Your role as a governing board
In the same way as you'd monitor pupil progress in general, your role involves:
- Asking questions of your senior leaders (e.g. the 'more able' lead, if you have one)
- See below for example questions to ask
- Looking at external and internal pupil progress data
- Looking at pupils' books
- This isn't essential, but can be a useful form of evidence
Get more detailed information about how to:
Your board might have a link governor or committee
You might have a link governor specifically monitoring the progress of 'more able' pupils, or you might monitor this as part of a wider link governor role.
Alternatively, your board might use a standards committee or a curriculum committee to monitor the progress of