The Full Governing Body meets twice a term at Business Meetings. All Governors also sit on one or two committees – Resources and School Improvement. These Committees meet once a term.

 

The Resources Committee is concerned with the financial side of running the school. It considers the school budget and accounts in detail. This includes the funding received from the Local Authority, expenses including salaries and utilities, and one-off capital projects. They have to consider a number of complicated documents which schools are required to have by the Local Authority or the Government such as the Schedule of Financial Delegation. They also deal with benchmarking data – when they compare the data for our school, including SATs results and amounts spent, with the data for other similar schools.

 

The School Improvement Committee is responsible for matters relating to the curriculum, the school’s performance and the training and performance of the governors themselves. For example, considers SATs results, monitoring governor visits to the school, ensuring that new Governors are properly supported and that governors continue to undertake all the training they need.

 

The current membership of the Committees is:

Resources: Mr D Challis (Chair), Miss S Hunter, Mrs E Jackson, Mrs Y Waller, Mr L Fisher, Ms D Ngoma and Mrs N Courtney.

School Improvement: Mrs S Taylor (Chair), Miss S Hunter, Miss A Sheehan, Ms D Trivedi, Mr R Shah and Mrs N Courtney.