Sustainability toolkit
Whether you are new
to sustainability or already involved in the process, Valuing our future can help
you.
Designed with school leaders, it enables you to identify different strands
of sustainability work already underway in your school, think strategically about what more can be done
in the short term and longer term to develop sustainability in your school and community, and allocate
responsibility for developing action plans. Find out more.
Managing your school
This section contains information and tools to help you manage your school.
- Curriculum reform
Information on leading and implementing the latest reforms for curriculum change, including 11-19 and 14-19 diplomas
- Every Child Matters
Support for leaders engaging with the Every Child Matters (ECM) and the Standards agenda, including ECM leadership direct
- Financial management in schools
Support for schools to help manage budgets more strategically
- Leadership library
Online resource containing quick and practical resources, in a range of different media, from Harvard and Ashridge Business Schools, 50 Lessons, NCSL and Teachers TV
- Models of leadership
Online resource showing how some schools have altered their governance structure, to the benefit of the students, the staff and the wider community
- Personalised learning
Publications and resources produced about pupils’ individual learning styles, motivation and needs
- Primary leadership
Support for primary school leaders
- Safer recruitment
Online recruitment training for headteachers and school governors
- Succession planning (Tomorrow's leaders today)
Finding, developing and keeping headteachers
- Sustainability
Activities and resources to help school leaders develop sustainability
- Schools Capital Programmes
Professional development for school leaders involved in the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) and Primary Capital Programme (PCP) initiatives
- Taking the wider view
Online resource to help with planning and developing services and activities with the whole community
- The key
Expert information and guidance in response to school leaders' questions