Governors

Cassiobury Junior School Governing Body

Welcome to the Governors section of our website which aims to provide you with some information on our role, the way we are structured and who sits on the Governing Board.

The role of the governing board is often not well understood.  Every grant maintained school, such as ours, has the following core strategic functions:

Establishing the strategic direction of the school, by:

  • Setting the vision, values, and objectives for the school
  • Agreeing the school improvement strategy with priorities and targets

Holding the headteacher and other leaders to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils, and the performance management of staff, by:

  • Appointing the Headteacher
  • Monitoring progress towards targets
  • Performance managing the Headteacher
  • Reviewing the school’s self-evaluation

Ensuring financial probity, by:

  • Setting the budget
  • Monitoring spending against the budget
  • Ensuring value for money is obtained
  • Ensuring risks to the organisation are managed

Our role is strategic in nature. The headteacher has operational responsibility for the school and most issues should be raised with the school in the first instance rather than going direct to one of the governors.  The governors are proud to work with the Headteacher and the rest of the staff to play a part in developing the children and enabling them to reach their full potential.

The Governing Board meets once or twice a term but the majority of the detailed work takes place within two main committees:

Teaching & Learning Committee. This focuses on:

  • Educational assessment
  • Safeguarding
  • Special Educational Needs / Gifted and Talented
  • Pupil Premium / Children Looked After

Resources Committee. This focuses on:

  • Pay & Finance
  • Buildings
  • Health & Safety
  • Human Resources

Governors also come into school regularly to understand how the school works and verify the information that they are given.

We aim to ensure that we have the right blend of skills on the governing body and that our governors come from a mix in the community.  We have governors who are parents, staff at the school and others from the wider community in order to give us the much-needed blend of experience, background and skills.

Albert Churchman

APPOINTMENT OF GOVERNORS

Cassiobury Junior School has five different categories of governor:

Parent – elected by the parents at school

Staff – proposed by teaching and non-teaching staff

Local Authority – proposed by Hertfordshire County Council

Co-opted – do not have to elected and are generally members of the local community. They are selected according to skills

Associate – are selected from the local community and/or according to skills offered. Do not have voting rights at meetings

OUR GOVERNING BODY

 

MR A CHURCHMAN – CHAIR OF GOVERNORS

MRS K MOSER – VICE CHAIR OF GOVERNORS

MISS J SHERRY – HEAD TEACHER

MR C PAYNE – STAFF GOVERNOR

RESOURCES COMMITTEE

MR R LYE – CHAIR

MR V MUTTUKRISHNAN – FINANCE

MR R LYE – PREMISES

MRS A DOWN – HUMAN RESOURCES

TEACHING & LEARNING

MRS K MOSER – CHAIR

MS E CHRYSOPOULOU – CURRICULUM PLANNING & DELIVERY

MRS ANISA FAZAL – CURRICULUM PLANNING & DELIVERY

MR K JOLOWICZ – ASSESSMENT & IMPROVEMENT

MR S PEASE – SAFEGUARDING

MRS R AGGARWAL – PUPIL PREMIUM / SEN

OTHER

MR R LYE, MR A CHURCHMAN & MRS K MOSER – HT PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL

MR V MUTTKRISHNAN – PAY PANEL

MRS R AGGARWAL – GOVERNOR RECRUITMENT

MRS K MOSER – GOVERNOR TRAINING

MRS K MOSER – GOVERNOR INDUCTION

Contact

Normally school contact is via the school admin account, see the “Contact Information” page. You can also contact the chair of governor’s directly on chair@cassioburyjm.herts.sch.uk.