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COVID-19 resource hub: governing your school during coronavirus
Latest news and developments affecting schools
Your role and how to work with your school now
From September:
- How to respond to opening guidance
- Autumn term 2020 agenda items and how to prepare
- What to monitor
- How to monitor safeguarding
- How to monitor pupil progress
- Role of the curriculum link governor
- How to monitor and scrutinise the coronavirus catch-up premium
- Ofsted's plans for autumn 2020
Longer term - school recovery:
- Setting your school on the road to recovery
- COVID-19 retrospective: how to help your school learn lessons from lockdown
- How to organise your board to support school recovery
More widely:
- How to monitor and support your headteacher's wellbeing
- Strategic vs operational during coronavirus
- 'Chair's action' – when and how the chair can make urgent decisions on the board's behalf
If parents approach you: now, perhaps more than ever, it’s important to avoid mixed messages. If parents come to you with questions or complaints about the school, refer them directly to the headteacher, or to your school’s complaints procedures.
How to hold and manage your meetings
- Virtual meetings: your complete guide
- Virtual meetings policy – a model policy to download and adapt
Support with key tasks this term
Approving key changes due to coronavirus
- How to scrutinise the extended provision risk assessment
- Scrutinising your school's contingency plan
Budget approval
Policy approval
- How to approve your remote learning policy
- How to approve your safeguarding/child protection policy addendum (to set out any specific arrangements during COVID-19)
School improvement planning
Recruitment and induction
- Headteacher recruitment - how to manage it remotely
- How to induct a new governor remotely
- How to deal with expired terms of office
- How to support a new headteacher (coming soon)
Performance management
- Approving pay recommendations this year (coming soon)
- Headteacher appraisal this year (coming soon)
Support for your school leaders
Make sure your headteacher and their leadership team know they can use our COVID-19 resource hub on The Key for School Leaders for the latest information on dealing with the challenges this situation presents. We're adding to it daily.
Help us guide you and boards like yours
Tell us what you need help with, or how you're working with your school right now to overcome challenges, at enquiries@thekeysupport.com. We'll do our very best to support you. And we'll spread the best of how schools and boards are working together under these difficult circumstances to help guide others.
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