Governance

The governance of the school is the shared responsibility of the Hadlow Board of Trustees and the Trinity Schools’ Trust Board. The board of trustees is primarily responsible for the educational, self-review and reporting, personnel, and legislative requirements of the school while the Trust Board is responsible or property, finances, and the Special Character requirements.
The Board of Trustees’ governance is enshrined in the National Education Guidelines of the Education Act 1989 (Section 60A). The National Education Guidelines have fine components:

• the National Education Goals which are statements of desirable achievements by the school system, or by an element of the school system, and statements of government policy objectives for the school system;
• the Foundation Curriculum Policy Statements which are statements concerning teaching, learning and assessment that are made for the purposes of underpinning and giving direction to the way in which the curriculum and assessment responsibilities are to be managed in schools, and giving direction to national curriculum statements and locally developed curriculum;
• the National Curriculum Statements, that is to say statements of the areas of knowledge and understanding to be covered by students, the skills to be developed by students, and desirable levels of knowledge, understanding, and skill, to be achieved by students, during the years of schooling;
• the National Standards, being implemented in 2010, which will identify those pupils who are achieving at, above, below, or well below national expectations for all year groups from Y1 to Y8 in reading, writing, and numeracy;
• the National Administration Guidelines which are guidelines relating to school administration and which may set out statements of desirable codes or principles of conduct or administration for specified kinds or descriptions of person or body, including guidelines for the purposes of section 61 of the Education Act, set out requirements relating to planning and reporting including to communicate the government's policy objectives and to set out transitional provisions for the purposes of national administration guidelines