Your School Governors
The Governing Body has three core functions:
- Ensuring the clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction.
- Holding the headteacher to account for the performance of the school’s staff and pupils.
- Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent.
As well as working as a collective group, governors also take on individual responsibility for particular areas. Every year governors review the school’s performance and help the leadership team to set the strategic priorities, which for 2018 – 2019 are:
- Ensuring the maths mastery curriculum is embedded to increase progress for cohorts and groups.
- Embedding the English mastery curriculum to ensure pupils are able to apply key skills and make at least expected progress.
- To provide a rich, broad and stimulating curriculum within a limited budget.
- To ensure that pupils’ wellbeing and mental health needs are met so pupils can achieve in all aspects of their lives (year two of three-year priority).
Our governors produce a newsletter each term to keep you up to date with their work. If you’d like to get in touch with your governing team, please email j.robinson@thurgolandprimary.org
Members of the school governing body stand for four years. Your governing body is currently made up of the following members:
Mrs Suzanne Brown
Headteacher
Governing Body Meetings: attended 3/3
Committee Meetings:
Pay & Personnel 1/1
Finance 1/1
Progress & Attainment 2/2
Safeguarding 1/1
Health & Safety 1/1
Business Interests: none
Material interests: none
Mrs Janet Hale
Foundation Governor
Link for Literacy and EYFS
Date appointed: 09/11/10
Appointment expires: n/a
Appointed by Sheffield Diocesan Board of Education
Governing Body Meetings: Attended 3/3
Committee Meetings:
Progress & Attainment 1/2
Personnel 0/1
Link governor EYFS and English
Business Interests: none
Material interests: none
James Harding
Parent Governor
Date appointed:26/10/17
Appointment expires: 25/10/21
Appointed by: Thurgoland C of E Primary School
Governing Body Meetings attended: 3/3
Committee Meetings:
Finance 1/1
Safeguarding 1/1
Health and Safety 1/1
Business Interests: none
Material interests: none
Mr James Robinson
Interim Chair of Governors
Date appointed: 04/12/18
Appointment expires: 03/12/19
Appointed by: Thurgoland C of E Primary School
Governing Body Meetings: attended 2/3
Committee Meetings:
Finance 1/1
Pay and Personnel 1/1
Link governor SEND
Business Interests: none
Material interests: none
Jonathan Birch
Co-opted Governor
Date appointed: 16.4.18
Appointment expires: 3.12.22
Appointed by: Thurgoland CE Primary
Governing body meetings attended: 3/3
Committee meetings:
Finance 1/1
Dr Alan Kershaw
Foundation Governor
Date appointed: 01/07/14
Appointment expires: 29/06/22
Appointed by: Sheffield Diocesan Board of Education
Governing Body Meetings: attended 2/3
Committee Meetings:
Safeguarding0/1
Health& Safety 0/1
Personal development, Behaviour and Community
Business Interests: none
Material interests: none
Mrs Claire Salter
Parent Governor
Interim Vice Chair of Governors
Date appointed: 26/10/17
Appointment expires: 25/10/21
Appointed by: Thurgoland C of E Primary School
Governing Body Meetings: attended 3/3
Committee Meetings:
Link Governor Maths 1/1
Pay and personnel 1/1
Progress and Attainment 1/2
Business Interests: none
Material interests: none
Rhianna Banford
Staff governor
Date appointed: 03/12/2018
Appointment expires: 01/12/2022
Appointed by: Thurgoland C of E Primary School
Governing Body Meetings Attended 2/2
Committee Meetings:
Progress and Attainment 1/2
Business Interests: none
Material interests: none
Matt Needham
Co-opted Governor
Date appointed: 4.12.18
Appointment expires: 3.12.22
Appointed by: Thurgoland CE Primary
Governing body meetings attended: 2/2
Committee meetings:
Link governor English