1. Welcome Clerks’ Briefing Session Wednesday 26th April 2017
Thursday 27th April 2017

2. Agenda Leadership update - Summer Term
Agenda Items – Terms 5/6 (Cycle)
Training – Governor Training Summer Term
Update on online training
Call for training requirements
Reminders and Updates
Governance framework

4. Agenda items - Planning
Procedural (apologies/acceptance, pecuniary interest, approval of minutes etc)
Reflections - agenda items
Monitor school improvement plan for year (No more than 4 objectives)
How is this working in your GBs?
Ongoing
Arrange governors’ visits to the school
Governing Body Constitution, Membership and Attendance –Information
Have you arranged your process meeting?
Chair's Action (GB endorses any emergency action taken by the Chair)
Standing Items
Consider previous minutes and matters arising
Finance Update – Management Accounts
Ongoing capital projects
Safeguarding/Health and Safety
Pupil Premium

5. Agenda items – Planning Head’s Report
Section 1: Evidence to monitor priorities
School Performance, Self-Evaluation and Statutory Responsibilities
RECOMMENDATIONS: that the governing body receives a report from the Headteacher on the school’s current self-evaluation of strengths and weaknesses and agrees any action necessary against the current priorities.
To include:
Overall Effectiveness
Effectiveness of Leadership and Management
Quality of Teaching; Learning and Assessment; and Appraisal
Personal Development, Behaviour and Welfare
Outcomes for Pupils
Early Years Foundation Stage/Sixth Form (as appropriate)
Use of Pupil Premium and Primary Sports Funding (as appropriate)
Review of progress/Approval of School Improvement/Development/Action Plan

6. Agenda items - Planning
Section 1 continued: Evidence to monitor priorities
School Performance, Self-Evaluation and Statutory Responsibilities
1. Reports from Committees
RECOMMENDATION: that the governing body considers any recommendations from its committees.
2. Reports of Governors’ Visits to School
RECOMMENDATION: that the governing body considers any reports of governors’ visits to the school.
3. School Policies
RECOMMENDATION: that the governing body approves any new or revised policies.

7. Agenda items - Planning
Section 2: Evidence to monitor priorities
Governor Training and Development
RECOMMENDATION: that the governing body considers its training and development needs and agrees the courses and meetings to be attended by governors.
Section 3:
Schools Confidential Items
Reports from any Committee established to consider Parental Complaints, Pupil Exclusions, Staff Dismissals, Performance Management Appeals or any other Confidential Matter

8. The Cycle – Did you think we would not?
Summer 2017 – could be committee or GB
Review governing body performance and procedures
Review attendance of pupils, staff and governors
Review pupil exclusions for the year
Review school improvement plan progress
Review careers advice
Review governors' visits
Receive headteacher’s report on performance management
Review the pay of teachers and staff.
The full agenda cycle up to Spring 2018 will ed with links

9. Training this term DATE COURSE TITLE AUDIENCE FACILITATOR VENUE TIME
26 April
Clerks’ Briefing
Clerks
Clive Haines
Jubilee Suite, Dedworth Middle School, Windsor
19:30 – 21:00
27  April
Moor Hall, Cookham
SL6 9QH
9.30 – 11.00
3 May
NEW - Governance/Local Governance of an Academy
All
Clive Haines  
10 May
New Governors Induction Part 1
Strategic Vs Operation
New Governors
17  May
NEW - Monitoring Performance Related Pay
24 May
New Governors Induction Part 2
Challenge and Supportive Role
19:30– 21:00
7 June
New - What Challenge and Support Looks Like
14 June
New Governors’ Induction Part 3
Evidence Building for Accountability
21 June
New - Governors Roles and Responsibility and The Impact for School Improvement
(Governor Refresher)
5  July
New Governors’ Induction Part 4
Safeguarding – Governors Role
12  July
Headteachers Appraisal
Governors on Headteachers Appraisal Panel
19: :00

10. School Business Managers

11. NGA Online - Training Governor e-Learning (GEL)
GEL is an e-learning service which focuses on supporting Governors, Clerks and School Leaders to achieve ‘Effective School Governance’ that will drive school improvement to secure outcomes for children and young people.
On the Governor E-Learning (GEL) website you will find a range of learning resources to match these different needs. These have been designed to help users understand the significance of governance roles and indeed expectations.
Users will be able to access over 40 learning modules with supporting resources, and monthly hot topics and policy watch services that ensure current governance policy and themes impacting on practice highlighted.

12. Governor Training 2017/18 What would you like us to include
Are there any topics that you feel we should include in next year’s governance training programme?
Do you need more training?
Are there any knowledge gaps that need to be covered?
Do we need to have a termly chairs’ meeting?

13. Reminders and Updates RBWM – Education Leadership Forum
Wednesday 3rd May at BCA
Achieving for Children
Launch delayed – 1st August 2017
School exclusion guidance: open consultation
RAISEonline
The Department for Education (DfE) are launching a new service, which will provide schools and other existing user groups with detailed performance analysis to support local school improvement as a replacement to RAISEonline. We hope to have this ready in late April/early May. The name of the new service will be announced as soon as confirmed.

14. NEW Framework
In January 2017, the Department for Education published a competency framework for governance.
The framework is non-statutory, and is aimed at governing bodies in maintained schools, and academy boards of trustees. It should be read alongside the Governance Handbook, and the Academies’ Financial Handbook.
It is designed to help governing bodies identify their own strengths and areas for development. Governors should consider which areas of the framework are most important in the context of their own school, and with regard to the particular challenges faced by their governing body.
1. Principles and personal attributes
The competency framework is divided into two sections. The first addresses the personal qualities and principles that underpin effective governance, which all members of the governing body or board of trustees should have.

15. 2. Skills and Knowledge
This section is structured in such a way as to show which skills are essential for all governors, which are required of the chair and which are needed by at least one person on the governing body.

16. How should the framework be used
The framework suggests a number of ways in which governing bodies can use it. These include:
As part of skills audits, or reviews of governors’ performance
To inform role specifications when recruiting new governors, or appointing a new chair
As support for the governing body’s development as a whole, by identifying areas of strength and development

17. AOB Yearly Round-up Are there any issue or concerns?
Would you be interested in attending the national Clerking Programme?
Is there anything you would like us to cover in the future?
Can we make your role easier in anyway?