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Governors
Often Governors are asked what they actually do. It is not an easy question to answer, without giving a long list of responsibilities and quoting various pieces of legislation. A simple answer to the question is school improvement or raising standards that is the heart and the purpose of school governance.
Governors have three strands to their role:
To provide a strategic view:
as to where the school is going, what are the school’s long term aims, how will we achieve them and how, as Governors do we know how effective the school is.
To act as a critical friend:
by promoting the school and supporting its work by monitoring and evaluating the school’s effectiveness.
To ensure accountability:
governors are the 'responsible' body and it is their job to be accountable to students, their parents and carers and all other stakeholders, for the decisions we make as a governing body and for the academic and personal development our students make.
It is also our role as governors, to hold the school to account, on behalf of the stakeholder groups who we are representative members of.
The school currently has 22 governors:
Four Local Authority governors – Paul Childs, Jane Sillitto, Stuart Thompson and Joan Pageot
Five community governors – Gordon Bull, Robert Adams, Ann Shepherd and Janet Kelly
Seven parent governors – Liz Dawe, Nicola Adekoya, Tim Pinkney, Sarah Berke, Jeremy Kite, Paul Collard-Odle and Karen Greenwood-Hone
Four staff governors, including the Headteacher – Sue Pay, Steven Grimes, Peter Jones and Alison Woodhouse
Two student governors - NTBA
Clerk to th Governing Body - Jane Pocock
The Full Governing Body meets once each term but much of the work is done through committees.
