School Appraisals

Read what the school sent. Before each on-site visit the school completes or updates its self-evaluation on all 33 aspects and links its evidence to each. (The School Appraisal: Evidence Guide 26-27 workbook stays the scoring document of record.) Open a record and go domain by domain — each aspect shows their rating, their documents, and the framework's description of the band they claimed.

Rate it yourself, per visit. Each school is visited twice — Phase 1 for teaching quality, Phase 3 to validate. Use the phase switcher to pick which visit you are recording. Where you differ from the school, you must say why; the save is blocked until you do.

Write the report. The Visit I Supervisor writes and signs the Annual School Quality Report within three weeks of the Phase 3 visit. The Report tab drafts itself from your ratings, the differences against the school's, and your reasons for them. Edit it, compose it into one document, format it, then publish. Publishing is what the school sees.

Follow the School Development Plan. Within two weeks of the report, the school transfers the two agreed School Development Priorities into its School Development Plan. You cannot edit their plan — your part is a dated progress review and, in May–Jun 2027, the Phase 4 Impact Review. Phase 4 creates no new Domain Rating.

Handle any appeal. A school may send a written appeal against a domain rating to the Eduversal CAO within 10 working days of the report. Appeals appear on the record. The CAO decides each one with the Domain Lead within 15 working days, and that decision is final; a Central Hub admin records it here.