Governors - Riverside Primary School

Governors

The purpose of governance is to provide confident and strong strategic leadership which leads to robust accountability, oversight and assurance for educational and financial performance. Governance has three core functions:

Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction
Holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils, and the effective and efficient performance management of staff
Overseeing the financial performance of the organisation and making sure its money is well spent.

Within a multi-academy trust such as Lionheart, governance is led by the Trust Board, with some responsibilities delegated to both the Local Governing Body of the school and Hub Governing bodies across a cluster of schools.

Riverside Primary School has a Local Governing Body. Contact the Governing Body via the Chair of Governors, Mo Cox.

Further Trust and Governance Information

Riverside Governors 2020-2021

Name	Governor Type	Date of Appointment (for 4 years)	Key Responsibilities	Skills	Skills Attendance at LGB Meetings 2019 - 20
Chris Swan	Ex-Officio	16.09.20	LAT Governance Professional	Education Governance Strategy	N/A
Mo Cox	Parent	01.09.2017	Chair SMSC & British Values	HR	3/4
Liz Green	Community	05.11.2019	Parent Voice Education & Data	Education	3/4
Tricia Owen	Community	22.09.2017	Pupil Voice SEND & LAC Education & Data	Education	4/4
Nicole Nightingale	Parent	05.11.2019	Parent Voice Anti-bullying	Business Management Charity Governance	2/2
Hannah Bolstridge	Staff	01.09.2017	Staff Voice	Primary Education	2/4
Chelsea Williams	Ex-Officio	01.09.2016	Headteacher	Headteacher	4/4
Karen O’Neill	Community	19.03.2019	Pupil Premium Finance	IT Special needs	4/4
Dimple Mistry	Community	05.11.2019	Wellbeing	Project development IT	2/2

Previous Governors 2019 - 2020

Previous Governors 2019 – 2020
Name	Governor Type	Appointment Date	Resignation Date	Attendance at LGB Meetings 2019 - 20
Lorraine Orinda	Community	24.05.2019	27.09.2020	0/1
Chris Swan	Community	19.06.2020	31.08.2020	4/4

Trust Organisation

Scheme of Delegation

The Trust operates under a Scheme of Delegation agreed by the Trust Board.

Trust Governance across all layers

Trust Board

Vision and ethos | Strategic direction | Risks and Opportunities

Finance | Overall responsibility

Operations Governing Body (OGB)

HR | Estates | IT | Marketing & Communications | Enterprise

| Operations | Business

Local Governing Bodies (LGB)

Teaching & Learning | Pupil & Parent & Staff experience Safeguarding | Business & Community links

Each school

Trust Board

The Trust Board has overall responsibility for all governance in the trust and carries the final accountability for this. The focus of the Board is on the big picture, working with the trust Executive Team to set the overall vision for the trust, lead strategically and identify and respond to risks and opportunities.

Operations Governing Body

The Operations Governing Body is made up of trustees, governors and community governors with specific skills, experience and insights linked to the operations work of the trust.

Local Governing Bodies

Each school has a Local Governing Body, which holds the school to account for the quality of teaching and learning, the experience of pupils, parents and staff, the processes to ensure safeguarding, and informal links with the local community and businesses. LGBs ensure that school leaders are mindful of the school’s context and work within the overall vision of Lionheart Academies Trust.

Members

The Members of a trust are not involved in the practical running of the organisation and do not take part in governing body or Board meetings, except as occasional observers. Their role is to ensure that the Board keeps its core priorities at the centre of its work – providing education for children and young people – and retains its stated ethos and values.

Members appoint some of the trustees and, in exceptional circumstances, can remove trustees who they have appointed.

Local Governing Body: Roles and Responsibilities of LGB Governors

Membership	Meetings	Key roles	Attending
2 Parent Governors 1 Staff governor Head Executive Head (where appropriate) 5-8 community governors	LGB meetings 4 meetings per year in line with data snapshots No committees Working parties as needed Trust Finance meetings 3 per year, attended by Finance Governor, Head and finance lead, CEO and CFO (or their representative).	Business links & careers Community Links Education & Data Finance & grants - Sports Premiu, Catch Up Parent Voice Pupil Premium Pupil Voice Safeguarding SEND & Looked After Children SMSC & British Values Wellbeing – staff and pupils EYFS (Primary) 6^th form (if relevant)	Senior leadership team Occasionally and where appropriate: CEO, trustees
			Performance Management & Pay
			Pay Committee – agree pay on recommendation from Head following moderation by trust leadership – one autumn meeting Performance management of Head by CEO, external advisor, Chair of LGB & Chair of Trust
Holding the school to account for standards:	Pupil, Parent & Community	Compliance	Ambassadors & Vision
Receive reports on: Development Plan updates End of year results analysis Data snapshots & KPIs including vulnerable groups, more able etc. Information comparing school to national data External quality assurance reports Pupil Premium impact reports Primary Sports Funding impact reports Catch up funding impact reports Attendance & Behaviour Wellbeing support First hand knowledge: Learning walks linked to Development Plan priorities, mainly as part of trust reviews Annual learning walk to audit safeguarding Annual SEND learning walk Governor links to key subjects Ofsted: Meet with Ofsted to discuss governance in this school, along wit trustee representative	Stakeholder voice: Parent forums & PTAs School Council Community networking Pupil Experience: Curriculum offer Enrichment – curriculum and before/after school clubs etc. Support school in ensuring curriculum and pupil offer match the context of the school’s community Parents as co-educators – hold school to account for: Communication with parents Parent workshops re. curriculum, esafety, etc. Complaints: Carry out Stage 3 complaints process (meeting with Chair or another governor)	Risk: Receive and question risk register Escalate concerns to Board Compliance – hold school to account for: Safeguarding & Prevent British Values Equality Exclusions: Monitor exclusions, behaviour partnership arrangements Receive representations from parents in relation to exclusions Local Policies: Agree local policies Monitor implementation of trust/hub policies	Ambassadors: Hold school to account for PR, marketing, pupil recruitment Act as ambassadors for the school Act as ambassadors for the Trust Build positive relationship with PTA Build networks with stakeholders and alumni to benefit the school and build a benevolent community Build networks with businesses & useful community/education providers Encourage school to engage in appropriate fundraising activities and enterprise Vision & Ethos: Ensure the vision for the school matches the community context, within the wider Trust vision Holding the school to account for a positive, aspirational ethos