1. What do governors do?

2. What’s your view? Your expectation?

3. Extract from the foreword of the Governor’s handbook, 2017
Governing boards…are the vision setters and strategic decision makers for their schools.
They play a vital role in ensuring the best possible education that takes every child as far as their talents allow.
…using and being familiar with objective data on the performance of pupils, teachers and finances to ask the right questions.
It means ensuring resources are allocated to strategic priorities and safeguarding the highest standards of financial propriety.
It also means ensuring that schools prepare pupils for life and the workplace and … protect them from the risks of extremism and radicalisation.
John Nash, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools

4. There are 10 governors representing parents, staff, LEA and the community
Kaye Cartwright
Chair of Governors
LEA
Sarah Baker
Co-opted Governor
Graeme Snell Co-opted Governor
Chan Dabare
Associate Governor
Val Axford
Staff Governor
Astrid Ricketts
Parent Governor
Ellison Riddle Co-opted Governor
David Smith
Associate Governor
Mark Sibley
Co-opted Governor
Wayne Stevens
Parent Governor
NB All governors have the same level of obligations and responsibilities, regardless of what ‘type’ of governor they are.

5. The resources committee meets twice a term, dealing with…
Personnel (inc. staffing levels)
Finance and fund account (including budget building and tracking)
Buildings
Health & Safety
School policies (split with School improvement)

6. The school improvement committee also meets six times a year…
Curriculum
Safeguarding (including attendance & lateness and GDPR)
Attainment & progress
SEN/Inclusion/community and Parent links
Policies (Split with resources)

7. Each group of children has a ‘link governor’ assigned
Reception
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
This governor will stay with them as they progress through the school
Formal link visits are held once a term, and focus on a specific topic agreed by the SIC (e.g. the learning environment, handwriting, etc.)
Link governors also participate in the twice termly reviews of the class progress (PPMs) for their link class

8. Governors must both challenge and support the Head (and the rest of the leadership team)
Ensure that the Head delivers against budget and the school improvement plan
Sounding board for new ideas
Support in resolving issues
‘fresh pair of eyes’
challenge
support
The Head’s primary responsibility is for teaching and learning
The governors’ responsibility is to help improve the school
Governors are typically not professional educators
FoPHs plays a vital role and is separate from the governing body.

9. Questions?

11. GDPR
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