The main role of the Governing Body is to provide strategic leadership and work with the headteacher and staff to ensure our school provides good quality education and continues to strive for excellence through supporting, promoting and monitoring learning and learning outcomes.
The Strategic Role
In this role, governors:
• Play a lead part in planning and setting School Improvement Priorities and directing school resources
• Set policies to ensure the school achieves its aims and objectives together with monitoring and evaluating progress towards them
• Focus on raising standards of achievement, establishing high expectations and promoting effective teaching and learning so that every pupil achieves his/her full potential
• Ensure that there are systems in place to monitor progress. Use evidence to review progress against targets to see whether policies and practices are effective.
• Benchmark school achievements.
The Critical Friend Role
In this role, governors:
• Act as a source of challenge to the headteacher as well as providing support and guidance
• Recognise and celebrate achievements and under performance
• Encourage strategies and bring about improvement.
The Accountability Role
In this role, governors:
• Discuss, question and refine proposals while respecting the professional roles of the headteacher and other staff and their responsibilities for management of the school.
• Are prepared to account for the school’s performance and to explain its decisions and actions to anyone who has a legitimate interest.
PSC Register
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All trustees can be contacted via any of the means published on our Contact page.
Company Documents
Jim Inglis: Director (Chair of the Trust Board)
To: 01/01/2024
Name of Business: Circles Network Vision Homes
Nature of Interest: Chair
Date of Declaration: 30/10/2020
Traded with AAT: No
Helen Bourton: Director
To: 07/12/2020
Name of Business: N/A
Nature of Interest: Nothing to Declare
Date of Declaration: 01/11/2020
Traded with AAT: N/A
Nicola Davis: Executive Principal, Director
Term of Office: 14/11/2016 – 13/11/2020
Name of Business: N/A
Nature of Interest: Nothing to Declare
Date of Declaration: 22/09/2020
Traded with AAT: N/A
Mick Marks: Director
To: 23/10/2023
Name of Business: N/A
Nature of Interest: Nothing to Declare
Date of Declaration: 03/09/2020
Traded with AAT: N/A
Sue Reid: Director
To: 07/12/2020
Name of Business: N/A
Nature of Interest: Nothing to Declare
Date of Declaration: 03/09/2020
Traded with AAT: N/A
Bob Stephenson: Director
To: 01/01/2024
Name of Business: N/A
Nature of Interest: Nothing to Declare
Date of Declaration: 03/09/2020
Traded with AAT: N/A
Robert Grant: Director
To: 03/07/2023
Name of Business: N/A
Nature of Interest: Nothing to Declare
Date of Declaration: 20/10/2020
Traded with AAT: N/A
Teresa Beazley: Director
To: 23/10/2023
Name of Business: N/A
Nature of Interest: Nothing to Declare
Date of Declaration: 30/10/2020
Traded with AAT: N/A
Directors Attendance 2019-2020 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Name | 04/07/2019 | 24/10/2019 | 05/04/2020 | Ad Hoc Covid 19/05/2020 | 11/06/2020 |
Helen Bourton | x | ✓ | x | x | ✓ |
Nicola Davis | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Jim Inglis | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Mick Marks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x |
Sue Reid | ✓ | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Bob Stephenson | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Teresa Beazley | ✓ | x | ✓ | ✓ | |
Robert Grant | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x |
Amethyst Committee Attendance Details
Members Meeting Attendance
Name | 15/10/2020 |
---|---|
J.Inglis | ✓ |
S.Moran | ✓ |
M.Morris | x |
C.Creamer | ✓ |
K.Austin | x |
Trust Board Attendance
Name | 19/11/20 | 21/01/20 (Ad Hoc) | 18/03/21 |
---|---|---|---|
J.Inglis (Chair) | ✓ | ✓ | |
B.Stephenson (Vice Chair) | ✓ | ✓ | |
R.Grant | ✓ | ✓ | |
S.Reid | ✓ | ✓ | |
H.Bourton | ✓ | ✓ | |
N.Davis | ✓ | ✓ | |
M.Marks | ✓ | ✓ | |
T.Beazley | ✓ | x |
Finance and General Purposes Attendance
Name | 26/11/2020 | 17/12/2020 | 28/1/2021 |
---|---|---|---|
J.Inglis | ✓ | x | ✓ |
N.Davis | ✓ | x | ✓ |
T.Beazley | x | x | x |
S.Reid | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Risk and Safety Attendance
Name | 26/11/2020 | 28/01/2021 | 24/06/2021 |
---|---|---|---|
N.Davis | ✓ | ✓ | |
S.Reid | ✓ | ✓ | |
S.Baker | ✓ | ✓ |
Attendance, Exclusions & Safeguarding Attendance
Name | 09/11/2020 | 08/03/2021 | 10/05/2021 |
---|---|---|---|
B.Stephenson | ✓ | ||
R.Grant | ✓ | ||
N.Davis | ✓ |
Attainment and Standards Attendance
Name | 16/11/2020 | 08/03/2021 | 10/05/2021 |
---|---|---|---|
M.Marks | ✓ | ||
H.Bourton | ✓ | ||
J.Inglis | x |
Pay Attendance
Name | |||
---|---|---|---|
H.Bourton | |||
J.Inglis | |||
B.Stephenson |
Amethyst Ambassadorial Committee
Name | 7/11/19 | 08/10/2020 | 11/02/2021 |
---|---|---|---|
H.Bourton | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
C.Winterbottom | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
S.Perks | x | x | ✓ |
C.Brown | x | x | x |
S.Baker | x | ✓ | ✓ |
E.Green | ✓ | x | ✓ |
C.Bayley | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
D.Jones | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
S.Maiden | x | x | ✓ |