If you would like further information regarding school governance, please contact the Headteacher.

How would you like to be part of a team working towards high standards of achievement in our school and promoting relations between pupils, teachers and the local community?

The Benefits of Becoming a School Governor

Being a school governor is an enormously challenging and rewarding opportunity.  The benefits can be summarised as:

• A sense of satisfaction through knowing children will benefit from your efforts
• The opportunity to develop new skills and to strengthen existing ones
• The opportunity to work with people from a variety of social, cultural and religious backgrounds
• The opportunity to gain understanding in key areas such as finance, personnel, and strategic planning
• The opportunity to gain awareness of the education system as a whole.

Through solving problems ranging from finance to site management, human resources to marketing, pupil welfare to curriculum development, every governor is guaranteed to broaden their skills and knowledge in some way and this can be enhanced by training offered by the Local Authority.

 

School governance is the most important volunteering role in education. Schools are autonomous institutions with responsibility for their budgets, standards and direction and all schools face challenges.

Governors support school staff and enable them to provide the best possible standards of education, and help children throughout the school realise their aspirations and expectations.

An effective governing body is a source of enormous strength to a school, and will  be increasingly important in helping to deal with major issues such as the expansion of knowledge and resources, the pace and type of change, the implications of faith, race and language and the influence of new technology.

There are 350,000 volunteer governor places in England on governing bodies in nursery, primary and secondary schools. At any one time approximately 40,000 of these places will be vacant as volunteers circumstances change, or their terms of office come to an end.