Governance - old
Broadwater School is an academy in the Greenshaw Learning Trust.
The Greenshaw Learning Trust is a charitable company, limited by guarantee, with the sole purpose of maintaining and developing academy schools to provide comprehensive and inclusive education for the public benefit. You can find out more about the governance of the Trust on the Trust website here.
The Trustees of the Greenshaw Learning Trust have overall legal responsibility for all the schools in the Trust, but they delegate powers and responsibilities with respect to the governance of each school to its governing body and headteacher. The governing body is formally called a ‘Local Governing Body’, and is a committee of the Board of Trustees that reports to and is accountable to the Board of Trustees under a Scheme of Delegation of governance functions.
The governing body is responsible for the strategic leadership of the school, for oversight of the school’s financial and academic performance, and for holding the Headteacher and school’s senior leadership to account.
Governors are appointed in a number of different ways to reflect the school’s various stakeholders and to bring a range of skills and experience to the governing body:
- Trust governors are appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Greenshaw Learning Trust.
- A parent governor has to be a parent of a pupil at the school at the time of their election and is elected by ballot of all parents and carers of current students.
- A staff governor must be employed by the school as a member of teaching or non-teaching staff and is appointed following a ballot of all teaching staff and/or non-teaching staff as appropriate.
- The Headteacher is a governor ex-officio.
All governors except the Headteacher serve for a term of office of four years, but can be reappointed.
Governors act collectively as the governing body and work closely with the Headteacher and senior leadership team of the school. Governors exercise their powers in a primarily strategic leadership role; they should not get involved in the day-to-day running of the school.
As well as attending governing body meetings, governors serve on governing body committees, take part in governor briefings and development activities, visit the school and meet school staff attend and engage in a range of school activities.
The Headteacher is responsible for the day-to-day running of the school, including the internal organisation, management and control of the school and the direction of teaching and the curriculum, and for the implementation of the policies of the Trust and Local Governing Body.
To learn more about each of our governors, click HERE to view their biographies.
The governing body has agreed a set of rules for how it operates that are set out in its Scheme of Delegation and Terms of Reference.
Details of each governor’s appointment, their roles on the governing body, their record of attendance at meetings of the governing body and its committees and their declarations of relevant interests can be found HERE. This document also contains information about the committees of the governing body.
Find out more or contact us
For further information or to contact the governing body please email the clerk to the governing body:
Email:
Rachel Dunnage, Clerk to Governors rdunnage@greenshawlearningtrust.co.uk
You can also contact the chair of the governing body, Debi Lawson, by emailing dlawson@greenshawlearningtrust.co.uk
Join us
If you are interested in becoming a governor at Broadwater School or at another school in the Trust, please click HERE.