Governance
The Board of Governors has a membership of 14 committed professional volunteers (including those with a background in education, human resources and finance, church representation and parents).
The board is made up of governors with different skills, and has re-constituted to 14 members following a skills audit.
The Governing Body has corporate powers. Individual governors have no powers on their own.
The Governing Body is appointed in accordance of the Instrument of Governance and must uphold the Trust Deed of the Foundation that underpins this Church School.
They meet as a full Board at least 3 times a year. To be efficient, groups of governors meet as committees under Terms of Reference. Four committees regularly meet termly.
To ensure that the full board is strategically and efficiently organised the chairs of each committee meet as a Chairs' Committee half-termly before the termly full board and the cycle of termly committee meetings.
The governors have a Governors Handbook that explains in detail the processes and procedures governors follow (available from the Documents section of this website.
Correspondence to the Chairman should be directed c/o the Clerk to Committees, School Office, St Margaret's CE Primary School, School Road, Orford, Warrington, WA2 9AD.
The school must publish up to date:
- details of the structure and responsibilities of the governing body and its committees
- information about each governor, including their:
- full name, date of appointment, term of office, date they stepped down (where applicable) and who appointed them (in accordance with the governing body’s instrument of government)
- business and financial interests
- governance roles in other educational institutions
- any material interests arising from relationships between governors or relationships between governors and school staff (including spouses, partners and close relatives)
- attendance record at governing body and committee meetings over the last academic year
PECUNIARY BUSINESS INTERESTS
A list of pecuniary interests for governors is available here: Governor's Pecuniary Business Interests
GOVERNING BOARD COMMITTEE STRUCTURE & MEMBERSHIP
Schools should publish the membership of committees. Here is the membership chart of our committees.
Governor Committees Membership Chart
GOVERNING BOARD ATTENDANCE
Schools should publish the attendance record of each governor at full governing body and committee meetings over the last academic year. Here is the attendance for our governing board for the last academic year.
GOVERNING BOARD MEMBERSHIP & INTERESTS
Name | Category | Appointing Body | Term of Office | Positions Held | Business and financial interests / Background |
Gloria Warburton | Foundation Governor | Diocese (PCC) | 30/08/2020 | Chair of Board | Ex-teacher |
RobGibson | Co-opted Governor | Governing Body | 04/10/21 | Chair of Curriculum | DHT of Gorse Covert Primary |
Elizabeth Shone | Foundation Governor | Diocese (PCC) | 12/05/21 | Vice Chair of Board, Chair of Admissions | Magistrate (North Cheshire Bench) |
Brian Furness | Foundation Governor | Diocese (PCC) | 30/08/2020 | Chair of Finance | Project Management Civil Engineering |
Catherine Preece | Foundation Governor | Diocese (PCC) | TBC | Chaplain to a High School | |
Vacancy | Foundation Governor | Diocese (PCC) | TBC | ||
Ann Elphick | Foundation Governor | Diocese (PCC) | 24/01/22 | Lecturer at Chester University | |
Rev Daniel Howard | Foundation Governor | Ex-officio (Diocese) | 31/08/21 | Chair of Premises | School Chaplain |
David Chadwick | Foundation Governor | Diocese (PCC) | 22/02/21 | Chair of Staffing | Ex-Senior HR Manager for NHS |
Hayley Johnson | Staff Governor | Elected by staff | 29/09/2021 |
Teacher at school |
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Nicola Howell | Parent Governor | Elected by parents | 16/07/2019 |
Parent of Ex Year 6 pupil Teaching Assistant and Midday Assistant |
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Claire Williams | Parent Governor | Elected by parents | 07/06/2021 | Parent of Y1 & Y3 pupils | |
Joanne Hewson | LA Governor | LA Appointed | 04/10/2022 | Principal of a Primary Academy | |
Carsten Kressell | Associate Member (NLG) | Governing Body | 29/06/2019 | Attendance at Committees advisory, no voting rights. |
Chair of St Barnabas CE Primary School, Warrington. Director of Kressel Regeneration Ltd |
Chris Metcalfe | Headteacher | Ex-officio | N/A | Executive Headteacher | Director of Innov8ed Foundation Ltd, Trustee of St Michael's Academy, OFSTED Inspector, Exec Head Cinnamon Brow CEPS |
Matthew Boyle | Observer | Governing Body | Reviewed Annually each Academic Year | Head of School | |
Nicola Heap | Observer | Governing Body |
Reviewed Annually each Academic Year |
Clerk to Committees | |
NO LONGER IN OFFICE | |||||
Full name | Category | Appointing Body | Date of Appt | Term of Office | Date stepped down |
Clare Howarth-Platt | Co-opted Governor | Governing Body | 21/10/2019 | Moved out of area | |
Gary Hughes | Foundation Governor | Diocese (PCC) | 31/08/2017 | Ordination Training | |
James Koltan | Foundation Governor | Diocese (PCC) | 21/06/2018 | Family reasons | |
Mark Eccleston | Local Authority Governor | LA Education Committee | 12/05/2018 | Y6 Pupil left school | |
Caroline Tress | Parent Governor | Elected by parents | 11/06/2017 | Office ended | |
Juliette Legge | Foundation Governor | Diocese (PCC) | 19/07/2015 | Office ended | |
John Ansell | Foundation Governor | Diocese (PCC) | 10/09/2016 | Office ended | |
Rev Canon Stephen Boyd | Foundation Governor | Ex-officio (Diocese) | Moved parishes | ||
Anna Mawby |
Governor Diocese (PCC) | Foundation | 21/01/2021 | Resigned due to work commitments | |
Milton Wimpenny | LA Governor | LA Appointed | 25/01/2021 | Resigned due to other commitments |