Reports
Annual school performance pack
A governors’ and SLT pack covering attainment, progress, attendance, and pupil groups for one academic year, written for a named Full Governing Body meeting.
Who it is for
Headteachers, deputy heads with assessment, and school business managers in maintained schools, academies, and small MATs in England.
What you receive
A numbered PDF pack (and print-ready tables) that a governing board can work through in a single agenda item, with commentary in plain English beside each chart.
Indicators agreed at briefing. Typical contents: headline attainment and progress against prior year, attendance and persistent absence, SEND and pupil-premium gaps, year-group notes, and a one-page issues list for the chair.
Included
- Scoping call (45 minutes) to agree questions the board actually needs answered
- A data checklist for your assessment lead or data manager
- Two draft rounds against the agreed indicator list
- Final PDF plus spreadsheet tables for the clerk to file
- A 90-minute briefing with the head and chair (remote, or at your school by arrangement)
Not included
- Statutory census or performance-table submissions to the Department for Education
- Day-to-day management of your management information system
- Lesson observation or curriculum review
- Live logins retained after the engagement ends
Who prepares it
Prepared by a Content Workline associate who has worked as a school assessment lead or local-authority performance officer, then reviewed by a second reader before the final send.
How the work runs
- Briefing We agree the meeting date, the audience (FGB, standards committee, or both), and which pupil groups matter this year.
- Extracts You send anonymised or school-level extracts from your MIS using our checklist. We do not scrape live systems.
- Draft pack Charts and commentary arrive as a single document. You mark factual corrections and questions the board will raise.
- Final and briefing We lock the pack, supply the clerk’s file copy, and talk the head and chair through likely discussion points.
Timeline
Four to six weeks from a complete extract, timed to your autumn or spring governors’ cycle.
Where the work happens
Prepared from Kelshall, Hertfordshire. Briefings are remote by default; a school visit can be added when the board prefers a paper walkthrough.
What to prepare
Name a single contact, confirm the meeting date, and allow your data manager two working days to pull the extract. Prior-year packs, if you have them, help us match the board’s existing language.
Limits we will not stretch
We work from what the school holds. If a year group is too small to report without identifying pupils, we suppress or band the figures and say so in the notes.
Fees
From £2,400 for a single-school annual pack. Extra year groups, a MAT comparison annex, or an on-site briefing are quoted separately.
Next step
Write to us with the school name, the meeting date, and whether the pack is for the full board or a committee.