Job Description
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St George's School seeks a new governor to join the local governing body. The governors provide strategic oversight of the school, holding leaders to account through a culture of 'critical friendship'.
Meeting formally six times each academic year, governors also provide time to engage in personal training and to support monitoring processes. They are responsible for setting and monitoring the annual budget, recruit the Headteacher of the school, and determine the future strategic direction of the organisation. Together, they monitor standards through a process of quality assurance and ensure that safety, sustainability and wellbeing.
Skills valued are:
- Interpersonal and Communication
- Reflective and Critical Thinking
- Team membership
- Respect and Confidentiality
- Commitment of Equality and Inclusion
- Engagement, Attendance and Commitment
- Data Analysis (soft and hard)
- Understanding of Risk
- Desire to Learn and Improve
Governors are able to transfer skills from other parts of their working and personal lives. They give time to support the school with a desire to contribute to the greater good, within a culture of collective responsibility.
This is a non-paid voluntary role, with a term of office lasting for a period of four years. The position is offered only after agreement by the body on on-board, and following due diligence checks which include a fully enhanced DBS check.
To indicate your interest by completion of our personalised form.
Information about the School
We are passionate about our school. Why? … you ask.
It’s simple really. St. George’s School is at the heart our community. It is a well-established school with a sense of pride, community spirit and values.
It is also a school which is proud to be pushing forward; trying to develop increasingly effective teaching and learning strategies that support all of our children … a truly inclusive place to be.
We are focused on improving many aspects of school life. We promote a love of reading for all children, grow skilled writers and mathematicians and support children effectively in both their learning and well-being. We aim to provide an engaging curriculum for all our young learners through interest, breadth and depth, and offer excellent facilities, including state-of-the-art ICT resourcing.
Our curriculum drivers of Confidence, Aspiration, Resilience and Experience help prepare children to learn for life.
In recent years we have completed a new capital building programme which includes new classrooms, a new staff area, improved SEN areas and new libraries. Many of our classrooms are newly refurbished … lovely places to teach and learn! With capacity for 680 children, including our own nursery, we are one of the largest primary settings in the area, and provide a true team ethos in which to grow professionally.
However, we still have much to do and believe that by working in partnership to achieve a common purpose we can continue to provide a school that is at the cutting edge of educational practice. We are graded 'Good' by Ofsted (2023) and are an Inclusion Quality Mark Centre of Excellence. We have one of the highest value added progress ratings in the area.
So, as you can see, we really are passionate about our school and recognise that through enabling inspirational teaching, learning and leadership, we will set the school well on the way to improving further still.
The Headteacher and Governing Body