Meet the Governors
Welcome to our Governors’ section.
Please find below details of how our governing body is structured, including the names, categories, responsibilities and terms of appointment for each Governor.
We have also provided a Register of Governor's Interests and an Annual Statement of Issues for your information.
Our Purpose
The purpose of having a governing body is to:
- Help the school to set high standards by planning for the school's future and setting targets for school improvement.
- Keep the pressure up on school improvement
- Be a critical friend to the school, offering support and advice
- Help the school respond to the needs of parents and the community
- Make the school accountable to the public for what it does
- Work with the school on planning, developing policies and keeping the school under review
- Exercise its responsibilities and powers in partnership with the headteacher and staff
- Not intervene in the day-to-day management of the school unless there are weaknesses in the school, when it then has a duty to take action.
Our Governing Body
All schools have a governing body which is generally composed of people from four different groups:
1) The school staff
2) The Local Authority
3) Parents
4) The Local Community
Each governor is chosen by the group they represent.
Working together, governors support the school, particularly in making key decisions about its overall vision for children’s education. As a group, we never lose sight of the school’s most important people: the children. We want the best for them, always trying to keep what will improve their future life opportunities at the front of our thinking. In the sections below, you can find a brief description of why each volunteer wanted to be a school governor.
Our Chair of Governors is Mr Dave Hill and Vice chair of governors. They can be contacted through the school office.
How we work with the school.
Individual governors have specific links with areas of the school’s work and its priorities for improvement. Governors also help to appoint the school’s staff.
Link Governors.
Complaints Governor-Dave Hill
Safeguarding-Kevin Hubbard
SEND and Pupil Premium-Zoe Battison
Health and Safety-Kevin Hubbard
Pupils Personal Welfare and Development- Including attendance-Dave Hill
A full governing body meeting, which is held each term, is the most formal of our meetings. The Chair of Governors manages these meetings. These meetings are used to help to shape the school’s overall vision and its goals for improvement; it also supports all aspects of curriculum policy.
The Business Committee oversees the school’s budget with a focus on getting value for money for the services provided for pupils and whose work focusses on the school’s pupils and its staff, including matters of health, safety and welfare. The committee is chaired by .
Committee members:
Dave Hill (Chair)
Claire Wagstaff
Zoe Battison
Anna Shipstone
Kevin Hubbard
Zach Towers
The Strategic Committee helps to shape the school’s overall vision and its goals for improvement; it also supports all aspects of curriculum policy. The committee is chaired by
Committee Members:
Dave Hill (Chair)
Chris Blackburn
Laura Lord
Claire Wagstaff
Zoe Battison
Anna Shipstone
Kevin Hubbard
Zach Towers
Parent Governors.
Mrs Shipston- Parent Governor.
Current Term of Office -10.12.24- 10.12.28
Register of interests and other positions held - None
Committees -Strategic and Business development
Ms Wagstaff- Parent Governor.
Current Term of Office - 10.12.24- 10.12.28
Register of interests and other positions held - None
Committees-Business and strategic development.
Parents, including carers, of pupils are eligible to stand for election as governors. Parent governors are elected by other parents at the school.
Co-opted Governors.
We currently have 2 vacancies for co-opted members.
Dave Hill- Co-opted Governor
Current Term of Office - 14/7/23-13/7/27
Register of interests and other positions held -None
Committees -Business and strategic development.
Zoe Battison- Co-opted Governor
Current Term of Office -
Register of interests and other positions held - Parent
Committees -Business and strategic development.
Attendance-All
Zack Towers- Co-opted Governor
Current Term of Office - 17.1.23-16.1.27
Register of interests and other positions held - None
Committees -Business and strategic development.
Kevin Hubbard- Co-opted Governor
Current Term of Office -17.1.23-16.1.27
Register of interests and other positions held -
Committees-All
Vacancy 1- Co-opted Governor
Current Term of Office -
Register of interests and other positions held - None
Committees
Vacancy 2- Co-opted Governor
Current Term of Office -
Register of interests and other positions held - None
Committees
Co-opted governors are appointed by the governing body to represent community interests. They can be individuals who
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Live or work in the community served by the school
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Are committed to the good governance and success of the school even though they do not work or live close to it.
The definition of a co-opted governor is broad. People from a business or professional background and minor authority representatives can be appointed as co-opted governors.
Local Authority Governors.
Vacancy- Local Authority Governor
Current Term of Office -
Register of interests and other positions held -
Committees- Business and strategic
L.As are encouraged to appoint high-calibre governors to schools and to appoint candidates irrespective of any political affiliation or preference. Authorities may appoint minor authority representatives, e.g. district and parish councillors, as authority governors.
Staff Governors
The head teacher is a staff governor by virtue of their office. Other staff, both teaching and support, may become governors as long as they are paid (volunteers do not qualify). Staff governors are elected by the school staff.
Staff Governor- Emma McGrenaghan (Headteacher)
Register of interests and other positions held: Cousin to owner of Riverside Tree services.
Staff Governor-Laura Lord
Term of Office - 20.5.21-20.5.24
Register of interests and other positions held: None
Attendance 2021-22- All meetings
Associate Governors
Chris Blackburn is an associate governor member.
Associate members are appointed by the governing body to attend committee meetings and/or full governing body meetings due to their particular skills or experience.
Associate Governor- Chris Blackburn (no voting rights)
Register of interests and other positions held: None
Term of Office: 9.9.23-.10.9.27
Attendance - All meetings