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 11 times per year, approximately once per month, and is supported by a trained clerk. 

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	2140 kB
Governing Body Terms of Reference 2017-2018	1819 kB
Register of Governors	364 kB