School Improvement Library

Archive of Legacy NPQ School Improvement Projects

The National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) were reformed in 2021. The reforms saw changes to the NPQ assessment criteria so that NPQ participants no longer had to complete a School Improvement Project.

School Improvement Projects saw participants lead real and sustainable change in their schools and we have decided to leave an archive of some of the most impactful projects available online. We hope they can be used to inspire change at your school and thank the NPQ participants involved in the projects for allowing us to share them.


We invite colleagues to view a range of archive School Improvement Projects online.





The New Build of a Combined Mainstream and Special School.
  March 11 2020
The aim of this project is to look at regeneration across the Federation, as well as innovative practice on inclusion, to strengthen the Federation’s unique selling point and create sustainability, through the opportunity to be the first school in the area to offer a fully inclusive school site that houses both mainstream and special needs students, which share resources.
SEND Assessment and Progress Tracker
  March 11 2020
The project provides a unique opportunity to utilise inter-school and cross-phase expertise and experience to develop a shared framework to address engagement, motivation and success for targeted SEND pupils.
Improving outcomes for disadvantaged students using science
  February 17 2020
Improving outcomes for disadvantaged students using science
Improving Childcare Provision in the Falkland Islands
  February 04 2020
To increase  the proportion of children entering FS1 demonstrating knowledge skills and abilities that reflect their age-related expectations in order to positively impact on the school’s target from the school improvement plan (SIP) ‘to raise and maintain good levels of progress and attainment in all early learning goals’.
To improve the percentage of pupils attaining greater depth
  May 31 2019
Children were not transferring the skills that they had acquired in English lessons into the written work of the foundation subjects - the project aimed to address this by improving the quality of teaching, learning and achievement .
Improving the quality of outdoor learning
  May 31 2019
Improving the quality of outdoor learning in order to increase learning behaviours and the percentage of lower attaining boys’ that achieve the expected standard at the end of Key Stage 2
Managing Pupil Premium and increasing the attainment of Maths for PP and KS1 students
  May 15 2019
Due to the nature of the school, only 5% of children in our school are Pupil Premium. As a result, tracking, monitoring and managing the PP children wasn’t a priority. Therefore, we needed to set up a tracking system, support and monitor the PP children and parents in school to ensure they have equal opportunities/experiences in their educational/home life.
Improving Progress 8 scores for high prior attaining students
  May 15 2019
Due to the large amounts of funding the pupil premium in schools has received schools are expected to show the impact of this through closing gaps in attainment and in particular progress for students who are identified in this group.
Improving teaching and learning in English
  April 25 2019
To improve outcomes in Reading and Writing in EYFS, KS1 and KS2 and diminish differences between key groups, including boys and girls in EY and pupil premium at KS2
Closing the gap between FSM and non FSM pupils in Year 11 English
  April 25 2019
Whole school and departmental priority to improve outcomes for FSM pupils