Governors

Welcome from our Chairs of Governors

On behalf of the Governing Body, may we welcome you to information about our school governors that you may find useful. Our aim and the focus of all our work is to ensure each child receives a good education through effective teaching and the provision of a broad and balanced curriculum.

Presently Middle Barton Primary School has governors who have been voted for by the parents of the school or recruited from the community because of skills they are able to offer to the Governing Body.  We also have staff governors.

Chairs of Governors

Rachel Houghton  rhoughton@middlebartonschool.org

Patrick Hunter   phunter@middlebartonschool.org

School Governors

The village school is a vital part of the local community and the Governing Body plays an important role in ensuring the school continues to build on the success that the Headteacher and her staff have worked so hard to achieve.

The formal role of the Governing Body is to play an important part in the strategic leadership of the school, working with the Headteacher, and to hold the Head to account. In this section you will find a number of pages with more information about the membership and work of the Governing Body.

If you have Comments, Concerns or Compliments (CCC) you would like to pass on to the school and the Governing Body, please do pass on your feedback. If you have any matters you wish to raise with the Chair of Governors, please post a letter (addressed to the Chair of Governors) to the school office or email rhoughton@middlebartonschool.org or aumney@middlebartonschool.org  marking it for the attention of the Chair of Governors. Thank you.

What is the Core Function of the Governing Body?

The Governing Body is the strategic leader of the school. The main focus of our work is to promote high standards of educational achievement in our school. We aim to build a co-operative, productive and supportive relationship with the head teacher- to ensure that every child gets the best possible education according to their own specific needs. We want the children to achieve their potential through a rich and varied curriculum that develops them as confident, hardworking and creative pupils. We ensure that the school is accountable to the children and parents and to the local community for the quality of the education provided, as well as caring for the professional development of all the staff who work in the school.

We focus upon three core functions:

Firstly, to ensure the school has a clear vision of what it wants to achieve for the children and where the curriculum is appropriate and relevant to all the children’s different needs. We work with the head teacher to ensure that a clear message about the ethos of the work of the school is shared with all who work and learn there, together with its parents and carers and that it is an ethos that is positive, hardworking, caring and inclusive. Most importantly we set the strategic direction in all actions of the school.

Secondly, to hold the head teacher to account for the educational performance of the school and all the pupils. This also includes the performance management of the staff.

Thirdly, to oversee the financial performance of the school to make sure its money is spent wisely and well.