Governors - Brocks Hill Primary School

Governors

The purpose of governance is to provide confident and strong strategic leadership which leads to robust accountability, oversight and assurance for educational and financial performance. Governance has three core functions:

Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction;
Holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils, and the effective and efficient performance management of staff; and
Overseeing the financial performance of the organisation and ensuring value for money

Within a multi-academy trust such as Lionheart, governance is led by the Trust Board, with some responsibilities delegated to both the Local Governing Body of the individual schools and Operations Governing body across all of the schools.

Further Trust and governance information including the annual accounts can be by clicking here.

Brocks Hill Primary School has a Local Governing Body. Contact the governing body via the Chair of Governors:

Diane Miller

Chair of Governors

Brocks Hill Primary School Local Governing Body

Local Governing Body Details 2020 - 2021
Name	Governor Type	Date of Appointment (for 4 years)	Key Responsibilities	Skills	Attendance at LGB & Committee Meetings 2019 - 20
Diane Miller	Community	01.08.2017	Chair Education & Data Pupil Premium Safeguarding	Primary Education – retired Headteacher. Governance – Primary & Secondary Charity volunteer and liaison on NHS East Midlands	4/4
Michelle Walton	Ex-Officio	01.09.2019	Executive Headteacher	Well-being, health and sport.	4/4
Cathryn Shilling	Ex-Officio	26.06.2020	Head of School	EYFS	N/A
Kate Quirk	Staff	10.09.2019	Staff Voice Humanities	PhD Primary Teacher Grant writing Fund raising Governance	2/2
Deepa Odedra	Staff	13.11.2019	Pupil Voice EYFS	LSA SEND	3/4
Dheeraj Bhasin	Community	14.01.2019 Resigned 10.02.2021	Vice Chair Computing D & T Lionheart Award	Pilot & Trainer	2/4
Jas Bola	Parent	02.03.2017	Finance EAL Music	Solicitor	4/4
Saima Ahsan	Community	26.02.2020	Parent Voice EYFS Science	Secondary Teacher Science Parent Liaison	4/4
Jonathan Bill	Community	15.12.2017	Business Maths PE	Dentist. Business owner	3/4
Jo Lockley	Parent	16.05.2017	SMSC & British Values English Wellbeing	Teacher SEMH team at the LA	4/4
Chris Swan	Ex-Officio	16.09.20	LAT Governance Professional	Education Governance Strategy	N/A
Shanta SinhaRoy	Community	26.05.2021			N/A

Previous Governors 2019 - 2020

Name	Governor Type	Appointment Date	Resignation Date	Attendance at LGB Meetings 2019 - 20
Michael Kent	Community	30.09.2019	25.11.2019	0/1
Chris Swan	Community	27.01.2019	31.08.2020	4/4
Harriet Pugsley	Community	15.10.2016	29.01.2020	1/2
John Sugden	Community	23.06.2018	17.06.2020	1/4
June Kendell	Community	23.06.2018	10.09.2019	1/1
Darren Schofield	Ex-Officio	01.09.2019	31.08.2020	4/4

Contact & Info

Diane Miller

Chair of Governors

diane.miller@lionhearttrust.org.uk

and

Nicola Tyers

Clerk to Governors

clerknt@lionhearttrust.org.uk

Trust Organisation

Scheme of Delegation

The Trust operates under a Scheme of Delegation agreed by the Board.

Trust Governance across all layers

Trust Board	Vision and ethos \| Strategic direction \| Risks and Opportunities Finance \| Overall responsibility
Operations Governing Body (OGB)	HR \| Estates \| IT \| Marketing & Communications \| Enterprise \| Operations \| Business
Local Governing Bodies (LGB)	Teaching & Learning \| Pupil & Parent & Staff experience \| Safeguarding \| Business & Community links	Each school

Trust Board

Vision and ethos | Strategic direction | Risks and Opportunities

Finance | Overall responsibility

Operations Governing Body (OGB)

Local Governing Bodies (LGB)

Teaching & Learning | Pupil & Parent & Staff experience | Safeguarding | Business & Community links

Each school

Trust Board

The Trust Board has overall responsibility for all governance in the trust and carries the final accountability for this. The focus of the Board is on the big picture, working with the trust Executive Team to set the overall vision for the trust, lead strategically and identify and respond to risks and opportunities.

Operations Governing Body

The Operations Governing Body is made up of trustees, governors and community governors with specific skills, experience and insights linked to the operations work of the trust.

Local Governing Bodies

Each school has a Local Governing Body, which holds the school to account for the quality of teaching and learning, the experience of pupils, parents and staff, the processes to ensure safeguarding, and informal links with the local community and businesses. LGBs ensure that school leaders are mindful of the school’s context and work within the overall vision of Lionheart Academies Trust.

Members

The Members of a trust are not involved in the practical running of the organisation and do not take part in governing body or Board meetings, except as occasional observers. Their role is to ensure that the Board keeps its core priorities at the centre of its work – providing education for children and young people – and retains its stated ethos and values.

Members appoint some of the trustees and, in exceptional circumstances, can remove trustees who they have appointed.

Local Governing Body: Roles and Responsibilities of LGB Governors

Membership	Meetings	Key roles	Attending
2 Parent Governors 1 Staff governor Head Executive Head (where appropriate) 5-8 community governors	LGB meetings 4 meetings per year in line with data snapshots No committees Working parties as needed Trust Finance meetings 3 per year, attended by Finance Governor, Head and finance lead, CEO and CFO (or their representative).	Business links & careers Community Links Education & Data Finance & grants - Sports Premiu, Catch Up Parent Voice Pupil Premium Pupil Voice Safeguarding SEND & Looked After Children SMSC & British Values Wellbeing – staff and pupils EYFS (Primary) 6^th form (if relevant) Senior leadership team Occasionally and where appropriate: CEO, trustees	Senior leadership team Occasionally and where appropriate: CEO, trustees
			Performance Management & Pay
			Pay Committee – agree pay on recommendation from Head following moderation by trust leadership – one autumn meeting Performance management of Head by CEO, external advisor, Chair of LGB & Chair of Trust
Holding the school to account for standards:	Pupil, Parent & Community	Compliance	Ambassadors & Vision
Receive reports on: Development Plan updates End of year results analysis Data snapshots & KPIs including vulnerable groups, more able etc. Information comparing school to national data External quality assurance reports Pupil Premium impact reports Primary Sports Funding impact reports Catch up funding impact reports Attendance & Behaviour Wellbeing support First hand knowledge: Learning walks linked to Development Plan priorities, mainly as part of trust reviews Annual learning walk to audit safeguarding Annual SEND learning walk Governor links to key subjects Ofsted: Meet with Ofsted to discuss governance in this school, along wit trustee representative	Stakeholder voice: Parent forums & PTAs School Council Community networking Pupil experience: Curriculum offer Enrichment – curriculum and before/after school clubs etc. Support school in ensuring curriculum and pupil offer match the context of the school’s community Parents as co-educators – hold school to account for: Communication with parents Parent workshops re. curriculum, esafety, etc. Complaints: Carry out Stage 3 complaints process (meeting with Chair or another governor)	Risk: Receive and question risk register Escalate concerns to Board Compliance – hold school to account for: Safeguarding & Prevent British Values Equality Exclusions: Monitor exclusions, behaviour partnership arrangements Receive representations from parents in relation to exclusions Local policies: Agree local policies	Ambassadors: Hold school to account for PR, marketing, pupil recruitment Act as ambassadors for the school Act as ambassadors for the Trust Build positive relationship with PTA Build networks with stakeholders and alumni to benefit the school and build a benevolent community Build networks with businesses & useful community/education providers Encourage school to engage in appropriate fundraising activities and enterprise Vision & ethos: Ensure the vision for the school matches the community context, within the wider Trust vision Holding the school to account for a positive, aspirational ethos

Governors Contact

Nicola Tyers

Clerk to the Governors

clerknt@lionhearttrust.org.uk