Governors | Countess Gytha Primary School

Our School Governing Body

Our school Governing Body currently is made up from four main groups, these are; parent governors, co-opted community governors, local authority governors and staff governors. The term of office for each governor is usually four years though this can be extended if they wish to serve for a further term.
The Governing body performs three main functions they are:

1. Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction for the school

2. Holding the Head teacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils;

3. Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money it well spent.

Countess Gytha governors meet as a full board on a regular basis. We operate a number of committees working groups and individual responsibilities that look more closely, with staff, at important areas of the school’s performance and development these include:

Head teacher performance management (committee)
Individual responsibilities reporting to the full board covering children with special educational needs or disability, child protection and assessment data.
Statutory committees covering complaints, appeals and exclusions.

The day to day management and running of the school is the responsibility of the Head teacher and school leadership team. It is their job to report to the governors so we can undertake our main functions as outline above.

Our current governors are:

Name	Governor type	Specific role	Contact
Lisa Goodland	Headteacher	All groups	01935 850345
Cllr Mike Lewis	Community Director Appointed	Chair of Governors	Via school at 01935 850345
Simon Annetts	Director Appointed	Vice Chair Education, Standards and Improvement. SEND	Via school at 01935 850345
Helen Trusson	Staff		Via school at 01935 850345
Lucy Jones	Parent	Health & Safety, Safeguarding	Via school at 01935 850345
Kelly Sandford	Parent		Via school at 01935 850345

Verity Smith	Clerk	Clerk to full Governing Body	Via school at 01935 850345

Countess Gytha Governor Structure

Supporting documents

Local Governing Body Business Interest Register May 2019

Local Governing Body Business Interest Register October 2019

Governing Body Attendance 2019

Governing Body Attendance 2018 – 2019

See the Policy page for a range of supportive documents to the running of the school

Making contact

The governors welcome contact with those wishing to know more about what we do, to comment or ask a question. Please feel free to approach us or ask via the school to make contact with one of us. We also aim to keep you up-to-date with how the school is doing and our work to meet our main functions. We will update you through: