The Role of the Governing Board:

The role of the governing board is essential to the effectiveness of a school with the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) noting that the most effective schools demonstrate effective leadership and management, which includes that of the governing board.

School governors provide strategic leadership and accountability in schools in which the role of the governing board is to support the headteacher and staff by positively promoting the work of the school, celebrating its achievements and working to ensure the best outcomes for pupils.

In the Governance Handbook, which can be found by following the link below or by searching: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/governance-handbook, it is stated that all boards, regardless of the type of school or how many schools they govern, have three, fundamental, core functions:

• Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction

• Holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils, and the performance management of staff

• Overseeing the financial performance of the organisation and making sure its money is well spent.

Each individual governor and any associate member(s) form the governing board, which is established in law as a corporate body. This means that individual governors and associate members do not act independently of the rest of the governing board and therefore, all decisions are the joint responsibility of the governing board. As long as Local Authority maintained school governors and associate members act within the law, governors are protected

Governing Body Committees:

Our Governing Body has 3 committees, each of which focuses on a different aspect of governance relating to the three core functions as outlined above.

These committees are: Teaching and Learning; Staffing and Finance; Health, Safety and Premises; details of the structure of these committees can be found in the documents below.

We are proud to have a team of hard-working governors* dedicated to ensuring that all children are provided with the best education they can hope to experience at Flookburgh Church of England Primary School.

Instrument of Governance

Governance Handbook

Copies of meeting minutes available upon request