Governance

Our Governors have a strategic role in guiding and supporting the school’s work and challenging further improvement. 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.

The Governors work as a team to fulfil three key roles for the school:

1. Ensure clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction.
2. Hold the school leadership to account for the educational performance of the organisation, its pupils and performance management of staff.
3. Oversee the financial performance of the school ensuring money is well spent. 

St. Andrew’s governors attend six School Governor meetings a year and three committees that meet frequently throughout the school year: 

1. Teaching & Learning - Responsible for educational performance.
2. Resources & Finance - Responsible for overseeing financial performance 
3. Human Resources - Responsible for the wellbeing of staff, 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

Our current governing body is set out in the table below: