governors

School governing bodies may be described as the largest volunteer army in the land – around 3500,000 people.
Despite the size of that number and the fact that governors have a higher public profile than ever before, the chances are that you do not have more than a sketchy idea of what a governor does.
Governors certainly have considerable responsibilities but they don’t exercise them as individuals, all governor decisions are corporate and all responsibilities are corporate.

The most fundamental thing about what governors have to do lies in a definition of what they do not do.
Governors do not manage schools. What governors are required to do is oversee the development of the school. The main aim of a governing body should be to endeavour to raise the school’s standards and to do this governors have three roles to fulfil.
Strategic role - This is setting the general direction of the school, looking at how it is to develop.
Critical friend – The Headteacher runs the school and must be supported by the governing body.
Accountability – The governing body is accountable to a variety of ‘stakeholders’ in the school and at times will exercise executive powers.