St. Andrew's CofE (aided) Primary School

Governance

What Do Governors Do?

The school’s Christian vision and values inform, shape, and drive the governance of the school, and as Governors we seek to ensure they are the ‘golden thread’ that runs through all of school life.

Governors have a strategic role in guiding and supporting the school’s work and challenging further improvement. They work as a team to fulfil three key roles for the school:

Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction.
Holding the school leadership to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils and the performance management of staff.
Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure is money is well spent.

There are immediate and lasting benefits to becoming a school governor. In volunteering your time, you are making a positive contribution to the success of the school and therefore having an impact on the lives of its pupils, staff and the local community. In addition, the role can help you to develop and evidence skills to support your own working life.

If you are interested in becoming a governor in the future, please contact the Senior Clerk to the Governors: Paul Roberts - clerk@st-andrews.brighton-hove.sch.uk

How Do Governors Work?

St. Andrew’s governors attend six School Governor meetings a year. You should expect to spend no more than ten days a year on duties, largely within school hours/early evenings and term time. There would be a slight increase in time commitment should you take on chairing responsibilities for one of the governing body's committees.

St. Andrew’s has three committees that meet frequently throughout the school year:

Teaching & Learning - Responsible for holding executive leaders to account to educational performance of the organisation and its pupils.
Resources & Finance - Responsible for overseeing the financial performance of the school and ensuring its money is well spent.
Human Resources - Responsible for ensuring the wellbeing of staff and their effective performance management, the safeguarding of our children, and the centrality of equalities across school life

From time to time some Governors may sit on specific panels, including:

Head Teacher appraisals
Admissions - as a church school, the Governing Body is the Admissions Authority, which involves setting admissions arrangements for the school and agreeing admissions applications.

Vacancies

We are currently recruiting for new Governors. Please click HERE for details.

Our Governors

Our current governing body is set out in the table below:

Name	Role	Appointed By	Term of Office	Original Appointment Date	Position
Fran Beckett OBE	Foundation Governor	Diocese	21/03/2022 - 20/03/2026	21/03/2022	Chair of Governors & Chair of HR
Matthew Greenall	Associate Governor	Governing Body	01/09/2022 - 31/08/2023	01/09/2017
Sue Coleman	Local Authority Governor	Local Authority	11/10/2022 - 10/10/2026	11/10/2022
Jill Fairbrother	Associate Member	Governing Body	03/04/2017 - 02/04/2025	03/04/2017
Reverend Dan Henderson	Foundation Governor	Ex-Officio	22/09/2014	22/09/2014	Vice Chair of Governors
Sophie Thomas	Headteacher	Ex-Officio	03/01/2019
Jo Tulloch	Foundation Governor	Diocese	16/05/2022 - 15/05/2026	16/05/2022
Joel Tomlinson	Parent Governor	Parents	24/10/2019 - 23/10/2023	24/10/2019
Dwight Heffelfinger	Co-opted Governor	Governors	28/01/2020 - 27/01/2024	28/01/2020	Chair Teaching & Learning
Oliver Mudge	Foundation Governor	Diocese	22/11/2021 - 21/07/2023	22/11/2021
Neil Bull	Foundation Governor	Diocese	21/01 2021 - 20/01/ 2025	21/01/2021	Chair of Finance and Resources Committee
Chris Simmons	Foundation Governor	Diocese	21/07 2021 - 20/07/2024	21/07/2021	Responsibility for Safeguarding
Candice Guy	Parent Governor	Parents	01/09/2021 – 31/08/2025	01/09/2021
Bryony Sandford	Staff Governor	Staff	01/09/2021 – 31/08/2025	01/09/2021
Christine Whiteside	Foundation Governor	Diocese	03/12/2021 - 02/12/2025	03/12/2021	Responsibility for Health and Safety
Nicola Ryan	Foundation Governor	Diocese	14/11/2022 - 13/11/2026	14/11/2022
Becky Parker	Associate Member	Governing Body	15/11/2022 - 14/11/2023	15/11/2023

Minutes of Full Governing Body Meetings

Minutes of previous meetings can be found below. The Constitution of Governing Bodies in Maintained Schools (August 2015) requires governing bodies to publish individual governors' attendance at meetings in the last year. For ease of reference, we have provided this by giving details of and those who were not in attendance at each meeting:

MINUTES	NOT IN ATTENDANCE
22nd December 2022	Neil Bull
11th October 2022	Neil Bull, Sue Coleman
12th July 2022	Jill Fairbrother, Jo Tulloch, Melissa Moore, Bryony Sandford and Oliver Mudge
10th May 2022	Jill Fairbrother, Christine Whiteside and Jo Tulloch
22nd March 2022	Jill Fairbrother, Sue Coleman, Joel Tomlinson and Melissa Moore
25th January 2022	Jill Fairbrother, Chris Simmons
7th December 2021	Reverend Dan Henderson, Sue Coleman, Jill Fairbrother
5th October 2021	Ed Lawrence
6th July 2021	Ed Lawrence, Joel Tomlinson and Melissa Moore.
11th May 2021	Lesley Hurst, Catherine Buchanan and Melissa Moore.
23^rd March 2021	Jill Fairbrother
19^th January 2021	None Noted
24th November 2020	Fran Beckett
6th October 2020	Sue Coleman
9th April 2020	Joel Tomlinson, Dan Henderson
24th March 2020	None Noted
28th January 2020	Ed Lawrence, Fran Beckett, Lesley Hurst
26th November 2019	Lesley Hurst, Ed Lawrence, Fran Beckett, Sarah Chambers
24th September 2019	Lesley Hurst, Melissa Moore
15th July 2019	Fr Dan Henderson, Nnamdi Udezue
15th May 2019	Catherine Buchanan, Sue Coleman, Fr Dan Henderson, Lesley Hurst, Ed Lawrence
20th March 2019	Fr Dan Henderson, Melissa Moore, Ed Lawrence
22nd January 2019	Fran Beckett
21st November 2018	Gordana Chapman, Fr Dan Henderson, Jill Fairborther, Ed Lawrence, Nnamdi Udezue
18th September 2018	Gordana Chapman, Sue Coleman, Abby French, Nnamdi Udezue
4th July 2018	Ed Lawrence
8th May 2018	Andrew Wealls, Fr Dan Henderson
12th March 2018	Nnamdi Udezue, Fr Dan Henderson, Jill Fairbrother
17th January 2018	Coreen Sears
14th November 2017	Gordana Chapman, Ed Lawrence, Nnamdi Udezue
25th September 2017	Fr Dan Henderson, Lesley Hurst, Catherine Buchanan
5th July 2017	Katy Hiles
9th May 2017	Fr Dan Henderson, Katy Hiles, Lesley Hurst, Nnamdi Udezue
15th March 2017	Fr Dan Henderson, Julie Newnham, Nnamdi Udezue, Andrew Wealls
18th January 2017	Ed Lawrence, Julie Newnham
15th November 2016	Katy Hiles, Julie Newnham, Andrew Wealls
26th September 2016	Julie Newnham
13th July 2016	Louise Everington, Fr Dan Henderson, Oliver Mudge
10th May 2016	Fr Dan Henderson, Lesley Hurst, Nnamdi Udezue
15th March 2016	Gordana Chapman, Ed Lawrence, Matt Rance
20th January 2016	Fr Dan Henderson, Louise Everington, Richard Dutton, Katy Hiles
10th November 2015	Stjohn Rowlands
28th September 2015	Coreen Sears, Andrew Wealls, Matt Rance, Stjohn Rowlands
15th July 2015	Steve Griffiths, Stjohn Rowlands
12th May 2015	Richard Dutton, Julie Newnham, Stjohn Rowlands
16th March 2015	Fr Dan Henderson, Stjohn Rowlands
21st January 2015	Stjohn Rowlands
11th November 2014	Ed Lawrence, Matt Rance, Stjohn Rowlands, Andrew Wealls
29th September 2014	Rachel Carter, Katy Hiles, Richard Dutton, Ed Lawrence, Stjohn Rowlands, Andrew Wealls
Extraordinary FGB meeting 15th September 2014	Stjohn Rowlands, Coreen Sears, Andrew Wealls

Register of Interests

Sue Coleman has declared that she is Senior Internal Auditor at Brighton and Hove Council.
Jill Fairbrother has declared that she does maths tutoring and some pupils attend St Andrew's School.
Matthew Greenall has declared that he has a child at the school and his wife is a member of staff.
Rev Dan Henderson has declared that he has children at the school.
Oliver Mudge has declared that he has children at the school.
Dwight Heffelfinger has declared that he has children at the school.
Candice Guy has declared she has a child at the school.

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