Our School Monitoring Council

The primary concern of the SMC is monitoring all aspects of school life, principally:

 

The SMC meet approximately four times a year to focus on producing a termly monitoring report with the Head of School. This will incorporate information from monitoring visits undertaken by the councillors and the impact from SEF priorities and data. Councillors will use this report to guide the monitoring towards areas that require action and a record is kept to show the impact achieved.

Minutes from SMC meetings are available upon request by emailing governance@celticcross.education

Celtic Cross Education is committed to maintaining the unique nature of all of the schools within the Trust and believes this is best achieved by giving a clear mandate to Local Monitoring Councillor Bodies to be the drivers of school improvement.

 

The Trust gives these Local Monitoring Councillor Bodies the freedom to focus on the challenge and support for the improvement in teaching and learning, and the curriculum, by ensuring the synergies of belonging to a MAT allow statutory obligations to be dealt with centrally. This, coupled with the defined role of the senior leaders within the school's setting enables the Executive Headteacher and Headteachers to deal exclusively with the day-to-day management of the individual schools; the burden of Finances, Resources and Personnel issues are dealt with by the Principal and the Central Administrative Team. This freedom gives the leader in the school the maximum time and resources to effectively engage with all stakeholders and manage the schools effectively on a day-to-day basis. With a School Improvement Lead working full-time across the schools, this partnership with LMCs, Headteachers and staff strive to provide the best for every child in the Trust.