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Governors' role in monitoring the curriculum

Learn how to monitor the curriculum effectively and what this might look like for your board. Assure yourself that you have a robust monitoring system in place and feel prepared for an Ofsted inspection with questions they might ask.

Last reviewed on 18 June 2024
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Contents
  1. Ways to approach curriculum monitoring
  2. Most schools will be using the National Curriculum
  3. Find out how the curriculum achieves your vision
  4. Ask for regular reports on the curriculum and challenge them
  5. Make sure the curriculum meets the needs of all pupils
  6. Monitor the 'connectedness' of the curriculum
  7. Ofsted and the curriculum
  8. Be prepared for questions Ofsted might ask you about the curriculum
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Many thanks to our associate education experts Gulshan Kayembe, Hafise Nazif and Ian Preston for their input in this article.

Ways to approach curriculum monitoring

The way you monitor the curriculum in your school may look different depending on your set-up. For example, you could have:

  • A curriculum/standards committee
  • A curriculum link governor
  • Several link governors for different subjects (for example, you might have a link governor with responsibility for literacy, another for maths and one to look at cross-curricular links) 

It's important that your board considers which approach would be most effective based on:

  • Your school's size and context
  • Whether there's a lot of change happening with your curriculum
  • Current outcomes for pupils - if results are not where they should be, you might need more governors to challenge and support leaders and drive improvement

Fair Oak Infant School in Hampshire has a standards committee (scroll to the bottom to see its terms of reference) Westfield Infant School in

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