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Apologies for absence Minutes: Apologies for absence were received from education representatives Mark Mitchell and Helen Reeder. |
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Declarations of Member Interests Minutes: Councillor Stubbs declared a personal non prejudicial interest as he is a governor at Milton Cross School. |
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Minutes of the meeting held on 24 February 2014 PDF 155 KB RECOMMENDED that the minutes of the Education, Children and Young People Scrutiny Panel meeting held on 24 February 2014 be confirmed and signed by the Chair as a correct record. Minutes: RESOLVED that the minutes of the Education, Children and Young People's Scrutiny Panel held on 24 February 2014 be confirmed as a correct record. |
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Review of School Governance Arrangements The following witnesses will be attending to speak and answer questions from the
panel: • Mark Hanna, Parent Governor, Portsdown Primary School • Cheryl Herrall Parent Governor,
Devonshire Infant School
Minutes: The Chair welcomed Mr Hanna to the meeting.
Mark Hanna, Parent Governor at
Portsdown Primary School
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With regard to parent governors understanding school
date, Mr Hanna advised that with his background he was able to
easily interpret the finance data however it was important for
parent governors to ask the head teacher to put the data into an
easier format to comprehend or if this was not possible for them to
explain this to governors. Governors
also need to help each other understand the data and provide
support to their colleagues to help the school.
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He was offered huge amounts of training from the
governor services team on a variety of issues including sessions on
understanding data, which he had taken up. However, he said that he had not been able to
attend as much training as he would have liked as the training
courses had usually coincided with the date of the governing board
meetings. The date of the training
sessions had now changed so he was now able to attend more training
sessions.
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With regard to barriers to recruitment of parent
governors, Mr Hanna said he felt the main reason was a lack of
understanding from the parents' point of view on what the role
involves. He felt that many parents
felt they do not possess the right skills or have a very high
education background themselves, and feel that they will be talked
down on. Many parents also do not have
the confidence and understanding of the school terminology and
mentioned that parents can get quite irate if teachers assume they
understand the vocabulary and talk down to them. Parents can be put
of talking to teachers because of this despite the teachers not
meaning to do this. · He said he had ... view the full minutes text for item 13. |