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There are two key documents that will prove very useful to you, both in monitoring and challenging. These are the SEF and the School Improvement Plan (SIP). To some extent they ar linked or should be, with the SIP identifying the actions needed to rectify weaknesses itemised in the SEF. If you as a GB focus in on those actions, challenging and monitoring progress towards those actions, it will go a long way to provide evidence of the GB's effectiveness in that area. Another area many GB's fall down on is the content of minutes. Try to ensure that they reflect questions asked about, for example, new and revised policies, proposed changes to curriculum, staffing issues and the like. When Ofsted inspect, they have really only the minutes to use as evidence of how the GB conducts its business after all. When governors are interviewed during an inspection, it is very useful to have memorised a few up to date key facts - e.g. attendance percentage, number of looked after students, how many are on SEN register, percentage of students who achieved 5 A*- C, how many children on role, etc. Whilst it is not required for you to know these figures, it does show that the GB has a firm grasp of what is happening. In the coming inspections, without doubt the key area that Ofsted will focus on is safeguarding, so make sure you know things like who the child protection officer , and deputy is, how your safeguarding policy works and when it was last reviewed, which governor holds responsibility for those areas and so on. I could really go on forever but I hope this helps.
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