GOVERNORS / meet the Governors

The Role of the Governing Body

The Governing Body of any school is in place to provide both support and challenge the leadership team in the way the school is led and managed and to provide the best possible education to every pupil in the school - our Governing Body is no exception.

About the Governors

We are a team with a wide range of personal and professional skills, expertise and experience. The Governing Body provide strategic leadership for the school and have a general responsibility for the effective management of the school. We strive to be a diverse and committed team of parents, community members and staff representatives.

What are the Governors here to do?

The 3 core functions of our Governing Body are:

➢ Setting the school vision (see bottom left).

➢ Holding the Head Teacher to account for the school's educational performance.

➢ Ensuring our money is well spent.

We have 6 full governing body meetings per year which include responsibility for teaching and learning and pupil support.  

Responsible for teaching and learning matters including target setting, standards and achievement, SEN (including reporting annually on the success of the SEN policy),  monitoring teaching and learning and curriculum provision and ensuring that the governing board is represented at school improvement discussions, behaviour, safeguarding, attendance, children’s spiritual moral social and cultural development, children, parent and staff voice, extra-curricular activities, cluster and other partnerships.

Our Chair of Governors is Mr Phil Dick

Phil grew up in a difficult area of the North East of England before studying at Loughborough University, from where he graduated in Business Administration and French, before undertaking a long career in the insurance sector. He also has qualifications in Behavioural Science and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Insurers. His career took him to work in Chester, Liverpool, Melbourne, Manchester and Madrid before moving to Surrey when he worked in the City of London. During his career he was Director of Human Resources in a British, an American and a Japanese insurance company as well as being Managing Director of companies when working in Spain.

He is married with three adult children and is a keen armchair sports fan, continuing to follow the fortunes of Sunderland Football Club, which he has supported for over fifty years, and enjoys watching rugby and cricket as well as playing golf. When bored he loves to bake cakes etc, though his wife restricts this passion as he likes to eat them too (much)!! His own experience has shown him how education and learning open opportunities and he is passionate about ensuring children are given opportunities to develop and learn and encouraged to achieve.

Local Governing Committee 2023-24 

Governors are appointed for a term of 4 years, they are: