Governors

Welcome to the Governors’ section.  Here you will find what the role of the Governing Body is, who the Governors are, their roles and responsibilities, constitution and attendance tables for the past year.

The Role of Governors

The Governing Body, consisting of a team of volunteers, works hard to act as a 'critical friend' for the senior management of the Academy.  It is our role to hold the school to account in its efforts to continue to improve and strategically develop the school.  We ensure that the education of our pupils remains its core focus.

To this end, the Governing Body meets in full twice a term to discuss key strategic issues and ensure it meets its statutory obligations. 

All minutes of Governing Body and Committee meetings are available for parents to view.

Governors generally serve for four years and are provided with lots of opportunities for training mainly through the Kite Academy Trust in areas such as safeguarding, health and safety and the curriculum.

The Governing Body has a responsibility to keep in touch with what is happening in the classroom.  Although their role is strategic, it is important that they have some understanding of the practicalities of the job.  Meeting children, talking to staff and seeing lessons underway help members of the Governing Body to understand some of the issues they are required to discuss and make decisions about with greater clarity.

The Governing Body Constitution requires that the Governing Body of the academy be made up as follows:

• 2 Parent Governors (elected from the Academy parental population)
• 2 Staff Governors elected (includes the Headteacher)
• 4 - 7 Co-opted Governors
• Plus Associate Members which the governing body can appoint if they have a specific skill required and can support the governing body in this way.

The core functions are:

• Ensuring that the vision, ethos and strategic direction of the academy are clearly defined.
• Ensuring that the head teacher performs their responsibilities for the educational performance of the academy.
• Ensuring the sound, proper and effective use of the academy’s financial resources.

In line with this, Ofsted have expanded the criteria used by inspectors, which now include:

How well Governors:

• Contribute to the academy’s self-evaluation and understand its strengths and weaknesses, as well as ensuring they reflect on their own impact on academy's improvement.
• Support and strengthen leadership, including their own development, by attending relevant training and development opportunities.
• Provide challenge and hold the academy to account for improving the quality of teaching, pupils’ achievement and pupils’ behaviour and safety.

In practical terms this means we, as Governors, must ensure we are fully involved with the committees we are on, understand the vision of the academy and ask questions and comment at meetings so that our role in leadership can be evidenced within governing body minutes.  We also attend training courses and use the skills learnt in practical ways to benefit the Academy.

The Governing Body is always seeking new volunteers; if you think that you might be interested in becoming a governor please read the document below and get in touch with the Head Teacher via the Academy Office school@wyke.kite.academy to learn more about the role.

Academy Council Appointments and Roles

Chair - Andy Pennington

Vice-Chair - Ken Beuden 

Portfolio Appointments:

Achievement – Tony Corless
Community – Tracy Palmer-Scott  with Andy Pennington
Curriculum – Sarah Fanthorpe with Sue Higham
Finance – Ken Beuden with Roger Waters-Duke
Safeguarding – Sue Higham with Andy Pennington
 

Constitution of the Governing Body and Committees (Updated  23 July 2019)

Governors who have served on the Governing Body in the previous 12 months but who have now left

(Updated 22 Jul 19)

Attendance at Full Governing Body Meeting September 2018 – July 2019 

Updated July 2019

(Y – in attendance, AA – Apologies Accepted, X – did not attend, N/A – not applicable)