Meet the Governors
Welcome to the Governing Body page of the Allington with Sedgebrook C of E Primary School website.
In our number we have parents, business people, magistrates, teachers, cycling and rugby fanatics with one common goal; that is to see the children of AWS school reach their full potential.
This website gives us the opportunity to share more about our work and importantly, hear more of your views. When we have important news to share or need to get your feedback, we will ensure that you are directed to this web page through parent mail.
Governors are always keen to hear your views, so please come and speak to us. Please let school know if you need to get in touch.
The Governing Body is a group of people; made up of representatives of parents, school staff, the diocese and the local authority. Your Governors are: -
Thomas Sang (Chair), Anne Fleming (Vice), Fina Martinez-Perez, Dawn Minckley, Adam Kolbert, Rachel Williams & Jenny Stuart with school support from Leanne Barr, David Drew and Chris Warby. Our Clerk is Mrs Denise Reed.
Our role is to ensure that the school operates effectively and fulfils its aims. We do this by:
1) Working alongside the head teacher as equal partners to provide a strategic view for the school; setting aims, objectives, principles and targets.
2) Ensuring accountability, which we do through visiting, monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the policies and procedures that have been put in place.
3) Being a ‘critical friend’ of the school; asking challenging questions and celebrating the school’s successes.
We meet as a full governing body every term.
Name
| Governor type | Appointing Body | Start date & end date | Positions Held | Committees serving on | Personal relationship to staff members | Personal skills/ experience for role | Business interest/ Financial interest | Other educational boards appointed to |
Anne Fleming | Co-opted | Governing Body | 23/09/12 22/09/20 | Vice-chair F & S Safeguarding of pupils Health and Safety Appeals, Grievance and Discipline | Finance | none | Secondary mathematics teacher | none | none |
Fina Perez- Martinez | Co-opted | Governing Body | 23/03/15 22/03/19 | Vice-Chair FGB Chair F & S SEND Gov. | Finance | none | Magistrate & familiar with law Promoter of reading through book schemes | none | none |
Adam Kolbert | Parent Governor | Governing Body |
| Finance | none | ||||
Leanne Barr | Head | Governing Body | 01/01/06 | As prescribed in contract | Finance P and C | none | 15 years experience on Gov. Body at Allington 5 years at previous school | none |
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David Drew | Staff | Staff Election | 19/09/16 19/09/20 | Teacher Representative | P and C | none | Teacher | none | none |
Dawn Minckley | Parent Governor | Governing Body | 20/02/17 20/02/21 | Health and Safety Governor | P and C | none | HR background | none | none |
Thomas Sang | LA Governor | Governing Body | 20/09/17 20/02/21 | Chair FGB IT Governor | Finance P and C | none | IT background | none | none |
Rachel Williams | Parent Governor | Governing Body | P and C | none |
Governor attendance for academic year 2019 - 2020
Full governing body 79%
Pupil & Curriculum committee 79%
Finance & Strategy committee 85%
School Development Priorities September 2019-2021
Reading
To maximize performance across the school in reading by ensuring that our approach is rigorous and sequential leading to improved fluency, accuracy, increased vocabulary, enjoyment and a deeper understanding of more demanding texts.
Attainment is above the NA at both key stages and at Year 1 and progress is above national at the end of KS2.
Foundation Subjects
To improve teaching in: Design Technology, Languages, Music, Art and Design and Computing to ensure that 100% is good/ outstanding.
2018-2019 Music
2019-2020 Art and Design
2020-21 Languages and Computing
Personal Development Behaviour and Welfare
To ensure that Relationships and Health Education is successfully implemented.