Welcome to our Governors’ section. 

Please find below details of how our Governing body is structured, including the names, categories, responsibilities and terms of appointment for each Governor.

The Governing Body acts as a corporate body. It acts with integrity, objectivity, honesty and in the best interest of the school. The day-to-day management of the school is the responsibility of the Headteacher. The Governing Body has three main roles:

To provide strategic direction for the school
To act as a 'critical friend' to the Headteacher
To ensure accountability

The strategic role of the governors is to support the work of the school through a range of activities to develop policy and practice. The responsibilities of governors are assigned to three main committees which meet on a regular basis:

Curriculum, pupil and personnel related matters, Finance and Premises.

Other governing body committees meet according to need:
Admissions, Complaints/Pupil discipline, Pay and Performance, Staff discipline and dismissal, Staff discipline and dismissal appeals, Staff pay appeals.

Governors undertake a wide range of monitoring activities, including visits to the school to observe aspects of its work, which enables them not only to support the work of the school but to focus on their role to challenge. This enables governors to gain a sound understanding of the strengths of the school and the impact of work to improve areas identified for development. Governors have significant input into the development and promotion of the school vision.
 

When the school is inspected by Ofsted, the following areas aspects of the role of the governors will be evaluated: "Whether governors:

• carry out their statutory duties, such as safeguarding, and understand the boundaries of their role as governors
• ensure that they and the school promote tolerance of and respect for people of all faiths (or those of no faith), cultures and lifestyles; and support and help, through their words, actions and influence within the school and more widely in the community,
• to prepare children and young people positively for life in modern Britain
• ensure clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction, including long-term planning (for example, succession)
• contribute to the school's self-evaluation and understand its strengths and weaknesses, including the quality of teaching, and reviewing the impact of their own work
• understand and take sufficient account of pupil data, particularly their understanding and use of the school data dashboard
• assure themselves of the rigour of the assessment process
• are aware of the impact of teaching on learning and progress in different subjects and year groups
• provide challenge and hold the Headteacher and other senior leaders to account for improving the quality of teaching, pupils' achievement and pupils' behaviour and safety, including by using the data dashboard, other progress data, examination outcomes and test results; or whether they hinder school improvement by failing to tackle key concerns or developing their own skills
• use the pupil premium and other resources to overcome barriers to learning, including reading, writing and mathematics
• ensure solvency and probity and that the financial resources made available to the school are managed effectively
• are providing support for an effective Headteacher
• monitor performance management systems and understand how the school makes decisions about teachers' salary progression, including the performance management of the Headteacher, to improve teaching, leadership and management
• engage with key stakeholders
• are transparent and accountable, including in terms of recruitment of staff, governance structures, attendance at meetings, and contact with parents and carers."

Non-confidential minutes of Governing Body meetings are available from the School Office.

(paragraph 166, School inspection Handbook: Handbook for inspecting schools in England under section 5 of the Education Act 2005
(as amended by the Education Act 2011) September 2014; reference 120101)

Governors are appointed for a term of four years and families will be advised when a vacancy arises.

The governing body of Buttsbury Infant School is made up as follows:

Staff

Mrs A Robinson - Executive Headteacher  

Mrs Cheryl Johnson 

Co-opted

Mrs Gail O'Malley  

Mr Andrew Fry (Vice Chairman)

Mrs Isabel Unite

LA

Mrs Dee Horton (Chairman)  

Ms Heather Faulkner

Trust

Mr Les Sheppard 

Mrs Helena Chiappe (Chair of CAPPREM Committee)

Parent

Mrs Karleen Arnold

Mrs Pippa Branch

Mrs Eloise Reilly

Mr Nicholas Webb (Chair of Finance & Premises Committee)

Associate

Mrs Sarah Harris

Clerk to the Governors

Ms Victoria Freeman