Governors
Welcome to our school, proudly part of The Leaf Trust, a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT). A MAT is a group of academies working together under a single Trust Board to share resources and expertise and improve educational outcomes.
The Trust Board oversees the strategic direction and decision-making. Then local School Governance Boards are given a designated scheme of delegation outlining their local responsibilities and providing a platform for collaboration and local input. Through this robust governance framework, we uphold transparency, integrity, and collective responsibility to drive our organisation’s growth and achievement.
At The Leaf Trust, we hold the values of “Belong, Grow, and Succeed” at the heart of everything we do. We deeply value our community, with each of our schools firmly anchored in their local areas, fostering strong relationships and supported through local governance. Our school governors play a crucial role in championing the educational outcomes for all children, ensuring that the school’s vision and values are upheld and actively pursued.
To maintain a strong local voice, each school’s Governing Board includes two parent representatives and a staff member, as well as at least three trust governors who bring an independent and unbiased experience and voice to the board. This structure enables the whole range of community voice to be heard, importantly including the perspectives and concerns of both families and staff. All of this can then be integrated into the decision-making process. Together, we strive to create an environment where every child can belong, grow, and succeed.
All Governors agree to a Trust Code of Conduct, which ensures they undertake regular relevant training and attend at least 50% of all meetings. The administration of the Board is carried out by the Governance Clerk.
The National Governance Association has helpful video information about becoming a Governor here: NGA – Becoming a Governor
When do we meet?
The full Governing Body meets six times each school year to approve policies, receive reports from each Committee, review the progress of the school and, when required, make decisions on its future direction.
In addition Governors attend one of the specialist committees where the groundwork, research and discussion on key issues occurs.
The Governing Body has registered its interests, which includes relevant business interests and relationships between Governors and members of school staff.
Link: Become a governor
Role of the School Governing Forum
Each Leaf school has a School Local Governing Body (LGB) with on average 8 members. Governor positions are either elected (parent and staff roles), or apply to be a local trust wide governor. Every member within the LGB according to their interest or skills has a responsibility to one of the portfolio areas within the Leaf Trust governance structure as a link role representing that school.
An LGB provides a vital role in maintaining the school identity, vision and values. They are essential to the success of a Leaf school as they are responsible for holding the Headteacher and their leadership team to account for the quality and effectiveness of the whole school experience.
The LGB supports and assists the Headteacher to steer the school towards creating a fun and safe learning environment, ensuring that all children have equal opportunities to develop and flourish and to attain or progress to the best of their ability, whilst ensuring compliance, progress to improvement and ready for an OFSTED inspection.
Meeting Dates
TBA
Code of Conduct
Meet the Governors
Download: Meet our Governors
Link Governors
- Safeguarding Link Governor – Neil Thomas
- SEND Link Governor – Michael Lister
- Disadvantage Link Governor – Patrick Bolster
- Health & Safety -Teresa Lloyd
- Behaviour – Neil Thomas
- Writing – Deanna Quirke-Petersson
- Maths – David Pintor Maestre
