Welcome to our Governors’ section.

Please find below the Annual Statement of Governance, which includes details of our Governors including their names, categories, responsibilities, terms of appointment and annual meeting attendance.

All Saints Infants School Governing Body meeting minutes are available on request, please contact Tammy Philips (Governance Professional):- tamar.phillips@judicium.com

Annual Statement of Governance 2024-25

The Full Governing Body (FGB) of All Saints Infants School (ASIS) met six times during the 2023-24 academic year, once per half term, plus a short extra meeting in October centred on annual governor business items. Three of the six full length FGB meetings were held online on weekday evenings, and the other three meetings were held during the school day in school (or in the church hall). This meeting pattern is to be carried forward into the 2025-26 school year.

The Governing Body is responsible for setting the strategy of the school and monitoring its implementation. At the start of the year, the Governing Body agreed to continue with the structure approved at the start of 2020-21 whereby there is limited delegation to committees and so the majority of the business of the Governing Body business was conducted via these FGB meetings.

Governors expect that the school will promote and deliver the highest possible standards of provision for pupils in terms of safeguarding, curriculum, health and safety and the school environment. Governors are responsible for the conduct of the school in all areas.  All Governors are involved in setting and monitoring the school's vision, aims and policies and may be involved in hearing appeals or grievances.

Key roles of the Governing Body:

• To ensure clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction for the school
• To hold the school’s senior leadership to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils, and the efficient and effective performance management of staff

• To oversee the financial performance of the school and make sure its money is well spent
• To secure, develop and maintain the Christian character of the school throughout all areas of its work.

Strategic Aims of the Governing Body

• To continue to insist on the highest possible standards of education and learning for the school and its pupils
• To consider and determine the school’s vision and strategic direction with particular consideration given to:

• The long term sustainability of the school in terms of budget, staffing, admissions and performance and the identification and mitigation of risks in these areas
• The ability of the school to achieve the goals established in the annual School Improvement Plan
• The ability of the school to maintain the highest standards of provision for pupils in terms of safeguarding, curriculum, health and safety and the school environment
• The preservation of the school’s status as a church school and its relationship with All Saints Church and the Oxford Diocese

• Effective management of the implications of there being one Headteacher across All Saints Infants and All Saints Junior schools
• Effective sharing of staff and resources between the All Saints schools
• Greater integration of families and pupils across the two schools.

Effectiveness of the Governing Body

We are continuously striving to maintain the highest standards within the Governing Body. We undertake an annual evaluation of our effectiveness and a skills audit and used that to enhance our practices and influence governor recruitment and training.

The Governing Body ensures that there are regular monitoring visits by the local authority’s School Effectiveness Team, typically centred on curriculum design and delivery, together with an annual safeguarding review. A governor shadows these external monitoring visits, reports to the Full Governing Body about the visit, and then governors monitor the implementation of any actions flowing from these visits and their impact.

The Governing Body operates a link governor structure, whereby governors have a designated area of responsibility to conduct monitoring work on behalf of the Governing Body. In 2024-25, these link governor roles covered Safeguarding, Disadvantaged Children (including Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Pupil Premium), Curriculum, Finance, Religious Education, and Health and Safety. As part of these roles, and sometimes for other reasons, governors are involved in a wide range of in-school monitoring visits and reports on these are made to the next FGB meeting after the visit concerned. One example, is that a governor usually shadows the book looks carried out by school leaders on several occasions per term. Governors also monitor several collective worship sessions, a year, both in school and church.

We are aware of the skills that each Governor brings to the school and those areas in which we are short. We seek external advice and guidance to help in these areas, including the periodic engagement of Associate Members, and as far as possible recruit governors with appropriate skills to fill our vacancies. We ensure that governors have access to relevant training and development activities, and that new governors are supported by more experienced governors, to maximise their effectiveness as a governor and the effectiveness of the governing body as a whole.

As a Church of England school, the school undergoes periodic inspections as part of the Statutory Inspections of Anglican and Methodist Schools (SIAMS) regime. Our latest SIAMS inspection took place in March 2025, and was a great success, the inspector concluding that the school is living up to its foundation as a Church school and is enabling pupils to flourish, and that our high-level vision, ‘learning with love and laughter’, resounds throughout the work of the school.

Ensuring effective safeguarding arrangements at the school is of the utmost importance for Governors. During 2024-25 the Governing Body again ensured that all governors receiving training focused on the safeguarding role of governors and the link governor responsible for Safeguarding conducted regular school monitoring visits throughout the year, reporting to each FGB meeting on their work. The local authority’s annual review of our safeguarding practices in 2024-25, shadowed by the Safeguarding Link Governor, concluded that the practices were very robust.

The school’s finances continue to be managed well, and the school continues to maintain an appropriate level of reserves. During the last school year, the school received a positive report following a review by the local authority’s internal audit function. The Governing Body are monitoring the implementation of the small number of recommendations made by the audit.

The governing body monitored the implementation and impact of the priorities that were included in the annual School Improvement Plan during 2024-25. The priorities included the embedding of the new Religious Education curriculum, the introduction of the new Maths scheme, and ensuring the consistent application of the new policy on attitudes to learning and relationships. During the coming year, Governors will be actively involved in monitoring education priorities relating to the further roll out of the new Maths scheme, the introduction of oracy teaching across the school, and the consistent implementation of the school’s new teaching, learning, and marking policy developed last year by school leaders.

During 2024-25 one new Foundation governor joined the Governing Body, appointed by All Saints Parochial Church Council. In addition, we were pleased to appoint two new Parent Governor during the spring term following receipt of their applications for the role. We currently have one Foundation governor vacancy and are very keen to fill it as soon as possible.

All Saints Infant School Governing Body, 24 September 2025.

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