Information on School Governors

We currently have two parent governor vacancies to commence immediately after the election.

Please see the details below.  We'd love to chat if you have any questions about the role.  

What is Expected of Governors

- To attend six to eight Governor meetings each academic year. Usually held in the evenings.
- To allow time to read and understand all the policies and any additional documents prior to meetings.
- To attend any sub-committee meetings as required - for example: Budgets/Performance Management
- To meet with the subject leads or area of responsibility leads that you oversee, a minimum of once per term in school, and feed back to the governing body.
- To attend at least one DDAT governor briefing per academic year (usually online and once per month) and provide feedback to the governing body.
- To complete Safeguarding training annually.

- To attend a DDAT event on behalf of our governing body where possible.

It is only possible to really know and understand our school through regular visits into the school and talking with the team. Ofsted expects Governors to know how the curriculum is developed and delivered, why money is being spent in certain areas, what challenges we face and how we use skills and budget to address this, and, perhaps more importantly, how do we know it is working? Are we familiar with the Self Evaluation Form of the school and the School Improvement Plan? The list goes on and it isn’t possible to know and understand this purely from attending the regular meetings, which is why we take a more active role.