School Governors

At Icknield Community College, the governing body has the following core strategic functions:

Establishing the strategic direction, by:  

• Setting and ensuring clarity of  vision, values, and objectives for the school
• Agreeing the school improvement strategy with priorities and targets
• Meeting statutory duties

Ensuring accountability, by:

• Appointing the headteacher
• Monitoring the educational performance of the school and progress towards agreed targets
• Performance managing the headteacher
• Engaging with stakeholders
• Contributing to school self-evaluation

Overseeing financial performance, by:

• Setting the budget
• Monitoring spending against the budget
• Ensuring money is well spent and value for money is obtained
• Ensuring risks to the organisation are managed

The Icknield Community College Governing Body will consist of up to 15 Governors including:

• Two elected parent governors
• Two elected staff governors
• The Headteacher as ex-officio governor
• Up to 11 Trust-approved community governors
• All governors, with the exception of the Headteacher, will serve a four year term of office.

 Currently, the following governors are:

The governing body meets every half term, and is supported by a trained clerk.   Minutes of Governor Meetings are held in the office of the Headteacher's PA.

The full terms of reference for the governing body is attached below.

Icknield Community College information

• Head teacher: Mr Mat Hunter
• DfE number: 4082
• School type: Secondary
• School category: Community
• Telephone number: 01491 612691
• Address: Love Lane, Watlington, Oxon, OX49 5RB

Attachments:

Code of Conduct for School Governing Boards 2018-19	1889 kB
Governing Body Attendance 2017-18	211 kB
Governing Body Terms of Reference 2018-19	1747 kB
Register of Governors	420 kB