School Governors

What does the Governing Body do?

Governors are responsible for a number of areas including attainment, finance, policies and procedures.  Their role involves working closely with the Headteacher and Senior Leadership Team to ensure children get the best possible education to enable them to reach their full potential, in an environment where they feel safe, valued and where learning is fun.

Their main functions are to:

• help set the aims and objectives for the school
• help ensure the policies and procedures are relevant and achieve their objectives
• set targets to monitor the progress of the school to ensure it is meeting its aims and objectives
• be a critical friend to the school and provide a source of challenge and support

The Governing Body and committees meet twice per term.  (See committee structure.)

The Governing Body comprises of:

• 3 Foundation Governors
• 6 Co-opted Governor
• 1 Local Authority Governor
• The Headteacher
• 3 Parent Governors
• 1 Staff Governor
• 1 Associate Governor

The Governing Body also has 2 sub-committees; the Standards and Pupils Committee, and the Resources Committee. Other smaller Committees also exist, and working groups may be set up when needed to address or discuss particular issues.

The overall purpose of the Standards and Pupils Committee is to:

• monitor standards achieved by pupils and help them achieve more
• monitor the school's success in promoting inclusion
• ensure that the school development plan is focused on appropriate priorities for raising standards at the school
• ensure that policies are reviewed on a regular basis to promote improved standards and contain appropriate targets/success criteria

The overall purpose of the Resources Committee is to:

• contribute to, monitoring and evaluating parts of the self-evaluation summary, the school development plan and policies relating to resources issues, reporting or making recommendations to the full Governing Body
• consider recommendations from relevant external reviews for example audit, Ofsted or local authority review, to agree the actions needed to address any issues identified and to monitor and evaluate regularly the implementation of any plan agreed, reporting or making recommendations to the full Governing Body
• act as a personnel and pay committee by making decisions on behalf of the Governing Body relating to individual members of staff, as set out in the Governing Body's personnel policies and procedures
• take appropriate action on any other relevant matter referred by the Governing Body

The overall purpose of the Headteacher Performance Management Working Group is to carry out the Governing Body's statutory responsibilities for the Performance Management of the Headteacher.

The overall purpose of the Secondary Committee is to:

• hear personnel appeals
• consider complaints
• review pupil exclusions
• take appropriate action on any other relevant matter referred by the Governing Body

Our Governors

Governing bodies of local authority maintained school and academies in England are required to publish on their website their register of interests. This register meets the statutory requirements by setting out the relevant business interests of our governors and details of any other educational establishments they govern. The register includes details of any relationships between governors and members of the school including spouses, partners and relatives.

Minutes from Governors' meetings and sub-committees are available to view at the school office on request.