Governors

The Role of the Governing Board

The purpose of the Governing Board is to provide confident and strong strategic leadership working in close partnership with the leaders of the school, leading to robust accountability, oversight and assurance for educational and financial performance.

 

This means:

• Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction
• Holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils, and the effective and efficient performance management of staff: and
• Overseeing the financial performance of the organisation and making sure its money is well spent.

As a Governing Board we work cooperatively together to ensure we meet the 3 core strategic functions above.

 

The Governing Board consists of:

Full Name of Governor/ Associate Member   (including any voting rights for A.M)	Governor Type   (e.g. Foundation; Co-opted; LA; etc.)	Governor Position   (e.g. Chair; Vice Chair; SEND Link Governor etc.)	Committees	Initial start date as Governor for school	Start date for current term	End date for current term
Mr Jon Slattery	Co-opted	Maths Link Governor		24/04/2019	24/04/2019	23/04/2023
Mrs Emily Kennedy	Co-opted	GDPR Link Governor Spelling Link Governor		18/07/2019	29/01/2020	28/01/2024
Mr Mark Loveday	Co-opted	SEND Link Governor	Curriculum Committee	30/09/2020	30/09/2020	29/09/2024
Mrs Sarah Phillips	Co-opted	Acting Chair FGB Writing Link Governor		15/09/2016	30/09/2020	29/09/2024

 

Mrs Sheila Marshall	Local Authority	Chair	Curriculum Committee	02/12/2020	02/12/2020	01/12/2024
Mrs Angela Hancock	Parent	Safeguarding Link Governor		04/10/2018	04/10/2018	03/10/2022
Mrs Claire Sanders	Parent	Chair	Finance & Assets Committee	04/10/2018	04/10/2018	03/10/2022
Mr Peter Brannelly	Parent	Health & Safety Governor		20/12/2019	20/12/2019	19/12/2023
Mr David Smith	Parent			21/07/2021	21/07/2021	20/07/2025
Mrs Jess Beeching	Staff			12/05/2016	12/05/2020	11/05/2024
Mr Stuart Bill	Staff Head				01/09/2007
Miss Jayne Morgan	Clerk				01/01/2019

This year 2021-2022, the school is working on the following priorities which guides our work fulfilling our core strategic functions and meeting our statutory requirements. 

• Priority 1: To ensure that groups of pupils who have fallen behind due to the Covid 19 pandemic get the resources and support that they need in order to make the progress needed to catch up. There will be a specific focus upon writing for boys and cohorts y3/4/5 in maths where progress and attainment was weaker last year.
• Priority 2: To embed further a curriculum that is broad and balanced and gives pupils the life skills and the cultural capital to be successful and enthusiastic learners.
• Priority 3: To introduce and embed effectively the new EYFS curriculum to improve outcomes at age 5, particularly in language and literacy
• Priority 4: To fully explore all options for collaboration with other schools to include academisation. This will guarantee that the school has a clear strategic direction going forwards, which will best support the needs of our pupils and wider school community.

In order to carry out our functions effectively we meet 6 times per year as a full governing board and we have 2 committees: Standards Committee and Finance and Assets Committee who have delegated responsibilities which enables them to undertake strategic functions on behalf of the board.

 It is a privilege to be a governor at Leigh and Bransford where every child is valued. Our mission statement is “Our Children First” and we believe that every child should have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and to achieve the best possible standards, giving them a strong foundation for the future. The strengths and values that we aim to develop in our pupils are:

• Critical thinking
• Communication
• Creativity
• Resilience
• Independence
• Tolerance and Diversity
• Activity

Through our strategic oversight of the work of the school we support and strengthen the school to provide high quality education for all pupils.