Welcome to the Governors’ section of the website! We are lucky to have a Governing body who are involved and regularly visit the school.

This is the page to come to for news about the governing body and it will be updated regularly. 

Our school Governors are made up of a range of different people. Some people are members of the general community and some others are parent governors. 

Governors come into school regularly or speak with the school when visits are not possible due to current restrictions. We also hold our committee and Full Governing Body meetings online via the virtual meeting technology to ensure we can still support Sarah and the team and keep up to date with school planning and strategy.

Mr John Bucci or Trudi Archer regularly meet with our caretaker Mr Roy Witcomb and carry out Health and Safety inspections of our classrooms and site.

Our priorities have been to work with Mrs. Willes in her role as Head Teacher and her team to support decisions and actions taken to ensure your children get the best education during their time in Calmore Infant School.

I’d like to share with you a brief description of the role of the governing body and what we do:

• We help the school to set high standards by planning for the school’s future and setting targets for school improvement
• We keep the pressure up on school improvement
• We are a critical friend to the school, offering support and advice
• We help the school respond to the needs of parents and the community
• We make the school accountable to the public for what it does
• We work with the school on planning, developing policies and keeping the school under review
• We exercise our responsibilities and powers in partnership with the headteacher and staff
• We regularly visit the school when we are able and talk to pupils to find out about their learning and teachers to discuss subject areas and development plans.

But:

• We don’t intervene in the day-to-day management of the school (unless there are weaknesses in the school, when the GB has a duty to take action.)

We also form part of the school’s senior management team focusing on monitoring and raising standards of achievement, establishing high expectations and promoting effective teaching and learning, so that all pupils achieve their best.

Regards

Trudi Archer (Chair of Governors)

Our Governors
 

Type	Name	Position and responsibility
Co-opted	Mrs Trudi Archer	Chair of Governors/SEND/Health & Safety Governor
Co-opted	Mr Mark Gurd	Well-being Governor/ Pupil voice / Finance & Staffing /
Co-opted	Vacancy	Literacy/Development & Training Governor
Co-opted	Mr Kevin Curtis	Maths Governor /HTPM
Co-opted	Mrs Melissa Filby	Curriculum/Safeguarding Deputy/Art/Music
Local Authority	Dr Chris Prior	Pupil Premium/Safeguarding/LAC Governor
Co-opted	Mr John Bucci	Health & Safety Governor
Co-opted	Mrs Victoria Nichols	History / PE Governor
Co-opted	Mrs Carina Rehnberg	Vice Chair / EYFS Governor
Parent	Vacancy	Finance/Music/Computing Governor
Parent	Vacancy
Staff	Mrs Sarah Willes	Head teacher & Sports Funding
Staff	Mrs Adele Weaver	Deputy Head teacher & SENCO

Meeting Attendance Full Governing Body

Y = Attended, N = Apologies Accepted, NA = Apologies not Accepted, NS = No Apologies sent, ? = Attendance Not Marked, Blank = Not Required, CA = Consent for absence, - = Not applicable

Governor	Governor Type	12.10.22	29.11.22	01.02.23	15.03.23	15.05.23	10.07.23
Trudi Archer	Co-opted Governor	Y	Y	Y	N	Y
John Bucci	Co-opted Governor	N	Y	N	Y	Y
Kevin Curtis	Co-opted Governor	Y	N	Y	Y	Y
Joanne Dorricott	Co-opted Governor	N	Y	NS	N	N
Matt Edwards		Y
Matt Gardner			Y	Y	Y	CA
Mark Gurd	Co-opted Governor	Y	N	Y	Y	Y
Joanne Lawford	Clerk		N	Y	Y	Y
James Mann	Co-opted Governor	Y	N	NS	Y	Y
Victoria Nichols	Parent Governor		Y	Y	Y	Y
Christopher Prior	Local Authority Governor	Y	N	Y	Y	N
Carina Rehnberg	Parent Governor		Y	Y	Y	Y
Charlie Skeels	Co-opted Governor	Y	N	Y	Y	Y
Adele Weaver	Staff Governor	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Sarah Willes	Headteacher	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y