Harvington C of E First and Nursery School
‘Together we love, learn and grow’
Governors
Our full governing body consists of a group of volunteers who work together to make our school the best it can be. Each governor has a different background and different skills. They meet as a full governing body three times per year but more often in their different committees. They also visit school regularly and many are linked to a particular class.
The strategic functions of our Governing Body are:
- Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction
- Holding the Headteacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils
- Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure that its money is well spent
- Responsible for ensuring that the school meets statutory requirements with regards to Safeguarding, Health & Safety, the Curriculum and Finance
The Vision, Values and Christian Distinctiveness committee support, advise and challenge the Headteacher to ensure our school has a strong vision and values and its Christian vision permeates through every aspect of school life. This group ensures we are all striving to uphold our vision of 'together we love, learn and grow'.
The Finance and Premises Committee is responsible for the initial oversight and management of the annual budget drawn up the by the school; ensures the school maintains an appropriate system of internal financial control and agrees priorities for revenue and capital funding. This committee also provides oversight of the management and maintenance of the school premises; reviews proposals for capital projects and ensures best practice in procurement and implementation of works; provides advice and guidance on premises maintenance issues.
The Personnel committee provides strategic advice and guidance on staffing and personnel issues and reviews proposals for the promotion of staff.
The Safeguarding and Inclusion committee ensures the school is complying to expectations in safeguarding, health and safety, child protection, look after children support, equal opportunities, SEND, attendance, behaviour, healthy Schools and educational visits.
The school also has a Curriculum and Assessment committee responsible for teaching, learning, curriculum and assessment.
This committee includes monitoring and challenging outcomes and achievement and there is a separate committee to support, advise and challenge our early years and extended services provision.
The instrument of government states that the governing body shall consist of:
Four parent governors
One LA governor
One staff governor
One headteacher
Three foundation governors
Three co-opted governors
All governors have voting rights on their committees
Claire Roberts - Chair of Governors
Parent Governor
Committees:
Strategic Leadership Group
Finance, Premises and General Purposes
Personnel
Date Appointed: 02/02/2022
Term of Office: 02/02/2022 to 01/02/2026
Business, Personal & Pecuniary Interests: None
Governance roles in other educational institutions: None
Reverend Richard Thorniley - Vice Chair of Governors
Foundation
Committees:
Strategic Leadership Group
Personnel (Chair)
Vision, Values and Christian Distinctiveness (Chair)
EYFS & Extended Services (Chair)
Date Appointed: 01/10/2001
Term of Office: Ex-Officio
Business, Personal & Pecuniary Interests: Rector of Harvington
Governance roles in other educational institutions: Church Lench First School
Becky Enstone
Acting Headteacher ex-officio
Committees:
Strategic Leadership Group
Curriculum & Assessment
EYFS & Extended Services
Finance, Premises & General Purposes
Personnel
Safeguarding and Inclusion
Date Appointed: 11/03/2020
Term of Office: 31/03/2023 to 30/03/2027
Business, Personal & Pecuniary Interests: None
Governance roles in other educational institutions: None
Rod Arthur
Community Co-opted
Committees:
Finance, Premises and General Purposes (Chair)
Safeguarding and Inclusion
Date Appointed: 30/04/2013
Term of Office: 01/09/2023 to 31/08/2027
Business, Personal & Pecuniary Interests: None
Governance roles in other educational institutions: None
Joanna Seymour
Community Co-Opted
Committees:
Strategic Leadership Group
EYFS & Extended Services
Safeguarding and Inclusion (Chair)
Date Appointed: 08/11/2016
Term of Office: 08/11/2024 to 07/11/2028
Business, Personal & Pecuniary Interests: None
Governance roles in other educational institutions: None
Clifford Powell
Community Co-opted
Committees: Personnel and Curriculum & Assessment
Date Appointed: 12/11/2024
Term of Office: 12/11/2024 to 11/11/2028
Business, Personal & Pecuniary Interests: None
Governance roles in other educational institutions: None
Jill Francis
DBE Foundation Governor
Committees:
Curriculum & Assessment (Chair)
Vision, Values and Christian Distinctiveness
Date Appointed: 09/01/2018
Term of Office: 21/02/2022 to 20/02/2026
Business, Personal & Pecuniary Interests: None
Governance roles in other educational institutions: None
Annette France
DBE Foundation Governor
Committees:
Personnel
EYFS & Extended Services
Vision, Values and Christian Distinctiveness
Date Appointed: 03/07/2018
Term of Office: 03/07/2022 to 02/07/2026
Business, Personal & Pecuniary Interests: None
Governance roles in other educational institutions: None
Dan Creeber
Parent Governor
Committees:
Curriculum and Assessment
Date Appointed: 25/03/2023
Term of Office: 25/03/2023 to 24/03/2027
Business, Personal & Pecuniary Interests:
Governance roles in other educational institutions: None
Sanjay Dhir
Parent Governor
Committees:
Finance, Premises and General Purposes
Safeguarding and Inclusion
Date Appointed: 02/02/2022
Term of Office: 02/02/2022 to 01/02/2026
Business, Personal & Pecuniary Interests:
Governance roles in other educational institutions: None
Richard Parkinson
Parent Governor
Committees:
Curriculum & Assessment
Safeguarding and Inclusion
Date Appointed: 02/02/2022
Term of Office: 02/02/2022 to 01/02/2026
Business, Personal & Pecuniary Interests:
Governance roles in other educational institutions:
Derek Bush
LEA Governor
Committees:
Finance, Premises and General Purposes
Personnel
Date Appointed: 05/03/2024
Term of Office: 05/03/2024 to 04/03/2028
Business, Personal & Pecuniary Interests: None
Governance roles in other educational institutions: None
Sally McCaugherty
Associate Member (Staff)
Committees:
Safeguarding and Inclusion
Date Appointed: 05/03/2024
Term of Office: 05/03/2024 to 04/03/2028
Business, Personal & Pecuniary Interests: None
Governance roles in other educational institutions: None
Clerk to Governors - Nicky Allen
Governor Diversity
The governors of Harvington CE First & Nursery School believe it is important that boards reflect the diversity of the school communities they serve. Diverse boards promote inclusive school environments and provide diverse role models for staff and young people.
We collect diversity information from our governors which includes data on age, gender and ethnicity. We will use that data to inform their recruitment and training needs and ensure there is always a diverse range of perspectives around the table to support robust decision making.
However, we are unable to publish this information as it would mean that individual members of our governing body are identifiable.