Guest Speaker- Governor

Guest Speaker Steve Gullen- Governors Role

On the 23rd of January 2012 we had a guest speaker to educate us on who governors are, what they do, and how they are elected.

A Governors role is to run a school. The governing body is made up of; parents, LEAs, teachers, pupils and members of the community. The head teacher is automatically a Governor but they can choose to take a step back and not participate.
Every 4 years there is an election. To be elected votes are cast, teachers will vote teachers, parents with vote parents and soforth. LEAs and elected by the council and no votes are cast.
The community governors are people which have no attachement to the school, they are people who live in the community and just have a sense of pride regarding how well their local school does.

It is more important for them to be interested and to care about the school that to be experts on education.

I found the lecture interesting and very informative and has made me look into becoming a governor myself for my local school. I am now looking into finding out more.....

What is Education? Estyn

Within our what is education lecture we are having a number of different guest speakers. This week it was a gentleman from Estyn. We found out about the inspection process with education. He showed us the inspection criteria which schools are marked against. I felt I knew alot about what he was saying through knowing an English teach who has told me alot about how inspections work, however it was interesting. Seen as the gentlemen was very welcoming it made inspections seem less scary for when I become a teacher.