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Governors' and Trustees' Information

Welcome to the Governors' and Trustees' Information Page

As a Local Governing Board, we have responsibility for providing highly effective, searching and ambitious governance through determining, monitoring and keeping under review the school improvement plan and the application of policies, plans and procedures within which the school operates.  To achieve this we work very closely with the Headteacher (who is a member of the board) and the strategic leadership team. 

The strategic function of our Governing Board can be summarised as:

  1. Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction
  2. Holding the Headteacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils, and the performance management of staff, and
  3. Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent.

The Board of Trustees of the True Learning Partnership (TLP) retains its core strategic functions as detailed within the “Scheme of Delegation”.  These can be summarised as:

  1. Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction of the multi-academy trust, and
  2. Overseeing the financial performance of the schools and making sure the trust’s money is well spent.

Please refer to The True Learning Partnership’s website for full details on the Trust Board and how the local governing body works with the Trust to ensure the vision and values of The True Learning Partnership are embedded at a local level.

https://truelearning.org.uk/governance

Please refer to TLP's website for key financial information about the Trust. https://truelearning.org.uk/policies-and-documents

The School Governing Board is made up of the following members:

Name Type Term of office Appointing body Committees

Anita Rolfe

Chair of Governors

08.10.21

08.10.25

Chair from 01.04.2022

Governing Board

FGB, Staffing & Resources

Rob Westbrook

(Vice- chair of Governing Body)

Co-opted Governor

19.11.2021

19.11.2025

Governing Board

FGB, Chair of Staffing & Resources, 

Charlotte Fazackerley  Parent Governor 21.04.2022

21.04.2026
Parents FGB

Martin Shaw

Staff Governor

27.03.2022

27.03.2026

Staff

FGB, Curriculum & Welfare

Cathryn Ingelton Co-opted Governor

10.10.2021

10.10.2025

Governing Board FGB, Staffing & Resources

Matthew Dean

Headteacher

From 01.01.2021

Ex-officio as headteacher

FGB, Staffing & Resources, Curriculum & Welfare

Anne Handby

Staff Governor

03.10.2022

03.10.2026

Staff

FGB, Staffing & Resources

 

Alex McMillan

 

Co-opted Governor

 

26.01.23

26.01.27

 

Governing Board

 

FGB, Curriculum & Welfare, SEND Link

 

Rachelle Donn

 

Co-opted Governor

 

10.05.23

09.05.27

 

Trust Board

 

FGB, Curriculum & Welfare

 

James Shephard

 

Co-opted Governor

 

12.09.23

11.09.27

 

Trust Board

 

FGB. Chair of Curriculum & Welfare

 

Margaret Aldridge

 

Co-opted Governor

 

12.10.23

11.10.27

 

Trust Board

 

FGB

 

Liz Derham

 

Co-opted Governor

 

12.10.23

11.10.27

 

Trust Board

 

FGB

Lee Wallace

 

Parent Governor

 

16.02.24

15.02.28

 

Parents 

 

FGB

 

The Governors below stepped down from the Local Governing Board in the last 12 months.

Name Type Term of office Appointing body Committees

Elizabeth Dockry

 

Coopted Governor

 

 

16.09.21 - 12.09.23

 

 

Governing Board

 

 

 

FGB, Staffing & Resources

 

Janet Ayres

 

Coopted Governor

 

15.03.19

15.05.23

 

Governing Board

 

FGB, Curriculum & Welfare

 

Paul Cormie

 

Co-opted Governor

 

04.09.2019

04.09.2023

 

Governing Board

 

FGB

 

Caron Tinto

 

Co-opted Governor

 

29.06.2022

04.10.2023

 

Governing Board

 

FGB

Our Governing Board structure is made up of the following committees:

1. Full Governing Board

2. Staffing & Resources Committee

3.  Curriculum & Welfare Committee

The Full Governing Board meets 5 times per year.  Committees meet three times in the year.  Dates of our meetings can be found below in the Quality Improvement Framework. There are other committees that meet on a less frequent or when required basis. 

Parents/carers are welcome to attend governing body meetings as observers if they wish.  Please e-mail info@phs.cheshire.sch.uk if you wish to discuss such attendance.  Minutes of meetings are able to be viewed through appointment, please e-mail info@phs.cheshire.sch.uk if you wish to make an appointment to view minutes of a particular governor meeting.

The Governing Board Quality Improvement Framework includes a full breakdown of which committees governors serve on and which aspects of our School Improvement Plan and school teams they link to.  This can be found below.

Each governor takes a lead within their strategic role over an element of our School Improvement Plan and in particular:

  • Mrs Anita Rolfe; Safeguarding Link Governor
  • Dr Rachelle Donn; Pupil Premium Link Governor
  • Mr Rob Westbrook; Health and Safety Link Governor
  • Mr Alex McMillan; SEND Link Governor
  • Sixth Form Link Governor
  • Dr Rachelle Donn; Wellbeing Link Governor
  • Mrs Caron Tinto; Careers Link Governor
  • Miss Charlotte Fazackerley; Sustainability Link Governor; 

A full breakdown of the “register of interests” within the Governing Board can be found below.

Below you will also find our Attendance Register.

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