St. Andrew's CofE (aided) Primary School

Governance

What Do Governors Do?

The school’s Christian vision and values inform, shape, and drive the governance of the school, and as Governors we seek to ensure they are the ‘golden thread’ that runs through all of school life.

Governors have a strategic role in guiding and supporting the school’s work and challenging further improvement. They work as a team to fulfil three key roles for the school:

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

There are immediate and lasting benefits to becoming a school governor. In volunteering your time, you are making a positive contribution to the success of the school and therefore having an impact on the lives of its pupils, staff and the local community. In addition, the role can help you to develop and evidence skills to support your own working life.

If you are interested in becoming a governor in the future, please contact the School Office: admin@st-andrews.brighton-hove.sch.uk

How Do Governors Work?

St. Andrew’s governors attend six School Governor meetings a year. You should expect to spend no more than ten days a year on duties, largely within school hours/early evenings and term time. There would be a slight increase in time commitment should you take on chairing responsibilities for one of the governing body's committees.

St. Andrew’s has three committees that meet frequently throughout the school year: 

1. Teaching & Learning - Responsible for holding executive leaders to account to educational performance of the organisation and its pupils.
2. Resources & Finance - Responsible for overseeing the financial performance of the school and ensuring its money is well spent.
3. Human Resources - Responsible for ensuring the wellbeing of staff and their effective performance management, the safeguarding of our children, and the centrality of equalities across school life

From time to time some Governors may sit on specific panels, including:

1. Head Teacher appraisals
2. Admissions - as a church school, the Governing Body is the Admissions Authority, which involves setting admissions arrangements for the school and agreeing admissions applications.

Vacancies

We currently want to recruit two people with finance expertise (one Co-Opted Full Governor and one Associate Member).

Please use the link to find out more.

https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/jobs/volunteering/become-school-governor

To watch a video please click below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIPjYiIYnJs&t=20s