• Governance

Governors play an active role as a ‘critical friend’ to Broseley CE Primary School. Their work is crucial in helping the school to continue to develop and improve: providing support, challenge and strategic direction to our school.

Governors are routinely involved in our monitoring cycle and regularly speak to staff about their well being as well as being actively engaged in our community.

Governors are involved in a range of activities to support safeguarding. The safeguarding governor has scrutinised the single central record to ensure that the necessary checks and procedures are followed in the recruitment of staff and other adults who work with children. Furthermore, the buildings, security, health and safety committee also examine issues relating to safeguarding and have scrutinised risk assessments, audits, procedures and policies. All governors were regularly involved in the review of Covid-19 risk assessments to support the ever-changing operations of the school during the pandemic. This has provided reassurance to staff, parents and pupils that the school is as ‘Covid-19 secure’ as possible in these challenging times.

The school curriculum committee’s role continues to be effective through monitoring the implementation of the School Development Plan, including. the continued development of the school curriculum. This has ensured that subjects are well structured and sequenced logically to support children’s ability to ‘know more and remember more’. The committee has also analysed internal and external data, as national assessments have reconvened, to inform future school development planning and identify areas of improvement.

The school finance committee has closely worked with the school to ensure that the school achieves the best value for money, especially with the ever-increasing budget pressures. The finance committee ensures that money allocated for specific purposes, specifically to support disadvantaged children through the Pupil Premium, as well as funding for PE and Sport, is also spent appropriately. Governors have continued to monitor the financial impact of Covid-19, salary increases, and the rising energy and food costs to ensure the necessary savings were made to maintain financial stability, whilst providing necessary funds to provide the best possible education for our pupils.