Governors | Montreal Church of England Primary School

Welcome to our Governors' section.

Please find below details of how our Governing body is structured, including the names, categories, responsibilities and terms of appointment for each Governor.

Governing Board Register of Personal and Pecuniary Interests

Name	Category of governor	Dates of Appointment	Appointed Board	Term of Office	Committee Membership	Attendance 2019-2020
Lindsay Burnett	Headteacher	N/A	N/A	N/A	Full Governing Board Finance Committee Pay Committee	6/6
Karl Melville	Foundation	13/04/2017	Diocesan Board of Education and/or the Parochial Church Council (PCC)	12/04/2021	Full Governing Board Finance Committee	5/6
Naomi Bragg	Staff	02/09/2018	Staff	01/09/2022	Full Governing Board	4/4
Karen Ross	Co-opted	13/10/2020	Governing Board	12/10/2024	Full Governing Board Finance Committee	5/5
Kathryn Lee	Foundation	06/10/2017	Governing Board	05/10/2021	Full Governing Board Finance Committee Pay Committeed	6/6
David Graham	Co-opted	16/12/2016	Diocesan Board of Education and/or the Parochial Church Council (PCC)	15/12/2020	Full Governing Board Pay Committee	1/4
Sandra McGill	Co-opted	01/07/2016	Governing Board	30/06/2020	Full Governing Board	5/6
Lydia Parr	Parent	05/05/2016	Parent	04/05/2020	Full Governing Board Pay Committee	3/4
Stacey Kelly	Parent	11/06/2018	Parent	10/06/2022	Full Governing Board	6/6
Rev Nicki Pennington	Foundation (ex officio)	N/A	Diocesan Board of Education and/or the Parochial Church Council (PCC)	N/A	Full Governing Board	4/4
Vacancy	Local Authority
Vacancy	Co-opted

Name	Name of organisation	Nature of interest ie business, relationship or governorship roles in other educational establishments	Date interest was registered	Date of cessation of interest	Comments/Notes
Karl Melville	Cumbria County Council NHS Trust	Senior Manager Chair of Midwives group Trust Reading	12.11.19
Naomi Bragg					Nothing to declare
David Graham					Nothing to declare
Sandra McGill	Montreal School	Member of staff	12.11.19
Lindsay Burnett	Dearham Primary	Husband is a governor	13.10.2020		Dearham School is now part of the West Lakes MAT.
Kathryn Lee	Energy Coast UTC Crosslacon Parish	Finance officer Team treasurer & PCC member	12.11.19
Lydia Parr	Monkwray Junior School	Employed as a teaching assistant	13.10.2020
Stacey Kelly	Cumbria Army Cadet Force		12.11.19
Lynn Huddart	Orgill School Ennerdale School Moresby School Kells Infant School Montreal School Broughton Moor School C&E Builders	Governor Clerk to governors Clerk to governors Clerk to governors Clerk to governors Associate member of the board Shareholder/finance officer	13.10.2020		Chair to governors Employed by LA Self Employed Employed by LA Self Employed Family business

Maintained Governing Body Delegation Planner

Governing bodies are accountable in law for all major decisions about the school and its future. However, this does not mean that they are required to carry out all the work themselves. Many of the tasks can and should be delegated to individuals and committees. It is vital that the decision to delegate a task/responsibility to an individual is made by the full governing body and recorded – without such a formula, the individual/committee has no power to act.

The table below sets out the major areas of responsibility for governing bodies and who they can delegate each task to; it also records where the NGA does not think that, even if a task/responsibility can be delegated, this would be good practice.

This planner shows to which level the governing body may legally delegate functions. Please note that the decision planner does not apply to academy governing bodies.

Key

Level 1: Full governing body

Level 2: A committee of the governing body

Level 3: An individual governor

Level 4: Headteacher.

Blue box Function cannot be legally carried out at this level.

ü Action could be undertaken by this level.

û Although legally possible to delegate to this level, the NGA would not recommend it. Significant decisions, monitoring and evaluation are best undertaken by the governing body or a committee with delegated authority, not by individuals. As long as it is line with the regulations governing bodies are free to decide for themselves.

There is also space for notes relevant to your governing body – for example, you should specify which committee or individual a particular task will be delegated to.

