Circle model: whole-year agenda planner

Use our template agenda planner as a starting point to make sure all board members know what's coming up in each meeting and can organise their governing duties effectively.

Updated
on 14 January 2025
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Contents
  1. Switch up your agenda focus throughout the year
  2. Adapt our template to suit your context

In a 'circle model' of governance the task of monitoring specific areas is delegated to individuals or pairs instead of committees  find out more about the circle model here

Some boards choose a hybrid approach of committees and link governors. If that applies, you can still use this agenda planner and adapt it to your context.

Switch up your agenda focus throughout the year

As governing boards operating a circle model tend to meet 6 times a year, it can be time consuming for your headteacher to produce a full headteacher's report every time, so you could consider a verbal update every other meeting. 

It's also unlikely that every link governor will have an update each meeting, so by varying your