Annual Implementation Plan (AIP)

9. Advice for new schools

To guide a school’s first year of operation, schools must develop a stand-alone Annual Implementation Plan (AIP) before developing their first School Strategic Plan (SSP) in their second year of operation, after their initial school review.

This new schools’ AIP contains an additional tab where schools can write their goals, and key improvement strategies (KIS) for the first 12 months of operation (as there is no SSP from which these can be pre-populated).

To support this, the first AIP should establish broad goals and KIS relating to student learning and wellbeing outcomes. These goals consider the school vision and establish high expectations for student outcomes.

The AIP should be endorsed by the senior education improvement leader (SEIL) within the first term of the school’s operation.

Depending on the timing of their review, some new schools will need to develop a stand-alone AIP for their second year of operation, to be used until the school’s first SSP has been developed following their first school review. For further detail on how the timing of review affects AIP planning, refer to Advice for schools in review.

Refer to the ‘2026 AIP additional supporting resources’ document on the Resources tab to see a worked example of an AIP for a new school.