Dunalley Primary School

Governance

Governance has never been more critical to the education of our nation's young people. As Minsiter for the School System I see at first hand the impact of governors and governance professionals. The governance duty is, above all, to drive relentless ambition for the young people served by our schools system, whatever the circumstances.

Baroness Elizabeth Berridge - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools

Governance Handbook October 2022

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 Resources committee meets every half term, and our Curriculum and Standards committee meets every full term.

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 governing meetings 2021-2022
Julian Adams	02/10/2020	01/10/2024		Staff Governor	Staff	None	Governor	FGB - 3/6
Robin Bolivar	17/11/2020	16/11/2024		Parent Governor	Parents	None	Governor Curriculum & Standards Committee	FGB - 6/6 C & S - 3/3
Richard Coombs	12/12/2019	11/12/2023		Co-Opted	Governing Body	Trustee at Dean Close Foundation of Schools	Governor Efficient and effective school development priorities	FGB – 3/6
Daniel Fludder	24/03/2021	23/03/2025		Co-Opted	Governing Body	None	Governor Chair of Resources Committee	FGB – 3/6 R – 7/7
Moira Gage	12/12/2019	11/12/2023		Local Authority	Governing Body	None	Governor Curriculum & Standards Committee SEND Pupil Premium	FGB – 6/6 C & S - 3/3
Alison Godfrey	01/01/2019	NA		Headteacher	Ex-Officio	None	Headteacher	FGB – 6/6 R – 7/7 C & S - 3/3
Simon Masters	08/12/2021	07/12/2025		Parent Governor	Parents	None	Governor Resources Committee Curriculum & Standards Committee	FGB 3/4 R - 2/5 C&S - 2/3
Ben Maughan	09/12/2020	08/12/2024		Co-Opted	Governing Body	None	Governor Vice Chair of Governors Chair of Curriculum & Standards Committee	FGB – 6/7 C & S - 3/3
Mark McShane	09/02/2022	08/02/2026		Co-Opted	Governing Body	Head Teacher Stroud High School	Governor Resources Committee	FGB - 3/3 R - 3/4
Brenda Moody	14/07/2021	13/07/2025	08/12/2022	Co-Opted	Governing Body	None	Stepped down	FGB - 5/6 R – 5/7 C & S - 2/3
Angela Elizabeth Pilling	09/12/2020 07/04/2022 Chair of Governors	08/12/2024		Co-Opted	Governing Body	None	Governor Chair of Governors Safeguarding	FGB – 6/6
Katharine Shepherd	07/10/2020 08/12/2021 Chair of Governors	06/10/2024	04/02/2022	Co-Opted	Governing Body	Clerk to other LA Schools/MATS Employed by GCC	Stepped Down	FGB – 2/2

OPAL Bingo

31 Jan 2023

The competition has started, which class can conmplete their OPAL Bingo card?

Parent Walkthrough - Read, Write Inc KS1

13 Jan 2023

Parents/Carers are invited to our Walk through on Thursday 2nd February from 9am to 9.30am

Healthy Schools Award

16 Dec 2022

We are thrilled to have been awarded the Healthy Schools Award

Year 6 Art

21 Nov 2022

Our Year 6 children have prodiced some fabulous art work.

Call of the Wild

04 Oct 2022

Our Year 6 residential week is underway.The children are having a fabulous time.

Y6 - Secondary School Open Days

16 Sep 2022

Over the coming few weeks there are a number of open days in the local area that we would like to make you aware of.
https://dunalleyps.schoolzineplus.co.uk/secondary-schools-open-days

Summer Fete - July 15th 3pm - 5pm

17 Jun 2022

Friday July 15th from 3pm to 5pm
We are busy getting things planned for our first Summer Fete in a few years. Alongside our own stalls (with...

Y1 Visit from the RNLI

17 Jun 2022

Y1 enjoyed a visit from the RNLI and learnt about safety at the beach

Our Jubilee Picnic

30 May 2022

Click here to watch our fantasic overhead video of our Jubilee Picnic.

Jubilee Writing Competition

23 May 2022

Jubilee Writing Competition
To help us to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, Dunalley will be holding a writing competition.