Welcome to our governing body

What do the Governing Body do?

At Phoenix we are very fortunate to be supported by our wonderful governors. The governors play a vital role in enabling the school to continually strive for excellence by providing support and challenge.  This is achieved by the governing body -

• Attending regular committee meetings  either Pupils, Personnel and Strategic (PPS) or Finance

• Supporting the school in matters relating to Health and Safety

• Attending termly full governors meetings

• Understanding and taking seriously all issues linked to the safeguarding of children

• On going monitoring which includes meeting with staff and pupils, taking part in staff meetings, observing lessons, and work in books alongside appropriate leader, receiving a termly report from the headteacher, keeping up to date with the School Improvement Plan and regularly visiting school

• Link governors with areas in school. Subject leader reports are shared with governors

• Attending governor training events

• Understanding and impacting on the School Improvement Plan

• Being fully aware of the school budget and management of resources and how use of finances impacts on pupil progress and attainment, with a particular focus on money targeted at specific areas.   Phoenix Infant and Nursery School - Schools Financial Benchmarking - GOV.UK (schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk)

• Understanding how well the school is doing in relation to pupil progress, attainment and attendance

• Holding school leaders to account

   

   

  Committees 

Meeting dates 

Full Governors

Autumn 2024 – Wednesday 27th November at 6:30pm

Spring 2025 – Thursday 3rd April at 6:30pm

Summer 2025 – Thursday 26th June at 6:30pm

Governors’ Monitoring Statement

Governors have an important part to play in the Leadership of the school. They need to be fully aware of their school’s strengths and development needs and be able to communicate these to each other and a range of stakeholders, including parents and school inspectors/advisors. As governors play an important role in the strategic development of the school, a range of monitoring opportunities are required to help them to support school leaders in decisions relating to finance and school development planning.

A school monitoring programme is in place which has a section relating to governor monitoring for the current year drawn up by governors and staff and linking to the School Development Plan.

Governors will be supported in their monitoring role through;

• Formal and informal visits to school

• Regular newsletters

• Use of school website

• Involvement in HT appraisal and evaluating teacher appraisal processes

• Analysis of data including outcomes for specific groups of pupils

• Pupil interviews

• Staff interviews

• Visiting on special event days

• Access to school policies

• Involvement in staff meetings eg work scrutiny

• Learning walks

• Involvement as pro-active committee member

• Minutes of meetings.

• Financial Reports including assessing value for money

• Head Teacher termly report and governor questions

• Governor meetings held in classrooms as appropriate

• Being kept up to date with the School Improvement Plan and Self-Evaluation and impacting upon these

   

  To support governors with their monitoring role, training is provided either through the Local Authority termly course programme or in house designed training.