Governors
Contact
Caroline Battong, PA to Headteacher
Tel: 01626 201800
Email: Caroline.BATTONG@educationsouthwest.org.uk
Committee Structure
The full Governing Body meets six times per year Link Governor Meetings (termly), focus on delivering high-quality education and ensure sharing of good practice.
Key Roles of the Governing Body
- To ensure clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction
- Holding the Director of Education, Head teachers and Heads of School to account for education and school improvement across the Federation. Set KPIs for each schools’ academic achievement
- Monitor, challenge and support academic standards in the schools
- To oversee the financial performance of the schools, ensuring best value at all times and recommending school budgets
- To promote the development of best practice across the four schools
- Approve and monitor 3 year strategic and annual management plans for the schools
- Head teacher and staff recruitment
- Ensure an appropriate curriculum is taught to all students
- Ensure provision of RE meets statutory and ESW policy
- Ensure academy meet statutory obligations
- Monitor, challenge and support Spiritual, Moral, Social, Cultural Values standards in the schools
- Monitor, challenge and support standards achieved by Disadvantaged and SEND students in the schools
- Monitor, challenge and support standards of safeguarding, behaviour, attendance in the schools
- Monitor, challenge and support standards of Health and Safety in the schools
- Adopt and review home-school agreements
- Adopt and review home-school agreements
- Determine capital strategy
- Support and encourage school initiatives such as Forest School/Rights respecting schools programmes etc.
- Supporting bids and PTA’s to deliver additional resources
