Wayfinder Toolkit

Designed to supports schools to audit, develop, and strengthen your provision.

Evaluation and development plan toolkit

WEMA's Wayfinder Toolkit supports you and your school to audit, develop, and strengthen your music and arts provision. It is updated regularly to reflect best practice, sector research and current DfE expectations—including support for subject development plans and clear website summaries.

Toolkit Benefits:

  • Evaluate with confidence: Review your provision against concise indicators drawn from government strategy, sector specialists and research.
  • Identify existing strengths and potential developments: Pinpoint what’s working well and highlight areas for potential enhancement. 
  • Turn insight into action: Helps you build a practical, streamlined action plan to deliver your development targets.
  • Show progress clearly: Track improvement over time with a visual impression of your strengths and development areas. 
  • Publish with ease: Generate a one-page summary of current provision and planned development for your website – a statutory requirements in some subjects. 

Who can use it:

Membership is for staff working in schools. If you work across multiple schools (as an  executive headteacher, MAT senior leader/governor, or similar), your account can provide access to all schools where you have a legitimate interest.

Topics available:

  • Music  
  • Whole School Creative (coming soon) 

Please note: WEMA can add other topics on request.

How to register: 

You will need to create a a verified account to register, using the button below. We will then connect your registration with your school and send you email confirmation that your account is active. 

Toolkit User Guide

Once registered, please access the Toolkit User Guide, using the button below (you will also receive a link the the User Guide in your account confirmation email).