Governor Essential Knowledge
Introduction
The Chesswood Junior School board of governors will provide sustained and effective strategic leadership that challenges and supports school leaders optimise the performance of the school. It provides genuine clarity for leaders on its expectations for oversight, accountability and compliance, rooting these in the reality of capacity and sustainability of its leaders. It is a reflective board, that seeks to focus first and foremost on what has been achieved the next best steps to improve in partnership with school leaders maintaining appropriate challenge in line with sustaining a high performing Junior School.
Principles
- The governing body effectively sustains
- Strategic leadership that sets and champions vision, ethos and strategy
- Accountability that drives up educational standards and financial health
- People with the right skills, experience, qualities and capacity
- Structures that reinforce clearly defined roles and responsibilities
- Compliance with statutory and contractual requirements
- Evaluation to monitor and improve the quality and impact of governance
All of the above rely fundamentally on governors collectively and individually be conscious of the frameworks and information sources they work within; or use to hold school leaders to account, including key school metrics; statutory compliance; inspection; and achievement. There is critical knowledge within frameworks that governors, as a minimum MUST have read, be conscious of and know where to locate at appropriate times.
Critical Knowledge
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Governor HandbookClick on the image opposite or follow this LINK to open the document All governors - essential Reading The Governance handbook is guidance from the Department for Education (‘the department’). It sets out the government’s vision and priorities for effective school and trust governance by: • outlining the core role and functions of the governing board; • summarising and providing a first point of reference on all the legal duties on boards, 1 signposting to more detailed information, guidance and resources; and • providing information on the support available to boards to be effective. |
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Governor CompetencyClick on the image opposite or follow this LINK to open the document The framework sets out the competencies needed for effective governance. It is non-statutory guidance and should be read alongside the Governance Handbook, particularly the section explaining the key features of effective governance. The framework is applicable to all boards in proportion to the scale and complexity of the organisation they are governing.
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Ofsted Education Inspection FrameworkClick on the image opposite or follow this LINK to open the document |
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Ofsted School Inspection HandbookClick on the image opposite or follow this LINK to open the document |
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Ofsted IDSRClick on the image opposite or follow this LINK to open the document |
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Schools: Statutory GuidanceClick on the image opposite or follow this LINK to open the document |
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Find and Compare SchoolsClick on the image opposite or follow this LINK to open the document |
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Ofsted Parent ViewClick on the image opposite or follow this LINK to open the document |
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School Performance & ComplianceSchool public web page - Governors must be able to confidently navigate this web structure to locate information that will support their independent review and refection of school performance Click on the image opposite or follow this LINK to open the document Core School performance and compliance information related to:
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