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 committee meetings 2020-2021	Attendance record at the FULL governing body meetings
Julian Adams	02/10/2020	01/10/2021		Staff Governor	Staff	None	Staff Governor		FGB - 1/1
Richard Coombs	12/12/2019	11/12/2023		Co-Opted	Governing Body	Trustee at Dean Close Foundation of Schools	Efficient and effective school development priorities		FGB – 1/1
Moira Gage	12/12/2019	11/12/2023		Local Authority	Governing Body	None	SEND Pupil Premium		FGB – 1/1
Alison Godfrey	01/01/2019	NA		Headteacher	Ex-Officio	None	Headteacher	F – 1/1	FGB – 1/1
Terri Harvey	07/05/2019	06/05/2022	08/10/2020	Co-Opted	Governing Body	None	Finance	F – 1/1	FGB – 1/1
Sue Lewis	24/05/2018	23/05/2021		Co-Opted	Governing Body	None	Safeguarding		FGB – 1/1
Ben Maughan	11/10/2016	10/10/2020	TERM ENDED	Parent	Parents	Wife is an independent music tutor at the school	Data		FGB – 1/1
Brenda Moody	24/05/2018	23/05/2021		Co-Opted	Governing Body	None	Curriculum Learning and achieving together school development priorities	F – 1/1	FGB – 1/1
Lucia Silver	26/11/2017	25/11/2021		Parent	Parents	None	Sports Premium Happy and healthy school development priorities		FGB – 1/1
Katherine Shepherd	07/10/2020	06/10/2024		Co-Opted		Employed as Clerk to Governors at various GCC schools			FGB – 1/1

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