Askam Village School Governing Body

Mr Dave Huddleston is now chair of governors and Ms Elisabeth Donachie is the Vice–Chair

The role of the governing board is essential to the effectiveness of a school.

School governors provide strategic leadership and accountability in schools.  The role of the governing board supports the headteacher and staff by positively promoting the work of the school, celebrating its achievements and working to ensure the best outcomes for pupils.

The Governing Body has three core functions:

• Ensuring the clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction.
• Holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils and the performance management of staff; and
• Overseeing the financial performance of the organisation and making sure its money is well spent.

Each individual governor and any associate member(s) form the governing board, which is established in law as a corporate body.  This means that individual governors and associate members do not act independently of the rest of the governing board.  All decisions are the joint responsibility of the governing board.

The Governing Body has the power to delegate certain of its duties to appointed committees. The structure and membership of these committees is agreed by the Governing Body.

The committees are responsible for doing the majority of the leg-work of the Governing body. Each committee is run by a Chair and the Headteacher sits on each of the committees.

Meetings are minuted so that their business and any decisions reached can be fed back in detail to the following meeting of the Full Governing Body. Committee meetings are quorate when three governors (which can include the Headteacher) are in attendance.

Governors Meeting Attendees