What is Ed?

23/1/12 & 6/2/12

Guest speaker - Steve Gullick Director of all Wales Centre for Training and Research.

Steve came in to speak in two lectures and two seminar session. In these lectures he spoke mainly about the governing bodies of schools and what the individual roles are within a school's governing body.
I found these lectures really interesting because although both my parents have previously been members of governing bodies and my mother is currently, I never really knew what they did and why. Steve discussed with us how all governing bodies are pretty much the same, although they do differ from primary to secondary schools. He also went in to details about a few of the job roles within a governing body, secretary for example, and he also showed us an example of an agenda and how that worked.

In the second lecture he continued with the governing body topic and began to discuss the relation a governing body had to it's school. Told us how members of the body sit in on job interviews for the school and are also present in staff disciplinary committee meetings.

I really enjoyed these lectures and feel that they were very interesting and useful.