Friends of Eastrington School
EASTRINGTON SCHOOL GOVERNING BODY
This document has been produced to assist all interested parties, particulalry parents, in understanding the roles, responsibilities and make-up of the governing body.
All schools maintained by the Local Education Authority (LEA) have a governing body with the same roles, responsibilities and accountability.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBLITIES
The governing body of a school has statutory responsibilities. The three main roles are as shown below.
To provide a strategic view
This involves deciding the school?s strategy for improvement so that its pupils learn most effectively and achieve the highest standards.
The governing body helps to set, and keep under review, the broad framework within which the head teacher and staff run the school. In all its work, the governing body will focus on the key issues of raising standards of achievement, establishing high expectations and promoting effective teaching and learning. The head teacher, however, holds the responsibility for the day to day management of the school.
To act as critical friend
The governing body also provides the head teacher and staff with support, advice and information, drawing on its members? knowledge and experience. In these ways the governing body acts as a critical friend to the school. Critical in the sense of its responsibility for monitoring and evaluating the school?s effectiveness, asking challenging questions and pressing for improvement. A friend in the sense of promoting the interests of the school and its pupils and staff.
To ensure accountability
The governing body is responsible for ensuring good quality education in the school. The head teacher and staff report to the governing body on the school?s performance. It is not the role of governors simply to rubber-stamp every decision of the head teacher.
The governing body has a right to discuss, question and refine respecting the professional roles of the head teacher and other staff, and their responsibilities for the management of the school. In turn, the governing body answers for its actions, above all to parents and the wider local community for the school?s overall performance.
MAKE-UP OF THE GOVERNING BODY
The governing body is made up of a variety of people from the community, the LEA, the school and parents. The role is voluntary and there is a process of selection, and sometimes also election, to become a school governor.
Eastrington School have 3 x Community governors, 2 x LEA governors, 2 x staff governors and 4 x parent governors ? 11 in total.
Currently our governors are:
Gil Brophy
Sue Dennis
Marilyn Cowling
Yvonne Fisher
June Graham
Mark Hubbard
Liam Jackson
Mark Poskit
There is three vacancies for community governors as at 31st October 2006
A table below lists the governors, the date their term of office will end, the type of governor (parent, LEA, community, staff) and their specific responsibilities.
For information a ?pen picture? of each governor is displayed on the board in the school.
SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITES OF GOVERNORS
At Eastrington each governor has an area of special responsibility to maximise the time and effectiveness of governors and to ensure that there is more than a broad overview of these important areas.
The governor alloacted to each area of special responsobility is shown in the table below.
MEETINGS
There is at least one formal meeting of the governing body each term where there is an agenda, formal reports and a set of minutes produced.
Specific committees of the governing body meet as and when necessary, but usually when there are specific issues requiring debate or decision. These specific committees currently include a general purpose committee a personnel committee and a performance and pay committee.
SCHOOL VISITS
Governors regularly visit school other than to attend formal meetings. To ensure their visits are focussed gvoernors are required to complete a form outlining the purpose/objective of the visit together with the outcome.
DECISION MAKING
Decisions are made at various levels depending on the issue concerned. Written procedures and a constitution are in place to ensure decisions are made at the correct level and by the correct people, whether this be the head teacher, the governing body, a committee of the governing body or the chair/vice chair.
THE ROLE OF THE LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHOROITY (LEA)
The LEA provide support, advice and guidance to governors on all matters as required. Regular training is provided on a range of issues together with a termly newsletter for governors on current issues and thinking.
OTHER SOURCES OF GUIDANCE FOR GOVERNORS
There are many sources of advice for governors including the LEA, a national network of governors, the Department for Education and Skills and various useful websites.
WHO MONITORS THE SCHOOL AND GOVERNING BODY
All schools are regularly monitored in a variety of ways by a number of organisations.
The LEA undertake regular inspections and gather information from a range of sources to ensure performance againsts standards and other schools.
OFSTED (a Government school inspection body) visit schools and undertake a rigorous inspection against a number a key criteria, the results of which are published nationally.
League tables are produced by various organisations using a variety of information that the school is required to supply.
FURTHER INFORMATION
If you require further information regarding any aspect of the governing body please do not hesitate to contact either the head teacher or the chair of the governing body in the first instance.
LIAM JACKSON
My name is Liam Jackson, and I am the Headteacher of Eastrington Primary School.
