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:

Welfare of children and families (committee)
Finance and personnel (committee)
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 Co-opted Governor	Chair of Governors Finance and personnel, Pupil Premium, Head teacher performance management. Education Standards and Improvements.	Via school at 01935 850345
Simon Peck	Co-opted Community	Education, Standards and Improvement.	Via school at 01935 850345
Martyn Lewry	Staff – teaching	Education, Standards and Improvement.	Via school at 01935 850345
Lucy Jones	Parent	Vice Chair Health & Safety, Safeguarding Education Standards and Improvements.	Via school at 01935 850345
Maria Butterfield	Parent	SEND Education Standards and Improvements.	Via school at 01935 850345

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

Governor attachments were agreed at the March 2017 meeting and is as follows:

EYFS: TBC
Reception: Lucy Jones
Year 1: TBC
Year 2/3: TBC
Year 3/4: Simon Peck
Year 4/5: TBC
Year 6: TBC

Supporting documents

Instruments, orders, policies and procedures for the operation of Countess Gytha Primary School Governing Body and terms of office dates

Governor Visits to School Policy

Governing Body Business Interest Register 2018 – 2019_October 2019

Governing Body Attendance 2018 – 2019

Governing Body Attendance Sept 2017 – 2018

Governing Body Attendance 2016 – 2017

Governing Body Attendance 2015- 2016

Governing Body Attendance 2014 – 2015

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: