Our school Governors

The Governing Body, together with Mrs Mitchell and Sarah Baker, our Co-Headteachers, is responsible for the overall governance of the school ensuring that it is run efficiently and effectively to provide the very best education for our children. In brief, our role is as follows:

• Setting the strategic direction of the school ensuring its vision, Christian values and ethos are met;
• Developing, monitoring and challenging the School Development Plan to ensure standards are met and holding the head teacher to account for the performance of the school and its pupils;
• Overseeing the financial performance of the school and ensuring its money is well spent and our finances are well managed.

Governors provide their time on a voluntary basis and the governing body is made up of representatives of school staff, parents, the Local Authority and the local diocese.

The Full Governing Body meets once a term to discuss and review many areas, including: Safeguarding, School budget, school policies, Headteacher’s termly report, Collective Acts of Worship and progress against the school’s development plan.

In addition, our Governors all champion specific areas of school improvement, e.g. Teaching and Learning, Pupil Outcomes, Early Years, SEND, Sport, Leadership, Safeguarding and Christian Values. Each term, our Governors will monitor these areas either individually or through a Committee and then bring back to the FGB for discussion.

Governors hold an important public office, so in the interests of transparency, the governing body publishes details of pecuniary interests including any governance roles in other educational institutions or any material interests arising from relationships between governors or relationships between governors and school staff (including spouses, partners and close relatives).

We have three committees that report into the Full Governing Body. Details of these committees and their Chairs are below.

Our Governors

 Chair of Governors: Jan Plumstead

Vice Chair of Governors: Chris Burn

Staff Governors:

Gill Mitchell (Co-Headteacher)

Sarah Baker (Co-Headteacher)

Sarah Bowman 

Parent Governors:

Richard Wheatley

Ian Thoroughgood

Co-opted Governors:

Helen Armstrong

Chris Burns

Jan Plumstead

Mark Hurley 

Foundation Governors:

Stephne Van Der Toorn

Simon Rothwell

 Our Committees

 Resources Committee

Janet Plumstead(Chair)

Helen Armstrong

Gill Mitchell

Sarah Baker

Ian Thoroughgood

Simon Rothwell - Health and Safety Governor

Learning, Standards and Achievement Committee

Chris Burn (Chair)

Gill Mitchell

Sarah Baker

Sarah Bowman

Ian Thoroughgood

Helen Armstrong

Headteacher’s Performance Management Committee

Chris Burn - Chair

Rev Stephne Van Der Toorn

Hearings

Panel are convened on a case by case basis.

Contacting the Governing Body

We are always keen to seek the views of parents, so please come and chat if you see us in the school or at any school function.

Alternatively, please contact the Chair of Governors, Jan Plumstead, through the school office.