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Governors

The Department for Education’s Governance Handbook assigns three core functions to the governing board:

1. Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction

2. Holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils, and the performance management of staff

3. Overseeing the financial performance of the organisation and making sure its money is well spent

Polehampton C of E Infant School and Polehampton C of E Junior School together formed the Polehampton C of E Schools Federation with a single governing board on 1^st September 2011.

Both schools converted to academy status and became part of the Keys Academy Trust on 1st September 2020.

The local governing board of the Polehampton C of E Schools is comprised of eleven governors and has three main committees:

Quality of Education Committee
Finance and Human Resources Committee
School and Community Committee

For information about the governance in The Keys Academy Trust, please see here

To contact our governors, please email governors@polehampton-inf.wokingham.sch.uk

Committee Membership:

Type	Name	Committee	Area of Responsibility
Foundation	Joelle Cooper	Member of Finance and HR
Foundation	VACANCY
Trust	Henry Carruthers	Member of Finance & HR
Trust	James Smith	Chair of Governors, Chair of Finance & HR Address: c/o Polehampton Infant School, Hermitage Drive, Twyford, RG10 9HS	GDPR Governor Development
Trust	Brian Rogers	Member of School & Community	Health and Safety Safeguarding/ Looked-After Children
Trust	Nicola Bradshaw	Chair of Quality of Education	Foundation Stage Governor
Parent - Junior	Anna Lippett	Vice Chair of Governors Chair of School & Community	Listening and Wellbeing Governor
Parent - Infant	Sarah Tang	Member of Quality of Education	Inclusion Governor
Executive Headteacher	Helen Ball	All committees
Staff	Carl McGlone	Member of School & Community
Foundation	Barbara Carr	Member of School & Community Member of Quality of Education
Associate Governor	Jenny Scott	n/a	Head of School - Infant
Associate Governors	Helen Medcalf Liz Castell	n/a	Heads of School - Junior
	Lisa Spooner	n/a	Clerk to the Governors

Terms of Office:

Name	Start Date	End Date	Term	Appointed By
James Smith	01/09/2020	31/08/2024	4 years	Governing Board
Barbara Carr	13/09/2021	30/09/2025	4 years	Diocese/Trust
Nicola Bradshaw	01/09/2020	31/08/2022	2 years	Staff / Governing Board
Brian Rogers	01/09/2020	31/08/2022	2 years	Governing Board
Joelle Cooper	01/09/2020	31/08/2024	4 years	Diocese/Trust
VACANCY				Diocese/Trust
Henry Carruthers	01/09/2020	31/08/2023	3 years	Governing Board
Helen Ball	01/09/2020	ongoing	ongoing	Ex Officio
Sarah Tang	01/09/2020	31/08/2022	2 years	Parents
Anna Lippett	01/09/2020	31/08/2022	2 years	Parents
Carl McGlone	01/09/2020	31/08/2022	4 years	Staff

Governors’ prior academic year attendance:

Name	Local Governing Board Meetings 2020/2021	Committee Attendance 2020/2021
James Smith	6/6	8/8
Helen Ball	6/6	15/15
Joelle Cooper	5/6	4/6
Nicola Bradshaw	6/6	6/6
Brian Rogers	4/6	2/3
Sarah Tang	6/6	7/7
Anna Lippett	5/6	5/5
Carl McGlone	4/6	3/3
Reverend Anna Harwood	5/6	6/6
Henry Carruthers	4/6	5/6
Barbara Carr	n/a	n/a

Previous Governors:

The following governors left the Governing Body in the last twelve months:

Category	Name	End date
Foundation	Reverend Anna Harwood	24.04.2022

Register of Other Interests as at September 2021

Relevant interests:

Name	Other Interests
James Smith	Trustee of David George Trust
Nicola Bradshaw	Staff
Brian Rogers	Trustee of Twyford Snooker Club
Joelle Cooper	Parent, Employee of Wokingham Borough Council
Helen Ball	Staff, Trustee of David George Trust
Anna Lippett	Parent
Sarah Tang	Parent, Employee of NFER
Rev Anna Harwood	Trustee (Polehampton Charity, Church House Charities), Twyford and Ruscombe PCC, Hurst PCC
Carl McGlone	Staff, Trustee of David George Trust
Henry Carruthers	Grandparent

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