On 1st March, 2020, Briary Primary School became part of the EKC Schools Trust with a new Governing Body being formed.

The key role of the Governors is to support the school as critical friends, providing a strategic overview and ensuring accountability. They are unpaid volunteers who represent the community the school serves. Governors usually serve a four year term. The core purpose of governing bodies is threefold:

1.       To set and ensure clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction

2.       To hold the headteacher and senior leaders to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils

3.       Oversight of the financial performance of the school and probity, making sure its money is well spent.

At Briary Primary School, the Governing Body works as a ‘whole team’, meeting 6 times per year, spread evenly across the year, without any separate committees. An agenda for each meeting will include all the tasks which the governing body is required to consider, and the governing body will ‘commission’ Task and Finish groups for specific assignments or activities arising from the business of the meeting, which will be recorded in the minutes. In addition to these, the governing body has delegated monitoring activities to ‘monitoring pairs’ or ‘individuals’. This will include a number of governor visits per governor per year. This could apply to statutory functions, and/or the priorities of the School Plan. In each case where a function has been delegated there is a statutory duty to report any action or decision to the governing body at the next meeting.

Governing Body and their Roles

Instrument of Governance – 10 Governors - 2 Parent Governors, 1 Headteacher, 1 Staff Governor, 6 Co-opted Governors

 Mrs Anna Webber, previously Chair of Governors' resigned her role as of 20th July, 2020

Governor Specialist Roles 2020-2021

Name Governor

Early Years

SEN

Safe- guarding

Finance

Data

Gov Dev & Training

Ext Schools Liaison

Premises & Health/ Safety

Pupil Premium

Learning & Teaching

Well-being

Human Resources

Ashley Reygate Chair

Simon Blight Deputy Chair

Alice Wright Deputy Chair

Anna Webber

Fiona Gallimore (Staff)

Nicky Murrell Head Teacher

Peter Goldsack

Adrian Dempsey

Dan Lewsey

Maisie Blight

Claire Edgeworth Clerk

New Governance structure: Differences are removal of LA Governor and one parent Governor

Attendance at LGB Meetings 2020-21