Who is this template for?
This template is designed for Headteachers, Senior Leadership Teams (SLT), and Behaviour Leads in Wales. It provides a clear, structured process to diagnose the barriers to positive behaviour, build a shared understanding of priorities, and develop a strategic, evidence-informed action plan for improvement.
Why use this template?
- Align with Estyn Guidance: The template is directly based on the key themes from Estyn's 'Promoting Positive Behaviour' toolkit, helping you to evaluate your provision in line with inspectorate expectations.
- Build Leadership Capacity: It sharpens the evaluative thinking of your Behaviour Lead and SLT, guiding them through a robust process of analysis and strategic planning that builds their leadership skills.
- Ensure a Consistent Approach: It establishes a cohesive and unified method for evaluating behaviour across the school, ensuring all staff are working from the same clear framework and promoting a culture of mutual respect.
- Create Actionable Improvement Plans: The process moves beyond simple evaluation to action. By identifying the specific helping and hindering factors in your context, you can create a targeted improvement plan with clear responsibilities and success criteria.
- Strengthen Home-School Partnerships: The focus on parental engagement helps you to evaluate and improve communication, ensuring families are engaged as collaborative partners in supporting positive behaviour.
- Foster a Data-Informed Culture: It encourages the use of a wide range of evidence—from data analysis to pupil and staff voice—to ensure your strategies are responsive to the real needs of your school community.
How does it work?
This template follows the standard, intuitive iAbacus process: make a judgement, verify it with criteria, provide evidence, analyse helping and hindering factors, and create a targeted action plan. The evaluation is structured around the following key areas from the Estyn toolkit:
- Self evaluation processes
- Positive Working Relationships
- Engagement with parents
- Supporting Pupils
- Professional learning and strategies
Gaining Strategic Insight
For a trust or federation-wide Behaviour Lead, the strategic power of this template is unlocked when evaluations from multiple schools are compared. By using the 'Stack' feature to view the completed 'Behaviour Review' abacuses from each school, you can facilitate a powerful comparison of different approaches. This provides an instant visual analysis of which interventions are having the biggest impact on promoting positive behaviour, allowing you to identify and share best practice across the entire group.
Clear, Professional Reporting
With a single click, the complete evaluation and action plan can be exported as a polished, visually compelling PDF report. This is ideal for sharing with Trust or Federation Leaders. The report provides a clear, evidence-based overview of each school's strategy, making it easy to see which schools have developed effective approaches for promoting positive behaviour and where this best practice can be shared to raise standards for all.
How to Get Started
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