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Your role in school improvement planning

Learn about school improvement plans (SIPs) and your role in creating, approving and monitoring them. Use our flowchart to keep track of where you are in the process as you move through the academic year.

Last reviewed on 9 July 2024
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Contents
  1. Flowchart: governors' role in school improvement through the year
  2. What's a SIP?
  3. How does my school's strategy relate to the SIP?
  4. What role do I have in its creation, and when is it done?
  5. What's in it?
  6. Do I have to approve it?
  7. How do I monitor it?
  8. Examples of SIPs from other schools 
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Thanks to Fred Birkett, Keith Cover, Harry James, Ian Preston and Mark Trusson, our associate governance experts, for their help writing this article. 

Flowchart: governors' role in school improvement through the year

SIP cycle

 

What's a SIP?

Your school improvement plan (SIP) is a document that sets out:

  • What specific actions your school will take to meet its objectives
  • When those actions will be carried out
  • Who is responsible for carrying out each action
  • How progress will be monitored
  • How you'll measure success

It should focus on those significant strategic challenges facing your school – usually for the next academic year. It's also referred to as a strategic plan or a school development plan.

Your headteacher and the senior leadership team (SLT) will draft the actual document.

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