinYou now offers a consultancy service to support schools to use the toolkit, which consists of a framework and audit tools that are based on the DCSF areas of extended school provision. It offers schools a structured way to collect into a portfolio all their good practice and evidence of their progress towards being fully extended. The portfolio also works alongside the new Ofsted self-assessment framework.

Work undertaken with QiSS has now produced the Integrated Quality Framework (IQF) which combines the self-evaluation toolkit and the quality development framework.

Download the IQF leaflet for more information (PDF file, 1.6 MB).