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 6
Local Authority Appointees x 1
Parents of pupils at the school x 2

Governor Name	Subject Responsibility	Teacher Responsibility
Natalie Steele Chairperson click to email	Safeguarding, LAC	Rebecca Ward Head Teacher
Natalie Steele	Health & Safety	Rebecca Ward
Holly Dennis	Inclusion (SEND, AG&T, EAL), Pupil Premium,	Hannah Watkins
Holly Dennis	EYFS and Little Acorns	Paula Whittle
Natalie Steele	Literacy (Reading & Writing)	Stacey Witts Shauna Flannery
Julie Carter	Numeracy	Lisa Cleary
Natalie Steele	PE, incl Sports Funding	Helen Williams
Julie Carter	Science, incl Eco-Schools	Abigail Roberts
Annette Whitehouse	RE	Sarah Murray
Kulsum Burhani	Geography & History	Jo Jennings
Annette Whitehouse	PSD/ School Council	Jo Jennings
Emma Talibudeen	Computing/Digital technology/ICT	Carol Baker
Emma Talibudeen	Music	Carol Baker
Becky Cash	Art / D&T	Shauna Flannery
All Governors	Spiritual, Moral, Social, Cultural & British Values
	Behaviour
	BLP
	Parental & Governor engagement
	Well- Being

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