Our Governing Body - Nettlesworth Primary School

Governors work closely with headteachers, school staff and representatives from the local authority (LA). We have a full compliment of Governors who work very hard to support and “challenge” the school. role-of-a-school-governor

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Governor Committee Structure

For further information on their roles and responsibilities please click on the name below:

Name	Representing	Term of Office	Committee	Responsibilities	Register of Interests	Relationship to Staff
Mr Aaron O'Roarty - Chair	Co-opted	03/10/2024-02/10/2028	Head Teacher Performance Management Appeals Personnel	Chair of Governors and Chair of various committees Safeguarding/Looked After Children, Online Safety, GDPR, Attendance	Children attend the school
Mrs Diana Barclay-	Co-opted	07/11/2020 - 06/11/2024	First/Pay Review Curriculum & Standards Headteacher Performance Management	Pupil Premium/Catch Up Curriculum spending and impact Safeguarding/Looked After Children SEND	No interest to declare
Miss Leanne T Owens	Co-opted	05/02/2022 - 04/02/2026	Curriculum and Standards	-More Able, Gifted and Talented Inclusion Literacy/History	Past Pupil
Heather S Liddle	Co-opted	07/11/2020 - 06/11/2024	Curriculum and Standards Finance and Premises First/Pay Review Head Teachers Performance	-Health and Safety -Rights Respecting Schools	Daughter is a member of staff	Mrs H Liddle is mother of Miss Chloe Liddle- Teaching Assistant at school
Mrs Claire L Boden Vice Chair	Parent	15/05/2021 - 14/05/2025	Finance and Premises Appeals Personnel	Vice Chair of Governors taking over from the Chair in their absence -GDPR -Numeracy -ASP/Data -RSE/PSHCE	Children attend the school	M Boden is C Boden's husband

Mr Mark Lee -	Local Authority	21/05/2022 - 20/05/2026	Curriculum &Standards Finance & Premises	PE/Sports Premium Designated Cultural Governor Designated Remote Learning Governor	Children attend the school	Head Teacher is Mr Lee's wife
Mrs Donna M Lee - Headteacher	Staff	23/01/2018 - ongoing	Curriculum & Standards Finance & Premises	-	Children attend the school.	Mr M Lee is Head Teacher's husband.
Mr Chris Aspinall	Parent	21/01/2025-20/01/2029			Children attend the school	Mr Aspinall is Mrs Aspinall's husband
Mr Martin Boden	Parent	02/07/2022- 02/07/2026	Appeals Finance and Premises	Careers Science	Children attend the school	C Boden is M Boden's wife
Mrs Caroline Strong	Associate Member	02/07/2022- 02/07/2026	Personnel First/Pay Review	Designated Remote Learning Governor	Children attend the school
Mr Craig Graham	Staff	23/09/2024-22/09/2028	Curriculum and Standards	-Numeracy -Music -Pupil Premium -Remote Learning
Mrs Kelly Lofthouse	Parent	22/02/2021- 21/02/2025	Curriculum and Standards First/Pay Review	-RE -Art and DT -Transition -Mental Health and Well-Being -MFL	Children attend School

A Chair for each distinct committee will be appointed at the beginning of the meeting.

Recent Resignations:

Mrs Jane Hindmarch (Resigned Jan 2025)

Mrs June Corrrigan (Resigned Oct 2024)

Ms Papi Taieb (Resigned July 2023)
Mrs Rachel Myers (Resigned Feb 2021)

Statutory Guidance for Governing Bodies

Nettlesworth Primary School adhere to the statutory guidance from the Department of Education. This means that governing bodies must have regard to it when carrying out duties relating to the constitution of governing bodies in maintained schools.

The Constitution of Governing Bodies of Maintained Schools (2017)

If you require further information on the roles and responsibilities of School Governors or you are interested in becoming one, visit the Durham County Council website School Governor section.

Governor Attendance

Schools are required to display a record of Governor attendance at meetings for each school academic year.

EDGS Governor Virtual Meeting Policy_

KEY
✓ – Attended meeting
A/A – Apologies sent and accepted by meeting
N – Did not attend
n/a – Not a member of the committee

Record of Attendance 2024-2025

Name	Finance and Premises Committee Meeting 16.9.24	Full Governing Body Meeting. 14.10.24	First Pay Review Committee Meeting 14.10.24	Finance and Premises Committee Meeting 23.10.23	Full Governing Body Meeting 27.1.25
Mrs Diana Barclay	-	/	/		/
Mrs Claire Boden-Vice Chair	a/a	a/a	-		/
Mr Chris Aspinall	-	-	-	-	a/a
Mr Craig Graham	/	a/a	-		/
Mr Mark Lee	a/a	a/a	-		a/a
Mrs Heather Liddle	a/a	a/a	a/a		/
Mr Aaron O'Roarty - Chair	-	/	/		/
Mrs Kelly Lofthouse	-	/	/		/
Mrs Jane Hindmarch	-	a/a	-		Resigned
Mrs Donna Lee	/	/	/		/
Mrs Leanne Edwards	-	/	-		a/a
Mrs Caroline Strong	-	a/a	-		/
Mr Martin Boden	/	a/a	-		a/a

Archived Attendance
You can also view previous years attendance on our website.

