Governance

Governance – School Advisory Board

We have a School Advisory board based here at UCC, made up largely of our former governors, each with a responsibility for oversight of one particular area of the school operations. Jeannette Warner (a former UCC governor) is our Chair. We meet 4 times a year, with advisory board members expected to have termly meetings with their SLT link. 

You can find out more about our School Advisory Board Members here: (link to Bios page)

School Advisory Board Purpose:  

“Challenging and supporting the quality of provision and educational outcomes for students at UCC.” 

As part of Discovery Trust , UCC has an Advisory Board which provides local governance on behalf of the Board of Trustees. With detailed local understanding and experience, the Advisory Board’s focus is on challenging and supporting the quality of provision and educational outcomes for pupils at a school level.  

The Advisory Board has a key role in influencing the development of the school, providing a forum for discussion of strategy and policy matters to ensure the education delivered meets the needs of children locally.  

The Advisory Board also provides a mechanism for ensuring that the Trust is provided with independent and objective views from the local community.  

School Advisory Board Responsibilities:  

• Supporting good governance of the school  

• Safeguarding and promoting the values of the school, ensuring that the school continues to strongly demonstrate its distinctiveness  

• Working in collaboration with the Headteacher to improve pupil achievement and well-being  

• Maintaining a detailed understanding of the strengths and areas for development of the school  

• Contributing to the development of strategic priorities to promote school improvement  

• Regularly reviewing data on achievement, quality of teaching, behaviour, and safeguarding  

• Regularly monitoring the risk register and escalating concerns to the trustees  

• Providing the Trust Board with the views of the local community and advising on local issues and risks they need to consider that affect the school  

• Recommending to the Trust Board any developments or amendments to policies and procedures  

• Ensuring there is local adaptation/adoption of Trust-wide policies  

• Supporting a culture of effective engagement with the school’s key stakeholders e.g. parents/carers, pupils and staff  

• Representing the school at Ofsted inspections