Meet the Governors

The remit for the Governing Body is to:

Ensure clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction;
Hold the Headteacher to account for the educational performance of the school and it’s pupils, and the performance management of staff;
Oversee the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent.

Governor Name	Category	Appointing Body	Term of Office Expires	Committees	Responsibilities	Register of Interests	Links with Other Organisations
Catherine Ardern	Co-opted	Governing Body	29^th Sept 2020	Staff Dismissals, Complaints, Pay	Lead Governor for Curriculum	None	Headteacher at Douglas Valley Nursery School, Vice chair of Governors at Hindley Nursery School
Julie Postlethwaite	Parent Governor	Parents	23^th Nov 2020	Pay	Website Compliance	None	Holland Moor Primary School (LCC) IP Electrics
Kim Ardron	Co-opted	Governing Body	5th Dec 2022		Lead Governor for SEND and Health & Safety	None	Home Start, North Meols Library Association
Martin Sarbutts	Parent Governor	Parents	25^th Nov 2020	Pay	Vice Chair and Chair of Performance and Standards Commitee	Sefton MBC. Member of staff is family member.
Michael Evans	Local Authority	Governing Body	^{18th March 2020}	Head Teachers Performance Management, Disciplinary & Staff Appeals*, Pay	Chair of Governors, Lead Governor for Data and Pupil Premium	None	Data Manager at Liverpool College
Rachel Lewis	Co-opted	Governing Body	25th June 2020	Head Teachers Performance Management, Disciplinary, Staff Dismissals	Lead Governor for Staff Wellbeing	Chair of North West Federation of Nursery Headteachers (NWFHT)	Headteacher at Hindley Nursery
Suzanne Payne	Headteacher	Governing Body	Ex officio		Headteacher	Vice Chair of NWFHT, Relative owns Checkers of Churchtown	Executive Headteacher / Governor at Rainhill Maintained Nursery School (MNS) Governor at Hindley and Douglas Valley MNS
Tim Hinds	Staff	Staff	25^th Nov 2019		Staff Governor	None
Belinda Taylor	Co-opted	Governing Body	9^th May 2022		Lead Governor for Safeguarding	None	Headteacher at Churchtown Primary School
Louise Rimmer	Parent Governor	Parents	11th May 2020	Head Teachers Performance Management, Lead Governor for Data Protection	Lead Governor for GDPR	None	Teacher at Greenbank High School

* Both the Disciplinary Committee and the Disciplinary Appeals & Staff Appeals Committee are to be served by two ‘untainted’ governors, in addition to the above named.

Melanie Larkin - Clerk to the Governors

GOVERNORS’ ATTENDANCE 2019/2020
Name	Governing Body Meetings
Name	Governors Business Meeting 19/09/2019	Full Governing Board 21/11/2019	Full Governing Board 27/02/2020	Governor & SLT Visioning Day 15/05/2020	Full Governing Board 11/06/2020
C Ardern	Present
K Ardron	Present
M Evans	Present
T Hinds	Present
R Lewis	Present
S Payne	Present
J Postlethwaite	Present
L Rimmer	Present
M Sarbutts	Present
B Taylor	Present

GOVERNORS’ ATTENDANCE 2018 / 2019
eName	Governing Body Meetings
eName	Governors Business Meeting 5/09/2018	Full Governing Board 4/10/2018	Full Governing Board 15/11/2018	Full Governing Board 31/01/2019	Full Governing Board 14/03/2019	Governor & SLT Visioning Day 3/05/2019	Full Governing Board 09/05/2019	Full Governing Board 27/06/2019
C Ardern	Present	Apols	Present	Apols	Apols	Apols	Apols	Present
K Ardron	Apols	Present	Present	Apols	Present	Present	Apols	Present
M Evans	Apols	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
T Hinds	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
R Lewis	Present	Apols	Present	Present	Present	Apols	Present	Present
S Payne	Present	Present	Present	Apols	Present	Present	Present	Present
J Postlethwaite	Present	Present	Present	Present	Apols	Present	Present	Present
L Rimmer	Present	Present	Apols	Present	Apols	Apols	Present	Present
M Sarbutts	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Apols	Present	Apols
B Taylor	Present	Present	Apols	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present

GOVERNORS’ ATTENDANCE 2017 / 2018
Name	Governing Body Meetings					Performance & Standards
Name	Governors Business Meeting 7/09/2017	23/11/2017	15/03/2018	Governor & SLT Visioning Day 20/04/2018	28/06/2018	12/10/2017	8/02/2018	10/05/2018
C Ardern	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Apols	Present
K Ardron	Present	Present	Present	Apols	Apols	Present	Present	Apols
J Postlethwaite	Apols	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Apols	Present
M Evans	Present	Present	Apols	Present	Apols	Present	Apols	Present
T Hinds	Present	Present	Present	Present	Apols	Present	Present	Present
R Lewis	Present	Present	Present	Present	Apols	Present	Apols	Apols
S Payne	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
M Sarbutts	Apols	Apols	Apols	Present	Apols	Present	Apols	Apols
C Coss	Apols	Apols	Resigned 12/03/2018		Apols	Apols	Apols	Apols
L Rimmer	Present	Present	Present	Present	Apols	Apols	Present	Present

GOVERNORS’ ATTENDANCE 2016 / 2017
Name	Governing Body Meetings					Performance & Standards
Name	Governors Business Meeting 22/9/2016	24/11/2016	16/03/2017	Governor & SLT Visioning Day 18/04/2017	22/06/2017	20/10/2016	9/02/2017	11/05/2017
C Ardern	Apols	Present	Present	Apols	Present	Present	Present	Present
K Ardron	Apols	Apols	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Apols
V Birtwistle	DNA	Resigned
J Postlethwaite	Not yet appointed	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not yet appointed	Present	Present
M Evans	Present	Present	Present	Present	Apols	Present	Present	Present
T Hinds	Present	Present	Present	Present	Apols	Present	Present	Present
R Lewis	Present	Apols	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Apols
S Payne	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
S Rogers	Apols	Apols	Present	Present	Apols	Apols	Apols	Resigned
M Sarbutts	Present	Apols	Apols	Present	Present	Apols	Present	Apols
C Coss	Not yet appointed			Present	Apols	Not yet appointed		Present
L Rimmer					Present

During the academic year 2016/17 the following issues the Governing Board identified and successfully addressed the following issues:

Improve the effectiveness of leadership and management at all levels.
Improve the quality of adult child interactions focused on the Characteristics of Effective Learning.
Improve provision across the curriculum for promoting Diversity and Traditional British Values
Improve provision and assessment in Expressive Art and Design
Extend children’s motivation and engagement in learning projects
Continue to give Safeguarding the highest priority.
Increase the proportion of children making outstanding progress, with a particular focus on boys and the more able.
Increase the number of pupils achieving above the Age Related Expectation in the specific areas of learning.
Establish a ‘parental involvement policy’ in order to provide further opportunities for parental involvement in children’s learning.

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