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.
Rachel Leach - Chair of Governors - Co-opted Governor
Term of Office Ends: February 2025
Responsibilities: Curriculum, Able and Pupil Premium, Maths
Interest Affecting School - None
Interest in Other Educational Establishment - None
Financial Interest Affecting School - None
Material Interest Between Another Governor and Staff - None
Judy Hales - Vice 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 2022
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 2022
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
Business Interests
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.