The Personal Benefits of becoming a School Governor

Being a governor is an enormously challenging and rewarding opportunity. The personal benefits can be summarised as;

       A sense of satisfaction through knowing children will benefit from your efforts

       The opportunity to develop new skills and to strengthen existing ones

       The opportunity to work with people from a variety of social, cultural and religious backgrounds

       The opportunity to gain understanding in key areas such as finance, personnel, and strategic planning

       The opportunity to gain awareness of the education system as a whole

Through solving problems ranging from finance to site management, human resources to marketing, pupil welfare to curriculum development, every governor is guaranteed to broaden their skills and knowledge in some way, and this can be enhanced through training offered by Local Authorities.
As all decisions are made with the consensus of the whole governing body there is also the opportunity to utilise the softer skills of teamwork, communication and tolerance.