Effective governance is based on six key features:
- Strategic leadership that sets and champions vision, ethos and strategy.
- Accountability that drives up educational standards and financial performance.
- People with the right skills, experience, qualities and capacity.
- Structures that reinforce clearly defined roles and responsibilities.
- Compliance with statutory and contractual requirements.
- Evaluation to monitor and improve the quality and impact of governance.
The core strategic functions of the governing body at Springwood are as follows:
Establishing the strategic direction, by:
Ensuring accountability, by:
Overseeing financial performance, by:
The work of the governing body is focused on and driven by the school’s ongoing priorities. The senior leaders report regularly to governors on progress against strategic and other school priorities, however, it is imperative, and indeed expected, that Governors independently gather evidence to judge how effectively the school’s priorities are being tackled and met. Monitoring allows governors to independently evidence that what we are told by the School’s leadership is accurate and to form our own opinion of progress against school improvement priorities.
Please refer to the guidance for all governors below.