All governors have made a nil-return with the exception of those shown below:

Below are more details about the responsibilities of the governing body committees.

The main responsibilities of the Full Governing Body (FGB) include:

• Ensuring the governing body is properly constituted to include the correct number of representative governors and that the structure of the governing body meets the necessary statutory and legal requirements. 
• Appointment of the Chair, Vice-Chair and Clerk to the Governors.
• Appointment of the Headteacher and Deputy-Headteacher and to annually review the performance of the Headteacher.  If necessary the FGB has the power to suspend the Headteacher.
• Approval of the first formal budget plan each year.
• Agreeing the delegation of tasks and authority to the Headteacher and the committees described below and to review these annually.
• Playing a vital role in agreeing strategy and future plans and reviewing reports from the committees and Headteacher which include monitoring the financial and educational performance of the school to ensure it is meeting its targets.
• Reviewing and adopting policies covering the operation of the school or delegating the review and adoption of certain policies to the appropriate committee.
• Regularly reviewing the School Improvement Plan to ensure the school is on track to achieve its objectives. 
• Where necessary, agreeing any actions required where there is a concern educational or financial targets may be missed.
• Ensuring the school does not discriminate against pupils, job applicants or staff on the basis of race, religion, gender, age, disability or sexual orientation.
• Ensuring the school provides teaching of religious education for all pupils in accordance with the agreed syllabus and has informed parents of their right to withdraw their child.
• To ensure that the school has a parental complaints procedure.
• To hear staff appeals against dismissal, complaints or redundancy.
• To approve the school prospectus and ensure the information is up to date.
• To ensure the schools compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The FGB regularly receives presentations and case-studies from members of staff to provide insight into the work of the school and the challenges it faces.  These may include, for example, details about additional help (or interventions) being given to a particular group of children in the school where the performance data has suggested extra support would be beneficial.  Please note the governors only ever see anonymised data and will never be given access to data about individual pupils.

The main functions of the Finance & Property (F&P) Committee are:

The schools finances are managed according to strict guidelines.  It is the role of the F&P Committee to annually review the Finance Policy and levels of financial delegation and to ensure that the ‘Schools Financial Value Standard’ is followed and that an annual return is made to the Local Authority to show there is a robust system of monitoring and internal control in place.

This committee also maintains a balanced three year budget which is used to plan the schools expenditure and ensure that there are clear links to the School Improvement and Staffing plans.

• Maintain a strategic overview of the schools financial planning.
• Evaluate proposed expenditure following recommendations from the Headteacher.
• Benchmark the schools financial performance against similar schools.
• Monitor and evaluate spending of the Pupil Premium & Sports Premium.
• Ensure all spending provides value for money.
• Make regular reports on the work of the committee to the Full Governing Body.

This committee maintains an overview of the state of the school buildings through a regular property survey and is responsible for ensuring that there is a properly funded maintenance plan in place.

This committee also oversees the procurement of certain services through scrutiny of tenders for those services.

The Personnel & Professional Development (P&PD) Committee maintains an overview of the schools staffing structure in consultation with the Headteacher and establishes a pay and reward policy for all categories of staff and ensures this policy is correctly administered and reviewed.

The committee also ensures there are policies in place to handle matters of staff discipline, grievance, capability and redundancy based on guidance from the local authority.

In addition, the committee will also:

• Oversees the appointment procedure for all staff (please note the Governing body are only directly responsible for the appointment of the Headteacher and Deputy Headteacher).
• Establishes and keeps under review the performance management policy for all staff. 
• Keeps under review staff work/life balance, working conditions and well-being, including monitoring of absence.
• Will make recommendation on personnel related expenditure to the Finance & Property Committee.
• Will consider appeals against pay and grading decisions.
• Will consider staff complaints made to the Governing Body under the statutory complaints procedure.
• Ensures all Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks are in place and up-to-date.
• Maintains an audit of Governor skills and training and recommends the assignment of governors to appropriate committees.

This committee monitors pupil numbers, performance data and oversees curricular issues, focussing in particular on those which may have an impact on finance and personnel decisions.

This committee also coordinates monitoring visits to the school and where necessary provides feedback to the Full Governing Body.

The committee monitors and regularly reviews the Curriculum policy.  It also oversees the statutory annual review of the School’s Sex Education Statement, Special Educational Needs Policy and Religious Education Statement.

The committee also monitors progress against the curriculum targets of the School Development Plan and regularly reviews the performance data for the school.

Where necessary meetings will take place with the lead professionals within the school to gain an understanding of the scope of the curriculum targets and the activities the school is conducting to achieve success.

The committee will evaluate the extent of success at the end of the set timescale and review pupil progress and attainment against the agreed targets.

From September 2017 onwards, the agreed public minutes of all Full Governing Body and Committee meetings have been published online. Please use the link below to access these. Minutes from previous years are available upon request from the school office.