In the last two months, governors have taken the following actions to support schools improvement:

• Governors and senior leaders met to further clarify our vision for the school. Our aims for the school were identified after consulting with children, parents, governor and staff in 2013. We want to provide brilliant teaching and facilities, offer a creative curriculum that stretches and rewards all learners, engage all parents in their children’s learning and the wider community in the life of the school and help children develop the social skills they need to thrive. We explored what we would see happening at the school if these aims were firmly underpinned by the values identified as important by stakeholders. These values are: respect, creativity, inclusiveness, learning, relationships and community.
• Governors reviewed recent progress made towards targets identified as priorities in the school’s Raising Achievement Plan. These are: to embed and deliver the new national curriculum, to establish new assessment procedures, to develop spelling and to further develop teaching.
• Governors reviewed data showing progress, attainment and attendance of all children in the school over the Spring Term. They monitored the quality of teaching and reviewed staff sickness absence rates.
• Governors agreed the budget for the next financial year and visited the school to monitor how the school is spending pupil premium money.
• Governors have met regularly with Ms Brown, led her performance management and helped with interviewing.

For more information about what governors do, see “The role of the Governing Body” and our governor blog which appears on the front page of the website and is archived under “Governor News“.   Click here to find out who the governors are and here to find out how to contact them.