Project Set-up

  • Project Set-up

    The set-up of your project is key to achieving the long term success of the school. Knowing how to plan your project can be a daunting challenge upon approval, and you may not recognise all of the tasks involved in the pre-opening phase. Your team must have strong project management and a thorough understanding of the various risks and tasks that your project will include in the pre-opening phase.

  • Acorn Academy - Kings Academy Trust

    "As this is our first free school application, having NSN support and guidance has been invaluable in ensuring that we follow the correct processes and procedures.”

     

 

Project Set-up Services

NSN is here to help you through your project set-up, providing robust advice and quality assurance around your plans to manage your free school’s pre-opening journey. NSN’s Delivery Programme provides project setup projects bespoke to your free school, including:

  • Access to a named NSN Adviser.
  • Access to NSN Specialists.
  • Project Set-Up Advisory Specialist Meeting: NSN will provide a thorough understanding of the pre-opening process and work involved, and support you to plan how to effectively manage it.
  • Delivery of a personalised and robust project plan.
  • Project Set-Up Quality Assurance Specialist Meeting: NSN will review your suite of project management tools and project plan before final submission to the DfE, providing detailed feedback on your plans to ensure that they are robust.
  • Detailed written feedback and next steps from each meeting.

Resources

As part of our free support for groups in pre-opening, NSN has produced a list of important resources and guidance. These can be found on our resources page.

  • Project set-up planning tool (2021), (2022)
  • Launch Assessment tool
  • Pre-opening guidance: Useful links and resources

If you would like to discuss our support further and access a price list of Delivery Programme products, please book a call with the team.