Our Governing Body

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

Vacancy (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

Vacancy                                                                         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                                    Vacancy                                    Vacancy & Esme Turner

 

Eco School Link Governors

Esme Turner - Biodiversity

Vacancy - Global Citizenship

Vacancy - Litter

Vacancy - School grounds

Emily Russell - Waste