School Governors Role

The people within a school all have different roles and skills suited to different strategic levels, that work together in order to achieve the common aims of the school. One of the main responsibilities falls to the school governors, a small team of elected members (that work under the leadership of the chair of the governing body) who are responsible for the conduct of the school. Each member brings different skills and ideas to the team and come from different parts of the school for example the teaching staff, community links or the PTA. The governing body committee is required to deal with high level strategies such as; monitoring and evaluating the schools performance, including that of the Head teacher, setting aims and objectives, making difficult decision and creating new policies i.e. admission policies (if that is under the schools control). The schools governors identify areas that need improving such as community cohesion and come up with strategic plans, which may include new policies, in order to achieve this improvement.

All members of the senior management team are experienced members of staff whose role is to set strategic direction for the school, once decisions have been made by the governing body. They are to lead any changes through different initiatives and offer guidance and information to other members of staff and equally deal with any concerns they may have i.e. through staff meetings. They also need to keep track of the progress of initiatives (I.e. promotion of healthy eating) by making sure that everyone knows what is expected of them, that everyone is following it and ultimately that the initiative is achieving what it set out to