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 Geraldine Hewison; if you wish to contact her please speak with the school office who can pass on the relevant information. 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 appointed	Term of office	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 (2017-18)
Geraldine Hewison	Co-opted	30/09/1996	Four years	Governors	N/A	Resource Mng Curriculum and Standards	Chair of Governors SEND Safeguarding and Child Protection HT Performance Mng Teacher pay committee	x	7 meetings
Darren Clews	Staff	03/09/2012	Four years	Staff	N/A	Resource Mng Curriculum and Standards	N/A	Governor at Foxford Secondary School	13 meetings
Jaclyn Graham	Staff	05/12/2012	Four years	Staff	N/A	Resource Mng	Maths monitoring	x	4 meetings
Andy Walmsley	Co-opted	27/02/2013	Four years	Governors	N/A	N/A	Attendance E-Safety Finance Pupil Premium+Sports Funding Staff appeals	Governor at Foxford Secondary School and Henley college	2 meetings
Ruth Williamson	Co-opted	18/11/2004	Four years	Governors	N/A	N/A	N/A	Governor at Foxford Secondary School	3 meetings
Cat Flowers	Co-opted	11/12/2014	Four years	Governors	N/A	Resource Mng	Health and Safety Premium+Sports Funding Staff appeals	School business manager in another school	5 meetings
James Okore Ombudo	Co-opted	24/09/2015	Four years	Governors	N/A	Resource Mng Curriculum and Standards	Co-Vice Chair of Governing Body Chair of Resource Mng HT Performance Mng Teacher pay committee	x	15 meetings
Richard Bohdanowitsch	Parent	23/11/2015	Four years	Parents	N/A	Resource Mng	English monitoring	Spouse if a Teaching Assistant in school	5 meetings
Chris Connoll	Co-opted	17/12/2015	Four years	Governors	N/A	Resource Mng	Co-Vice Chair of Governing Body Chair of Resource Mng Health and Safety	x	13 meetings
Rajbir Bajwa	Co-opted	09/02/2017	Four years	Governors	N/A	Resource Mng Curriculum and Standards	HT Performance Mng	x	8 meetings
Sue Riley	Co-opted	01/12/2016	Four years	Governors	15/02/2018	N/A	x	x	0 meetings
Sarabjit Pooni	Parent	13/11/2008	Four years	Parents	31/08/2018	Curriculum and Standards	Vice Chair of Governors Staff appeals	x	5 meetings

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