Governing Body

The Local Governing Body consists of representatives from the local community, school staff, parents and local authority. Formal Local Governing Body meetings take place every school term with other smaller committee meetings on a more regular basis.

Our Governors are exceptionally committed, ensuring that the school offers the best education for our children & their families.

The responsibilities of the Local Governing Body include:

• Ensuring clarity of vision, values, and objectives for the school
• Setting and agreeing the school improvement strategy with priorities and targets
• Building an understanding of how the school is led and managed
• Monitoring whether the school is:
  • Working within agreed policies
  • Managing their finances well
  • Engaging with stakeholders
  • Reporting to the Board of Trustees

The Local Governing Body will ensure accountability, by:

• Supporting in the appointment of the Headteacher
• Monitoring the educational performance of the school and progress towards agreed targets
• Alongside the CEO, performance managing the Headteacher
• Contributing to school self-evaluation

The Local Governing Body will oversee financial performance, by:

• Setting the School Improvement budget
• Monitoring spending against the budget
• Ensuring money is well spent and value for money is obtained
• Ensuring risks to the organisation are managed

The Governor’s use financial benchmarking to support their work. Find out how Beck compares to other schools nationally by clicking the link below:

Beck Primary School – Schools Financial Benchmarking – GOV.UK (schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk)

Members of the Local Governing Bodies align to areas of the School Improvement Plan. Below is  an overview of the current responsibilities of members of the Governing Body:

– Yvonne Simpson, Bev Nicholson, Sue Bridges and Maureen Andrews: Strategic Committee

– Rachel Kunze and Yvonne Simpson: responsibility for Maths development

– Rachel Kunze and Faheen Arshad: responsibility for Key Stage 1

– Danielle Brown and Taybar Ibrar: responsibility for Lower Key Stage 2 (Years 3 and 4)

– Anna Ross  and  Beverly Nicholson: responsibility for Upper KS2 (Years 5 and 6) 

Cascade MAT Trustee Information

Beck Primary School is part of Cascade MAT, click here to view Cascade MAT Trustee information and meeting attendance on the Cascade MAT website. To return to this page after you will need to close the tab.

Scheme of Delegation