Governors Introduction Part One WELCOME Understanding Your Role Strategic Leadership Introductions Introduce yourself and share the following information:

Governors Introduction Part One

WELCOME

Understanding Your Role Strategic Leadership

Introductions

Introduce yourself and share the following information:

1.What category of governor you are

2.How long you have been a governor

3.How many meetings you have attended


Welcome To Governace

This edition (published in January 2014) takes you through recent changes in education, including curriculum and assessment, funding (including the pupil premium), data dashboards and Ofsted, and the School Governance (Roles, Procedures and Allowances)


Roles and Responsibilities of GB To help schools to provide the best possible education for their pupils

In all types of schools, governing bodies should have a strong focus on three core strategic functions:

•Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction; •Holding the headteacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils; and

•Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent.


Shared Strategic Leadership

Building a productive and supportive relationship with the headteacher while holding them to account for school performance and taking hard strategic decisions

1.Governors are responsible and accountable in law and in practice for major decisions about the school and its future.

2.Governors are equal partners in leadership with the headteacher and the senior management team.

3.Governors should strive to achieve school improvement and help schools ensure that every child gets the best possible education and does as well as s/he can.


Your Schools Vision

Developing strong vision statements can help stakeholders in your school reach a common understanding

A vision is your school's goal — where you hope to see it in the future.

A Mission is the steps….

Setting the school’s values, strategic aims, agreeing plans and policies, and making creative use of resources

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Strategic Direction

It involves asking the questions:

• Where are we now? (N)

• Where do we need to be? (F)

------------------------------------------------• How do we know? (K)


Strategic Development Plan


School Development Plan


Monitoring

Strategic Vs Operational

Strategic

The plans made or the actions taken in an effort to help the organisation fulfil its intended purpose



Operational

To be involved or doing




Card 1: Absence and punctuality S or O?

Review and re-issue school policy on pupils taking term-time holidays.

Set up systems to text parents if their child is absent.

Improve tracking systems to identify pupils (and parents) for particular attention.

Issue joint statements from headteacher and chair of governors explaining the importance of regular attendance and punctuality, publishing targets for improvement and describing actions to be taken.

Commission survey of pupil views to discover what would make school attendance more attractive.

Set up system to reward good attendance.

Publish (weekly) an analysis of attendance by each class or year cohort and engender a sense of competition to achieve highest attendance.

Set up systems to identify persistent latecomers and identify and address reasons.

Consider establishing or further promoting school breakfast club.


Roles and Responsibilities

1. How does your governing body work strategically?

2. Do you have clear goals?

3. How do you know how well your school is performing?

4. On what evidence do you base your judgements?

5. What is the relationship between the school's self evaluation and the school’s strategic plan?

Time Item Owner Purpose Paperwork

18:00 1 Welcome & Apologies Identification of any urgent business not

on the agenda

Hilda Ingram Information

18:05 2 Election of Chair Clerk Decision

18:15 3 Budget report – highlights and issues arising

Fred Trent Information/Decision Report required

18:10 4 Communication Strategy review of effectiveness

Hilda Ingram Decision

18:20 5 White Paper Julia Mast Information/Training White Paper summary

18: 50 6 Governing Body Code of Conduct - progress report and feedback

Hilda Ingram Information and possible decision

Draft manifesto

19:00 7 Issues raised by Curriculum Committee see below

Jeff North Decision

19:10 8 Possible Associate Members Hilda Ingram Decision

19:15 10 Health & Safety Report – Issues Arising Andy Smet Information and decision

19:30 11 School Development Plan- progress check

Information Strategic plan

19:45 12 AOB

20:00 Close of meeting


RED Operational

YELLOW Support

PURPLE Challenge

GREEN Strategic


True or False Quiz

Does My Governing Body:


1. think and act strategically?

2. know about and take into account recent changes in education and children’s services?

3. canvass and take into account the views of parents, pupils and others in the community?

4. keep abreast of possible future trends and changes?

5. ever get involved with the more operational day-to-day management of the school?

Leadership Update


http://leadershipupdate.rbwm.org/Content/?documents

Governors Handbook


Governors’ handbook

For governors in maintained schools, academies and free schools

http://www.elc-gel.org/home/

http://www.elc-gel.org/home

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Governors Introduction Part One WELCOME Understanding Your Role Strategic Leadership Introductions Introduce yourself and share the following information: