Senacre Wood Primary School

At Senacre Wood Primary School, the Governing Body, as well as the Headteacher and staff, actively support the ethos of the school and endeavour at all times to ensure that this is an integral part of all aspects of school life.

The members of the current Governing Body come from a wide background of experience and have a huge range of talents and skills, all of which they have committed to the support and well-being of the school. Governors are appointed in several ways and represent many different areas of the community. Their role is to support and advise on the work carried out within the school. Through meetings, both formally and informally, the Governors keep up-to-date with the daily running of the school, as well as helping prepare and implement, school policies.

Governors attend three Full Governing Body Meetings per school year, as well as sitting on our two sub-committees: The Curriculum Committee and the Finance Committee.

They are looked upon as 'Critical Friends'.

To be a Governor of Senacre Wood Primary School is both an honour and a privilege and the current team welcome you to the website, which we believe to be an informative and positive introduction to our school.

Members of the Governing Body

Name	Governor Type	Office		Committees	Roles	Interests
Name	Governor Type	Appointed	Expires	Committees	Roles	Business	Financial
Mrs Joanne Mason	Parent	5th October '23	4th October '27	Finance	Chair Finance Chair Sports Funding Pupil Premium SEND Finance PE	None Declared	None Declared
Mrs Emily Sweeney	Headteacher	1st January '17	Ongoing	Finance Curriculum	Headteacher	None Declared	None Declared
Mrs Maria Dixon	Staff: Deputy Headteacher	2nd February '22	1st February '26	Curriculum	Teaching & Learning Lead	None Declared	None Declared
Rev. Joyce Addison	Co-opted	17th September '20	16th September '24	Curriculum Pay and HTPM Committee	Staff Wellbeing RE/PSHE	None Declared	None Declared
Mrs Suzanne Ruffle	Co-opted	18th January '22	17th January '26	Curriculum Pay and HTPM Committee	English Science Humanities	None Declared	None Declared
Mr Aaron Kapala	Parent	7th January '22	6th January '26	Curriculum	Vice Chair Chair of Curriculum Committee Health and Safety Cyber Security Maths Arts	None Declared	None Declared
Mrs Leanne Garrett	Parent	4th October '22	3rd October '26	Curriculum	EYFS Computing	None Declared	None Declared
Mr Temitope Olufiranye	Co-opted	16th March '23	15th March '27	Finance		None Declared	None Declared
Ms Julie Whincup	LA Governor	13th July '23	12th July '27	Curriculum Pay and HTPM Committee	Safeguarding Attendance	None Declared	None Declared
Mrs Wendy Hilder	Co-Opted	30th November '23	29th November '27	Finance		None Declared	None Declared
Mrs Kate Christey	Clerk

Historical members

Name	Governor Type	Office		Committees	Roles	Interests
Name	Governor Type	Appointed	Expires	Committees	Roles	Business	Financial
Ms Christine Ayre	Co-opted	1st September '23	18th September '23	Finance		None Declared	None Declared
Mr Colin Ridgers	Local Authority	11th July '19	10th July '23	Curriculum	Interim vice chair English Pupil Premium & Catch-up funding	None Declared	None Declared
Mr Colin Ridgers	Associate Member	11th July '23	19th July '23	Curriculum	Interim vice chair English Pupil Premium & Catch-up funding	None Declared	None Declared
Mr Neil Brown	Co-opted	7th December '21	30th August '23	Finance	Health & Safety	None Declared	None Declared

Attendance

Governor Attendance 2022-2023

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Diversity

At Senacre Wood Primary School, we recognise that a diversity of thought, voice and perspective is essential to good governance and the effective running of our school.

We are gathering data on the diversity of our governors, including data on age, gender and ethnicity. We will use that data to inform recruitment and training needs and we strive to ensure there is always a diverse range of perspectives around the table to support robust decision making.

We do not publish any diversity information that may disclose personal information about individual governors. This is due to our legal obligation to protect their personal data.