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Self-evaluation prompts, likely questions and evidence-gathering tools for primary English subject leaders — 60+ original prompts, plus lesson visit, book look and pupil voice tools.
A deep dive is a structured conversation that triangulates three things: what leaders say about the curriculum, what teaching looks like in classrooms, and what children actually know. This pack prepares you for all three.
WHAT IS IN IT
How a subject deep dive actually works — the six parts, in order, and what each one is really testing.
Six prompt banks, 60+ original questions: curriculum and sequencing; early reading; teaching and assessment; the children who are behind; staff expertise; and impact.
The early reading questions every primary leader must be able to answer fluently — fidelity to the programme, what happens the same week for a child who falls behind, who checks that books match sounds, and when you last heard your weakest readers read.
Lesson visit, book look and pupil voice tools you can use as they stand.
Honest-answer guidance: what to say when something is not fixed yet. The strongest leaders name the gap and show the plan.
A one-page action-planning template.
HOW TO USE IT
Work through the prompt banks with a colleague playing the sceptical visitor. Where an answer is thin, you have found a development priority — which is the real point of the exercise, inspection or no inspection.
WHO IT IS FOR
Primary English subject leaders and headteachers.
This is an original professional-development resource and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any inspectorate.
Editable Word file and print-ready PDF included. Written by Laura Masson — former primary headteacher and Director of Education across a seven-school trust.
Self-evaluation prompts, likely questions and evidence-gathering tools for primary English subject leaders — 60+ original prompts, plus lesson visit, book look and pupil voice tools.
A deep dive is a structured conversation that triangulates three things: what leaders say about the curriculum, what teaching looks like in classrooms, and what children actually know. This pack prepares you for all three.
WHAT IS IN IT
How a subject deep dive actually works — the six parts, in order, and what each one is really testing.
Six prompt banks, 60+ original questions: curriculum and sequencing; early reading; teaching and assessment; the children who are behind; staff expertise; and impact.
The early reading questions every primary leader must be able to answer fluently — fidelity to the programme, what happens the same week for a child who falls behind, who checks that books match sounds, and when you last heard your weakest readers read.
Lesson visit, book look and pupil voice tools you can use as they stand.
Honest-answer guidance: what to say when something is not fixed yet. The strongest leaders name the gap and show the plan.
A one-page action-planning template.
HOW TO USE IT
Work through the prompt banks with a colleague playing the sceptical visitor. Where an answer is thin, you have found a development priority — which is the real point of the exercise, inspection or no inspection.
WHO IT IS FOR
Primary English subject leaders and headteachers.
This is an original professional-development resource and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any inspectorate.
Editable Word file and print-ready PDF included. Written by Laura Masson — former primary headteacher and Director of Education across a seven-school trust.