The Role of Governors:
The Governing body is the educational equivalent to a company’s Board of Directors or a charity’s Board of Trustees. The purpose of the governing body is to help the school provide the best possible education for its pupils.
Its main roles are: to ensure accountability; to provide a strategic view and to act as a critical friend. The key areas in which they are involved are the curriculum, and the educational success of the school, finance, staffing, and other general roles such as being an interface between the school and parents and the community.
The Governing body acts as a group. Individual governors have no power outside the governing body and cannot act on behalf of the governing body unless authorised to do so. Formally the governing body meets as a whole once a term and individual governors are also on one or two committees (Curriculum, or Finance, Safeguarding and General Purposes). Informally the governors take a great interest in the school, helping in a variety of ways and supporting all that goes on.
For more information on how the governing board helps the school, please refer to the governors' 'Code of Conduct linked below.
Governor membership, roles, term dates, and appointment can be found on the Gov.uk site here: St Lawrence CofE Primary School - Gov.uk
Governor Committees 2024/25
Governor Committees 2024/25
Curriculum
Steve Redmond (Chair)
Kirsty Sloan (Clerk)
Emily Russell (Chair of governors)
Alan Brannen
Steve Johnson
Mike Reynolds
Finance and all purpose (inc. health & safety and safeguarding)
Colette Morris (Chair)
Alan Brannen
Angela Walshaw
Debbie West
Emily Russell (Chair of Governors) (Clerk)
Appeals Salaries performance management
Steve Redmond Emily Russell
Kirsty Sloan Kirsty Sloan
Steve Johnson Debbie West
Complaints Staff discipline and dismissals
Esme Turner Esme Turner
Colette Morris Vacancy
Emily Russell Appeals: Emily Russell
Angela Walshaw
Pupil discipline and exclusions
Colette Morris
Esme Turner
Angela Walshaw
SEND, LLAC, PLAC and Safeguarding Pupil premium
Esme Turner Debbie West
Vacancy
Website Audit GDPR Audit Policies and procedures Audit
Emily Russell Steve Redmond Vacancy & Esme Turner
Eco School Link Governors
Esme Turner - Biodiversity
Vacancy - Global Citizenship
Vacancy - Litter
Vacancy - School grounds
Emily Russell - Waste