COMMITTEES

Governors Committees

Curriculum Committee

Purposes

• To review the school's curriculum statement in relation to the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum.
• To contribute to, implement, monitor and review the school's development plan and SEF.
• To ensure that challenging targets are set and evaluated arising from the school's assessment data.
• To ensure that the school's curriculum is broad, balanced and meets the needs of all students and reflects the specialist nature of the school.
• To monitor, review and evaluate relevant school policies.
• To deal with complaints against the curriculum.
• To review public exam results.
• To keep the Full Governing Body informed.

Finance, Premises and Health and Safety Committee

Purposes

• To enable detailed consideration to be given to the best means of fulfilling the Governing Body's responsibility to ensure sound management of the school's finances and resources.
• To ensure that the school's premises and grounds are maintained, developed and improved.
• To ensure that proper planning, monitoring and probity is observed.
• To keep the Full Governing Body informed.

Terms of Reference

• To consider the school's annual budget and to assess its implications for the school in advance of the year involved.
• To consider any planned expenditure if this would exceed �50,000. Day to day expenditure below this figure to be delegated to the Headteacher.
• To contribute to the formation of the School Development Plan, through the consideration of priorities and proposals compatible with the stated aims and objectives of the school which relate to finance and to the use and development of premises and grounds.
• To interpret and implement the broad policies of the Governing Body in so far as they involve financial matters and matters relating to the premises and grounds.
• To receive reports and proposals on the financial and resource needs of the school, as well as requests for specific items of expenditure, and on the Premises needs of the school and on its upkeep and maintenance, setting priorities for action. Also to monitor the progress of expenditure during the year and to report this to the Governing Body as appropriate.
• To liaise with and receive reports from other Committees as appropriate and to make recommendations to those Committees as appropriate.
• To make decisions on financial matters which need to be dealt with between meetings of the Governing Body.
• To monitor the development and implementation of the school's Health and Safety Policy and to ensure that such requirements form part of all consideration of matters incorporated into developments planned for the school.

Staffing Committee

Purposes

• To enable detailed consideration to be given to the best means of fulfilling the Governing Body's responsibility to ensure sound management of the school's finances and resources.
• To make appropriate comments and recommendations to the Full Governing Body on a regular basis.

Terms of Reference

• To consider the school's human resources policies.
• To consider matters reserved to the Staffing Committee in the schedule of delegated authorities.
• To contribute to the formation of the School Plan, through the consideration of priorities relating to human resources issues, which are compatible with the stated and agreed aims of the school.
• To interpret and implement the broad policies of the Governing Body in so far as they involve staffing matters.
• To receive reports and proposals on the staffing of the school.
• To liaise with and receive reports from other Committees as appropriate and to make recommendations to those Committees as appropriate.
• To make decisions on human resources matters which need to be dealt with between meetings of the Governing Body.

Student, Parents and Community Committee

Purposes

• To support the school with reviews of the Behaviour Policy and ensure that it is fairly implemented and supports the aims of the school.
• To monitor and review exclusion statistics to ensure that procedures are fair and consistent.
• To respond to any complaints about the school in accordance with approved procedures.
• To recommend to governors any changes related to students, parents or the community.
• To keep the Full Governing Body informed.

Committee Groups Held as Needed

Staff Disciplinary

• To hear cases as necessary and to weigh each case on the information presented.
• To ensure that procedures are fair and consistent and follow the borough's guidelines.
• To offer two separate hearings (the initial hearing and any appeal).
• To ensure that any governors hearing an appeal will not be involved in the first hearing of the case.

Exclusion

• To be made up of thee governors and to be convened for all permanent exclusions.
• To meet with any student excluded for over fifteen days in one term.
• To decide either to support the action of the Headteacher or agree that the sanctions were unfair. In the case of a permanent exclusion, the Governor's Panel has the power to reinstate the student.

Informal Exclusion Meetings

• Individual Governors may be asked to meet with a student who has had some exclusions and we think it might be useful to do so, and their parent(s) / carer(s).

Complaints Against the School

• Complaints against the school are dealt with by a panel of three governors who are not employed at the school.