Stour Vale Academy Trust
GOVERNOR PROFESSIONAL LEARNING EVENTS
Our biannual Stour Vale professional learning events bring local governors and trustees together to benefit from high-quality professional learning about current developments in education. These friendly, lively and informative events also provide a great opportunity to find out more about member schools and to network with other Stour Vale governors. Our summer 2022 event refreshed governor knowledge of performance and attainment data as we returned to externally marked exams and assessments following the pandemic. Then in January 2023 governors developed in-depth understanding of the updated government guidance on suspensions and permanent exclusions, before returning in June for an event focused on school attendance and the curriculum. More recently, in April 2024 we shared the findings of our external review of governance as part of our event on ‘Securing strong governance in our growing trust’ and in September delivered annual safeguarding training. At that event governors also received information about recent changes to Ofsted inspections in response to The Big Listen.
All Stour Vale governors and directors have access to professional learning. This includes online articles and training modules from the National Governance Association and Learning Link, the Confederation of School Trusts, bespoke Trust-wide training delivered by Stour Vale staff and outside speakers, and other professional learning provided in the member schools.
Our next training event for governors in Stour Vale member schools will take place in January 2025 and will be focused on suspensions and permanent exclusions.
