The Role of Governors:
The Governing body is the educational equivalent to a company’s Board of Directors or a charity’s Board of Trustees. The purpose of the governing body is to help the school provide the best possible education for its pupils.
Its main roles are: to ensure accountability; to provide a strategic view and to act as a critical friend. The key areas in which they are involved are the curriculum, and the educational success of the school, finance, staffing, and other general roles such as being an interface between the school and parents and the community.
The Governing body acts as a group. Individual governors have no power outside the governing body and cannot act on behalf of the governing body unless authorised to do so. Formally the governing body meets as a whole once a term and individual governors are also on one or two committees (Curriculum, or Finance, Safeguarding and General Purposes). Informally the governors take a great interest in the school, helping in a variety of ways and supporting all that goes on.
For more information on how the governing board helps the school, please refer to the governors' 'Code of Conduct linked below.
Governor membership, roles, term dates, and appointment can be found on the Gov.uk site here: St Lawrence CofE Primary School - Gov.uk
Governor Committees 2025/26
Curriculum
Emily Russell (Chair of governors)
Kirsty Sloan (Vice Chair of Governors)
Alan Brannen
Steve Johnson
Sam Frankel
[Staff Vacancy]
Finance and all purpose (inc. health & safety and safeguarding)
Alan Brannen
Angela Walshaw
Debbie West
Emily Russell (Chair of Governors) (Temp Chair/Clerk)
Kath Kay
VACANCY
Appeals
Sam Frankel
Kirsty Sloan
Steve Johnson
Salaries performance management
Kirsty Sloan
Debbie West
Emily Russell
Complaints
Sam Frankel
Kirsty Sloan
Emily Russell
Angela Walshaw
Staff discipline and dismissals
Sam Frankel
Kirsty Sloan
Appeals: Emily Russell
Pupil discipline and exclusions
Sally Clilverd
Debbie West
Angela Walshaw
SEND, LLAC, PLAC
Sally Clilverd
Pupil premium
Debbie West
Safeguarding
Emily Russell
Website Audit GDPR Audit Policies and procedures Audit
Kirsty Sloan