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Session 2: Strategic Guidance Spring Term 2014

Session 2: Strategic Guidance Spring Term 2014. School Governor Induction. What is my role and what are my responsibilities (x4) What is the role of the staff governor How much can I say when the boss is in the room? Can I be asked to leave the room? What can I give to the school?

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Session 2: Strategic Guidance Spring Term 2014

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  1. Session 2: Strategic Guidance Spring Term 2014 School Governor Induction

  2. What is my role and what are my responsibilities (x4) What is the role of the staff governor How much can I say when the boss is in the room? Can I be asked to leave the room? What can I give to the school? How are accountable are we? What can I contribute? What are our limitations? What do I want to know by Week 4?

  3. Outline Of Course • General Introductory Module • Strategic Governance • Governors as Critical Friends • Accountability

  4. After This Course Governors Will... • Know about the main purposes and three key roles of governing bodies • Understand their role in school improvement • Have practised the skills involved in monitoring and evaluating school performance • Know how to access further information and support

  5. Module 2 – Strategic Governance • What is the vision for your school? • How do you know? • What information is available to you? • What do you do with that information? • Whom do you ask? Strategic means ‘having a plan’!

  6. Strategic Plans and Issues • Aims, Ethos, Vision • Targets • School Improvement Plan • Self Evaluation • Budget • Staffing Structure • Policies • Service Level Agreements

  7. Schools Financial Value Standard (SFVS) “Governing bodies have formal responsibility for the financial management of their schools, and so the standard is primarily aimed at governors” • Optional for academies, required for others • Set of 23 statements • Governing body signs off • Review annually

  8. SFVS Four sections • The governing body and school staff (See handout) • Setting the budget • Value for money • Protecting public money

  9. Budget • Annual framework for financial expenditure • Set early each year for following financial year • Drafted by bursar/finance officer/head • Approved/signed off by governing body or finance committee • Finance committee must monitor regularly through year • Should reflect overall school priorities • Most money goes on staff salaries

  10. Strategic Vs. Operational • Governors are involved in overall strategy • Head and staff run the school operationally Task – Whose Task? • Which are tasks for governors? • Which are tasks for staff? • Which tasks may overlap between both?

  11. Self Evaluation • School should continually self-evaluate • Written document recommended • Brief - 300-500 words • Ofsted offers suggested template • Governors should monitor process

  12. Self Evaluation Document • Concise and succinct • Evaluative rather than descriptive or repetitive • Regularly updated to inform governors • Linked to Ofsted inspection focuses, setting out strengths and weaknesses • Linked to school development planning, and identifies areas for improvement • An indicator of the success of the school’s actions in tackling issues identified at the previous inspection

  13. Linked to School Development Plan • Achievement: • Quality of Teaching • Behaviour and safety: • Leadership and management:

  14. School Development Plan (SDP) • Sets out priorities for school improvement • Includes Ofsted recommendations for action • Should be “SMART” • Drafted by head/staff but governors should have input • Governors should receive regular progress reports • Not a static document – changes and evolves • Budget should reflect priorities

  15. School Features of good SDPs • Has clear focus • Is SMART (specific; measurable, achievable) • Includes time scales, costing and people involved • Identifies success criteria • Is well researched, communicated and “owned” • Is clear how will be monitored and evaluated and by whom

  16. School Development Plan: Task • Read High Hopes SDP • What good points does it have? • Are there any weak features? • How might it be improved? • Repeat task using your own SDP

  17. Strategic Governance - Summary • Big picture • Whole school issues • Focus on student performance • Focus on school improvement • Committees deal with more detailed issues

  18. Governors And School Improvement What are our values? POLICIES What is our vision? What are we trying to achieve? PLANS What is the evidence? SEF Who do we ask and how? Where do we get the information? DATA To whom are we accountable? How do we know it’s happening? REPORTS VISITS What kinds of achievement do we value? How do we contribute to planning for it? SIP + PERF. MGT + RESOURCES

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