Parent Governor Election

Election of parent governor

Dear Parent/ Carer

Election of parent governor

The role of a school governor is extremely important and many essential decisions about this school are taken by our Governing Board.  School governors work together with the school leadership team to continually improve the education for every child at our school. 

I have received nominations from five parents who are willing to become school governors.  I hope you will vote in the election to select three parent governor. The parents elected by you will serve as a parent governor for four years.

Please read the personal statements carefully and bearing in mind the role of the school governor, choose the candidate you feel would be best suited to the position.  

Parent Governor Election Voting Instructions

• Voting will close on Friday 4^th March 2022 9.00am.
• In the event of a tie the returning officer will decide the election by the drawing of lots.
• Votes will be counted on Friday 4^th March 2022 the result will be announced by Monday 7^th March on the website and via email/text.

 I hope you will participate, the governing body plays a key role in keeping our children safe, supporting and holding leaders to account.

Please scroll down to read all FIVE statements and at the end of the statements you will find the form where you can select your preferred candidates. 

Yours sincerely

Donna Lee

Head Teacher

Candidates’ personal statements 

Personal statement for Martin Boden

I have served as a Governor at NPS for 4 years sitting on the Finance & Appeals committees. My work as an operational manager within Chemicals Production is useful to add Health, Safety and Environmental input to the school. I assist the Headteacher as required during Ofsted inspections.

Personal statement for Mark Lee

My work background includes Culture, Sport, Finance, HR and Facilities Management; I feel this variety provides a range of support to the school management team on its route to success! I have been a governor for the two previous Ofsted inspections and have represented the governing body in other inspections/audits.

 

Personal statement for Ashley Henderson

I have two children currently attending Nettlesworth Primary and I am eager to support the school to provide the best possible balanced education for our children. I have a degree in Education, I am a qualified teaching assistant and I currently work in the civil service as a decision maker.

 

Personal statement for Papi Taieb

I facilitated staff recruitment, appraisal reviews and Head Teacher Performance Management. I have an active role in supporting the Art, Sciences, Foreign Language Curriculum and Outdoor School Activities. I have been part of panel of interviewees in our most recent Ofsted inspection as well as for out NACE reaccreditation and IQM award and Right Respecting Gold Award.

Personal statement for Julie Showler

I would like to be considered as a Governor as the school has been a big part of my life having attended myself and now my child attending. I would like to be more involved in supporting to make it the best it can be.

 

Please complete the form on the link below. Many Thanks

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Random Acts of Kindness Day is a day to celebrate and encourage random acts of kindness. Each class was given the opportunity to pick a different class name from a hat; once they had chosen their class they got to work deciding on what random act of kindness they wanted delivering to their door at 2pm! The deliveries were AMAZING 🙂

• The children of class 1 spoke and wanted to deliver Class 4 a make your own ice cream station “just like the Pizza Hut one”:

• Class 2 wanted to deliver a balloon and a Movie to every child in Class 5:

 

 

• Class 3 decided to randomly surprise Class 1 with popcorn, sweeties and a Movie:

• Class 4 had the job of making Class 3 smile….. and their delivery of a chocolate fountain certainly did:

• Class 5 went for a delivery to match the weather too… Class 2 had Ice creams knocking on their door:

 

#MAKEKINDNESSTHENORM

For more information, see the link below:

Random Acts of Kindness | Random Acts of Kindness Day 2022

 

UNCRC Article 31 – The Right to relax and Play

This afternoon we had so much fun; singing, dancing and playing party games in the school hall for our Spring Time Disco. It was great to get together with our friends across the school as a treat for all of the hard work we have done so far this year. The smiles on the children’s faces were huge. Happy Half term – you all deserve it 🙂

This week, the Rights Respecting Champions and members of our Breakfast Club have been working together to broaden our breakfast menu, by adding some new healthy options. They created a questionnaire to find out which foods breakfast club members would like to try. Using their pupil voice, they then discussed the outcomes with the breakfast club staff and today everyone enjoyed scrambled egg and beans on toast!

UNCRC Article – 12 – right to have a say in all matters affecting them

 

UNCRC Article 28 – Every child has the right to an education.

Well done to the homework heroes in Class 4 who received a special treat for bringing their homework in all term!

 

County Durham Fun and Food programme is providing activities with healthy snacks and meals for children and young people this half term.

All activities are offered through Voluntary and Community Sector partners and schools who will be operating in a Covid secure way. There is a range of activities planned across County Durham.

Find out what’s on in your area at www.durham.gov.uk/FunAndFood

UNCRC Article 29 – Develop a child’s talents

Class 1 had lots of fun working with Papi, we have been working hard this half term to remember how to say ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’ in French as well as how to say ‘mam’ and ‘dad’. We did some fantastic role play for greetings and even learned a new little rhyme that we can sing each morning 🙂

 

A big thank you to our governor Papi for taking the time to come into class to teach us French phrases. In class 2 we are very good at saying ‘Je m’appelle’. Thank you again Papi 😊

 

We had a lovely visitor for our French lesson this week. Papi was kind enough to come in and teach us all of the French colours. She was so impressed with how class 3 listened and learned the colours. It was an amazing experience for class 3!

 

In Class 4, we had lots of fun with French picture and word flashcards. Merci Papi.

Home Readers

This half term we have tried hard to read at home at least once a week. Each week we receive a leaf to add to our class beanstalk if we remember! Mrs Aspinall and Mrs Hindmarch promised a chocolate fountain treat if we could reach 60 leaves before half term. Well today we smashed our target and managed 61 leaves a week before our deadline! We were super excited to sample the chocolate fountain 🍫 yummy 😋

If pizza is always your go-to favorite food, your day is finally here; 9th February, is National Pizza Day and to celebrate this we made our own pizzas from scratch! Mrs Morton was sooo happy as pizza is her favourite 🤩 

We looked at where in the world Pizza was first invented and found out it was in Naples, Italy!

 

We also found out that to make the dough rise you need a living thing, called good bacteria, to make the dough grow!

Our favourite part was adding our favourite toppings to the pizza bases …. not forgetting eating them after they were cooked! Mmmmmm delicious 😋🍕👩‍🍳🇮🇹