Our Governance

We meet once every half term for around two hours. Each session tends to follow a theme, such as reviewing our safeguarding processes or our budget for the year, along with any other business that we need to attend to as the school year progresses. If a governor is not able to attend a meeting in-person, we may meet in a ‘hybrid’ approach that lets them join remotely.

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Our work includes reviewing the policies and processes that the school has in place, ensuring that the Head and the leadership team are working effectively and have the support they need in place to run the school well, and setting the strategic direction for the school.

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We’ve found we work best as a group with most governors taking an interest in every aspect of the school’s governance, but we do have two subcommittees to manage particular aspects of the board’s work; a group that reviews the Headteacher’s performance (Headteacher Appraisal Panel) and a group that determines salary progression for eligible teaching staff, following recommendation by the Headteacher. (Governors’ Pay Committee). This Pay Committee also determines salary progression for the Headteacher, where eligible, following recommendation by the Headteacher Appraisal Panel. Membership of these groups is denoted with an asterisk.

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Other working groups, for example, to support recruitment, may be formed as and when required, but otherwise we all sit across all matters arising.

Governors may take the lead on on specific roles, such as supporting the recruitment and training of the board, oversight of Safeguarding and SEND, or Early Years provision. Where a governor has a defined link role, this is marked on their profile below.