Welcome from the Governors
Thank you for visiting our site. We hope you will find useful information on our Governors and how we carry out our roles.
The Governors, like the staff and parents, consider each child to be at the heart of all we do. As governors we invest our time to support an excellent Headteacher and Senior Leadership Team and to play our part in the drive to ensure that all pupils receive the best possible education and experience at Bassett Green. We want every child to feel safe and happy in an environment that encourages them to enjoy learning. Our three main responsibilities are: to set the school's aims and priorities; to be confident that the Headteacher provides the leadership to achieve them; and to ensure that the funds the school receives are used to best effect.
Maureen A Smith, Chair of Governors
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Governor name |
Type of Governor and special responsibility |
Period of Office (normally 4 years) |
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Rev Peter Dockree |
Co-opted Governor Community Relations and Safeguarding |
08/12/2015-08/12/2019 |
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Steve Gale |
Staff Governor |
1/06/2019-1/06/2023 |
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Allison Hendry |
Co-opted Governor Finance & Resources Committee |
13/07/2015–13/07/2019 13/07/2019-13/07/2023 |
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Harry Kutty |
Foundation Governor |
1/02/2020-1/02/2024 |
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Vikki Maxwell |
Co-opted Governor SEND |
5/11/2019-5/11/2023 |
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Daniel Pooley |
Parent Governor Buildings and Health & Safety Chair Finance & Resources Committee |
1/12/2016–1/12/2020 |
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Maggie Rance |
Local Authority nominated Governor Safeguarding and Early Years |
26/07/2018–26/07/2022 |
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Rosalind Rowland |
Foundation Governor [Vice-Chair] Co-opted Governor 2015-2017 School Improvement Committee |
1/09/2017-1/09/2021 |
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Maureen Smith |
Co-opted Governor [Chair of Governors] (Foundation Governor 1/09/2017-1/02/2020) |
1/09/2015-1/09/2017 1/02/2020-1/09/2021 |
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Anne Srokosz |
Co-opted Governor Curriculum, School Improvement Committee |
11/10/2016–11/10/2020 |
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Charlotte Stillwell |
Headteacher |
From 1/09/2019 |
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Nilesh Thanki |
Parent Governor EYFS/Finance |
1/04/2019-1/04/2023 |
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Nicola Walters |
Co-opted Governor Pupil Premium & Children looked After School Improvement Committee |
20/02/2018-20/02/2022 |
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Susan Harvey |
Clerk to the Governors |
n/a |
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In office previously: |
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Saffron Garey, Parent Governor |
07/2015-07/2016 |
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Olya Chamberlain, Co-opted |
12/2016-05/2017 |
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Steve Gale, Staff Governor |
04/2014–07/2017 |
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David Trace, Co-opted |
05/2016-07/2017 |
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Angela Kennedy |
09/2017-11/2018 |
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Alex Harvey |
07/2015-01/2019 |
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Sarah Dunlop |
11/2017-05/2019 |
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Fleur Mason |
11/2018-/11/2022 |
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Register of Governor Interests
We are required to publish a listing of any business or pecuniary interests of the governors relating to the school, details of any other schools they govern and any relationships with members of the school staff.
How do we carry out our responsibilities? We are a statutory corporate body which means that no governor may act on their own without proper authority from the full Governing Board. All governors carry equal responsibility for decisions made. Although appointed through different routes, the prime concern of all governors is the welfare of the school.
We have discretion as to how we undertake our responsibilities but are required to constitute ourselves in line with the School Governance (Constitution) (England) Regulations 2003 and to appoint a Chair and Vice-Chair. Governors are drawn from different parts of the community, and our Governing Board comprises staff, parents, a governor approved by the Local Authority, co-opted members of the community and two Foundation governors appointed by the Aspire Trust. This helps to ensure that we have sufficient diversity of views, skills and experience. Working together with the Headteacher, we are responsible for strategic and long-term decisions about the school. Our responsibilities include:
We carry out much of our business through formal meetings of the full board of governors and have two sub-committees that report to the Board: Finance & Human Resources and School Improvement Committee.
Each governor has a special link role and we regularly visit the school to meet with staff and pupils to discuss our areas of responsibility and to consider the school’s progress and future needs. Governors also undertake visits as a group to see the whole school in operation. You can read reports on our activities and what it means to become a governor in the documents at the foot of this page.
We are happy to hear from parents, carers and members of the community. Should you wish to contact the Chair or other members of the Governing Board, please send an email to Chair@bassettgreen.net. Please note that if you have concerns about your child's education or wellbeing, it is important to raise any issues through the Headteacher in the first instance, before contacting the Chair, as it is the Headteacher who is responsible for the internal organisation, management and control of the school.
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