School governor training

The School Governor's training programme takes place yearly.

To make the training more accessible, some sessions will take place online, and others will take place face to face.

Attending is not compulsory, but will help you to:

• improve effectiveness in your role 
• keep you up to date on developments that may affect your school and your role as governor

If you want to come along to any of the training sessions, or want training in a particular issue delivered in your school, please contact the Governor Support Service through your Chair of Governors. There may be an extra cost to the school.

If you have any comments or suggestions on any area of governor training, please contact Helen Richardson, Governance Manager on 0191 424 7867 or helen.richardson@southtyneside.gov.uk.

You can also contact School Governors at School.Governors@southtyneside.gov.uk.

See our School governor training courses.

To book onto our courses, or to get more information, you can contact Joanne Campbell:

• phone: 0191 424 6876
• email: joanne.campbell@southtyneside.gov.uk

You can also contact School Governors at School.Governors@southtyneside.gov.uk.

All governors in South Tyneside can attend governor training courses.

Your application for each course will be acknowledged at least one week before the course's start date.

Book a place on a course

To book onto our courses, or to get more information, you can contact Joanne Campbell:

• phone: 0191 424 6876
• email: joanne.campbell@southtyneside.gov.uk

Booking information

1. If a course is fully booked, you will be offered an alternative course (if available), or to go on a waiting list for a cancelled booking
2. Courses may be rescheduled or cancelled if there are not many bookings
3. Please don't turn up to a course without booking or checking that the course is running
4. If you're unable to attend, please let us know as soon as you can

If a course is cancelled or rescheduled

If a course is rescheduled or cancelled, we will contact you by phone, email or letter as soon as we can.

Costs and charges

If your school buys into the programme, all events are free.

If your school hasn't bought into the programme, they will be charged in line with current attendance rates. Please check with your Chair of Governors or Head Teacher.

If you don't attend 

If you don't tell the Governor Support Service that you can no longer attend a course, a non-attendance charge will be made to schools that don't buy-back into the service.

We do not want to charge your school, so please let us know that you can't attend a course as soon as possible.

If your school buys into the programme, you will also have access to online training.

This will allow you to access a broad range of modules at your own pace and convenience, and are designed to cover the key areas of governance.

You can access online training at any time at NGA: Learning Link e-learning.