Who is this template for?
This template is designed for Headteachers, Senior Leadership Teams, and Governors in schools in England preparing for a Statutory Inspection of Anglican and Methodist Schools (SIAMS). It provides a robust framework for evaluating and evidencing the impact of the school's Christian vision on the entire school community.
Why use this template?
Using this template provides a clear and structured process to prepare for your SIAMS inspection. It helps you articulate and evidence how your school's Christian vision is lived out in practice, directly addressing the core focus of the inspection. Key benefits include:
- Structured Evidence Gathering: It provides a collaborative structure for school and trust leaders to gather and organise the evidence required to demonstrate how the school's vision enables pupils and adults to flourish.
- Prepares for Inspection Dialogue: The template helps you prepare for the collaborative inspection process by ensuring your judgements are supported by clear, well-organised evidence.
- Focus on Impact: It keeps the focus firmly on the impact of your Christian vision on pupils and adults, which is the central element of the SIAMS inspection.
- Clear Accountability: It helps hold school and trust leaders to account by providing a transparent framework for making judgements on the effectiveness of the school's provision as a Church school.
- Enables Flourishing: The process of evaluation helps to ensure that the school's provision is effective in enabling all pupils and adults to flourish, in line with the expectations of the SIAMS framework.
How does it work?
This template follows the standard, intuitive iAbacus process of making a judgement, verifying it with criteria, providing evidence, analysing helping and hindering factors, and creating a targeted action plan. The evaluation is structured around the seven key inspection questions of the SIAMS framework:
- IQ1: Vision's Impact on Flourishing
- IQ2: Curriculum's Theological Reflection
- IQ3: Collective Worship's Spiritual Impact
- IQ4: Theological Vision & Well-being Culture
- IQ5: Vision-Cultivated Justice & Responsibility
- IQ6: Effectiveness of Religious Education
- IQ7: Religious Education Quality Assessment
Clear, Professional Reporting
With a single click, you can export your completed evaluation into a professional, visually compelling PDF report. This report serves as a clear summary for a SIAMS inspector, presenting your judgements and the supporting evidence in a structured and accessible format. It is designed to help the inspector efficiently gather the evidence needed to determine whether the school is living up to its foundation as a Church school, enabling pupils and adults to flourish, or if there are priority areas for leaders to address.
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How to Get Started
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