School risk appetite statement template
Nine sentences your board can vote on.
School Risk Appetite Statement Template, free for independent schools.
A risk appetite statement written as sentences a board can vote on, one per domain, with the appetite band beside each. Five bands, Averse to Seeking, defined in plain words with a school example for each and a trigger number the register can use. The worked example includes the AI sentence: what the board will not let AI do to, for and about its students.
Three files in one zip: Risk-Appetite-Statement.docx, the working document with a worked example beside your own; How-to-use-the-Risk-Appetite-Statement.pdf, four pages that take a leadership team through it in one sitting; and What-next-EthosOne-Risk-Management.pdf, four pages on what the same work looks like when it runs live in EthosOne.
Nine sentences your board can vote on.
Free Risk Appetite Statement for independent schools: Risk-Appetite-Statement.docx with a worked example, a four-page How-to and the What-next brochure for EthosOne Risk Management. Nine sentences your board can vote on.
Your details stay in Australia. We email you the files, then occasional governance updates you can stop at any time.
What is in the pack
Risk-Appetite-Statement.docxThe appetite scale: five bands defined and numbered.
How-to-use-the-Risk-Appetite-Statement.pdfFour pages: what you have, what it takes and what you end with, then five steps that name the tab and the column each one touches.
What-next-EthosOne-Risk-Management.pdfFour pages on the same work running live in EthosOne Risk Management.
How schools use it
Agree the scale, word by word
Set a band for each of the nine domains
Write the sentence the board votes on
Test the statement against three risks you already carry
What it takes. One committee sitting of about ninety minutes, then one board agenda item. What you end with. Nine sentences your board has voted on, each with a band, an owner and a review date, and an escalation trigger the register can use.
The five we are asked every time.
Still weighing something up? Thirty minutes with us, on your own registers, answers the rest.
Get the free pack01Is the Risk Appetite Statement free?
Yes. Tell us who you are and the link is emailed to you. No trial, no card, and the file is yours whether or not you ever talk to us.
02What format is it?
Risk-Appetite-Statement.docx opens in Word, Pages or Google Docs and the two PDFs open anywhere. The worked example appendix is finished and protected; your own is blank and editable.
03Do we need EthosOne to use it?
No. The pack works on its own, and the How-to is written for a school that runs it in a spreadsheet or a document. The What-next brochure and the six notes in the file say where the work strains and what the platform does at that point.
04Who is the worked example?
One invented Australian independent school, the same one across all eleven packs, with a consistent principal, business manager, chair and set of risks. Nothing in it is a real school.
05What happens after I download?
The thank-you page names the three files and the first thing worth doing today, and offers the Board-Ready Governance Review as the next step. One email, no sequence you did not ask for.
What a pack is
- Eleven
- free packs, written for independent schools
- Three
- AI packs: the risk register, the incident plan and the vendor assessment
- Three files
- the working document, a four-page How-to and a What-next brochure
- One worked example
- in every pack, so the standard is visible before you write to it
- Stored in AustraliaAWS Sydney and Melbourne, one database per school
- AI stays in the country tooAmazon Bedrock; never trained on your content
- Published, not describedTrust Centre · ISMS policy · How we handle your data
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