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    • Empathy Lab
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    • Community Facilities
      • Welcome to the Community
      • Community Facilities
      • Pentrehafod School Alumni
      • Swimming Facilities
    • Students
      • Student Parliament
      • Online Safety
      • Your concerns
      • Pentrehafod’s Pupil Attendance & Well-Being (PAWB)
      • Careers Advice & Guidance
        • Year 11 – Future Careers
      • More Able & Talented (MAT) Pupils
      • Health & Wellbeing
      • Study Skills
      • Empathy Lab
      • Extra-Curricular Timetable Summer Term 2021
    • COVID-19
      • Behaviour Policy during COVID-19 Pandemic
      • Remote Learning – Accessing HWB & Teams (including translations)
    • Information
      • Pentrehafod Admissions Prospectus 2021-2022
      • Parents’ and carers’ guide to secondary school for children aged 11 to 14
      • Term dates 2021/22
      • Specialist Teaching Facility (STF)
      • Additional Learning Needs (ALN)
      • Policies
      • School Meals
      • Safeguarding
      • Exchange Counselling Service
      • Yr Athrofa: Professional Learning Partnership (APLP)
      • Board of Governors
    • Curriculum
      • Curriculum Policy
      • English
      • Mathematics & Numeracy
      • ICT & Digital Competency
      • Expressive Arts
      • Humanities
      • Skills, Citizenship & Wellbeing
      • Languages (Welsh & Spanish)
      • Science & Technology
      • Year 8 Options Booklet – Spring 2022
    • About Us
      • Headteacher’s Welcome
      • Students’ Welcome
      • Contact
    • Transition
      • Welcome to Transition
      • Pentrehafod Admissions Prospectus 2021-2022
      • Pentrehafod School Promo Video
      • Summer Programme
      • Getting Around (Transition)
      • Student Messages
      • FAQs (Transition)
      • Translated Admission Information Booklets
    • Examinations
      • Centre Determined Grades
    • Translations
      • Arabic (العربية)
      • Dari (دری)
      • Farsi (فارسی)
      • Kurdish Sorani (Kurdiya Soranî)
      • Mandarin (中國官話)
      • Polish (Polskie)
      • Romanian (Română)
      • Russian (русский)
      • Spanish (Español)
      • Urdu (اردو)
    • Empathy Lab
      • Empathy First Day Poem
      • Empathy Charter

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    Governing Body

    The governing body is made up of voluntary members  representing the  community, Local Authority , parents, staff and students. The role of the governing body is to make long term strategic decisions for the future of the school. The governing body is made up of sub-committees. Governors work as a team within their sub-committee to set the ethos, budget, staffing levels and standards of behaviour for the school, pupil attendance and pupil attainment targets, as well as ensuring the National Curriculum is delivered with the overall aim to raise the standards in education. Each sub-committee is mirrored by a cabinet in the Student Parliament. The Chair of Governors is Mrs Margaret Hughes she can be contacted via the Clerk to Governors Mrs L Honeyman email: HoneymanL1@hwbcymru.net or telephone : 01792 410400.

    Governing Body at Pentrehafod School

    Parent Governors

    VACANCY
    Mrs L Tucker
    Mr P Thomas
    Mr S Hammond
    Mrs K Williams
    Mrs M Johnson

    LA Governors

    Mr P Black
    Mr C Holley
    Mr M White
    Mrs M Hughes (Chair of Governors)
    Mr G Thomas (Deputy Chair of Governors)

    Community Governors

    Mrs L Absalom
    Mrs S Davies
    Mrs C Harris
    Ms B Thomas
    Mr C Holley

    Staff Governors

    Mrs T Evans
    Mr D Day
    Mr N Kiley

    Pupil Governors

    Head Boy
    Head Girl

    Headteacher

    Mrs J Ford

    Clerk to the Governing Body

    Mrs L Honeyman

    Director’s Representative

    Ms J Waldron

    Sub-committees

    Each sub-committee has its own agenda which includes each area listed below.

    Ethos and Wellbeing

    • To promote and facilitate links with the wider community served by the school.
    • To promote and facilitate links with the local authority.
    • To promote pupils wellbeing in all aspects of school life.
    • To consider matters in relation to the school community and assist in the creation and maintenance of a positive school ethos.
    • To maximise use of the school premises.
    • To establish a framework for the identification of community needs.
    • To improve the friendly atmosphere of the premises which makes the community welcomed and valued.
    • To establish a mutually beneficial partnership which provides a secure foundation and the best resourcing and expertise available.
    • To forge links with the LA, the Colleges and other relevant agencies in order to provide courses, activities and events appropriate for the needs of the members of the Community including the young people.
    • To advise the Governing Body on matters relating to pupil admissions.
    • To decide upon preferred placement requests, having due regard to LA procedures and current legislation.
    • To make recommendations to the Governing Body on school policy in respect of

    Spiritual, Moral and Cultural Education

    Sex Education

    Health Education

    Drug Awareness

    Careers Education

    Equal Opportunities

    Collective Worship

    Admissions

    Work Experience

    Standards and Provision

    • To monitor the implementation of curriculum policies and the National Curriculum, (including Religious Education) making such reports as necessary to the Governing Body.
    • To promote and support curriculum development.
    • To monitor testing and assessment arrangements.
    • To receive an annual report on external examination performance
    • To provide advice to the Governing Body and other committees on staffing levels based upon a curriculum led staffing model.
    • To contribute to the development of curriculum policy and to make recommendations to the Governing Body.
    • To consider annual curriculum plans.
    • To advise the Governing Body on SEN policy and implementation in partnership with the Special Needs Committee.
    • To consider reports on the School Curriculum by external agencies, e.g. ESTYN and advise the Headteacher of action to be taken.
    • To participate in School Improvement Planning.

     

    Teaching Learning and School Improvement

    • To receive updated information on the school’s procedures for monitoring the quality of teaching and learning standards.
    • To receive reports on the school’s self-evaluation processes.
    • To monitor the performance of pupils in the school making such reports as necessary to the Governing Body.
    • To review pupil performance data each Autumn and to agree targets.
    • To review yearly pupil performance targets previously agreed against all available pupil performance data and to review targets as necessary.
    • To review and evaluate the effectiveness of the School Evaluation Development Plan in improving pupil performance.
    • These terms of reference must be read in conjunction with the legislation appertaining to the responsibilities of Governors for setting school targets on an annual basis.

     

    Finance , Personnel and Premises

    • Pay Policy/Annual pay reviews
    • The School Finance, Personnel and Premises Panel will be responsible for implementing Performance Related Pay including reviewing the performance of the Headteacher. (This first should be read in accordance with the Pay Policy).
    • To provide guidance to the Governing Body and the Headteacher on all matters relating to finance, taking full consideration of the Financial Regulations of the City and County Council.
    • To consider the School Evaluation Development Plan and to draw up an annual budget (on the basis of the same) to be approved by the Governing Body.
    • To monitor income and expenditure and report termly to the Governing Body.
    • To agree the level of day to day financial management to be delegated to the Headteacher.
    • To receive and decide upon recommendations from the Headteacher for virement and expenditure in accordance with LA procedures.
    • To receive the auditor’s report.
    • To receive a regular report on all premises related matters.
    • To authorise refurbishment, development and improvement of the school site and buildings.
    • To evaluate SLA’s offered by the LA and decide which SLA’s are to be purchased.
    • To advise the Governing Body on all matters in relation to competitive tendering for services.
    • To participate in School Improvement Planning.
    • To be regularly updated on staff absence data, implications and impact.
    • Staff capability.
    • Staff grievance.
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