A message from the Chair of the Full Governing Board
A message from the Vice-Chair of the Full Governing Board
The Governing Body
Our Governing Body is made up of representatives of the Local Authority, parents, teachers, staff and members of the local community. The Governing Body's role is to make many decisions about the way our school serves our children and their parents.
Area Linked Governors
A link governor is a representative of the board. So their primary job is to hold school leaders to account for how things are going in their specific area of focus. What a link governor does depends on the specific role but, generally speaking, they'll:
- Make monitoring visits to the school, to observe how policies and procedures for their area of concern are implemented
- Challenge and support the member of staff who's responsible for their particular area or subject Keep the governing board informed about the area they're responsible for, and act as the link between governors and staff
- Develop knowledge in their specialist area and take part in relevant training
- Make sure the school has relevant policies in place
Quality, Impact & Performance (QuIP) Committee
The QuIP committee ensures that Stag Lane Primary School is always aiming to achieve the highest possible standards for our pupils' education. The committee oversees;
- The school’s curriculum is rooted in the solid consensus of the school’s leaders about the knowledge and skills that pupils need in order to take advantage of opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life
- It is clear what endpoints the curriculum is building towards and what pupils need to know and be able to do to reach those endpoints
- The school’s curriculum is planned and sequenced so that new knowledge and skills build on what has been taught before and towards its clearly defined endpoints
- The curriculum reflects the school’s local context by addressing typical gaps in pupils’ knowledge and skills
- The curriculum remains as broad as possible for as long as possible
- There is high academic/vocational/technical ambition for all pupils, and the school does not offer disadvantaged pupils or pupils with SEND a reduced curriculum
Resources Committee
The Resources Committee will oversee:
- The schools’ finances ensuring that the schools’ operate within the financial regulations of the local authority
- The maintenance and development of the schools’ site and premises;
- Ratify the policies and provision relating to financial management, staffing and premises
- Ensure that all principles of good and fair employment practice are adhered to
- Monitor community links and community use of the school, and evaluate the schools’ contributions to promoting community cohesion;(CFC)

Pay Review Committee
The Pay Review Committee will;
- Review and monitor any policy, statement or procedure delegated to this committee by the Full Governing Body.
- Consider the headteacher’s pay recommendations for all teaching staff.
- Fairly apply the criteria related to discretionary areas of pay, as identified within Pay Policy.
- Determine salary at the time of the annual review for all staff.
- Review job descriptions annually and where responsibility or accountability is increased, to reconsider the grade in accordance with the appropriate guidelines.
- Ensure that statutory and contractual requirements are applied to all staff groups.
- Ensure that adequate records of decisions are kept.