School Governors

The role of the Governing Body

The responsibilities of the governing body are defined by legislation. The DCSF Governor’s Guide to the Law addresses governors’ responsibilities in detail. However, simply the governing body has three main roles:

1. Strategic -The governing body sets the general direction of the school, looking at how it should best develop. This is done by reviewing and agreeing policies, targets and priorities and monitoring and reviewing aims and objectives.

2. Critical Friend – A governing body should work with the Head teacher and create a clear understanding of the challenges face in managing a school.

3. Accountability – A school is a business and its stakeholders are the learners. The governing body must have a professional attitude and use its collective skills to benefit the learners. It must gather views, ask questions and decide what is best for the school. The governing body is answerable to parents, the wider community and the local authority.

School governors are drawn from different parts of the community, such as: parents, the staff, the local authority (LA), the community and other groups. This helps to ensure that the governing body has sufficient diversity of views and experience but does not mean that governors of a particular category “represent” that group on the governing body. Although elected by parents, parent governors are not mandated to express any views apart from their own. They are ‘representative parents’ not ‘representatives of parents’.

Current Governors

	Mrs Jenny Seabright Acting Headteacher
Appointment Date :	01 Sept 2017	Expiry Date :	—–
Committees :	Complaints, Curriculum and Pupils, Finance/Staffing/Human Resources, Pupil Discipline, Significant Change
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Training :	Prevent
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	Mr Tauseef Ahmed Co-opted
Appointment Date :	13 July 2016	Expiry Date :	12 July 2020
Committees :	Appointed Governors ( Headteacher Performance Objectives ), Children of Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Design and Technology Governor, Finance/Staffing/Human Resources, Financial health and efficiency compared to organisations locally and nationally – Lead Governor, Health and Wellbeing, Mathematics Governor, Ofsted Standing Committee, PE Governor, Premises/Health and Safety Governor, Year 3
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Training :	Prevent
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	Miss Shiria Banu Co-opted
Appointment Date :	13 July 2016	Expiry Date :	12 July 2020
Committees :	Art Governor, Exclusions, Health and Wellbeing, Link Governor, Year 4
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Training :	Prevent
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	Dr Zahid Chauhan Co-opted
Appointment Date :	14 Oct 2015	Expiry Date :	13 Oct 2019
Committees :	Analyse Information and Data – Lead Governor, Health and Wellbeing, Pupil Premium, Science Governor, Year 4
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Training :	Prevent
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	Mrs Fiona Liddy Co-opted
Appointment Date :	14 Oct 2015	Expiry Date :	13 Oct 2019
Committees :	Educational Visits, Financial health and efficiency compared to organisations locally and nationally (Lead Governor), Health and Safety in Education (Lead Governor), Human Resources Education Policy (Lead Governor), Media Contact, Premises/Health and Safety.
Business Interests :	School Business Manager
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Training :	Prevent
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	Mr Peter Widall Co-opted
Appointment Date :	14 Oct 2015	Expiry Date :	13 Oct 2019
Committees :	Appointed Governors ( Headteacher Performance Objectives ), Change Appeals/HR, Child Protection/Looked After Children/SEND/Safeguarding/Prevent, Complaints, Curriculum and Pupils, Educational Visits, Finance/Staffing/Human Resources, Grievances, ICT, Ofsted Standing Committee, Personnel / Pay / Staffing, Year 3
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Training :	Prevent
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	Cllr Jenny Harrison Local Authority
Appointment Date :	04 Oct 2012	Expiry Date :	02 Oct 2020
Committees :	Analyse Information and Data (Lead Governor), Appointed Governors ( Headteacher Performance Objectives ), Curriculum and Pupils, English, Gifted and Talented, Literacy, Most Able Pupils, Ofsted Standing Committee, Premises/Health and Safety, Significant Change, Year 6
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Training :	Prevent
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	Ms Sahdia Jubeen Parent
Appointment Date :	17 Nov 2016	Expiry Date :	16 Nov 2020
Committees :	Closing the Gap for EAL Learners (Lead), Ofsted Standing Committee, Pupil Discipline, Year 5
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Training :	Prevent
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	Miss Iram Nisar Parent
Appointment Date :	04 May 2016	Expiry Date :	03 May 2020
Committees :	Admissions, Child Protection/Looked After Children/SEND/Safeguarding/Prevent, Closing the Gap for EAL Learners (Lead), Geography/History, Health and Safety in Education (Lead), Ofsted Standing Committee, Premises/Health and Safety, RE, Year 5
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Training :	Prevent
Attendance of Governing Body Meetings :

	Mrs Stephanie Griffin Staff
Appointment Date :	01 Sept 2017	Expiry Date :	31 Aug 2018
Committees :	Admissions, Change Appeals/HR, Child Protection/Looked After Children/SEND/Safeguarding/Prevent
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To view the Governor Committee Details and Curriculum Responsibilities then click here

To find out a little bit more about some of our governors then click here

Dates of Meetings

24th May 2017
5th July 2017
13th September 2017
4th October 2017
29th November 2017
24th Janurary 2018
21st March 2018
18th April 2018
23rd April 2018
4th July 2018