iFairy working templates
Templates you can actually use
Official guidance tells a school what it must do, across dozens of pages, and is often out of step with what changed since. These templates turn it into a working document you can adapt: the sections you need, starter wording with the gaps highlighted, and a checklist. Every requirement cites the official document and paragraph it comes from, so you can check it.
Written by iFairy, not by government. Check the current official wording before you adopt a template, and adapt it to your setting and to your local authority or trust procedures.
Behaviour policy
A ready-to-adapt whole-school behaviour policy for schools in England: standards and routines, rewards and lawful sanctions, SEND adjustments, removal, searching and confiscation, mobile phones, reasonable force (including the April 2026 recording and reporting duties), suspension and exclusion, and monitoring.
Child protection and safeguarding policy
A ready-to-adapt child protection policy for schools in England built from Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025 and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2026. It covers key contacts, roles, recognising and responding to concerns, records and information sharing, child-on-child abuse, online safety and filtering, allegations against staff, training, and review. It points to your local safeguarding partners' procedures and does not replace them.
Curriculum for Wales: published curriculum summary and design rationale
A template for the summary of a school's adopted curriculum under Curriculum for Wales: vision and the four purposes, the six Areas of Learning and Experience, mandatory elements, cross-curricular and integral skills, progression, assessment arrangements, the approach to English and Welsh up to age 7, choice at 14 to 16, and how the curriculum is reviewed.
EYFS long-term plan (nursery and Reception)
A one-year long-term curriculum plan for a nursery or Reception class, organised by term across the seven areas of learning, with key texts and experiences, vocabulary, assessment points and transition to Year 1. Built on the EYFS statutory framework for group and school-based providers (effective 1 September 2025) and the non-statutory Development Matters guidance.
Filtering, monitoring and cyber security review record
A termly and annual review record against the DfE filtering and monitoring standards and the cyber security standards, with the online safety duties from Keeping Children Safe in Education. For each standard: who is responsible, how it is met, the evidence, and the gaps.
Provider access policy statement (careers)
A ready-to-adapt provider access policy statement for maintained schools and academies in England: how providers of technical education and apprenticeships can request access to pupils, and how the school will deliver the 6 required provider encounters in years 8 to 13.
Relationships education / RSE and health education (RSHE) policy
A working RSHE policy for a primary or secondary school, built on the revised 2025 statutory guidance that schools follow from 1 September 2026. It covers what the policy must contain, parental consultation, the right to request withdrawal from sex education (which differs between primary and secondary), openness about materials, external providers, SEND, safeguarding and review.
School attendance policy
A working attendance policy that covers every item Working together to improve school attendance (August 2024) says the policy must set out as a minimum, plus registers, leave of absence, persistent and severe absence, penalty notices and returns to the local authority.
SEN information report
A parent-friendly SEN information report with one section for each item the SEND Code of Practice (para 6.79) says it must cover, plus looked-after children, disability and accessibility information, the Local Offer and named contacts.
CfE class planning and progress tracker (Experiences and Outcomes and Benchmarks)
A light-touch planning and tracking template for one class at one Curriculum for Excellence level. It plans learning from the experiences and outcomes, gathers evidence across learning, and uses the literacy and numeracy Benchmarks the way Education Scotland says they should be used: to inform a holistic professional judgement of achievement of a level, not as a tick list.
Mobile phone policy (phone-free school day)
A ready-to-adapt policy that prohibits pupils' use of mobile phones and similar smart devices throughout the school day, in line with the DfE statutory guidance that schools should follow from 1 September 2026. Covers storage, staff use, sanctions and confiscation, searching, reasonable adjustments, sixth form, trips and communicating with parents.
Subject curriculum long-term plan (national curriculum subject)
A long-term plan for one national curriculum subject: what is taught in each year and term, how it covers every statutory programme of study statement, the vocabulary and assessment points, and links to other subjects. It also produces the year-by-year subject information schools must publish online.
Curriculum and Assessment Review: school action plan
An action plan for getting ready for the revised national curriculum and the assessment changes that follow the Curriculum and Assessment Review (final report and government response, November 2025). It sets out what the government has said will change, phase by phase and subject by subject, with the stated timelines, and gives a structure for owners, staff training (CPD) and communication with governors and parents.