Meet our Governors  

Welcome to the Governors section of our website.

Governors play an important role in the strategic direction of the school guiding and supporting the school’s work and encouraging further improvement. They are often referred to as ‘critical friends’, monitoring and evaluating performance, supporting and questioning the senior management team and ensuring that the annual School Improvement Plan meets the needs of pupils, and is delivered comprehensively.  As critical friends of the schools, governors should be able to recognise and celebrate success as well as ask questions.

Whilst it is a Head Teacher’s job to run the school, the Governing Body has three main areas of responsibility:

·         to ensure that the school has a clear vision, ethos and strategic direction;

·         to hold the headteacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils;

·         to oversee the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent

.         to maintain and develop the Catholic Christian ethos of the school as a witness and a service in our community 

The Governing Body also has a responsibility to account to everyone who has an interest in the performance and standards achieved by the school: pupils, parents, the Diocese, Local Authority and HM Inspectors.

Governors meet as a full governing body once every half term. We also have Admissions, Curriculum & Standards, Leadership & Management and Pay Committees.

Individual governors are responsible for areas and subjects across the school and undertake regular monitoring activities which are reported back to the full governing body.

There are five categories of Governor:

·         Foundation Governors (7), who are Catholics nominally appointed by the Bishop

·         Head teacher (1)

·         Local Authority Governor (1) generally nominated by the Full Governing Body and appointed by the LA

·         Parent Governors (2) elected or co-opted by parents

·         Staff Governor (1), elected or co-opted by staff.

If you would like to find out more about being a Governor, please contact Kat Pevreall, clerk to the Governing Body on clerk@stsavioursrcpri.co.uk for more information.