The School Governing Body

The Governing Body is responsible for the decision making that affects the school. There are currently twelve governors including Mrs Paisley. The full Governing Body meets twice a term and the committees each meet once a term. There are four committees which deal with certain aspects of the school.

The Headteacher and Chair of Governors are members of all committees. Each committee has a Chair who is marked below in bold.

The Chair of Governors is Mr Steve Withers who can be contacted via the school.

Please note that our Governing Body has recently admitted new members who have yet to be assigned to their committees.

 

Buildings and Grounds

Committee members : Ann Byers, Bruce Richards, Kirstie Somerville, Steve Withers

Curriculum and Pastoral

Committee Members: Claire Armstrong, Alison Bedford, Steve Carter, Brendan McArdle

Finance

Committee Members: Ann Byers, Bruce Richards, Kirstie Somerville

Staffing

Committee Members: Alison Bedford, Shiona Bickley, Steve Carter, Brendan McArdle

For more detailed information about the structure and remit of the Governing Body and the terms of reference for each committee, please click here.

Business Interests

At the start of every academic year the governors are asked to declare any business interests or financial interests. In September 2016 no interests were declared. In addition, at the start of every meeting, Governors are asked to declare any interests in agenda items for that particular meeting. If any are declared, these are minuted.

Attendance at Meetings

The table below shows the attendance at meetings from September 2016 to date.

Attendance details will be added as each set of minutes is approved. This may mean a delay as minutes are approved the term after they are written.

 

Ref	Meeting	Date	Apologies	Accepted	Notes
37	Full Governors	04/10/2016	Rev Carter	Yes
S19	Staffing	11/10/2016	None
F19	Finance	18/10/2016	None
C19	Curriculum & Pastoral	01/11/2016	None
B19	Buildings & Grounds	08/11/2016	Mr Richards	Yes
38	Full Governors	06/12/2016	Mr B McArdle	Yes
39	Full Governors	10/01/2017	Miss Atkinson	Yes
S20	Staffing	24/01/2017	None
C20	Curriculum & Pastoral	7/02/2017	Miss Atkinson	Yes
B20	Buildings & Grounds	28/02/2017	Miss Byers	Yes
F20	Finance	14/3/2017	None	Yes
40	Full Governors	4/04/2017	Rev, Carter, Mr Scales, Mr Withers	Yes (all)
F21	Finance	2/05/2017	None
41	Full Governors	16/05/2017	Mrs Bedford, Mr McArdle and Mr Richards (all work commitments) Mr Withers - holiday	Yes (all)
S21	Staffing	6/06/2017	Mrs Bedford  (work commitments)	Yes
42	Full Governors	4/07/2017	Paul Walker Rev Carter	Yes n/a
43	Full Governors	26/09/2017	None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minutes

There are two meetings of the Full Governing Body per term.

The most recent approved minutes of the Full Governing Body can be found here.

Please note that there was not a meeting of the Full Governing Body in December 2017. It was cancelled.

Policies

The Governing Body is responsible for keeping the school's policies up to date. There are a great number of these concerning teaching and learning, safeguarding and staffing as well as the physical aspects of the school and its finances. Those most pertinent to parents have been identified and can be found by clicking here. If you have any concerns that are not covered by these policies, please get in touch with Mrs Paisley.

Governing Body Structure:

Head teacher:

Mrs J Paisley

Local Authority Governor, appointed by the Local Authority:

Mr B McArdle

appointed by the Governing Body 22 March 2016, term ends 21 March 2020

*Mr McArdle was an Associate Member between September 2015 and 21 March 2016.

Foundation Governors, appointed by the Diocese of Carlisle:

Miss A Byers

appointed by the Diocese 10 November 2015, term ends 9 November 2019

Rev S Carter (ex officio)

Mrs V Drouet

appointed by the Diocese 14 December 2017, term ends 13 December 2021

Co-opted Governors, appointed by the school's Governing Body:

Mrs Shiona Bickley

appointed by the Governing Body 4 April 2017, term ends 3 April 2021

Mrs K Somerville

appointed by the Governing Body 1 September 2015, term ends 31 August 2019

Mr S Withers

appointed by the Governing Body 1 September 2015, term ends 31 August 2019

 

Parent Governors, elected through a ballot of parents:

Mrs A Bedford

appointed by the Governing Body 7 December 2013, term ends 6 December 2017

re-appointed by the Governing Body, 19 January 2018, term ends 18 January 2021

Mr B Richards

appointed by the Governing Body 7 December 2013, term ends 6 December 2017

re-appointed by the Governing Body, 19 January 2018, term ends 18 January 2021

Ms R Hogarth

appointed by the Governing Body, 19 January 2018, term ends 18 January 2021

Staffing Governor, elected by school staff:

Miss C Armstrong

elected by the school staff and appointed by the Governing Body 12 December 2017, term ends 11 December 2021

Associate Members, appointed by the school's Governing Body:

Mr I Newton

Mr Newton attends Buildings and Grounds meetings. He is the site manager of the school.

Clerk to the Governors:

Mrs C McDonald (who attends the Finance Committee meetings)

 

 

School Council

Above: Last term's school councillors (new ones still to be elected!)

At St Michael’s we have a School Council. Each class votes for two representatives to join the council each term. It is the job of the councillors to work together on projects, represent the ideas and opinions of their class and feedback to the classmates about what has been discussed in council meetings. We meet at least once every half term.

The School Council has previously organised events such as a non-uniform day and cake sale to support Comic Relief, a sponsored “walking marathon” to support fire-fighters, non-uniform day for Children in Need. In March 2016 the School Council won a major young enterprise competition called “Bright Stars”. You can find further information about this here. The money raised through the project enabled us to make a donation to our chosen charity, Eden Valley Hospice, and also enabled us to buy some playground equipment. The Tuck Shop, which was set up as part of this project, is still running and is a very popular part of life at St Michael’s.

We are currently in the process of electing this year's Council and will update this page shortly.