Governance
The Governing Board
core strategic function
1) Establishing the strategic direction:
- Setting and ensuring clarity of vision, values, and objectives for the school
- Agreeing the school improvement strategy with priorities and targets
- Meeting statutory duties
2) Ensuring accountability:
Appointing the headteacher
- Monitoring the educational performance of the school and progress towards agreed targets
- Performance managing the headteacher
- Engaging with stakeholders
- Contributing to school self-evaluation
3) Overseeing financial performance:
Setting the budget, working with the Richard Huish Trust and Finance Officers
- Monitoring spending against the budget
- Ensuring money is well spent and value for money is obtained
- Ensuring risks to the organisation are managed
Governors usually serve a four year term on the Governing Board.
We currently have a full Governing Board and have no vacancies.
The role of Governors is now far reaching with wide-ranging responsibilities.
In 2021, the Local Governing Board (LGB) decided to form a Finance Committee to further strengthen its commitment to financial oversight as shown in 3) above.
The school employs a Clerk to the Governors to keep accurate minutes of all discussions and to advise the Board of their statutory responsibilities.
A copy of all LGB meeting minutes are available from the school office.