Curriculum and Standards Committee
Remit for the Curriculum and Standards Committee
- Review Curriculum Policies
- Receive information and updates from subject leaders
- Review school data, including Raise online, Dashboards and internal tracking data
- Compare school performance with local and national data
- Be familiar with the school's assessment procedures
- Review external monitoring reports on the work and performance of the school
- Identify governor training needs and arrange for the school to book appropriate training
- Accept and review the school's Learning Development Plan annually
- Contribute to the school Self Evaluation Document
- Discuss and review options for school structures on an annual basis
- Review school link governor programme annually
- Set priorities for the Governor Improvement Group
- All other matters regarding curriculum and standards as they arise.
- Ask challenging questions relating to school performance (examples below)
Questions to ask Governors
- What is the vision of the school, the ethos of the school and the strategic direction the school is taking?
- Can you give an example of a strategic decision that the Governing Body have taken recently and how does that fit into the overall vision?
- How do Governors contribute to the school’s self-evaluation and understand its strengths and weaknesses?
- What are the strengths and weaknesses of the school?
- How do Governors support and strengthen school leadership?
- What strategies do you use to challenge and hold the headteacher and other senior leaders to account for improving…
- Can you show how you hold the school to account for improving ….
- the quality of teaching
- pupils’ achievement and pupils’
- behaviour and safety?
- Can you show how you hold the school to account for improving ….
- How do Governors use performance management systems, including the performance management of the Headteacher, to improve teaching, leadership and management?
- How is performance management used to improve teaching and learning and leadership and management? (HT and Teachers)
- How does the Governing Body ensure solvency and probity and that the financial resources made available to the school are managed effectively?
- Can you convince me that financial resources are well managed? How do you know?
- How does the Governing Body ensure that statutory duties are met and priorities are approved?
- Can you give examples of how statutory duties are met?
- Can you give examples of how the school engages with key stakeholders?
- What partners does the school engage with? How does this make things better for the children?
- How does the Governing Body use the pupil premium and other resources to overcome barriers to learning, including reading, writing and mathematics?
- How do you spend the pupil premium? What difference has it made to pupil outcomes?