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Summer term 2025 agenda items

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.

Updated
on 9 April 2025See updates
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Contents
  1. Check in on wellbeing and mental health
  2. Be clear on the arrangements for summer 2025 exams
  3. Review and approve your budget forecast
  4. Review and publish details of your PE and sport premium funding (primary schools)
  5. Consider staffing arrangements for 2025/26
  6. Be aware of your trust's cyber security
  7. Reflect on your board's effectiveness
  8. Gather stakeholder views
  9. Plan and agree your programme of work for internal scrutiny (trustees)
  10. Monitor your school improvement plan (SIP) and review your goals
  11. Set the strategy for 2025/26
  12. Headteacher's or CEO's report 
  13. Set up your governors and trustees with training 

Check in on wellbeing and mental health

As you're approaching the end of the school year and exam season, you'll want to make sure that your school/trust is supporting the wellbeing of headteachers, senior leaders, staff and pupils. 

What's being done to support headteacher and CEO wellbeing? How do we know if they're coping with their workload and achieving a healthy work-life balance? What is our school/trust doing to improve wellbeing for each of the following groups: headteacher, senior leaders, staff and pupils? Does it have action plans for this? If so, what's the intended impact of these initiatives? How does the school/trust know whether they're working?  Do senior leaders survey staff to understand their needs – for example, using a wellbeing questionnaire? Does our school and/or trust vision include a commitment to improving mental