Welcome to our Governors’ section. This is where we will post any relevant news and information for parents from our Governors.
School governors provide strategic leadership and accountability in schools. Governors appoint the head teacher and deputy headteacher.
Governing bodies make decisions which are in the best interests of the children.
All governors are linked to priority areas on the school improvement plan.
Our governing body is made up of 10 members. These are the people who volunteer as governors at Standhill infants' School:
Mrs Clarke - Staff Governor
Mrs Bucknall - Chair of Governors Co-opted Governor
Mr C Worrall - Co-opted Governor
Miss M Duncan - Parent Governor
Miss Scott - Co-opted Governor Chair of School review committee
Mrs E Croghan - Chair of F and GP committee Parent Governor
Mrs S Britten - Vice Chair Co-opted Governor
GOVERNOR MEETINGS ATTENDANCE RECORD:
Name & Category of Governor | Term of Office | Committee Commitment | Roles and Responsibilities | Attendance for last academic year 23/24 | Attendance for this academic year 24/25 |
Suzanne Britten Co-opted Governor | 17/6/2021 to 16/6/2025 | S R Committee | Vice chair of Governors | Full: 3/3 SR: 2/2 | Full: 0/3 SR: 1/3 |
Jackie Bucknall Co-opted Governor | 17/3/2020 to 16/3/2028 (first appointed 17/3/2016) | S R Committee | Chair of governors
| Full: 3/3 SR: 2/2 | Full: 0/3 SR: 1/3 |
Joy Clarke Staff Governor | 5/10/3021 to 4/10/3025 (first appointed 5/10/3001) | F & G P Committee SR Committee | Safeguarding
SEND | Full: 2/3 F&GP: 3/3 SR: 2/2 | Full: 0/3 F&GP: 0/3 SR: 0/3 |
Emma Croghan Parent Governor | 19/5/2021 to 18/5/2025 | F & G P Committee | Full: 3/3 F&GP: 3/3 | Full: 0/3 F&GP: 0/3 | |
Sarah Flint Co-opted | 17/10/2022 to 16/10/2026 (first appointed 17/10/2018) | F & G P Committee | Full: 3/3 F&GP: 3/3 (SR: 1/2) | Full: 0/3 F&GP: 0/3 | |
Sarah Ghattaora Headteacher | 1/9/2015 | All Committees | Curriculum CPD | Full: 3/3 F&GP: 3/3 SR: 2/2 | Full: 0/3 F&GP: 0/3 SR: 0/3 |
Terry Morley Local Authority Governor | 17/05/23 to 16/05/2027 | F & G P Committee | HT Appraisal Pay Committee Chair F&GP | Full: 1/3 F&GP: 2/3 | Full: 0/3 F&GP: 0/3 |
Nichola Scott Co-opted Governor | 10/3/2020 to 10/3/2028 | S R Committee | Chair of School review Committee | Full: 3/3 SR: 1/2 | Full: 0/3 F&GP: 0/3 |
Marie Duncan Parent Governor | 26/1/2024 to 25/1/2028 | S R Committee | Full: 2/2 | Full 0/3 SR: 1/3 | |
Connor Worrall Co-opted Governor | 8/10/2018 to 8/10/2026 | S R Committee | H & S | Full: 3/3 SR: 2/2 | Full: 0/3 SR: 1/3 |
STAFF GOVERNORS:
LA GOVERNOR
CO-OPTED GOVERNORS:
PARENT GOVERNORS:
If you need to speak to a Standhill School governor about anything to do with the school, your child, their teaching or if you have any concerns, the parent governors are often at the school gates at the start and end of the day. Other governors are often in school helping out and visiting to see how everything is going.
If you'd rather write, please either drop a letter or email to Mrs J Bucknall, c/o the school, or leave a message with school and ask for a governor to call you back.
We have 3 committees which cover different areas of how the school operates. The finance committee makes sure money is well-spent and accounted for - and that we get all the money coming in that we possibly can. The school review committee ensures children are getting the best education that the school can offer, that the curriculum is right for the children and that end of key stage results are in line with those attained nationally.
Finance committee members:
Vacant - TBD at next meeting (committee chair), Mrs Clarke, Miss Randall, Mrs Wheldon and Mrs Croghan.
Headteacher's appraisal committee:
Vacant - TBD at next meeting.
Pay committee:
Miss Randall, Vanacy - TBD at next meeting.
School Review committee members:
Mrs Bucknall (committee chair), Mrs Clarke, Miss Randall, Mr Worrall, Miss Scott and Mrs Britten
The Small Print:
The governing body is responsible for the conduct of its school, and must promote high standards of educational achievement at the school.
It is the school’s accountable body and as such:
• provides a strategic view of the school by establishing a vision and setting the purpose and aims of the school within an agreed policy framework. It appoints and performance manages the headteacher, agreeing the school improvement strategy which includes setting statutory targets with supporting budgets and staffing structures;
• monitors and evaluates the work of the school by reviewing the performance of the headteacher, the effectiveness of the policy framework, progress towards targets, and the effectiveness of the school improvement strategy;
• signs off the self evaluation process and responds to school improvement service and Ofsted reports as necessary. In addition it holds the headteacher to account for the performance of the school and ensures that parents are involved, consulted and informed as appropriate, with information to the community being made available as required.
Who can become a school governor?
Almost anyone over 18 years of age can become a governor. There are no particular qualifications or requirements, other than a willingness to give time to the role and a capacity for working with other people.
There are different types of school with different categories of governor.
The types of state schools in England are: community voluntary controlled voluntary aided foundation trust – a type of foundation school academies, free Schools and City Technology Colleges – independent state funded schools.
There are also different categories of governor: parent staff foundation partnership local authority co-opted.
The type of governor you will become depends on your situation; however all governors have the same roles and responsibilities once part of the governing board.
How do I become a governor?
If you think you have what it takes to be a school governor there are a number of ways of finding schools that have vacancies.