Our Governors

WELCOME FROM CRANMORE GOVERNING BODY

We work to ensure our school delivers the highest quality education for your children. The governors are responsible and accountable for ensuring that the school carries out its statutory duties under the law. We ensure that the leadership and management of the school have appropriate plans and resources in place to deliver a high quality and effective learning experience for all the children at Cranmore Infant School, whatever their ages and ability, so that every child can achieve his or her full potential.

The Governing Body also acts as a ‘critical friend’, monitoring performance and attainment, managing the budgets and overseeing the maintenance of the premises, to ensure that the school is always providing an effective education.

As governors, we take our safeguarding responsibilities very seriously. We ensure that we all read appropriate documents and we ensure that safeguarding remains a constant feature of our agendas and that we can support and challenge school leaders in their work.

We have designated Governors for Safeguarding, Inclusion, curriculum areas, as well key areas of the schools improvement plan.

All governors undertake training. This can be on a group or individual basis, including ‘Introduction to Governors’, ‘Safeguarding’ and ‘Safer Recruitment’ and specific areas determined by their role in school.

OUR ROLE AT CRANMORE

Full Governors’ meetings are held at least once every half term, incorporating the following items:

Resources – This includes monitoring and evaluating the utilisation of all physical, financial and human resources. We look at best value for money and ensure that the school is sufficiently resourced to implement all aspects of the School Improvement Plan. We oversee and scrutinise budgets for Pupil Premium and Sports Premium. We also ensure our school site is fit for purpose and all areas of health and safety are addressed.
Teaching and Learning Standards – This includes monitoring and evaluating the standards of teaching and learning and the impact that this makes on children’s achievement and attainment, and how the school ensures that set targets are achieved.
The Governing Body adopts, reviews and monitors a range of policies that govern the operation of the school including health and safety, behaviour, complaints, child protection, curriculum and performance management.
Relevant policies, and others, can be found on this website or alternatively hard copies can be obtained through the school office.

The Governing Body currently consists of eleven members (following re-constitution in 2020)

Governors of the school are drawn from four categories laid down by Central Government, as shown below (with number of governors in each category):

Staff Governors (including Head Teacher) x 2
Co-opted Governors x 4
Local Authority Appointees x 1
Parents of pupils at the school x 2

Name	Governor Type	Date of Appointment	Governor Linked Responsibility
Natalie Steele Chairperson click to email	Co-Opted	Re-elected 4/02/2025	Literacy, PSD, School Council, Safeguarding, LAC, Health & Safety, PE (Incl Sports Funding) GDPR
Becky Ward Head click to email	Ex-officio	N/A
Holly Dennis Vice-Chairperson	Co-Opted	Re-elected 15/05/22	EYFS, Little Acorns, Inclusion, Pupil Premium, Science
Vacant	Local Authority
Shabir Sheen	Staff	11/12/23
Julie Carter	Co-Opted	01/11/22	Numeracy, BLP, Art/D&T
Emma Talibudeen	Parent	15/02/2022	Computing (ICT), Music	Carol Baker
Kulsum Burhani	Parent	15/02/2022	RE, Geography & History
Becky Cash	Co-Opted	11/12/23
Debbie McCulloch	Clerk	4/2/25

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