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Governors

Welcome to the Governors section of the school website.

Every school has a governing board which represents the interests of the children, local community and wider public in the running of the school. School governors work with the staff and the Local Education Authority to help secure the best possible education for the children in the school.

The Grangehurst's governing board consists of 14 members and is made up of Parent Governors, Local Authority Governors, Staff Governors and Co-opted Governors. This ensures that the governing board has sufficient diversity of views and experience to be both a supportive and questioning friend.

Our Chair of Governors is Mrs Ruth Williamson; if you wish to contact her please speak with the school office who can pass on the relevant information. Alternatively please write to:

Mrs Ruth Williamson

Chair of Governors

c/o Grangehurst Primary School

Anderton Road

Coventry

West Midlands

CV6 6JN

All members of the current governing body can be seen below.

There are two subcommittees: Curriculum and Standards and Resource Management. Each sub committee meets once per half term and feeds information into the Full Governing Body that meets once a term.

All governors are welcome and encouraged to participate in all or some of the committees.

The committees discuss and question areas of the school management such as staffing, finance, curriculum and premises.

There are three core functions of a governing body as reflected in OFSTED's inspection handbook:

Setting vision, ethos and strategic direction, engaging stakeholders, and ensuring statutory duties are met.
Holding heads to account for teaching, achievement, behaviour and safety; challenging and strengthening leadership; contributing to school evaluation.
Ensuring financial solvency and probity with effective management of financial resources, including the Pupil Premium, to raise standards.

Name	Governor type	Date first appointed	Term of office (End date of current term)	Appointed by	Date stepped down (if applicable)	Committee(s) membership	Responsibility	Details of any conflicting interest e.g. business/work, relationships, governor of another school	Attendance at Full Governor and Committee meetings over last academic year (2019-20)
Ruth Williamson	Local authority	18/11/2004	Four years (04/12/23)	Local authority	N/A	Resource Mng Curriculum and Standards	Chair of Governors HT Performance Mng Teacher pay committee	None	4/4 meetings
Geraldine Hewison	Co-opted	30/09/1996	Four years (04/06/22)	Governors	N/A	Resource Mng Curriculum and Standards	SEND Safeguarding and Child Protection E-Safety Attendance	None	8/12 meetings
Darren Clews	Staff (Ex-Officio)	03/09/2012	Four years (N/A)	N/A	N/A	Resource Mng Curriculum and Standards	N/A	Governor at Foxford Secondary School IEB Member Coventry Hospital Education Service	12/12 meetings
Cat Grantham	Co-opted	11/12/2014	Four years (10/12/22)	Governors	N/A	Resource Mng	COVID Pupil Premium Sports Premium	School Business Manager in another Primary School	7/9 meetings
James Okore Ombudo	Co-opted	24/09/2015	Four years (23/09/23)	Governors	N/A	Resource Mng Curriculum and Standards	Co-Vice Chair of Governing Body Chair of Curriculum & Standards HT Performance Mng Teacher pay committee Maths monitoring	None	11/12 meetings
Richard Bohdanowitsch	Co-opted	23/11/2015	Four years (04/12/23)	Governors	N/A	Curriculum and Standards	English monitoring	Spouse of a Higher Level Learning Facilitator in the school	6/8 meetings
Chris Connoll	Co-opted	17/12/2015	Four years (16/12/23)	Governors	N/A	Resource Mng	Co-Vice Chair of Governing Body Chair of Resource Mng HT Performance Mng Teacher pay committee Health and Safety Finance	IT Network Manager in a Local Secondary School	8/12 meetings
Rajbir Bajwa	Co-opted	09/02/2017	Four years (08/02/21)	Governors	N/A	Resource Mng Curriculum and Standards	N/A	None	1/12 meetings
Sarah Brown	Parent	11/01/2019	Four years (10/01/23)	Parents	N/A	Resource Mng Curriculum and Standards	N/A	None	11/12 meetings
Lisa Shelton	Co-opted	05/12/19	Four years (04/12/23)	Governors	N/A	TBC	TBC	None	5/8 meetings
Jonathan Poole	Parent	19/12/20	Four years (18/12/23)	Parents	N/A	TBC	GDPR	None	6/7 meetings
Nicky Nelson	Staff	14/02/20	Four years (13/02/24)	Staff	N/A	TBC	TBC	None	1/3 meetings
Virginia Gill	Co-opted	11/06/20	Four years (10/06/20)	Governors	N/A	TBC	TBC	None	4/4 meetings
Jaclyn Graham	Staff	05/12/2012	Four years	Staff	31/10/19	Resource Mng	Health and Safety	None	1/2 meetings