Governors

Governors are the strategic leaders of our schools and have a vital role to play in making sure every child gets the best possible education”

(The Governors Handbook)

The Role of a School Governor

Our Governing Board takes its role of providing confident and strong strategic leadership which leads to robust accountability, oversight and assurance for educational and financial performance seriously.

The Governing Board has three core functions:

Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction
Holding leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils, and the effective and efficient performance management of staff
Overseeing the financial performance of the organisation and making sure its money is well spent

Our governing board meets as a full body every half term.

Our finance committee meet meet every half term.

Roger Widdecombe is our Chair of Governors, our Vice Chair is Terri Harvey.

Key roles and responsibilities are distributed amongst the board. Details can be found below.

Full name	Date of appointment	End date	Date they stepped down (where applicable)	Category	Appointed by	Relevant business and pecuniary interests	Roles and responsibilities	Attendance record at the governing board and committee meetings 2018-2019	This academic year
Richard Coombs	12/12/2019	11/12/2023		Co-Opted	Governing Body	None	Efficient and effective school development priorities	NA	FGB – 1/1
Moira Gage	12/12/2019	11/12/2023		Local Authority	Governing Body	None	SEND Pupil Premium	FGB – 5/6 C&S – 2/2	FGB – 3/3
Alison Godfrey	01/01/2019	NA		Headteacher	Ex-Officio	None	Headteacher	FGB – 5/5 R – 4/4 C&S – 1/2	FGB – 3/3
Terri Harvey	07/05/2019	06/05/2022		Co-Opted	Governing Body	None	Safeguarding Finance	FGB – 5/6 R – 4/4 C&S – 0/2	FGB – 1/3
Sam Keyte	01/02/2017	31/01/2017		Staff	Staff	None	Pupil Voice	FGB – 6/6 R – 3/4 C&S – 2/2	FGB – 3/3
Sue Lewis	24/05/2018	23/05/2018		Co-Opted	Governing Body	None	Pupil Voice	FGB – 6/6 R – 4/4 C&S – 1/2	FGB – 2/3
Ben Maughan	11/10/2016	10/10/2020		Parent	Parents	Wife is an independent music tutor at the school	Data	FGB – 5/6 C&S – 2/2	FGB – 3/3
Brenda Moody	24/05/2018	23/05/2021		Co-Opted	Governing Body	None	Curriculum Learning and achieving together school development priorities	FGB – 5/6 Resources – 3/4 C&S – 2/2	FGB – 3/3
Lucia Silver	26/11/2017	25/11/2021		Parent	Parents	None	Sports Premium Happy and healthy school development priorities	FGB – 3/6 R – 1/4 C&S – 1/2	FGB – 3/3
Felicity Storey	11/10/2016	Resigned	08/07/2019	Parent	Parents	None	NA	FGB – 2/5 C&S – 0/1	NA
Harriet West	11/06/2015	Term ended	10/06/2019	Parent	Parents	None	NA	FGB – 2/5 C&S – 0/0
Roger Widdecombe	07/05/2019	06/05/2022		Co-Opted	Governing Body	None	Premises Health and Safety Happy and healthy school development priorities	FGB – 6/6 R – 2/4 C&S – 1/2	FGB – 3/3