Governance Information
Welcome to the Governors information
at
Featherstone Primary and Nursery School
Governing Board Priorities
2023 -2024
Priority One: Attendance
- Support the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) in developing and fostering a sense of whole school Collective responsibility.
- Support and monitor SLT Home visits to assess effectiveness and reduction in absences.
- Seek feedback from Attendance officer/Phase Leader/HT regarding Parent meetings, Attendance contracts and SEN/Vulnerable weekly monitoring and welfare checks.
Priority Two: Safeguarding & Wellbeing/Welfare
- Ensure there are strategies and interventions in place to promote the safety, wellbeing, overall welfare of our pupils (i.e. policies and regular monitoring of implementation of policies).
- Ensure that resources are targeted toward SEN/vulnerable and disadvantaged pupils, ensuring we promote an inclusive culture.
- Support School Leaders in endeavours to promote personal development of pupils, including review and monitoring of Zones of Regulation (ZOR). The use and effectiveness of the ZOR’s.
Priority Three: Oracy, Quality Teaching and Learning
- Support the implementation of an Oracy rich curriculum and environment, by carrying out monitoring visits, assess planning and teaching strategies.
- Ensure that disadvantaged pupils** make good progress and achieve positive outcomes across all subjects through inclusive planning and teaching.
- Ensure that all teachers have access to high quality and relevant Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to ensure we offer high quality teaching to our pupils and maintain high standards of teaching and learning.
- Ensure the new Teaching and Learning Policy is embedded and all teaching staff have received effective training to implement.
- Ensure that standards achieved by pupils are regularly monitored (attainment) in accordance with achievements over a period of time (their progress). This is monitored via regular internal and external assessment and tracking data, across all subjects through inclusive planning and teaching.
Priority Four: Finance
- Monitor and scrutinise the budget, updates 6 times per year from the School Business Manager in relation to forecast income and spending.
- Identify and select or recommend financial steps most likely to achieve the School Development Priorities (SDP).
- Monitor the effectiveness of financial procedures and controls.
- Monitor and scrutinise budget allocation and spend for disadvantaged pupils to ensure budget promotes the removal of barriers to learning.
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Maintain & Monitor
- Ensure that disadvantaged pupils** make good progress and achieve positive outcomes across all subjects through inclusive planning and teaching strategies (JS)
- 2017 Ofsted Objectives*
- The proportion of pupils achieving the standards in science is in line with the national figures at key stages 1 and 2 (TA/MK)
- Accelerate pupils’ progress in writing by ensuring that they improve their skills by writing at length in English and across other subjects (SK)
- Develop the assessment systems for tracking the progress of pupils in the foundation subjects such that they are as good as in other subjects (GC)
- The most able pupils are given challenging tasks earlier on in the lesson, rather than sometimes having to wait (– accelerating the progress of all pupils, especially higher attainers) (DL)
* Ofsted objectives from 22.06.17 inspection
** Disadvantaged pupils: This includes pupils with SEND; pupils who meet the criteria for the school to receive pupil premium funding; looked after children (children in local authority care) and/or children who left care through adoption or another formal route.51 In addition, it includes children in need of help and protection, receiving statutory local authority support from a social worker; lowest 20% of attainers
| TYPE OF GOVERNOR | NAME | COMMITTEE | TERM OF OFFICE | Business and Pecuniary Interests | Governance role at other schools |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Head Teacher | Mr Des Lee | HEADTEACHER | Appointed September 2015 - | No Interests Declared | |
Chair of Governors Co-opted | Mrs Savita Sohal
First Appointed 23.05.2014 | BEHAVIOUR WELLBEING & LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE INCLUSION (EAL & PUPIL PREMIUM). INCLUSION QUALITY MARK. RACE AND EQUALITY. | 19th July 2022 - 18th July 2026 | No Interests Declared | |
| Co-opted | Mr Noor Ali First Appointed 11.11.2014 | TEACHING & LEARNING COMITTEE PUPIL ATTENDANCE, | 11th December 2018 – 10th Dec 2022 | No Interests Declared | |
| Local Authority | Cllr Jasbir Anand
First Appointed 28.05.1998 | BEHAVIOUR WELLBEING & LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE
| 1st May 2019 – 30th April 2023
New Application currently with the LA | No Interests Declared | |
| Co-opted | Miss Jacqueline Clarke | Term of Office Ended 17th July 2023 | |||
| Staff | Mr Graham Cooksey
First Appointed 22.11.2012 | TEACHING & LEARNING COMMITTEE | 26th November 2020 - 25th November 2024 | Married to Mrs Annette Cooksey - Nursery Nurse, Featherstone Primary School | |
| Parent Governor - VICE CHAIR 2023 -2024 |
Mr Jasbir Singh
First Appointed 03.11.2022 | FINANCE & GENERAL PURPOSE & PAY COMMITTEE (VICE CHAIR) BEHAVIOUR WELLBEING & LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE (CHAIR) SUBJECT LINK: PUPIL WELLBEING,BEHAVIOUR & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT STAFF WELLBEING & ABSENCE | 3rd November 2022 - 2nd November 2026 | No Interests Declared | |
| Parent Governor | Mrs Satty Kundi -Clifford | Term of Office ended 31st October 2022 | |||
| Parent Governor | Mrs Mamta Verma | Term of Office ended 19th June 2023 | |||
| Co-opted | Mrs Iram Woolley
First Appointed 05.05.2019
| TEACHING & LEARNING COMMITTEE FINANCE & GENERAL PURPOSE & PAY COMMITTEE SUBJECT LINK: ORACY PUPIL VOICE/RIGHTS
| 2nd May 2019 - 1st May 2023 | Member of the Labour Party (CLP) Constituency Labour Party | |
| Co-opted | Ms Christine Mayo
First Appointed 14.07.2015 | HEADTEACHER APPRAISAL PUPIL/STAFF DISCIPLINARY APPEALS PANEL SEND. FINANCE. HIGH QUALITY FIRST PLANNING AND TEACHING.
| 14th July 2019 – 13th July 2023 | No Interests Declared | |
| Co-opted |
Mr Henry Stemplewksi First Appointed 13.07.2021 | TEACHING & LEARNING COMMITTEE SUBJECT LINK: CURRICULUM. ORACY. | 13th July 2021- 12th July 2025 | No Interests Declared | |
| Co-opted |
Mr Mark Silva
First Appointed 01.02.2024 | BEHAVIOUR WELLBEING AND LEADERSHP COMMITTEE SUBJECT LINK: BEHAVIOUR & RELATIONSHIPS | 1st February 2024 - 31st January 2028 | ||
| Parent | Mrs Sivadevi Kugananthan
First Appointed 30.06.2023 | BEHAVIOUR WELLBEING AND LEADERSHP COMMITTEE SUBJECT LINK: READING & PHONICS. | 30th June 2023 - 29th June 2028 | Works in school as SMSA & volunteers in Nursery I am doing NCFE CACHE Supporting Teaching and Learning at school. So, I am volunteering at this school to fulfil the practical requirement of the course. | |
| Clerk to Governors | Miss Sylvia Procter | 3rd November 2014 - | PA to Headteacher Featherstone Primary |
