Governance information and documentation in relation to the running of our school can be found below.
REAch2 Governance
We have 3 layers of governance in REAch2: local governing bodies which oversee individual schools, cluster boards who oversee each cluster and our Board of Trustees who are ultimately accountable to the Department for Education for the running of the Trust.
All our schools share the same governance structure and you can find information about the trust on the REAch2 website at www.reach2.org. The Governance page gives details of how the Trust is organised, including the Articles of Association, the Master Funding Agreement and all the documents which relate to how the Trust
was founded and how it runs today. You can also find details of who our trustees are. |
Governance in our school
Our school has joined REAch2 recently and therefore has a transition board (TB). There are terms of reference which detail how the TB should work and what their responsibilities are. Like local governing bodies the TB holds meetings during the year in which it helps to support the school, its leadership and pupils, whilst challenging to make sure that everyone achieves as much progress as they should.
One of the main differences between a transition board and a local governing body is that the transition board is often made up of REAch2 staff (for example a Deputy Director of Education or a governance advisor), along with external governors. The reason for this is that it helps the school become part of the Trust quickly, with someone on the spot who can explain how the Trust and its clusters work, how the curriculum and finances are organised and how we measure performance and progress. The other main difference is that a transition board will usually only be in place for a maximum of one year. Then the school will have a local governing body, as most of our schools do and one of the jobs of a transition board is to recruit the LGB members.
In the same way that local governors have to declare their details, so do members of the transition board. You can find out about our transition board here [link to governor details]. They can invite other members of staff in to meetings to discuss current issues. They have to declare that they are volunteering for the school in an open and honest way and so fill in a declarations of interests form online, these declarations are included on the governors details document linked to above. Meetings are held and minutes are taken just as they were when the school was maintained by the local authority.
The TB also works alongside a cluster board where cluster-wide issues are discussed. The Cluster Board is made up of volunteers, just like an LGB, head teachers and chairs of governors. There is also a central team with officers and business partners who specialise in providing support in areas such as finance, HR, health and safety, estates and governance.
We have to share this information with you about our transition board members and governance:
REACh2 Trust website
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If you would like to know more about the people who make up our Transition Board, you can visit our governor page under our ‘Team’ section:
GOVERNORS – WHO’S WHO
Governance Information and Documentation
Governors Allowances Policy 2022
Governors Privacy Notice 2023
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Attendance of Governor Meetings
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Academic Year 2020-21
Academic Year 2021-22
Academic Year 2022-23
Register of Business Interests
Please click on the link below:
Register of Business Interests – Spring 2023
Code of Conduct
At the beginning of each Academic Year every Governor signs the below code of conduct, please click on the link below:
Governor Code of Conduct 2022
School Fund and Extended Day
Please click on the link below:
Audited School Fund Account 1-04-22 to 31-03-23
Audited Accounts Extended Day 01-04-2022 to 31-03-2023