Session 4 The Governing Bodies Legal Responsibilities (NB Session 3 was not led by MS)

1. Good Practice for a
Session 4
governing body
The Governing Bodies Legal
Responsibilities

2. Governance
3 key roles:
• Setting Strategic direction
• Critical friend of the
school
• Securing accountability

3. Challenging Context
• Political context
– Education Act 2011
– New Ofsted Framework
• Social context
– Demographic Changes
– Expectations
• Economic context
– Talent – availability
– Thriving in a global economy

4. Leading 21st Century Schools
Critical capability
• Stakeholder management
• Influencing
• Measuring impact
• Financial insecurity

5. Leading Christian Schools
• Funding
• Equality agenda
• Militant Atheists agenda
• Staffing and training
• New Ofsted Framework

6. What tools are needed for the future?

7. Responsibilities:
LEGAL

8. Honour God
Obey the law
Principle of non-violent resistance

9. “Do not resist an evil person” (NIV)
Don’t react violently
against the one who is evil
Matthew 5:39 (Scholar’s version)

10. Do not be overcome by evil,
but overcome evil with good.
Matthew 5:38-42
and Romans 12:21

11. Three scenarios
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12. New Framework

13. Responsibilities:
MORAL
©sxc.hu/Lockheed

14. “For a start it is a call, not to specific acts of
behaviour, but to a type of character. For
another thing, it is a call to see oneself as
having a role to play within a story - and a
story where, to join up with the first
point, there is one supreme Character whose
life is to be followed”
VIRTUES
NT Wright, Virtue Reborn page 6

15. ©sxc.hu/kikosoft
Habits formed and informing life

16. “..the dynamic of virtue ...
–practicing the habits of heart and life
that point towards the true goal of
human existence –
lies at the heart and life of the
challenge of Christian behaviour as
set out in the NT itself”
NT Wright Virtue Reborn page 12

18. Responsibilities:
SPIRITUAL

19. The place
of scripture
in decision
making

20. The place
of prayer
in decision
making

21. Playing
God?
‘Making a choice that takes
matters into our own hands rather
than acting in a God-like way”
‘failed to seek the Lord’

22. ©sxc.hu/svilen001
Re-visit your goals as a school
and apply to the work of the
governing body

23. The Lord said to Joshua: With my
help, you and your army will
Listen!
defeat the king of Jericho and his
army, and you will capture the
Prepare
town. Here is how to do it: March
slowly around Jericho once a day
Act
for six days.
Joshua 6.2-3

24. One who spares words is
knowledgeable; one who is cool
in spirit has understanding.
Proverbs 17.27
Hit the Ground kneeling by S Cottrell
LETTING THE GRASS GROW
UNDER YOUR FEET

25. mike@goministries.org.uk
GOMikeS