Governors

Position	Chair of Governors	Vice-Chair of Governors	Governor	Governor
Governor	Tiffany Beck	Nick Osborne	Terry Miller	Bob Love
Committee	Child Protection & Safeguarding	SEND	Pupil Premium Sports Funding	Transition Board
Register of Business Interests	Consultant for the Key for School Leaders and Governors- since 1.7.16 Employee of REAch2 Academy Trust- since 28.2.17 FANSA- Consultant- since 1/5/18	Spouse works at Greenacres Primary School (fellow trust school) Governor at Hurstmere School from 1/1/19	On file with Maritime	Trusted of Shirley C of E School from 1/1/17 Trustee and Director at Southwark Diocesan Board of Education from 1/1/17 Trustee of Green Coat Educational Trust from 1/1/17 Trustee of Bacon's Educational Foundation from 1/1/17 Trustee of The Easterbrook Thorley Scholarship / The Boutcher Schools from 1/1/17 Trustee of St Bartholomews School Sydenham Trust Fund from 1/1/17 Trustee of Kennington Oval National School (now known as Lambeth St Marks CoE Primary School from 1/1/17 Trustee of The Winter Exhibition from 1/1/17 Governor at Deansfield Primary- 1/9/17 Governor at Nightingale- 1/11/17
Relationship with Staff or Governors	None	Spouse works at Greenacres Primary	None	None
Appointed By	Trust	Trust	Trust	Trust
Term of Office	Start: 01/09/2017 End: 01/09/2021	Start: 01/09/2017 End: 01/09/2021	Start: 01/09/2017 End: 01/09/2021	Start: 01/09/2018 End: 01/09/2022
Attendance	100%	85%	71%	100%

Position	Executive Head	Headteacher	Parent Governor	Parent Governor
Governor	David Marsh	Amy Massey	Fay Fautley	Angus McKay
Committee	Transition Board	Transition Board	Transition Board	Transition Board Health & Safety
Register of Business Interests	On Governing Body of Greenacres Primary School (fellow trust school)	None	Supply Teacher, covering a class in the Infant School twice a week.	Spouse works at Featherby Junior School as a TA and Wrap-Around Care Worker
Relationship with Staff or Governors	None	None	None	Spouse works at Featherby Junior School
Appointed By	Ex-officio by virtue of office as executive headteacher	IEB	Parents	Parents
Term of Office	Start: 01/09/2018 End: 01/09/2022	Start: 01/09/2017 End: 01/09/2021	Start: 01/09/2018 End: 01/09/2022	Start: 01/09/2018 End: 01/09/2022
Attendance	100%	100%	100%	85%

School Governing Bodies

All state maintained primary, secondary and special schools, are accountable to their governing bodies, which in turn are accountable to parents and the community. Parent and staff representatives are elected to the governing body; the local authority appoints governors to the governing body and the relevant faith bodies appoint foundation governors in faith schools. In addition the governing body can appoint its own community governors, and it is traditionally these posts which the governing body uses to cover skills gaps, hence these posts often being offered to governors from the business community. Increasingly local authority appointment panels also look to the skills set of their appointees.

The Role of the Governing Body

The governing body is responsible for the conduct of its school, and must promote high standards of educational achievement at the school.

It is the school’s accountable body and as such:

provides a strategic view of the school by establishing a vision and setting the purpose and aims of the school within an agreed policy framework. It appoints and performance manages the headteacher, agreeing the school improvement strategy which includes setting statutory targets with supporting budgets and staffing structures;
monitors and evaluates the work of the school by reviewing the performance of the headteacher, the effectiveness of the policy framework, progress towards targets, and the effectiveness of the school improvement strategy;
signs off the self evaluation process and responds to school improvement service and Ofsted reports as necessary. In addition it holds the headteacher to account for the performance of the school and ensures that parents are involved, consulted and informed as appropriate, with information to the community being made available as required.

In order to do this, governors need to gain knowledge of how their school operates through training, by attending meetings, and by getting to know their school community, for example through a small number of visits to the school during the school day Governors need to work together as a team, under the leadership of the Chair of the governing body. Most governing bodies require their governors to sign a code of practice.