Governors

Our Governors

The Governing Board Vision

The Governing Board of Hilton Lane Primary School works with the school community to create an environment where children and staff feel safe and are able to achieve their full potential. The governors share the school’s stated vision for learners: 

At Hilton Lane Primary School, our vision is for every child to feel happy and safe with a strong sense of belonging - they will look back on their time with us and smile. Our children have things to say and places to go, they know that they will always be listened to and what they say will be valued. The Hilton Lane Family value what each and every child has to offer. Together as a team, we support and challenge our children to help them to become resilient individuals who have the highest expectations of themselves in all aspects of their work and life. We want our children to exceed their potential and aspire to their goals, knowing that we are right behind them as their champions.

Governors enable this vision by providing challenge and strategic support to ensure: 

• rigorous monitoring of standards of teaching and learning;  
• effective procedures and practices for the safeguarding and wellbeing of children and adults;  
• robust financial management.

Governors of Hilton Lane Primary School are all volunteers who work to achieve the best possible outcomes for the children in terms of their learning and development to succeed in a world after Hilton Lane. Further information on the work of the Governing Board can be found here.

The Governing Board 

The Governing Board of Hilton Lane Primary School is made up of a group of volunteers, both from within the school (staff and parents) and the wider community, and representatives from the Local Authority with an interest in the education of our children. We work together as a team, to ensure the best possible education for all the children, enabling them to realise and achieve their potential at each stage of their journey through school.

We take every opportunity to improve our experience and knowledge by attending training courses.  Hilton Lane Primary has a very active Governing Board with subcommittee meetings once a term or more often if need be and a full Governing Board meeting takes place once a term.

The Governing Body can be contacted in writing through the school office. Please mark any letters for the attention of the Chair of Governors.

The governing body’s work focuses on three core strategic functions: 

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

Each member of our governing board sits on sub committees. There are two main committees: 

• School Effectiveness 
• Resources (facilities, finance and staffing) 

The Governing Board Structure

Historical governors

The Governing Board 3 year Action Plan

HLPS-Governing-Board-Action-Plan-Updated-2.xlsx

Register of Personal, Pecuniary or Business Interests

All the governors and associate members of Hilton Lane Primary School listed have signed the Register of personal, pecuniary or business interests. This is a declaration of any personal or business interest they or any relative or person closely connected with them, have with businesses or other organisations that may have dealings with the school. This could for example include owning or having a relative work for a business that had dealings with school; having a relative working in or for school or being a governor of another school.

If any interest a governor has could be seen to cause a conflict of interest, they would be asked to withdraw from any decision making concerned. This is to ensure that our governors can always be seen to be putting the interest of the school first. 

If there is a potential conflict it is shown in the table. This table also shows the category of governor each person is, any specific role on the governing body and the committees they are members of. 

More information about the requirements to complete and sign the Register of personal, pecuniary or business interests can be found on Salford City Council’s Governor Services web pages at http://www.salford.gov.uk/schoolgovernors.htm where you will also find the links to all the other local authority’s (LA) governing bodies’ personal, pecuniary or business interests registers. 

Record of Declaration 

 GB Confirmations Summary

Attendance Registers 

Full Governing Board Meeting  

Resources Committee Meetings 

School Effectiveness Meeting