The governing body is responsible for the strategic direction of the school
Committees can be given delegated authority to make decisions, monitor, evaluate and review particular plans, policies and targets. The head and staff play the major role in formulating plans, policies and targets to bring to committees or to the governing body for discussion prior to adoption by the full governing body.
The head is responsible for internal organisation, management and control of the school and is accountable to the governing body.
Although decisions may be delegated, the governing body as a whole remains responsible for any decision made under delegation.

Area	Function	Level				In our school, this responsibility is delegated to:
Area	Function	1	2	3	4	In our school, this responsibility is delegated to:
Budgets	To approve the first formal budget plan each financial year (whether this can be delegated to a committee of the governing body depends on your local authority’s scheme of financial delegation)	ü	ü
	To agree annual action plans and monitor how school premiums are spent (i.e. PE and sports premium, Year 7 numeracy and maths catch up premium, service premium and the pupil premium)	ü	ü	û	û
	To monitor monthly expenditure	ü	ü	û	ü
	To establish a charging and remissions policy	ü	ü	û	û
	To enter into contracts (GB should agree financial limits)	ü	ü	û	ü
Staffing	Appoint selection panel for headteacher	ü
	Appoint selection panel for deputy head	ü
	Appoint selection panel for other members of the senior leadership team	ü	û	û	û
	Ratify or reject decisions of appointed selection panels	ü
	Appoint other teachers	û	û	û	ü
	Appoint non-teaching staff	û	û	û	ü
	To put in place a pay policy	ü	ü	û
	To make pay decisions in line with the pay policy and legal requirements1	û	ü	û	ü
	Dismissal of headteacher	û	ü	û
	Initial dismissal of other staff	û	û	û	ü
	Suspending head	û	ü	ü
	Suspending staff (except head)	û	û	û	ü
	Ending suspension (head)	ü	ü	ü
	Ending suspension (except head)	ü	ü	ü
	Setting the overall staffing structure	ü	ü	û	û
	In voluntary and foundation schools to agree whether or not the Chief Education Officer/diocesan authority should have advisory rights	ü	ü	û
	Determining dismissal payments/ early retirement	ü	ü	û	û
	To produce and maintain a central record of recruitment and vetting checks	û	û	û	ü
	Establish and review procedures for addressing staff discipline, conduct and grievance	ü
Curriculum	Ensure National Curriculum (NC) taught to all pupils	ü	ü	û	ü
	To consider any disapplication for pupil(s)	û	û	û	ü
	To decide which subject options should be taught having regard to resources, and implement provision for flexibility in the curriculum (including activities outside school day)	ü	ü	û	û
	Establish and review a sex and relationships education policy (including in primary schools where the GB must decide whether to teach sex education) and ensure that parents are informed of their right to withdraw their children	û	û	û	ü
	Provide clear advice, informed by statutory guidance, on which a strategy for careers advice and guidance can be based	û	û	û	ü
	Responsibility for ensuring that provision of religious education (RE) meets statutory requirements and/or the requirements of any trust deed	ü	ü	û	ü
	To ensure that all pupils take part in a daily act of collective worship in line with statutory requirements				ü
Extra-curricular provision	To decide whether to offer additional activities and what form these should take	ü	û	û	û
	To put into place the additional services provided	û	û	û	ü
	To decide whether to stop providing additional activities	ü	û	û	û
Performance management	To adopt and review teacher appraisal policy	ü	ü	û
	To appoint the panel to carry out the appraisal of the head teacher	ü	ü	û
	To carry out appraisal of other teachers (or delegate to line managers in the school)				ü
Discipline/ exclusions	To review all permanent exclusions and fixed term exclusions where the pupil is either excluded for more than 15 days in total in a term or would lose the opportunity to sit a public examination (Can be delegated to chair/vice-chair in cases of urgency)	û	ü
	To produce a set of written principles for the school behaviour policy and present these for consultation	ü
	To draft the content of the school behaviour policy and publicise it to staff, students and parents.				ü
Admissions	To annually determine admission arrangements (VA and foundation schools)	ü	ü
	To carry out consultation where changes to admission arrangements are proposed, or the governing body has not consulted on their arrangements in the last seven years (VA and foundation schools)	ü	ü
	Admissions: application decisions (Governing bodies of VA and foundation schools must establish a dedicated admissions committee to allocate places, where they choose to delegate authority to committee level)	û	ü