Committee Terms of Reference

Finance and Premises Committee

No. 2116

Chair: Martin Boden
Terms of Reference
To meet termly
Members: Donna Lee, Heather Liddle, Claire Boden, Mark Lee

In conjunction with the Headteacher to draft the first formal budget plan of the financial year, for approval by the full Governing Body
To establish and maintain an up-to-date 3 year financial plan
To monitor income and expenditure, including virement decision, significant anomalies from the anticipated position, and report termly to the Governing Body
To ensure the school operates within the financial regulations of the County Council and the requirements of the DfE School Financial Value Standard
To monitor expenditure of all voluntary funds kept on behalf of the Governing Body
To annually review charges and remissions policies and expenses policies
To make decisions in respect of service level agreements
To make decisions on expenditure following recommendations from other committees
To prepare financial statements for inclusion in any reports to parents
To ensure as far as is practical that any Health & Safety (H&S) issues are appropriately funded in accordance with priorities.
To ensure that Pay Review Committee and Pay Appeal Committee decisions are appropriately funded
Consider and promote income generation

Meetings: Termly to coincide with Oracle
Disqualifications: when there may be a conflict of interest; a fair hearing is required; or a pecuniary interest. Associate members may not vote

Virement Limits

Expenditure Limits

Limit set for Headteacher without prior written approval of Chair or Governing Body.

£ 5,000

Any items of expenditure up to

£ 5,000

Limit set for Headteacher with approval from Chair of Governors.

£1,000 to £5,000

Above this limit if item was previously notified to the Governing Body.
Prior Finance Committee or Chair of Governors approval (whichever is the soonest) to be sought outside of this limit and reported at the earliest opportunity.

Prior Finance Committee or Chair of Governors approval (whichever is the soonest) to be sought outside of this limit and reported at the earliest opportunity.

Personnel and Pupil Discipline Committee

Chair: Aaron O’Roarty
Terms of Reference
To meet at start of every Autumn Term, and then as required Members: Claire Boden, Caroline Strong.

To carry out the annual review of the staffing structure
To oversee the appointment procedures for all staff
To keep under review work life balance, working conditions and well-being including monitoring of absence
Teaching staff appointments
Review temporary contracts on an annual basis
To ensure that a Performance Management Policy is in place
Consider staff Leave of Absence (only if necessary after delegation to Headteacher)
To act as the pupil discipline committee for fixed term and permanent exclusions.
Complaints.

Delegation to the Headteacher
School Staffing (England) Regulations 2009.

Appointment:

Temporary support staff
Supply
Non-teaching staff (delegated together with one Governor).

Dismissals:

No delegation for dismissals (to be dealt with by the First/Pay Review Committee).

Curriculum Committee

Chair: Cllr Heather Liddle
Terms of Reference
Members: Leanne Edwards, Jane Hindmarch, Mark Lee, Donna Lee, Diana Barclay, Kelly Lofthouse

To make recommendations to the Governing Body and review the school’s curriculum statement and policies as required in the light of the LA curriculum statement and statutory obligations regarding the National Curriculum
In collaboration with the staff to provide information about how the curriculum is taught, evaluated and resourced
To review the policy and provision for sex education and to make recommendations where necessary
To review the policy and provision for collective worship and RE and to make recommendations where necessary
To monitor and review information about school performance and reporting to parents accordingly to statutory requirements
To contribute to the School Development Plan and SEF Curriculum/performance review including target setting and monitoring mechanism.
Curriculum/performance review including target setting and monitoring mechanisms
Act as a Pupil Discipline Committee for permanent/fixed term exclusions
Parent Complaints

Disqualifications: Pecuniary Interest

Admissions Committee

Chair: Aaron O’Roarty
Terms of Reference
Members: Donna Lee

To determine within statutory provisions and the Governing Body Policy whether any child shall be admitted to the school
To review admissions arrangements and to make recommendations for changes to the Governing Body.

Safeguarding Committee

Chair: Aaron O’Roarty
Terms of Reference
Members: Donna Lee, Diana Barclay

Ensure the school is fulfilling its responsibilities regarding Child Protection and the requirements of ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’
To consider and determine the school’s policy relating to E-Safety
To consider the school security policy.

Disqualifications: Pecuniary Interest

Headteacher’s Performance Review

Chair: Aaron O’Roarty
Terms of Reference
Members: Diana Barclay, Heather Liddle.

To arrange to meet with the Education Development Partner to discuss the Headteacher’s performance targets
To decide with support from the EDP whether the targets have been met and to set new targets annually
To monitor throughout the year the performance of the Headteacher against the targets
To make recommendations to the appropriate committee in respect of awards for the successful meeting of set targets.

First / Pay Review Committee

Chair: Diana Barclay
Terms of Reference
Members: Heather Liddle, Kelly Lofthouse.

To act in accordance with the Teachers’ Pay Policy adopted by the Governing Body
To report to the Finance Committee on Pay Review-related expenditure.
To make any decisions under the personnel procedures adopted by the Governing Body, eg disciplinary, grievance, ill health, capability etc where the Headteacher is the subject of the action
To make any decisions relating to a member of staff (other than the Headteacher) under the Personnel procedures adopted by the Governing Body.
Staffing Reductions.

Appeals Committee

Chair: Aaron O’Roarty
Terms of Reference
Members: Martin Boden, Claire Boden

To consider any appeal against a decision to dismiss a member of staff made by the First/Pay Review Committee
To consider any appeal against a decision under the personnel procedures adopted by the Governing Body (eg disciplinary, pay review, capability for teachers etc)
To consider any appeal against selection for redundancy.

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