Governors

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.

Judy Hales - Chair of Governors, Foundation Governor, RD Charity Trustee

Term of Office Ends: December 2023

Responsibility:  Child Protection & Safeguarding, Online Safety, Prevent, English

Interest Affecting School - None

Interest in Other Educational Establishment - None

Financial Interest Affecting School - None

Material Interest Between Another Governor and Staff - None

Catherine Hodgson - Head Teacher

Term of Office Ends: Governor since 2005, continues whilst employed as Head

Interest Affecting School - None

Interest in Other Educational Establishment - None

Financial Interest Affecting School - None

Material Interest Between Another Governor and Staff - None

Carl Culshaw - Co-opted Governor 

Term of Office Ends: February 2023

Responsibilities: Computing, E-safety, PE

Interest Affecting School - None

Interest in Other Educational Establishment - None

Financial Interest Affecting School - None

Material Interest Between Another Governor and Staff - None

Simon Malcolm - Co-opted Governor

Term of Office Ends: October 2025

Responsibilities: Heath & Safety, Premises, Science

Interest Affecting School - None

Interest in Other Educational Establishment - None

Financial Interest Affecting School - None

Material Interest Between Another Governor and Staff - None

Sarah Bowey - Staff Governor

Term of Office Ends: November 2025

Responsibility:  Art & DT, GDPR

Interest Affecting School - None

Interest in Other Educational Establishment - None

Financial Interest Affecting School - None

Material Interest Between Another Governor and Staff - None

Kath Miller - Foundation Governor

Term of Office Ends: February 2026

Responsibility:  Wellbeing, EYFS

Interest Affecting School - None

Interest in Other Educational Establishment - None

Financial Interest Affecting School - None

Material Interest Between Another Governor and Staff - None

Claire Fiddler - Parent Governor

Term of Office Ends - October 2025

Responsibilities - Finance & Staffing, Languages & Music

Interests Affecting the School - Uniform Supplier

Interest in Other Educational Establishments - None

Financial Interest Affecting School - None

Material Interest Between Another Governor and Staff - None

Mark Dickson - Parent Governor

Responsibilities - History & Geography, Link Training, GDPR & Benchmarking

Term of Office Ends - October 2025

Interests Affecting the School - None

Interest in Other Educational Establishments - None

Financial Interest Affecting School - None

Material Interest Between Another Governor and Staff - None

Finance Information

Please see link to the webpage that is dedicated to our school for the Schools Financial Benchmarking Service.  Please just follow the prompts to find school's specific page.

 https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/school/detail?urn=119409  

INFORMATION ABOUT GOVERNORS

All governors can be contacted via school

LIST OF GOVERNORS, correct as of September 2021, all to serve a 4 year term of office

FULL GOVERNING BOARD MEETINGS, normally meet half termly, i.e six times a year unless needed more frequently. Our governing body structure changed in 2019/20 from termly full governors meetings and separate committee meetings (Finance/Curriculum/Health & Safety etc) to involve all governors more fully in all aspects of governance.

Attendance since the change –

Judy Hales 3/3

Rachel Leach 2/3

Catherine Hodgson 3/3

Sarah Bowey 3/3

Kath Miller 2/3

Simon Malcolm 3/3

David Ensor 2/3

John Clare 3/3

Sharon Cook 3/3

Carl Culshaw 2/3

Apologies were sent, and accepted, by those who missed meetings.