Welcome to the Governors Information page!

The documents below give information about our Governing Body.
If you are interested in finding out what the role of parent representative governor entails, you may find the document below; entitled 'Being a Governor', quite useful.

Being a Governor.

What is the role of a Governing Body?

·         Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction;

·         Holding the Headteacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils,               and the performance management of staff; and

·         Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent.

What is the role of a Governor?

To ask the right questions, such as:

1. Which groups of pupils are the highest and lowest performing, and why?

2. Do you have credible plans for addressing under-performance or less than expected progress? How will we know that things are improving?

3. Which year groups or subjects get the best and worst results and why? \how doses this relate to the quality of teaching in the school? What is your strategy for improving the areas of weakest performance?

4. How are you going to raise standards for all children, including the most and least able, those with special educational needs, those receiving free school meals, boys and girls, those of a particular ethnicity, and any who are currently underachieving? How will we know if your approach is working?

5. Do we have the right staff and the right development and reward arrangements?

6. What is the school’s approach to implementation of pay reform and performance related pay? If appropriate, is it compliant with the most up to date version of the School Teachers Pay and Conditions Document?

7. Is this a happy school with a positive learning culture? What is our track record on attendance, behaviour and bullying? Are safeguarding procedures securely in place? What are you doing to address any current issues, and how we will know if it is working?

8. How good is our wider offer to pupils? Is the school offering a good range of sports, arts and voluntary activities? Is the school food healthy and popular?

9. Do we listen to what pupils and parents are telling us?

What does being a Governor involve?

·         Two full Governing Body (FGB) meetings a term, including reading papers beforehand

·         Involvement in one or more sub-committees

·         Linking to a particular curriculum are or other area of activity

·         Visiting the school to observe lessons and talk to staff and children

·         Undertaking relevant training

·         Supporting school activities

What does being a Governor not involve?

·         Being an education specialist – just an interest in teaching and learning in its widest sense.

·         Raising personal ‘hobby-horses’ or your own child-related issues – ‘Hobby-horses’ have no place and your child-related issues should be discussed with their teacher.

·         Being a spokesperson or lobbyist for parents – you’re not required to represent the views of every other parent, just to share your perspective as a parent in the discussions and decisions.

·         Sharing the ‘insider’ story – there are some items on the agenda within the confidential section which might affect a pupil or staff member and must remain confidential. The general minutes are publicly available

St Stephen’s Church of England Primary School

GOVERNING BODY STRUCTURE 22/23

Reconstituted: 04/03/2015

12 governor places

Headteacher 1

Staff 1

Appointed by the London Borough of Lewisham 1

Elected parents of pupils attending the school 2

Foundation 7

COMMITTEE STRUCTURE

Strategic

Finance and personnel

Curriculum and Achievement

Children Family and Community

Admissions

Premises

Pupil Discipline Committee / Staff Discipline Committee / Staff Discipline Appeal Committee / Pay Appeal Committee / Complaints Committee

These committees meet as and when required, with a minimum of three eligible governors to be drawn from a pool of all members of the Governing Body, subject to availability and with regard to any declared conflicts of interest. 

Clerk to the Governing Body:  Gail Hutcheon gail.hutcheon@lewisham.gov.uk

St Stephen’s C. of E. Primary School Governing Body 2022/23

Governors’ details (for each governor who has served at any point over the past 12 months)

All governors are members of the Curriculum & Achievement committee.       * All committees except Children, Family and Community, and Faith Team

GOVERNORS’ ATTENDANCE AT MEETINGS 2021/22

✔ = present, A = apologies sent and accepted, --- = not applicable

* Not quorate

** No meeting due to lack of quorum

*** Only meets once per year

ST STEPHEN’S CE PRIMARY SCHOOL

GOVERNING BODY

(Reconstituted 4 March 2015)

GOVERNING BODY MEMBERSHIP:                12 governors

CATEGORIES OF GOVERNOR:                       Headteacher

Staff (1)

LA Nominated (1)

Parent Elected (2)

Foundation (7)

CHAIR OF GOVERNORS:                                  Philip Ratcliff

CLERK TO GOVERNORS:                                 Gail Hutcheon

STANDING COMMITTEES:                                Strategic

Finance and Personnel

Curriculum and Achievement

Children Family and Community

Admissions

Premises

STATUTORY COMMITTEES:                           

Statutory Committees include the Pupil Discipline, Staff Discipline, Pay Appeals and Parent Complaints. These committees meet as and when required, with a minimum of three eligible governors to be drawn from a pool of all members of the Governing Body subject to availability and with regard to any declared conflicts of interest.

Governors’ details 2021 - 22

All governors are members of the Curriculum & Achievement committee

* All committees except Children, Family and Community, and Faith Team

GOVERNORS’ ATTENDANCE AT MEETINGS 2020/21

ü = present, A = apologies sent and accepted, --- = not applicable

Governors Register of Interests

As a school we are required to publish the register of interests for governors of our school on our website.

All other Governors have signed to state that they have no interest to declare.