Governors
The smooth running of a successful school is the Partnership with parents and the community as well as our strong, skilled Governing Body facilitates the smooth running of our successful school.
The Governing Body work in close partnership with the school, and their role is essentially a strategic one: managing the budget and staffing, and helping the school to set and achieve its long-term and strategic aims.
Claygate's Governors are from five categories: parent governors, co-opted governors, a staff governor (plus the Headteacher), a local authority governor and two foundation governors of the Ember Learning Trust. Claygate's Governing Body also has Associate Members, who are not full governors but share their expertise at full GB and committee meetings. All governors serve for a four year term.
Claygate has a very active Governing Body, and all governors visit the school regularly and have active links with classes and subjects.
The Co-Chairs of the Governing Body are Brian Howells and Linda Wells, the Vice Chair is Mark Aulds. The position of Clerk is currently available.
Governing Body, as at January 2018:
|
Governor Details |
Type |
Role/Status |
Start Date |
End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Mr Mark Aulds |
Parent Governor Coopted Governor |
Vice Chair (Sep 2016) Health & Safety Monitoring Resources committee |
21st March 2013 21st March 2017 |
20th March 2021 |
|
Mrs Sinead Clark |
Parent Governor |
Resources Committee |
23rd November 2017 |
22nd November 2021 |
|
Ms Sandra Cunningham |
Head Teacher |
Ex Officio Pay Committee Resources Committee |
1st September 2018 |
|
|
Mrs Aine Gee |
Staff Governor |
Not Applicable |
13th December 2017 |
12th December 2021 |
|
Mr William Harvey |
Associate Member Foundation Governor |
Website Monitoring |
10th March 2015 20th June 2018 2nd May 2018 (status change) |
20th June 2022 |
|
Mrs Victoria Hewett |
Coopted Governor |
7th December 2013 (Staff) 25th November 2014 |
24th November 2018 |
|
|
Mr Brian Hornsby |
Coopted Governor |
Chair Resources Committee |
22nd September 2015 |
21st September 2019 |
|
Mr George Brian Howells |
Coopted Governor Foundation Governor |
Co-chair of Governors Sept 2018 SEND Headteacher Review Panel |
3rd May 2007 25th November 2014 2nd May 2018 (status change) |
24th November 2018 20th June 2022 |
|
Mr (George) Andrew Paterson |
Coopted Governor |
Resources Committee Pay Committee |
25th November 2014 |
24th November 2018 |
|
Mrs Helena Tuffin |
Parent Governor |
Health and Safety Monitoring SEND |
23rd November 2017 |
22nd November 2021 |
|
Mrs Linda Wells |
Coopted Governor |
Co-Chair of Governors Sept 2018 Headteacher Review Panel |
June 2013 25th November 2014 |
24th November 2018 |
|
Catherine Wotton |
Parent Governor |
Child Protection/ Safeguarding Training |
14h January 2016 |
13th January 2020 |
|
Nicola Perrin |
Associate Member |
Resources Committee Pay Committee Headteacher Review Panel |
10th March 2015 LA Governor (Nov 16 to 6/11/17) 7th November 2017 |
9th March 2019 |
| Ada Rugg | LA governor |
Child Protection Safeguarding |
26th September 2018 | 26th September 2022 |
Governors who have served since September 2016:
| Name and Category of Governor |
Committees/ responsibilities |
Date of appointment | Attendance 2016/2017 | Relevant business & pecuniary interests & other governorships |
|
Mr Mark Aulds Co-opted Governor |
Vice Chair of GB; Resources Committee; H&S | 21/03/2013 | 100% | Trustee 1st Claygate Scouts Group; Trustee Esher District Scouts Executive; Trustee and Chair, Friends of Claygate Primary School |
|
Ms Sinead Clark Parent Governor |
23/1/2017 | N/A | ||
|
Mrs Aine Gee Staff Governor |
12/12/2017 | N/A | ||
|
Mr Andrew Gilchrist Parent Governor |
SEND, Data Analysis |
18/12/2013-22/11/2017 | 100% | |
|
Mrs Victoria Hewett Co-opted Governor |
25/11/2014 | 83% | ||
|
Mr Brian Hornsby Co-opted Governor |
Resources Committee (Chair); Staffing Working Group (Chair) | 22/09/2015 | 83% | Treasurer, Claygate Recreation Ground Trust |
|
Mr Brian Howells Co-opted Governor |
Chair of Head Teacher Appraisal | 25/11/2014 (Governor since 2007) | 100% | Trustee, Holy Trinity Church; Trustee, Claygate Village Hall Association, Trustee, The Dylan Howells Foundation |
|
Mrs June Lynch Co-opted Governor |
Pay Committee; Link for Training; Safeguarding | 25/11/2014 (Governor since 2002) | 100% | |
| Mr Andrew Patterson | Pay Committee, Resources Committee |
25/11/2014 (Governor since 2003) |
83% | |
|
Mrs Rowena Sisterson Staff Governor |
04/02/2014-31/08/2017 | 100% | ||
|
Mr Darryl Taylor Head Teacher (Ex Officio) |
All Committees | 01/09/1997 | 100% | Trustee; Friends of Claygate Primary School |
|
Mrs Helena Tuffin Parent Governor |
23/11/2017 | N/A | ||
|
Mrs Linda Wells Co-opted Governor |
Chair of Governing Body, Head Teacher Appraisal | 25/11/2014 (Governor since 2013) | 100% | Trustee; Claygate Village Assocation |
|
Mrs Catherine Wotton Parent Governor |
Staffing Working Group, Safeguarding | 14/01/2016 | 100% | Trustee; Friends of Claygate Primary School |
|
Mrs Nicola Perrin Associate Member |
Resources Committee, Pay Committee (Chair), Head Teacher Appraisal, Staffing Working Group | 10/03/2015 | 67% | |
|
Mr William Harvey Associate Member |
Partnership Working Group | 10/03/2015 | 100% |