	To establish and publish an admissions appeal timetable (VA and foundation schools)	û	ü
	To appeal against LA directions to admit pupil(s) (voluntary, foundation and special schools; also community and VC schools where LA is the admissions authority)	û	ü
Premises & insurance	Buildings insurance and personal liability– GB to seek advice from LA, diocese or trustees where appropriate	ü	û	û
Health & safety	To ensure a health and safety policy and procedures are in place	ü	ü	û
Health & safety	To ensure that health and safety regulations are followed	û	û	û	ü
School organisation	To publish proposals to change category of school	ü	ü	û	û
	To decide whether to convert to academy status2	ü	û	û	û
	Propose to alter voluntary foundation or foundation special school	ü	û	û	û
	Propose to discontinue voluntary foundation or foundation special school	ü
	To set the times of school sessions and the dates of school terms and holidays (except in community, special and VC schools where this is the LA’s role)	ü	û	û
	To ensure that school lunch nutritional standards3 are met	û	û	û	ü
	To establish a data protection policy and review it at least every two years and register with the Information Commissioner’s Office	û	ü	û	ü
	Maintain a register of pupil attendance	û	û	û	ü
	To ensure provision of free meals to those pupils meeting the criteria, including Universal Infant Free School Meals (if applicable)	û	û	û	ü
Information for parents	To determine whether to publish a home-school agreement (no longer a statutory requirement)	ü	ü	û	ü
	Overall responsibility for ensuring that statutory requirements for information published on the school website, including details of governance arrangements, are met	ü	ü	û	û
	To establish, publish and review a complaints procedure	ü	ü	û	û
	To establish and publish a Freedom of Information scheme and ensure the school complies with it	ü	ü	û	ü
GB roles, procedures and development	Ensure focus on three core strategic functions: Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction Holding the headteacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils, and the performance management of staff Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent	ü
	To draw up an instrument of government and any amendments thereafter	ü
	To appoint (and remove) the chair and vice-chair of a permanent or a temporary governing body	ü
	To appoint and dismiss the clerk to governors	ü	ü	û	û
	To appoint and remove co-opted governors	ü
	To appoint local authority governors	ü
	To set up and publish a register of governors’ business and pecuniary interests	ü	ü	û
	To set the structure and remit of the governing body and any committees including governor appointment details, term of office and attendance record	ü
	To publish the structure and remit of the governing body and any committees including governor appointment details, term of office and attendance record	û	û	û	ü
	To submit governor information to the DfE database of governors via Edubase	û	û	û	ü
	To approve and set up a governors expenses scheme	ü	ü	û	û
	To consider whether or not to exercise delegation of functions to individuals or committees	ü
	To regulate the GB procedures (where not set out in law)	ü
	To agree governor induction and training programme	ü
	To review progress against strategic plan and evaluate governing body performance	ü
Formal Collaboration	To consider forming or joining a group of schools	ü
Academies	To consider approach and time scale to academy conversion	ü	ü
Academies	To consider forming or joining an existing Multi-academy-trust (MAT)	ü	ü
Federations	To consider forming a federation or joining an existing federation	ü	ü
Federations	Review of structure including any subsequent conversion to MAT status	ü
Inclusion and equality	To establish and approve a special educational needs (SEN) policy	ü
	To publish and update at least annually a SEN information report (meeting requirements set out in the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014)	ü	ü	û	ü
	To designate a qualified teacher to be responsible for co-ordinating SEN provision (the SEN co-ordinator or SENCO)	û	û	û	ü
	To appoint a designated teacher for looked-after children	û	û	û	ü
	To establish an accessibility plan and review it every three years	ü	ü	û	ü
Safeguarding	To have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism and to oversee the incorporation of the necessary procedures and practices outlined in the Prevent duty into the child protection policy	ü
Safeguarding	To adopt and review annually a child protection policy and relevant procedures	ü	ü	û

GOVERNOR CONTACT FORM

If you would like to make contact with our Governing Body please use the contact form below to email our clerk to the governors. We aim to respond to all queries within 7 working days. If your matter is urgent please contact the school office.