In step two you involved everyone in thinking about cost barriers. Step three is about working through what you’ve heard, deciding what actions to take and creating an action plan.
In step three you'll be thinking about:
You will already use school improvement plans and other planning tools. Cost of the School Day actions can easily feature within these and don’t need to be a separate initiative. However the template action plan provided here is a tool to help you think through your actions: how you’ll deliver them, who is responsible, how to monitor progress, and how to measure success.
Young people working together at the Cost of the School Day Young People Summit
You’ve identified cost barriers in your school community – now it’s time to take action.
An action plan can help you set out the barriers, what you know about them, the changes you want to see, and the steps you’ll take to get there. It gives space to:
The template is flexible and can be adapted according to your school’s needs and priorities. You can use it with your working group to monitor progress, and ideally these actions will also be included in your School Improvement Plan.
Download the action plan in Word format for editing (docx, 467Kb) or as a PDF, below.
Read more in our Ideas Bank about the experiences of schools who have talked to their whole school community, focused on specific hard to reach parts of their school community, or worked with parents, carers or pupils to speak to everyone.
