The Board of Governors needs to take a strategic role, act as a critical friend to the School and be accountable for its decisions. It should set aims and objectives and agree, monitor and review policies, targets and priorities

Terms of reference:

• Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction;
• Holding the headteacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils, and the performance management of staff; and
• Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent.
• To agree constitutional matters*, including procedures where the Board of Governors has discretion
• To recruit new members as vacancies arise and to appoint new governors* where appropriate
• To hold at least three Board of Governors meetings a year*
• To appoint or remove the Chair and Vice Chair*
• To appoint or remove a Clerk to the Board of Governors*
• To establish the committees of the Board of Governors and their terms of reference*
• To appoint the Chair of any committee (if not delegated to the committee itself)
• To appoint or remove a Clerk to each committee*
• To suspend a governor*
• To decide which functions of the Board of Governors will be delegated to committees, groups and individuals*
• To receive reports from any individual or committee to whom a decision has been delegated and to consider whether any further action by the Board of Governors is necessary*
• To approve the first formal budget plan of the financial year
• To keep the Health and Safety Policy and its practice under review and to make revisions where appropriate
• To review the delegation arrangements annually*

*these matters cannot be delegated to either a committee or an individual

Membership – 12 Governors: The Headteacher, one LEA governor, one staff governor, two parent governors and seven co-opted governors.

Quorum:         One half of the number of Governors in post