Governors (September 2021)
The governing body comprises 11 members:
3 parent governors, 1 Local Authority governor, 1 Head teacher, 1 Staff Governor and 5 Co-opted governors.
Our Instrument of Governance was reconstituted on 11th November 2014.
Governors can be contacted through the school office:
Tel: 01629 582448
Tansley Primary School,
Gold Hill,
Tansley,
Derbyshire,
DE4 5FG
The Clerk is Claire Jenkins
cjenkins@tansley.derbyshire.sch.uk
The Chair of Governors is Judith Holt
Our Governing Body works at a strategic level with the Headteacher
The three core functions of our governing body are:
Having received guidance from the headteacher as the lead professional, our governors make decisions that:
Monitoring
Our Governing body works with the headteacher, staff and visit school to help monitor the Quality of Education.
This may include
This helps our governors to ask questions and make judgements:
To achieve this our Governing Body, receive regular reports from the Headteacher, work with the school staff, visit the school and have links with pupils, parents and the local community.
Governors’ year plan 2020 2021 – to be added following full governors in October 2020
We hold 6 full governing body meetings a year, one each term.
Within the full meeting we include the agenda for the Resource Committee
Resources Committee (including Finance and Performance Management)
The Resources Committee, reviews how the resources of the school are managed. The committee reviews the school’s finance polices and school budget along with policies and matters relating to staffing and personnel, premises and health and safety.
Chair: Jean Peters: jpeters@tansley.derbyshire.sch.uk
Members: Jean Peters, John Rigarlsford, Judith Holt
Named Governors
We have named governors who have responsibility for key areas such as safeguarding, anti-bullying, health and safety, SEND and key areas of the school development plan. Please see the table.
Business and Financial Interests
None for the present Governing Body.
Governor Roles in Other Schools
At present none of our governors are represented in governor roles in other schools.
Resignations in last 12 months:
Mr R LewinMrs A Colmar Mr Eliott Richards Mrs Helen Pearson | Joined 2016Joined 2015 | Resigned 2020Resigned 2021 Resigned 2021 Resigned 2021 |
Please see the table.
All school matters should ideally be discussed with the headteacher but if this is not possible you can contact the Chair of Governors Judith Holt via email jholt@tansley.derbyshire.sch.uk
For matters of an urgent nature please always contact the school office .