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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
Governors Introduction Part One
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)
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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.
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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.
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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)
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Strategic Development Plan
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School Development Plan
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Monitoring
Strategic Vs Operational
Strategic
The plans made or the actions taken in an effort to help the organisation fulfil its intended purpose
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Strategic Vs Operational
Operational
To be involved or doing
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Strategic Vs Operational
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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.
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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
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RED Operational
YELLOW Support
PURPLE Challenge
GREEN Strategic
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True or False Quiz
Does My Governing Body:
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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
Governors Introduction Part One
http://leadershipupdate.rbwm.org/Content/?documents
Governors Handbook
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Governors’ handbook
For governors in maintained schools, academies and free schools
http://www.elc-gel.org/home/