Agendas

The agenda can be the difference between an efficient, productive meeting and one that rambles on. Find out how to prepare, draft and finalise your agenda so you can run efficient meetings.

Here's a rundown of the headline issues you're likely to cover in your full governing board or committee meetings this term. Read on to understand each issue, and feel prepared with links to further reading and questions to ask.

Download our template agenda for curriculum/standards committee meetings. Get help with deciding what to include, so your meetings run smoothly and your committee is focused and can monitor effectively.

Find out what a finance committee should do, who should be on it and how often it should meet. See examples of terms of reference and meeting minutes.

Prepare fully for your governing board or local governing body meetings so you can hold your school leaders to account effectively. Use our pre-meeting checklist to stay on top of the agenda, get to grips with the critical information in the headteacher's report, and plan questions to ask.

Here are the headline issues you're likely to cover in your full governing board meeting this term. Read on to understand each issue and feel prepared with further reading and questions you can ask to interrogate the agenda items effectively.

Get up to speed on the headline topics you're likely to cover in your board meetings this term. Read on to understand each issue and feel prepared with questions you can ask to scrutinise the agenda items effectively.

Use our termly agenda templates to make sure that your meetings cover key items and tasks. Each template includes suggested items for maintained schools and academies. See examples of agendas from local authorities and a trust.