Welcome from Huntingtree Primary School Governors

Welcome to Huntingtree Primary School. Thank you for choosing to visit our website to find out about the work that our governors do in support of our wonderful school. At Huntingtree, we believe that children learn and flourish when they feel safe and happy to come to school. We therefore work hard to develop the personal and social skills of our children, rooted in mutual respect and high expectations. We aim to offer the highest possible academic standards, supporting the expectation that all pupils are encouraged to do their very best.

Our governors come from a wide range of backgrounds. We have staff and parent governors who have direct links to the school, a governor appointed by the Local Authority, and governors who have been co-opted to serve on the governing body in view of the particular skills they offer. The diversity of skills, experience and expertise we possess as a team enables us to challenge, support and complement the work of the school. The governing body meet as often as required, meeting once each term as a minimum. Our membership structure is currently as follows:

The work of the Governing Body

We have termly meetings in place with governors carrying out delegated monitoring and evaluation between meetings aligned to a scheduled programme of work. In addition, we also have statutory committees in place for the purposes of school improvement, resources, performance management, pay, appeals, disciplinary and dismissal matters. Governors have specific responsibilities attached to their roles and visit the school on a regular basis to meet with staff and pupils.

Whole School Community – Our Role

As a governing body, we believe that our parents, carers, pupils, staff, governors and members of the wider local community all have an equally important part to play in the success of our school. Your views are important to us, and we are always pleased to hear your suggestions as to how we can improve. If you would like to pass on a suggestion for school improvement, or if you are interested in becoming a school governor, I can be contacted via the school office for further information.

Governing Body Structure

The governors are a team of people, drawn from the local community who are responsible for ensuring that the school provides the best quality education that we can for the children.

Following due consideration and full discussion by the Governing Body at the FGB meeting in September 2014, it was decided to reconstitute the governors to the following:

Governors that have left within the past 12 months:

Governors attendance

Full Governing Body Meetings:

Governors name	25.4.2018	12.7.2018	13.9.2018	16/1/2019	22/5/2019	19/9/2019
Mrs N Chapman
Mr J Harrold
Mr C Partridge		Apologies	Apologies	Apologies
Mr D Evans
Mr D Baker
Mr K Roper					Apologies
Mrs J McGrath						Apologies
Mrs K Wright
Mr S Steele
Mr I Collier-Dart
Mr P Lopeman				Apologies
Mrs I Kassim					Apologies
Mrs Helen Griffiths		(Observer)	(Observer)	Apologies

 

School Improvement Meetings:

Name		11.1.2018	1.3.2018	21.11.2018	13.3.2019	10.7.2019
Mr J Harrold						Apologies
Mr G Craig
Mr D Baker
Mrs K Wright
Mrs N Chapman
Mr K Roper
Mr D Evans
Mrs H Griffiths					Apologies	Apologies
Mrs J McGrath
Mr P Lopeman

Resources Meetings:

Name	3.7.2017	20.11.2018	23.4.2018	24.10.2018	20.3.2019
Mr J Flanagan
Mr J Harrold
Mr C Partridge
Mrs J McGrath
Mr K Roper
Mrs J Nisbet			Apologies
Mr I Collier-Dart
Mrs I Kassem				Apologies
Mr S Steele				Apologies

Annual Governance Statement for Huntingtree Primary School

In accordance with the Government’s requirement for all governing bodies, the 3 core strategic functions of our Governing Body are:

1. Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos, values and strategic direction;

2. Holding the Head teacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils and for the performance management of staff;

3. Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent.

The Full Governing Body meets at least once each term, we also have two committees to consider different aspects of the school in detail and three committees to carry out statutory functions.  These committees are:

• School Improvement Committee

• Finance and Premises / Resources Committee

• Pay Committee

• Performance Management Committee

• Appeals Committee.

The work that we have completed in our committees during the past year includes:

· Annual review of the work of the Governing body carried out

· School budget monitoring

· Pupil Premium /Sports Premium monitoring and evaluation

· Health and Safety issues and building works monitored

· Scheduled policies and procedures updated and reviewed

· Staff recruitment and staff allocation monitoring

· New Curriculum implementation and assessments monitored to ensure pupils develop their learning

· Data analysed to ensure that pupils make good progress from their starting points

· Attendance monitored and tracked

· Parent events attended