The Governing Body consists of local volunteers who have an active interest in the school.
As Governors we work as a team to support, challenge and provide a strategic leadership to our school. Governors play a vital role in moving the school forward and ensuring every child gets the best possible education.
We have a strong focus on three core functions:
We do this through Governing Body meetings six times a year, and regular visits into school to look at different aspects of the curriculum. We also offer support for school events.
Each Governor links in with a Class Teacher in a “buddy” system to gain a good understanding of that year group. In addition to this we have Governors with specific lead areas, looking at topics such as Safeguarding, SEN, finance and data.
Our Governing body is made up of 12 Governors in the following areas:
For more details of who our Governors are and their roles, please see the table below and the who’s who section of this website.
We hope that you have found this page helpful and informative. If you have any questions or would like to contact the Governing Body please do so via the school office.
Maggie Brough and Rev Andy Walker – Co-Chairs of Governors
On behalf of the Governing Body
Structure
In the past we had several committees, together with a full governing body and found that more time was spent talking about things, then repeating them, than actually doing things. So we took the collective decision to use alternating Full Governor Meetings (FGM) to look at Teaching and Learning and Finance as main items.
Where it was found we needed to have smaller working parties to look at Teaching and Learning or Finance, then these would be set up under the responsibilities granted to those committees, but done so on an as-and-when basis.
We have also needed to be flexible over the previous 18+ months and moved to virtual meetings together with emailed decisions to remain safe.
Name | Category | Appointed by | Role | Term of office | End of office | Financial interests | Non-financial interests |
David Sharp | Foundation | Diocese | Collective Worship | 4 years | 2024 | None declared |
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Tori Lister | Foundation | Diocese | SEND lead | 4 years | Mar 2023 | None declared | BLE Emergency Lighting;
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Liz Hagan | Foundation | Diocese | PP Lead | 4 years | Mar 2023 |
| None Declared |
Andy Walker | Foundation Ex-officio | Diocese | Co-Chair |
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| None declared | None declared |
Maggie Brough | Foundation | Diocese | Co-Chair & Safeguarding Lead | 4 years | Nov 2023 | None declared | None declared |
Rachael Eyre | Staff governor | Staff body |
| 4 years | Sept 2023 | None declared | None declared |
Tim Cocking | Headteacher | -- | Headteacher | -- | -- | None declared |
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John Whitely | Clerk to governors |
| Clerk | -- | -- | - | - |
Laura Taylor | Parent governor | Parental vote | 4 Years | Sept 2025 | None declared |
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Jayne Winter | Parent governor | Parental vote | 4 Years Sept | Sept 2023 | None declared | ||
Vacant | LA Governor |
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vacant | Foundation |
Name |
Attendance at full governors 2019/2020 |
Maggie Brough |
3/3 |
Andy Walker |
3/3 |
Sarah Hutton |
3/3 |
Tori Lister |
3/3 |
Mike Simms |
2/3 |
Liz Hagan |
3/3 |
Gemma Sharpe-Buckley Joan Simms |
3/3
3/3 |
Jayne Winter Rachael Eyre |
2/2 3/3 |
Tim Cocking |
3/3 |