What are the roles and responsibilities of school governors, and how are they appointed?
11. The roles and responsibilities of school governors are made up of three interwoven strands: 12. To provide a strategic view of where the school is heading to: a) focus on raising standards of achievement, establishing high expectations and promoting effective teaching and learning, so that pupils achieve their potential. b) decide what they want the school to achieve (the vision), and make plans to get there. c) ensure that all those who have an interest in the success of the school contribute when the values, vision and aims are being agreed. d) help to set and keep under review the policies that provide a broad framework within which the headteacher and staff should run the school. e) ensure that there are systems in place to check that progress is being made towards targets and that evidence is gathered. f) use that evidence to review overall progress against targets, to see whether policies and practice are effective and to check on their schools achievements and progress over
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