Governor School Improvement Monitoring At

GOVERNOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT MONITORING AT

ST MARTIN'S CE PRIMARY & NURSERY SCHOOL

Area of school improvement
Names and email addresses of governor team
Names and email addresses of lead staff member(s)

AUTUMN TERM

Aim: Governors to develop their understanding of their school improvement area

Autumn Term 1

·  Headteacher circulates draft School Improvement Plan (SIP) to governors and staff in first half of term.

·  At the first Full Governing Board meeting of the term, governors approve SIP and assign themselves to an area of the SIP to monitor. Governors and Senior Leadership Team agree date for SIP Q&A evening session.

·  Headteacher prepares monitoring calendar and sends out completed action plans for their areas to the Board.

·  Governors agree dates for the Governors SIP Visits Week, to be held in the second half of the Spring Term.

Autumn Term 2

·  Governor teams to attend Joint SLT and GB SIP Q&A session and to bring pre-prepared questions which should be challenging and pertinent to their area of the SIP. If governors are finding it difficult to prepare questions, they could use some of the following:

◦  What are you trying to achieve in this area of the school improvement plan?

◦  What difference will this make for children?

◦  How will this benefit the most disadvantaged children?

◦  What will success look like/how will you know when you have achieved it?

◦  Can you identify any potential barriers to success?

◦  What support would be needed to overcome these?

·  Key learning points arising from the question and answer session should be recorded below, together with a record of any next steps required and then sent to the Clerk to Governors by the end of the term, so that they can be collated.

·  Clerk to circulate reports to GB in Spring Term 1 so governors can question and discuss key point/identified.

Contact type with lead member of staff: email conversation/meeting in school (please delete)
Questions to staff - Please record questions below:
Key points of learning from meeting with lead staff member(s)
Next steps e.g. questions for Headteacher, identified issues to follow up with SIP lead member(s) of staff during Governor Visits Week in Spring Term

SPRING TERM

Aim: Governors to meet with their lead member(s) of staff during Governors' Visits Week to find out how their area of the SIP is progressing

Spring Term 1

·  Autumn Term monitoring reports to be discussed at the first Full GB meeting of the term.

·  All governor teams to arrange to meet with their lead member(s) of staff during Governors Visits Week, including agreeing what the visit will involve.

Spring Term 2

·  The visit should focus on the governor team's area of the SIP and can involve:

◦  spending time in classrooms,

◦  visiting areas of the school to see example of progress,

◦  talking to other staff and children to find out what difference the school improvement work is making for all children and any groups of children in particular,

◦  looking at children's books.

·  Governors should note that they are not required to make any judgments or assessment during their visit, but should focus on identifying what they have learned that they did not know before, and whether this raises any new questions for the lead member(s) of staff, the Headteacher or the Governing Board.

·  Visit notes should be recorded below and then submitted to the Clerk to Governors to collate by the end of the Spring Term.

·  Clerk to circulate reports to GB in Summer Term 1 so governors can question and discuss key point/identified.

Date of visit to school:
Key points of learning from visit
Next steps e.g. questions for Headteacher, identified issues to follow up with SIP Lead member(s) of staff in Summer Term

SUMMER TERM

Aim: Governors to have a final 'engagement' with their lead member(s) of staff to evaluate the success of their SIP area and to attend the SIP Review Day to provide feedback on this.

Summer Term 1

·  Spring Term SIP monitoring visit reports to be discussed at the first GB meeting of the term.

·  Governors to contact their lead member(s) of staff in the first half of the term to evaluate progress over the year and look at evidence as appropriate. This evaluation can take place through email conversation or governors can arrange to meet their lead member of staff in school.

·  Governors should ask what difference this area of the SIP has made for all children, any specific groups and disadvantaged children in particular to help them narrow the achievement gap.

·  GB to agree date for the School Improvement Plan Review Day in July.

Summer Term 2

·  Contact notes should be recorded below, together with a record of any next steps required, and then sent to the Clerk to Governors by the end of June 2018.

·  All governor teams will be expected (if possible) to attend the part of the school's SIP Review Day in July which focuses on their SIP area and to provide feedback on successes, challenges and next steps.

·  Headteacher to produce SIP Report for the year.

Type of contact with lead member(s) of staff: email conversation/in school meeting (please delete)
Successes identified during the year
Challenges identified during the year
Next steps/actions required