Governance

Governing Body

Governors play an important role at St Andrew’s CE. The school is part of the Watergrove Multi-Academy Trust and it is independent of the local authority. The Trust is responsible for nine local schools: Wardle Academy, Matthew Moss High School, Falinge High School, St Andrew’s C E Primary School & Nursery, St James C E Primary, St Mary’s C.E Primary, Sandbrook Community Primary, Moorhouse Academy and Kentmere Academy.

Overall responsibility for the governance of the school lay with the Board of Trustees.

Click here for information regarding Watergrove Trust (Including Trustee names, attendance records, overall structure,  it’s latest annual report and the scheme of delegation).

The school’s governors form the Local Governing Board, which meets 6 times a year.  A separate Ethos committee has oversight of the school’s Christian Distinctiveness.

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What governors do?

The governing board provides strategic leadership and accountability in schools. It has three key functions:
● Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent
● Holding the headteacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils
● Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction

Governors set the aims and objectives for the school and set the policies and targets for achieving those aims and objectives. They monitor and evaluate the progress the school is making and act as a source of challenge and support to the headteacher. In action, this means:
● Appointing and performance reviewing the head teacher and senior leaders, including making decisions about pay
● Managing budgets and deciding how money is spent
● Engaging with pupils, staff, parents and the school community
● Sitting on panels and making decisions about things like pupil exclusions and staff disciplinary
● Addressing a range of education issues within the school including disadvantaged pupils, pupils with special needs, staff workload and teacher recruitment
● Looking at data and evidence to ask questions and have challenging conversations about the school

Governors must be prepared to adopt the Nolan principles of public life: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership. Governors are also be committed to their role and to young people; confident in having courageous conversations; curious with an enquiring mind; able to challenge the status quo to improve things; collaborative to build strong relationships; critical to improve their own work and that of the board; and creative in problem solving and being innovative.

The Governing Body consists of 10 members appointed or elected by various bodies and groups including one member appointed by the Local Authority, five members elected by parents of the children at school, three Foundation Governors, one teacher governor, one non-teaching staff governor, two governors co-opted from the community and the Head Teacher.The full Academy Committee meets twice a term. The governors work with the Head Teacher, staff and parents to ensure that the children receive the best education possible within a happy, secure environment.

• The general conduct of the school
• Discipline – in consultation with the Head Teacher
• Overseeing the way the curriculum is taught in school.
• Making decisions about particular aspects of the curriculum such as sex education
• Deciding how the money allocated by the LA to run the school is spent
• Interviewing and appointing members of staff
• Making information available to parents
  

Chair of Governors

Mr A Dearnley

Contact Ashley

dearnleya@watergrovetrust.co.uk

Governors

Governing Body Minutes