Governing Body’s Annual Statement

The Issues faced and addressed by the Governing Body over the last year were:  

• Governing Body working arrangements and preparation for the Ofsted inspection and responding to its recommendations
• Continued to ensure that the Head Teacher and SLT were supported in their roles
• ‘Learning Walks’ to be undertaken by Governors to increase their depth of understanding of the school
• Monitoring the progress of the KEEP
• Restructuring of the Governor’s  sub-committees to enable a more responsive approach
• Responses to the changed Ofsted inspection framework
• Investigation and decision making regarding in-term holiday requests 
• Major updates and changes to school website
• Communication letters relating to key information sharing
• Homework survey of staff following requests from parents
• Parent and carer survey including clarification of parent/carer views
• Welcoming new Governors including the Head Teacher of John Spence High School and a new parent governor
• A permanent exclusion

The impact of the Governing Body on the school was: 

• Governors knowledge of new data and assessment systems enables Governors to provide further support and challenge to school provision
• Updated and redesigned school website will improve already highly effective communications with parents, carers and visitors
• The parent and carer survey had a very high number of returns and confirms the great success of the school and the strength of highly positive views of parents and carers.  
• The pupil survey confirmed that children feel safe, and that the overwhelming majority understand the behaviour policy.  This process will be repeated.
• As a result of Governors clarifying stakeholders views, Governors are very clear about pupils and parent/carer views, supporting school to target and determine next steps of development.