I have been Headteacher at Eastrington for 7 years in April 2006. I started my career in teaching in Birkenhead, where I worked in two schools, before getting the Deputy Headship at Burton Upon Stather School, North Lincolnshire in 1997.
My time at Eastrington has been fantastic, where I have been very privileged to work with wonderful children, staff, parents and Governors. We have all seen the school change dramatically during the last 7 years, with pupil numbers increasing dramatically, building work continually taking place{we have gone from being a 3 classroom to a six classroom school with a hall!} and pupil performance improving year on year.
We still have a lot to do though, and the Governing Body and I are still looking at ways to further improve the school, to ensure that the children in our care have the best possible start to their school life that we can offer, in a stimulating, encouraging and exciting environment.
MARK POSKITT
Hi, my name is Mark Poskitt and I am a Team Vicar in the Howden area
and I live in Eastrington. I grew up in the East Riding and since taking a
degree in Engineering at Loughborough University I've worked in the Yorkshire
Dales and the Bradford area before training for ministry at Nottingham and
Then returning to the East Riding via Lincolnshire.
I am married to Sue, who works at the school, and we have two children
Who have both spent time at Eastrington Primary school before moving on to
Secondary education.
I have been in post here now for over 5 years and have always had a
Very good relationship with the school. I take assemblies and have been
Involved in pretend baptisms and even a wedding! I enjoy working with the school
And was very pleased to be invited on to the governors as a Community
govenor. I hope that together we can continue to provide high quality and
stimulating eduction for the pupils.
MARYLIN COWLING
Marilyn is currently a Secondary National Strategy Consultant (teaching and learning) with Kingston upon Hull Children and Young People?s Services. In this role she provides training for, and works alongside, teachers in secondary and special schools, to support the development of a range of teaching strategies to improve and develop learning for pupils. Prior to her work in Hull, Marilyn taught for twenty seven years in middle and secondary schools where she had experience of leading a department and as a pastoral and academic leader. She went to Kingston upon Hull in 1999 as Advisory Teacher for religious education, multicultural education and anti-racist practice and to support the development of opportunities for spiritual, moral, social and cultural aspects of learning. She worked with teachers in all phases of education across the city, covering ages 3 to 19 years; with governors to extend their understanding of RE and multicultural education and also with post ? graduate trainee teachers at the University of Hull. In September 2002 She was appointed to her current post as SNS Consultant.
Marilyn has lived in Eastrington since the age of 18 (apart from a brief sojourn to Skelton) and taken an active part in the community - at various stages of her life - as youth club leader, committee member on Friends of Eastrington School, Brown Owl and a constant member of the village hall committee.
Whist firmly focused on helping children and young people enjoy learning through the development of engaging and challenging teaching in the classroom she is also committed to incorporating opportunities to extend understanding of the value of diversity in society in every aspect of her work.
YVONNE FISHER
I have been a Governor at the school since 2004 and have specific responsibility for numeracy and PCSHE.
I became a Governor with a view to giving something to the school, learning about how the school runs and to play a part in it?s future.
My background is in project and strategic management, specialising in human resources/personnel (I have an MA in Human Resources) however the most important (and demanding!) role I have acquired over the last 25 years is that of Mum to two children, aged 7 and 3.
I hope that my ?work? experience together with my natural instinct to want all children to thrive at school equip me to play a useful role in determining the future direction and success of Eastrington school.
Gil Brophy
Having lived in Eastrington village for the past 30-ish years I am now semi-retired, working as a consultant for a local large engineering company. I have a Daughter age 10 at the school this year and my wife, who started as a parent helper is a Teaching Assistant within the school.
I was elected as Parent Governor in the year 2000 and have held the office of Chair of Governors since 2003. My areas of special responsibility are Science and, temporarily at least, Literacy.
I very much enjoy playing a leading role in establishing and pursuing the strategic direction of the school. During my period as Chair I have been privileged to share in the unprecedented success of the school and its pupils. The improvement to the schools infrastructure, that the school had for so long dreamed of, have been realised with the opening of the new Hall etc. I very much look forward to the continuing success of the school both in the academic success of the pupils and in the successful development of those young people into fulfilled and responsible teenagers.
Mark Hubbard
I've lived with my family in Eastrington for many years and with both of my children currently in school, I as much as anyone, have a vested interest in its future and a wish to support the continual development of both the schools standards and facilities.
In 2003 I decided to try to take a more active role within the school and was fortunate to be elected as a Parent Governor and have enjoyed my involvement ever since.
