Committee

Teaching and Learning

Activity

• Interpreting internal assessment data for the whole school

• Examining progress of pupils using internal assessment data

• Overview of National results

Impact of Activity

• Governors understand that pupils are well within national expectations but that those working at greater depth in writing is below that of reading and writing

• Pupil progress is good

• Headline figures demonstrate WAPS is well placed nationally, within the LA and locally.

Leadership and Management

• Policy Review

• Understanding the new Ofsted Framework

• Keeping Children Safe in Education

• Policies are up to date and current.

• Governors are kept abreast of current practice and expectations.

• Governors are aware of their duties with regard to KCSIE 2019

Finance, Premises and Health & Safety

• Financial benchmarking with particular focus on staffing costs

• Premises and H&S

• The school compare favourably with other schools in the LA, like us and nationally with regard to staffing costs.

• Staffing costs are average (as a percentage) for the area

• The school’s income is about average for the area

• The governors approved work on the following – repair to roof in KSI and repair to stairs in KSI.

Staffing

• Review Staffing Policy

• Review of headteacher performance

• Staffing policy and procedures in line with requirements.

• Headteacher audited for practice. External auditor content with performance.

Link Governors

• Agreed to wait for Spring ’20 to redistribute Link Governor roles after new recruits.