What you receive
No 100-page report.
Four documents your school will actually use.
Every Sprint ends with the same four short documents. Below are real formats, shown for a fictional school, Example School, with invented figures.
1 · For the head and senior team
The two-page action plan
Three levers, each with its evidence, a first action that starts this week, one owner, one date, and what stops to make room for it. Every other idea goes into four columns: keep, improve, introduce, stop.
| Lever | Why, from the evidence | First action (this week) | Owner · date | What stops |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reply to parent concerns within two school days | Concerns took 6 days on average; 4 of 9 leaver families mentioned it | One shared inbox with a named owner per year group | Deputy Head · 15 Jan | Forwarding concerns by personal email |
| Every pupil known by one adult | Tutors could not name a trusted adult for 1 pupil in 6 | Tutors list pupils they do not know well; each gets a named adult | Head of Pastoral · 22 Jan | The termly generic tutor survey |
| Open events that turn into applications | Two of three open evenings produced no applications | Replace one evening with short individual visits | Admissions lead · 1 Feb | The Saturday open morning |
2 · For the board
The one-page dashboard
Readable in five minutes, updated each half-term. Each measure has a starting point, a target, an owner and a status. If a lever shows no movement by the first review, we change the lever, not the deadline.
| Measure | Start | Now | Target | Owner | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concerns answered within 2 school days | 41% | 68% | 85% | Deputy Head | On track |
| Families intending to re-enrol (spring pulse) | 82% | 86% | 90% | Head | On track |
| Applications per open event | 1.5 | 1.8 | 4 | Admissions lead | At risk |
3 · Family Retention Sprint
An extract from the leaver themes report
Only themes raised by at least three families. No names, no year groups, no details that could identify anyone.
Theme 1 · “We never knew who to ask” (raised by 5 of 10 families)
“Every question went to a different person, and none of them seemed to own it.”
The moment the school could have kept them: the second unanswered email about homework support, about six weeks before notice was given.
What families who stayed want protected: the form tutor’s weekly message, mentioned by every family that stayed.
4 · For teachers
The “Monday morning” session plan
Forty-five minutes, in a meeting slot you already have. Teachers leave with one thing to try on Monday and one thing they can stop doing.
| Time | What happens | What teachers leave with |
|---|---|---|
| 0–10 min | One finding from the Sprint, in one slide: why it matters for pupils | The reason, in one sentence |
| 10–25 min | A colleague shows the practice with real classroom examples | A model they can copy |
| 25–40 min | Pairs adapt it to one class they teach next week | A ready-to-use version |
| 40–45 min | Each teacher names what they will try, and what they will drop | Workload stays neutral |
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