This document has been produced to assist all interested parties, particulalry parents, in understanding the roles, responsibilities and make-up of the governing body.
All schools maintained by the Local Education Authority (LEA) have a governing body with the same roles, responsibilities and accountability.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBLITIES
The governing body of a school has statutory responsibilities. The three main roles are as shown below.
To provide a strategic view
This involves deciding the school?s strategy for improvement so that its pupils learn most effectively and achieve the highest standards.
The governing body helps to set, and keep under review, the broad framework within which the head teacher and staff run the school. In all its work, the governing body will focus on the key issues of raising standards of achievement, establishing high expectations and promoting effective teaching and learning. The head teacher, however, holds the responsibility for the day to day management of the school.
To act as critical friend
The governing body also provides the head teacher and staff with support, advice and information, drawing on its members? knowledge and experience. In these ways the governing body acts as a critical friend to the school. Critical in the sense of its responsibility for monitoring and evaluating the school?s effectiveness, asking challenging questions and pressing for improvement. A friend in the sense of promoting the interests of the school and its pupils and staff.
To ensure accountability
The governing body is responsible for ensuring good quality education in the school. The head teacher and staff report to the governing body on the school?s performance. It is not the role of governors simply to rubber-stamp every decision of the head teacher.
The governing body has a right to discuss, question and refine respecting the professional roles of the head teacher and other staff, and their responsibilities for the management of the school. In turn, the governing body answers for its actions, above all to parents and the wider local community for the school?s overall performance.
MAKE-UP OF THE GOVERNING BODY
The governing body is made up of a variety of people from the community, the LEA, the school and parents. The role is voluntary and there is a process of selection, and sometimes also election, to become a school governor.
Eastrington School have 3 x Community governors, 2 x LEA governors, 2 x staff governors and 4 x parent governors ? 11 in total.
Currently our governors are:
Gil Brophy
Sue Dennis
Marilyn Cowling
Yvonne Fisher
June Graham
Mark Hubbard
Liam Jackson
Mark Poskit
There is three vacancies for community governors as at 31st October 2006
A table below lists the governors, the date their term of office will end, the type of governor (parent, LEA, community, staff) and their specific responsibilities.
For information a ?pen picture? of each governor is displayed on the board in the school.
SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITES OF GOVERNORS
At Eastrington each governor has an area of special responsibility to maximise the time and effectiveness of governors and to ensure that there is more than a broad overview of these important areas.
The governor alloacted to each area of special responsobility is shown in the table below.
MEETINGS
There is at least one formal meeting of the governing body each term where there is an agenda, formal reports and a set of minutes produced.
Specific committees of the governing body meet as and when necessary, but usually when there are specific issues requiring debate or decision. These specific committees currently include a general purpose committee a personnel committee and a performance and pay committee.
SCHOOL VISITS
Governors regularly visit school other than to attend formal meetings. To ensure their visits are focussed gvoernors are required to complete a form outlining the purpose/objective of the visit together with the outcome.
DECISION MAKING
Decisions are made at various levels depending on the issue concerned. Written procedures and a constitution are in place to ensure decisions are made at the correct level and by the correct people, whether this be the head teacher, the governing body, a committee of the governing body or the chair/vice chair.
THE ROLE OF THE LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHOROITY (LEA)
The LEA provide support, advice and guidance to governors on all matters as required. Regular training is provided on a range of issues together with a termly newsletter for governors on current issues and thinking.
OTHER SOURCES OF GUIDANCE FOR GOVERNORS
There are many sources of advice for governors including the LEA, a national network of governors, the Department for Education and Skills and various useful websites.
WHO MONITORS THE SCHOOL AND GOVERNING BODY
All schools are regularly monitored in a variety of ways by a number of organisations.
The LEA undertake regular inspections and gather information from a range of sources to ensure performance againsts standards and other schools.
OFSTED (a Government school inspection body) visit schools and undertake a rigorous inspection against a number a key criteria, the results of which are published nationally.
League tables are produced by various organisations using a variety of information that the school is required to supply.
FURTHER INFORMATION
If you require further information regarding any aspect of the governing body please do not hesitate to contact either the head teacher or the chair of the governing body in the first instance.
LIAM JACKSON
My name is Liam Jackson, and I am the Headteacher of Eastrington Primary School.
I have been Headteacher at Eastrington for 7 years in April 2006. I started my career in teaching in Birkenhead, where I worked in two schools, before getting the Deputy Headship at Burton Upon Stather School, North Lincolnshire in 1997.
My time at Eastrington has been fantastic, where I have been very privileged to work with wonderful children, staff, parents and Governors. We have all seen the school change dramatically during the last 7 years, with pupil numbers increasing dramatically, building work continually taking place{we have gone from being a 3 classroom to a six classroom school with a hall!} and pupil performance improving year on year.
We still have a lot to do though, and the Governing Body and I are still looking at ways to further improve the school, to ensure that the children in our care have the best possible start to their school life that we can offer, in a stimulating, encouraging and exciting environment.
MARK POSKITT
Hi, my name is Mark Poskitt and I am a Team Vicar in the Howden area
and I live in Eastrington. I grew up in the East Riding and since taking a
degree in Engineering at Loughborough University I've worked in the Yorkshire
Dales and the Bradford area before training for ministry at Nottingham and
Then returning to the East Riding via Lincolnshire.
I am married to Sue, who works at the school, and we have two children
Who have both spent time at Eastrington Primary school before moving on to
Secondary education.
I have been in post here now for over 5 years and have always had a
Very good relationship with the school. I take assemblies and have been
Involved in pretend baptisms and even a wedding! I enjoy working with the school
And was very pleased to be invited on to the governors as a Community
govenor. I hope that together we can continue to provide high quality and
stimulating eduction for the pupils.
MARYLIN COWLING
Marilyn is currently a Secondary National Strategy Consultant (teaching and learning) with Kingston upon Hull Children and Young People?s Services. In this role she provides training for, and works alongside, teachers in secondary and special schools, to support the development of a range of teaching strategies to improve and develop learning for pupils. Prior to her work in Hull, Marilyn taught for twenty seven years in middle and secondary schools where she had experience of leading a department and as a pastoral and academic leader. She went to Kingston upon Hull in 1999 as Advisory Teacher for religious education, multicultural education and anti-racist practice and to support the development of opportunities for spiritual, moral, social and cultural aspects of learning. She worked with teachers in all phases of education across the city, covering ages 3 to 19 years; with governors to extend their understanding of RE and multicultural education and also with post ? graduate trainee teachers at the University of Hull. In September 2002 She was appointed to her current post as SNS Consultant.
Marilyn has lived in Eastrington since the age of 18 (apart from a brief sojourn to Skelton) and taken an active part in the community - at various stages of her life - as youth club leader, committee member on Friends of Eastrington School, Brown Owl and a constant member of the village hall committee.
Whist firmly focused on helping children and young people enjoy learning through the development of engaging and challenging teaching in the classroom she is also committed to incorporating opportunities to extend understanding of the value of diversity in society in every aspect of her work.
YVONNE FISHER
I have been a Governor at the school since 2004 and have specific responsibility for numeracy and PCSHE.
I became a Governor with a view to giving something to the school, learning about how the school runs and to play a part in it?s future.
My background is in project and strategic management, specialising in human resources/personnel (I have an MA in Human Resources) however the most important (and demanding!) role I have acquired over the last 25 years is that of Mum to two children, aged 7 and 3.
I hope that my ?work? experience together with my natural instinct to want all children to thrive at school equip me to play a useful role in determining the future direction and success of Eastrington school.
Gil Brophy
Having lived in Eastrington village for the past 30-ish years I am now semi-retired, working as a consultant for a local large engineering company. I have a Daughter age 10 at the school this year and my wife, who started as a parent helper is a Teaching Assistant within the school.
I was elected as Parent Governor in the year 2000 and have held the office of Chair of Governors since 2003. My areas of special responsibility are Science and, temporarily at least, Literacy.
I very much enjoy playing a leading role in establishing and pursuing the strategic direction of the school. During my period as Chair I have been privileged to share in the unprecedented success of the school and its pupils. The improvement to the schools infrastructure, that the school had for so long dreamed of, have been realised with the opening of the new Hall etc. I very much look forward to the continuing success of the school both in the academic success of the pupils and in the successful development of those young people into fulfilled and responsible teenagers.
Mark Hubbard
I've lived with my family in Eastrington for many years and with both of my children currently in school, I as much as anyone, have a vested interest in its future and a wish to support the continual development of both the schools standards and facilities.
In 2003 I decided to try to take a more active role within the school and was fortunate to be elected as a Parent Governor and have enjoyed my involvement ever since.