Governors

The governing body 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 represeatives from the city council with an interest in the education of the children of Hilton Lane Primary. We work together as a team, to ensure the best possible education for all the pupils enabling them to realise and achieve their potential at each stage of their journey throughout school.

We take every opportunity to improve our experience and knowledge by attending training courses. These are provided by the local authority, and by using the skills that the governors already have to provide in-house training and using online training to make sure that the governing body is fully up to date on matters that concern the running of the school, helping to make an efficient governing body. Hilton Lane Primary has a very active governing body with subcommittee meetings once a term or more often if need be and a full governing body 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:

Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction.

Holding the head teacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils.

Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent and provides best value.

Each member of our governing board sits on sub-committees. There are 3 main committees- School Effectiveness, Facilities, Finance and Staffing, that meet every term, and a number of smaller committees that are called when required. Below you can see who sits on which committees, their responsibilities in school and any links with the wider world. You will also find attendance at meetings below that.

Register of personal, pecuniary or business interests

All the governors and associate members of Hilton Lane Primary School listed below 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.

The different categories of governors on our governing board are:

parent governors who have a child in school at the time of their election, and are elected by the parents with children at the school;
staff governors who are members of staff at the school and are elected by their colleagues;
co-opted governors are appointed on to the governing body by the other members because they come from a specialist group, such as the business community or because they possess a particular skill which can contribute to the effective governance and success of the school;
local authority(LA) governors who are nominated by the local councillor and appointed by the governing body;
the Headteacher (HT) is also a member of the governing body by right of the position they hold in the school;
associate members are not actually governors but can be appointed to serve on committees and attend meetings of the full governing body. They do not have the right to vote at meetings of the full governing body but may been given voting rights on the committees that they are a member of, but these rights can only be given by the governing body.

The different committees our governing board has are:

School Effectiveness, Facilities, Finance and Staffing
There are also separate complaints and disciplinary and appeals committees which are convened if they are required.

Name of governor/ associate member	Term of office	Governor type	Details of specific roles held on the GB	Committee membership	Has signed the register	Details of any conflicting interest · business/work · relationships · governor of another school
Mr Lee Wynn	From: 02/07/2016 To: 01/11/2020	LA	Chair of the Governing Board. Named Governor for Teacher Appraisal, More Able, H&S	· Finance and Staffing · Facilities (Chair) from May 18 · Pupil Discipline Appeals · Complaints · Staff Discipline Appeals · HT Appraisal	Yes	None
Mrs Julie Smeaton	From: 11/11/2015 To: 05/03/2018	Parent	Named Governor for SEN, H&S	· Facilities (Chair) · Staff Discipline · Complaints · Pupil Discipline	Yes	· Parent to a child who has now left the school
VACANCY	From: To:	Co-opted		·		·
Ms Michelle Fennymore	From: 05/03/2018 To: 04/03/2022	Parent	Named Governor for Early years from March	· Facilities Staff Discipline School Effectiveness Pupil Discipline		· Parent of child in Year 6
Mr Daniel Rowson	From: 15/06/2018 To: 14/06/22	Parent	Named governor for Maths	Finance and Staffing Staff Discipline- Appeals Complaints Pupil Discipline- appeals		Parent of child in Y1
Mrs Aileen Birrell	From: 01/04/2016	HT	Head Teacher	· School Effectiveness · Facilities · Finance and Staffing	Yes	· NAHT ·
Mrs Tracy Wroe	From: 14/10/2015 To: 08/08/2018	Co-opted	Named Governor for Maths	· Finance and Staffing (Chair) · Staff Discipline Appeals · Pupil Discipline · HT Appraisal School Effectiveness	Yes	UNISON
Rev Ross Garner	From: 14/10/2015 To: 08/02/2018	Co-opted	Named Governor for Equality	· School Effectiveness · Staff Discipline · Complaints · Pupil Discipline Appeals	Yes	· Church of England minister · Husband to another local Headteacher
Mr Paul Henderson-Griffiths	From: 14/10/2015 To: 13/10/2019	Co-opted	Vice Chair of the Full GB Named Governor for Safeguarding and Child Protection, LAC and SEN, Literacy	· School Effectiveness (Chair) · Staff Discipline · Pupil Discipline · HT Appraisal Finance and Staffing (interim Chair) Complaints	Yes	None
Mrs Helen Oliver	From: 14/10/2015 To: 13/10/2019	Co-opted	Deputy Head Teacher	· School Effectiveness · Finance and Staffing	Yes	· National Education Union ·
Mrs Joanne Mortimer	From: 15/12/2015 To: April 2018	Staff	Named Governor for Early Years and Computing	· Facilities	Yes	· UNISON · TA employed at the school
Mrs Grace Jarvis	From: 08/02/2018 To: 07/02/2022	Co-opted	Named Governor for Equality	Facilities Staff Discipline Pupil Discipline Appeals	Yes	St Paul's Peel- licensed lay minister PCC secretary
Miss Rhiannon Humphreys	From: 03/05/2018 To: 02/05/2022	Staff	Teacher at the school and SENCO	Facilities School Effectiveness		National Education Union

Hilton Lane Primary School 2017-18

Attendance at Governor Meetings- Full Governing Body- Those present shown with a /

	18/10/2017	07/02/2018	23/05/2018
Lee Wynn	/	/
Paul Henderson-Griffiths	X	/	X
Aileen Birrell	/	/	/
Helen Oliver	/	/	/
Julie Smeaton	X	X	N/A
Tracy Wroe	X	/	/
Ross Garner	/	N/A	N/A
Joanne Mortimer	/	X	N/A
Michelle Fennymore	N/A	N/A	X
Grace Jarvis	N/A	N/A	/
Elin Humphreys	N/A	N/A	/

Attendance at Governor’s Meetings- Finance- Those present shown with a /

	05/12/2017	23/01/2018 SFVS	27/03/2018	19/06/2018
Tracey Wroe	/	/	/	/
Lee Wynn	/	/	/	/
Aileen Birrell	/	/	/	/
Helen Oliver	/	/	/	/
Paul Henderson-Griffiths	/	/	/	X

Attendance at Governor’s Meetings- Facilities- Those present shown with a /

	29/11/2017	22/03/2018	28/06/17
Julie Smeaton	X	N/A	N/A
Aileen Birrell	/	/	/
Tracy Wroe	/	/	N/A
Joanne Mortimer	/	/	N/A
Lee Wynn	N/A	N/A	/
Grace Jarvis	N/A	N/A	/
Elin Humphreys	N/A	N/A	/

Attendance at Governor’s Meetings- School Effectiveness- Those present shown with a /

	21/11/2017	27/03/2018	20/06/2018
Paul Henderson-Griffiths	X	/	/
Helen Oliver	/	/	/
Ross Garner	/	N/A	N/A
Aileen Birrell	/	/	/
Lee Wynn	/	X	N/A
Michelle Fennymore	N/A	N/A	/
Tracey Wroe	N/A	N/A	X

Register of Pecuniary Interests

Mrs A M Birrell

Mr L Wynn

Mr P Henderson-Griffiths