Governor Information | Newhall Park Community Primary School

Governance

Our aims

To help shape the vision and direction of the school.
To ensure that all pupils and staff are safe.
To ensure that the school fulfils its statutory duties.
To have a good understanding of the strengths of the school and the areas for development.
To challenge and support the Leadership Team.This includes holding to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils, the performance management of staff and to oversee the financial performance of the school and ensure value for money.

What we do

In addition to five Full Governing Body meetings a year, smaller groups of governors meet each term in committees to consider various aspects of running the school:

School Improvement Committee
Staffing, Finance and General Purposes Committee

Instrument of Government.pdf

Terms of Reference

School Governors 2019-2020

The Chair of Governors is Stephanie Nuttall who can be contacted via the school office.

The Safeguarding Governor is Sanobir Mammood.

Name	Role	Appointment Date	Term of Office	Appointed By	Staffing, Finance & General Purpose Committee	School Improvement Committee	Meetings attended over previous academic year out of a total number of applicable meetings
Lesley Bartlett	Staff	04.03.2019	4 years	FGB	No	Yes	9/10
Meena Bains	Parent	12.03.2018 Resigned 25.10.19	4 years	FGB	No	Yes	7/10
Maria Blackshaw	Co-opted / Vice Chair	12.03.2018	4 years	FGB	Yes Chair of Committee	No	9/9
Paul Causier	Co-opted	03.02.2015 Resigned 28.11.2019	4 years	FGB	Yes	No	9/9
Karren El Kheir	Headteacher	01.09.2018	4 years	FGB	Yes	Yes	14/14
Sanobir Mammood	Co-opted	12.03.2018	4 years	FGB	No	Yes	10/10
Cllr Kausar Mukhtar	Local Authority	15.07.2019	4 years	Nominated by LA FGB Appointed	Yes	Yes	0/1
Stephanie Nuttall	Co-opted / Chair	09.12.2019	4 years	FGB	Yes	No	8/9
Harvindar Panesar	Parent	09.11.2016	4 years	FGB	No	Yes	6/10
John Ruding	Local Authority	08.07.2015 Term of office ended 08.07.2019	4 years	FGB	Yes	Yes	6/7
Paul Terry	Co-opted	15.07.2019	4 years	FGB	Yes Chair of Committee	Yes	1/1

Number of meetings during academic year 2018-2019:

Full Governing Body - 5

Staffing, Finance & General Purposes Committee - 4

School Improvement Committee - 5

The Clerk to Governors is Jane Viney.

Also in attendance at meetings:

Chris Conway - Deputy Headteacher

Theresa Blakeborough - School Business Leader

Nicola Mason - School Business Leader

Minutes of all Governors’ meetings are kept in the School Business Leaders office and are available to be viewed on request.

Register of Business and Pecuniary Interests 2019/20

NAME	OWN INTERESTS	INTERESTS OF FAMILY MEMBERS
Lesley Bartlett	Employed at Newhall Park Primary School Trustee of the STEP Youth Health Project	None
Maria Blackshaw	Head of Business Services at Morses Club PLC Membership of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supplies	None
Theresa Blakeborouh	School Business Leader at Newhall Park Primary School Member of NAHT	Employed at NHP Primary School
Chris Conway	Deputy Head at Newhall Park Primary School	None
Karren El Kheir	Head Teacher at Newhall Park Primary School Member of NAHT	None
Sanobir Mammood	Employed as a teacher/phonics lead at Dixons Marchbank Primary School Member of NUT Member of NAHT Edge union	None
Nicola Mason	School Business Leader at Newhall Park Primary School Member of NAHT Co-opted Governor at Whitechapel Primary School	Employed at NHP Primary School
Stephanie Nuttall	Employed by Lloyds Banking Group – Financial Services	None
Harvinder Panesar	Employed as Information Technologist at the University of Bradford	None
Cllr Kausar Mukhtar	Local Councillor	None
Paul Terry	Member of NAHT and Local Vice President	None

Previous governors in the last 12 months

Name	Role	Appointment Date	Term of Office	Appointed By	Staffing, Finance & General Purpose Committee	School Improvement Committee	Meetings attended over previous academic year out of a total number of applicable meetings
Meena Bains	Parent	12.03.2018 Resigned 25.10.19	4 years	FGB	No	Yes	7/10
Paul Causier	Co-opted	03.02.2015 Resigned 28.11.2019	4 years	FGB	Yes	No	9/9
John Ruding	Local Authority	08.07.2015 Term of office ended 08.07.2019	4 years	FGB	Yes	Yes	6/7

NAME	OWN INTERESTS	INTERESTS OF FAMILY MEMBERS
Meena Bains	Employed at HPE Process Leeds LS27 7JZ	None
Paul Causier	Employed at Lower Fields Primary School	None
John Ruding	None declared	None