Meet the Governors | Great Barton Church of England Primary Academy

Meet the Governors

Welcome to our Governors’ section.

Governors supervise the operation of the school, providing strategic challenge and support to the head and staff.

The scheme of delegation for governance functions between the MAT and the school can be found on the MAT’s website.

Please find below details of how our Governing body is structured, including the names, categories, responsibilities and terms of appointment for each Governor, plus attendance at Local Governing Body (LGB) meetings for the last complete academic year.

As required by Ofsted, we have provided below the Governors’ Code of Conduct (revised and approved 27th Sept 2017). Governors are obliged to declare any pecuniary or related interests in the school including governance roles in other educational establishments and personal relationships.

Name of Governor	Term of office (1)	Membership of MAT committees (2)	Attendance at 2018/19 LGB meetings	Positions of responsibility	Relevant business interests that could present a conflict of interest, including whether a governor at another school	Personal relationship (if any) with members of school staff e.g. spouse, partner, relative
Trust Governors – appointed by the Multi Academy Trust
Bruce Martin	1 Jan 2016	Finance	6/6	Chair Maths Lead	None	None
Sarah Verzijl	1 Jan 2016	HR	2/6	HT Performance	None	None
Tim Mendes da Costa	27 Sept 2017	Standards	6/6		None	None
Mark Blenkin	27 Sept 2017	Standards	3/6	Safeguarding lead	None	None
Vacancy
Foundation Governors – appointed by the Church of England (3)
Rev Manette Crossman	1 Jan 2016		1/6		Governor, Thurston Primary	None
Kathleen Sewter	10 March 2017		5/6	HT Performance	None	None
Charles Gorer	21 June 2019	Finance	1/1
Parent Governors – elected by parents
Zoe Brennan	1 Jan 2016	HR	4/6	Vice Chair HT Performance	None	None
Iain Halls	21 June 2019	Premises	1/1
Tim Coleman	1 Jan 2016	Premises	4/6		None	Sandra Coleman (Partner)
Juliet Konrath	1 Jan 2016		4/6	SEN lead Literacy lead	None	None
Vacancy
Staff Governor – elected by the staff
Jane Green	27 Sep 2017		6/6	Deputy Head	None	None
Headteacher
Claire Ratley	1 Sep 2017		6/6		None	None

Governors are appointed for a term of four years.
Nominated governors participate in the running of the MAT board and committees, sharing oversight of the four schools in the Trust.
The school’s alignment with Church of England values and expectations is supervised by the Foundation governors.

The following governors left the Governing Body during the 2018/19 academic year

Name of Governor	Resignation date	Membership of MAT committees	Attendance at 2018/19 LGB meetings	Positions of responsibility	Relevant business interests that could present a conflict of interest, including whether a governor at another school	Personal relationship (if any) with members of school staff e.g. spouse, partner, relative
Trust Governors – appointed by the Multi Academy Trust
Neville Horn	21 December 2018	Finance	2/2	MAT director	None	None
Foundation Governors – appointed by the Church of England
Marie Smith	12 March 2019		0/3		None	None

Parent Governors – elected by parents
N/a
Staff Governor – elected by the staff
N/a
Headteacher
N/a

MAT Committees were established for the 2017/18 academic year, replacing local committees.

Code of conduct, attendance & pecuniary interests

As required by Ofsted, we have provided the Governors’ Code of Conduct (revised and approved 27th Sept 2017) and an Annual Statement of Attendance for your information, noting date of appointment/resignation and attendance at committee meetings in the 2017/18 academic year.

Governors are obliged to declare any pecuniary or related interests in the school including governance roles in other educational establishments. As at the most recent Governing Body meeting, there are none to report.

Code-of-Conduct-2017.pdf