THE MEADOW SCHOOL GOVERNING BODY

THE MEADOW SCHOOL GOVERNING BODY

The Meadow School governors have the responsibility of maintaining and raising school standards.  

The Department for Education’s Governor Handbook 2020 states that:

‘Effective governance is based on six key features:

• Strategic leadership that sets and champions vision, ethos and strategy.
• Accountability that drives up educational standards and financial performance.
• People with the right skills, experience, qualities and capacity.
• Structures that reinforce clearly defined roles and responsibilities.
• Compliance with statutory and contractual requirements.
• Evaluation to monitor and improve the quality and impact of governance.’

Ofsted, as part of their monitoring of the school, also include governance in their assessment of Leadership and Management.  In their recent ‘ungraded’ inspection of January 2023, Ofsted reported that The Meadow Primary School remains Good.  Since the school operates within the Anglian Learning Trust (AL) which is a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT), our effectiveness is also supported by the policies and systems set up by the Trust.

The governance role is strategic, and this means that governors are not responsible for day to day operation of the school, since this is the function of the Head Teacher.  The Head Teacher does however have a responsibility to work with the Local Governing Body to set the strategic direction and which holds the Head Teacher to account. The Head Teacher is part of the Local Governing Body.