Time: 9:30am - 11:00am
Members: £99
Non-Members: £149
An effective partnership between the board and senior leader is fundamental to ensuring your school is robust, efficient, and providing strong outcomes for children and young people.
This new training session is specifically designed for those new or aspiring to headship and explores practical approaches for successful collaboration between you and your governing board.
NGA will share real-world methods, tools and ideas to ensure you get the most out of your governance structure through effective reporting, communication, and accountability.
With 80,000 members, NGA uses their research and insights to provide trusted information, advice and professional development to support governing boards, MATs and organisations. Our subject matter experts have real-world in-depth knowledge and offer practical solutions that will help you get a head-start on a new and complex relationship.
Aims
1. Understand your responsibilities as a headteacher regarding governance.
2. See how governance works and what benefits it brings.
3. Be able to work collaboratively with your governance professional and chair.
4. Understand the benefits of good governance and how it can positively impact outcomes.
5. See examples of different structures of governance and be equipped to adapt these to your school.
6. Understand the importance of efficient board reporting.
7. Know what governance isn't nor should be.
8. Take away a tool kit of best practice, including guidance, advice and suggested proforma reporting.
9. Have the opportunity to work collaboratively throughout the session, learning from peers and sharing your own experiences.
Audience
New or emerging head teachers, deputy head teachers, assistant head teachers, middle leaders and senior leaders, in primary and secondary settings.
Facilitator
Janet Myers
As governance development lead and NGA Consultant, Janet supports regional and local organisations to strengthen school governance and provides consultancy and training services, including external reviews of governance. She has facilitated on NGA’s Leading Governance programmes and was appointed a National Leader of Governance (NLG).
Janet has 12 years of managerial and leadership experience within blue-chip corporations. She has been a school governor since 2009 and has served in primary and secondary schools, both maintained and academies, as chair and as a parent governor. She currently chairs a MAT and the Cheshire West Governance Association.