Governors

Welcome

On behalf of the Governors of St Mary’s Junior School, welcome to our information pages.

Our Governors are hardworking and committed individuals who strive to ensure that all our children are supported, valued and nurtured in a stimulating learning environment built on a foundation of Christian values and worship.

We work in close partnership with the Headteacher and staff to fulfil our strategic role. We are ultimately responsible for making sure that money allocated to the school is spent prudently and that academic standards are maintained whilst monitoring wellbeing and safeguarding the staff and children.

Our Governors

According to our Instrument of Government, our Governing Body consists of:

2 parent governors elected by parents
1 LA governor appointed by LA
1 staff governor elected by staff
1 Headteacher
6 co-opted governors appointed by governors
2 foundation governors appointed by diocese

A total of 13 governors

Governors 2022/23

Name	Category	Term of Office	Pecuinary/Business Interest	Committee
Samantha Britton	Head Teacher	Ex Officio	Member of Staff	ALL
Christopher Amoss	Co-opted	04/01/2021-03/01/2025	Deputy Headteacher
Rosemary Charsley	Chair of Governors & Foundation	14/05/2019 - 13/05/2023	None	ALL
Andrew Clark	Foundation	14/05/2019 - 13/05/2023	Member of Staff	Christian
Karen Gordon	Co-opted	14/05/2019 - 13/05/2023	Parent & Teacher in Hertfordshire	P&P
Emma Wilkinson	Co-opted	14/05/2019 - 13/05/2023	Teacher in Hertfordshire	P&P
Helena Law	Co-opted	30/01/2019 - 29/01/2023	Member of Staff
Helen Romain	Co-opted	04/09/2019 - 03/09/2023		P&P
Linda Hardman	Local Authority	23/02/2021 - 22/02/2025	Works for HfL
Carrie Dunne	Co-opted	10/01/2022 - 09/01/2026	Published Author, Finance Director Baldock Events Forum
Hayley Duke	Staff	25/11/2020 - 24/11/2024	Member of Staff
Susan Chapman	Parent	11/11/2021 - 10/11 2025	Parent
Katherine Dunstan	Parent	16/06/2022 - 15/06/2026	Parent
Kayleigh Kingsland	Other		Clerk

Governors who stepped down 2020/2021 & 2021/2022

Amandeep Dhillon	Parent	09/10/2020 - 10/02/2022
Holly Robertson	Parent	09/10/2020 - 26/04/2021
Lewis Honour	Parent	05/02/2020 - 04/09/2020
Sue Luckett	LA	30/01/2019 - 27/01/2020
Virginia Di Noia	Staff	02/10/2016 - 01/10/2020
Michael Weeks	LA	30/01/2019 - 05/12/2020
Daniel Looney	Co-opted	28/01/2021 - 13/07/2022
Revd Andrew Holford	Foundation Ex-Officio	17/03/2012 - 31/05/2022

What we do

The Governing Body meets twice a term, and the minutes of these meetings, once agreed can be accessed on this website. We also have a Pay & Personnel Committee who are responsible for making staff pay recommendations to the full body and consider any matters pertaining to staff. This committee meets three times a year. In addition, individual governors have responsibility for particular year groups and areas of the curriculum.

Committee Membership and Responsibilities

Name	Committee	Responsibility	Business/personal interests
Samantha Britton	ALL		Headteacher
Christopher Amoss	Finance		Deputy Headteacher
Rosemary Charsley	ALL	Chair, Wellbeing, Looked After Children, Safeguarding, English and Computing link	None
Andrew Clark	Christian	ICT, School Website School Pupil Parliament	Member of Staff (Teaching Assistant)
Karen Gordon	P&P	Music and Art link	Parent, Teacher in Hertfordshire
Emma Wilkinson	P&P	Vice-Chair, SIAMS, Progress Training/Development	Teacher in Hertfordshire
Helena Law		Wellbeing	Member of Staff (Pastoral Lead)
Helen Romain	P&P Finance	Science link Finance	Daughter Fiona Romain works for North Herts Primary Support Services
Hayley Duke	Finance	Finance	Member of Staff (Business Manager)
Linda Hardman	P&P	Pupil Premium, Vulnerable Groups, SEND, History link	Works for HfL
Carrie Dunne		Infant & Junior School Liaison Governor Maths & Geography link Improvement Planning Curriculum Development	Various Publishers have had published a number of books and schemes of work for primary schools. Should there be any further sales, I would receive royalties. Read, Write, Inc. As the school is taking on the scheme to support reading, I need to declare that I've known the creator of RWI, Ruth Miskin for 40 years. Ruth was also a director of our training company, Richard Dunne Maths Ltd. However, I do not get any royalties from the sales or training. Baldock Events Forum PTA Fireworks The £500 profit from the 2021 fireworks was transferred to The Baldock Events Forum as a donation to The Essex and Herts Air Ambulance. As the Finance Director of the Forum I can verify any such donations to the charity.
Sue Chapman		Training & Development, Strategic Planning, MFL, PHSE	Parent, Works for HfL
Katherine Dunstan			Parent

Working Together

The Headteacher and her staff are responsible for the day to day running of the school. The Governors set aims and objectives for the school with advice from the Headteacher, we also monitor the progress of the school over time. We ask challenging questions to help the development of the school. We visit the school as often as we can so that we have a true understanding of the way the school operates and can develop connections with staff and children.

Governing Body Attendance Record 2021/2022

Name	Committee	Attendance	Committee	Attendance
Samantha Britton	Full Governing Body	100%	P&P	100%
Christopher Amoss	Full Governing Body	100%
Rosemary Charsley	Full Governing Body	100%	P&P	100%
Andrew Clark	Full Governing Body	83%
Linda Hardman	Full Governing Body	100%	P&P	100%
Karen Gordon	Full Governing Body	75%	P&P	100%
Rev Andrew Holford	Full Governing Body	60%	P&P	100%
Hayley Duke	Full Governing Body	83%
Helena Law	Full Governing Body	100%
Daniel Looney	Full Governing Body	60%
Helen Romain	Full Governing Body	100%	P&P	100%
Emma Wilkinson	Full Governing Body	83%	P&P	100%
Carrie Dunne	Full Governing Body	100%
Katherine Dunstan	Full Governing Body	100%