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01·Whole-school playbooks

Every playbook, ready for the classroom

For SLT, pastoral leads, DSLs and SENCOs

The behaviour playbook is free — leave your name and email and it is yours. Every other opens at its first chapter, so you can read a real one before you buy, and each is yours to photocopy for your own staff.

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Behaviour & Classroom Culture Free

Calm Classrooms, Confident Schools

Evidence-informed behaviour management for secondary schools: aligned to DfE statutory guidance and the Ofsted framework, grounded in established psychological theory, and written to be handed straight to your teaching staff.

  1. 1 Routines
  2. 2 Relationships
  3. 3 Consequences
  4. 4 Rewards
  5. 5 De-escalation

DfE statutory guidance & the 2025 Ofsted framework · 68 pages, 65 sections · For classroom practice, staff INSET and SLT policy review

68 pages · 65 sections · free to every school

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Safeguarding & Child Protection £4.99

Safe Children, Confident Schools

Evidence-informed safeguarding for schools: aligned to Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026 and the 2025 Ofsted framework, grounded in statutory duty and everyday practice, and written to be handed straight to every adult in your building.

  1. 1 Culture
  2. 2 Recognise
  3. 3 Respond
  4. 4 Record
  5. 5 Refer

KCSIE 2026 & the 2025 Ofsted framework · 60 pages, 50 sections · For every adult in school, all-staff INSET and DSL review

Preview — first 14 pages Add to basket — £4.99

🔒 46 more pages unlock on purchase

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Culture, Recognition & Belonging £4.99

Motivated Minds, Confident Schools

How to move a secondary school from compliance to commitment: evidence-informed recognition, deliberate belonging and an adult culture strong enough to hold it — written to be handed straight to your staff.

  1. 1 Micro-Recognition
  2. 2 Values-Aligned Praise
  3. 3 Recognition Ladders
  4. 4 Belonging & Agency
  5. 5 Adult Culture

DfE statutory guidance & the 2025 Ofsted framework · 59 pages, 47 sections · For classroom practice, staff INSET and SLT policy review

Preview — first 14 pages Add to basket — £4.99

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Attendance & Persistent Absence £4.99

Every Day Counts, Confident Schools

Written to the July 2026 statutory guidance: how a secondary school finds the children who are slipping, understands why, and gets them back — before absence becomes a safeguarding matter.

  1. 1 Expect
  2. 2 Notice
  3. 3 Understand
  4. 4 Support
  5. 5 Escalate

DfE July 2026 statutory guidance & the 2025 Ofsted framework · 61 pages, 49 sections · For classroom practice, staff INSET and SLT policy review

Preview — first 14 pages Add to basket — £4.99

🔒 47 more pages unlock on purchase

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Middle Leadership & Team Development £4.99

Trusted Leaders, Confident Schools

From subject expert to team leader: how to hold former peers to account, build a department people speak honestly in, and turn data into teaching — without adding a single hour of administration.

  1. 1 Establish
  2. 2 Connect
  3. 3 Challenge
  4. 4 Develop
  5. 5 Evidence

DfE NPQ frameworks, the 2025 Ofsted framework & KHDA · 60 pages, 48 sections · For middle leaders, department INSET and SLT policy review

Preview — first 14 pages Add to basket — £4.99

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Evidence, Self-Evaluation & Inspection Readiness £4.99

Inspection-Ready, Confident Schools

One continuous evidence system that serves every inspection a British-curriculum school can face — Ofsted, ISI, SIAMS and BSO in the UK, and KHDA, ADEK, SPEA and the Ministry of Education across the Emirates.

  1. 1 Know
  2. 2 Evidence
  3. 3 Rehearse
  4. 4 Narrate
  5. 5 Sustain

Eight inspection frameworks, each from its own published source · 61 pages, 48 sections · For SLT, governors, INSET and self-evaluation review

Preview — first 14 pages Add to basket — £4.99

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SEND & Inclusion £4.99

Every Child Included, Confident Schools

One pupil in five is on SEN support or holds an EHC plan. Inclusion is now graded in its own right. This is how a school meets both — without lowering a single expectation.

  1. 1 Culture
  2. 2 Identify
  3. 3 Adapt
  4. 4 Track
  5. 5 Mobilise

The SEND Code of Practice 2015, the Children and Families Act 2014 & the 2025 Ofsted toolkit · 69 pages, 64 sections · For SENCOs, SLT, teachers and teaching assistants

Preview — first 14 pages Add to basket — £4.99

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Subject playbooks For heads of department and every teacher in one