Brudenell Primary School

Governors are a group of volunteers who include parents, staff and members of our local community.

Our main role is to promote ongoing improvements in standards throughout the school. We help the headteacher and staff plan the school’s long-term direction and we evaluate progress. We help set the school’s aims and values and are responsible for some staff appointments, including the head. Many of our responsibilities carry a statutory requirement. This means we are obliged by law to do things such as agree the annual budget.

Our role is sometimes described as a ‘critical friend’. This does not mean that we are there to criticise the head or the school. Instead we try to ask useful questions to gain a greater understanding of the school and to foster an ethos of continuous improvement.

Resources

This committee is responsible for staffing including the appointment of the Head Teacher and Co-Head Teacher, performance management, governor training and development, finance, property management and health and safety.

Curriculum and Standards

This committee is responsible for teaching and learning matters including key priorities, target setting, current standards and achievement, curriculum provision and ensuring that the governing body is represented at school improvement discussions.

Children's Welfare

This committee is responsible for areas in school that support children e.g. SEN (including reporting annually on the success of the SEN policy),child protection, attendance, bullying and harassment and the agreement of the SRE policy.

Performance Appraisal Team

This committee is involved in approving performance pay increases.

Brudenell Primary School Full Governing Body Meetings take place four times per academic term. The dates for the Full Governing Body Meetings are as follows:-

Academic Year 2016/2017

• Monday 19th September 2016
• Monday 9th January 2017
• Monday 27th March 2017
• Monday 12th June 2017