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 monitor pupil progress
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.
See this blog post from the National Association of Able Children in Education (NACE) for tips on how you might develop the role of the 'more able' link governor.
Remember that