Carolyn Briggs – Chair of Governing Body and Finance Committee

Will Harrison – Co-opted Governor for GDPR and on Finance Committee

Nicki Bromilow – Co-opted Governor

Roz Danks – Governor

Deborah Wheelan – Safeguarding Governor

Darren Atkinson – Governor 

The remit of the Governing Body includes the following core functions:

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

In exercising their functions the Governing body agrees to:

• Act with integrity, objectivity and honesty and in the best interests of the school
• Be open about the decisions they make, actions taken and be prepared to explain their decisions and actions to interested parties.
• The governing body will appoint a clerk with a view to ensuring their efficient functioning and must have regard to advice from the clerk as to the nature of the governing body’s functions.

The Head Teacher’s responsibilities include:

• The internal organisation, management and control of the school
• The educational performance of the school
• The head teacher is accountable to the governing body for the performance of all his or her responsibilities
• The head teacher must comply with any reasonable direction of the governing body