Our Aims and Accountability
1 Purpose
Our purpose is to support and challenge the school to provide the best possible education for its pupils. We have three statutory strategic functions:
- to ensure the school has clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction;
- to hold the Headteachers to account for the educational performance of the school, and for the performance management of staff;
- to oversee the financial performance of the school to ensure its money is spent well.
Ofsted judges our effectiveness by reference to these functions. It uses The School Inspection Handbook to consider how well we:
- carry out the three statutory duties and understand the boundaries of our roles
- support the school in preparing the children for life in Britain and ensure it promotes respect for people of differing beliefs, cultures and lifestyles
- ensure the school’s clarity of vision, ethos and strategic planning
- contribute to the school’s self-evaluation and understand its strengths and weaknesses
- understand data about the pupils, particularly the data dashboard, and ensure the school acts upon the information it shows
- assure ourselves of the rigour of the assessment process
- are aware of the impact teaching has on learning and progress in different subjects and year groups
- challenge and hold the Headteachers and other leaders to account for improving the quality of teaching, pupils’ achievement and pupils’ behaviour and safety, and that we do not hinder school improvement by failing to tackle key concerns or by not developing our own skills
- ensure the school uses the pupil premium and other resources to overcome barriers to learning
- ensure solvency and probity and that the financial resources made available to the school are managed effectively
- monitor performance management systems and understand how the school makes decisions about teachers’ salary progression
- are accountable, including in terms of recruitment of staff, governance structures, attendance at meetings, and contact with parents and carers.
2 Accountability and Responsibility
We are accountable to:
- the children
- their parents and guardians
- the Local Education Authority
- the wider community.
Together with the Headteachers we bear overall responsibility for determining the aims and conduct of the school, deciding how it should develop, and approving policies and procedures which support that development. This strategic responsibility means that we:
- seek a shared understanding of the school’s strengths and weaknesses
- assist in the planning and agenda for school improvement
- self-evaluate, so that we can ably plan further development
- monitor school performance through school visits, meetings with subject leaders and examination of pupil data
- use external reports about the school to drive improvement
- endeavour to reflect the views of parents and the wider community by engaging with them
- ensure we understand the school and confirm that our strategic aims are being met by spending time on site during the school day in order to build and refresh our knowledge.
To this end governors serve for a term of four years. We meet as a Full Governing Body twice a term, plus each committee, Resources and Curriculum meet twice a term, we also have Pay committees and Head Teacher Performance Review committees, plus adhoc parents committees, all committees report back to the Full Governing Body.
Governor Attendance Record 2020-2021
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Governors |
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Name |
Governor Category |
Appointing Body & Date of Appointment |
Term of Office Expiry Date |
Position Held |
Register of Interests |
Alison Chamberlain |
Parent |
Parent Election 30.01.2018 |
25.01.2026 | Member of the Curriculum Standards & Learning Committee. Safeguarding Governor. |
Parent of Mengham Junior pupil |
Odele Davies |
Headteacher |
Governing Body 2.09.2017 |
Not Applicable | Headteacher | Mengham Junior employee |
Lorraine Easton |
Co-Opted |
Governing Body 16.01.2020 |
15.01.2024 | Member of Resources Committee. SEND Governor. GDPR Governor. |
Parent of Mengham Junior pupil. Mengham Junior employee |
Alex Emery |
Staff |
Staff Election 21.09.2021 |
20.09.2025 | Member of the Curriculum Standards & Learning Committee. | Mengham Junior employee |
Julie Fraser |
Parent |
Parent Election 8.02.2018 |
7.02.2022 | Co-Chair of the Governing Body. Member of the Curriculum Standards & Learning Committee and Pay Committee. English & SEND Governor |
Parent of Mengham Junior pupil |
| Garath Greaves | Co-Opted |
Governing Body 27.03.2019 |
26.03.2023 | Member of the Resources Committee. Member of the Headteacher Performance Panel. Health & Safety Governor |
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Edward Harrison |
Headteacher | Staff Election 15.09.2015 resigned 31.08.2017 Governing Body 2.09.2017 |
Not Applicable | Headteacher | Mengham Junior employee |
| Robert Inkpen | Co-Opted |
Governing Body 26.09.2019 |
25.09.2023 | Chair of the Curriculum Standards & Learning Committee. IT/Website Governor. History/Geography Governor. |
Parent of Mengham Junior pupil |
| Liam Davis | Co-Opted |
Governing Body 21.09.2021 |
20.09.2025 | SIP Quality of Education | Governor of Glenwood School |
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Peter Griffiths |
Co-Opted |
Governing Body 21.09.2021 |
20.09.2025 | Member of the Headteacher Performance Panel. SIP Behaviour |
Trustee of Heart of Hayling Boxing Academy |
Bruce Mowatt |
Co-Opted |
Governing Body 20.03.2017 |
24.03.2025 | Chair of the Resources Committee. Member of the Headteacher Performance Panel. Maths Governor. |
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Chris Wotton |
Local Authority |
Governing Body 3.03.2021 |
2.03.2025 | Co-Chair of the Governing Body. Member of the Resources Committee and Pay Committee. DTG Governor. Forum governor |
Parent of Mengham Junior pupil |
| Governors who have resigned in the last 12 months | |||||
| Nikki Farrage | Staff | Staff election 04.09.2017 |
03.09.2021 | Member of the Curriculum Standards & Learning Committee. | Mengham Junior employee |
| Sue Lewis | Co-opted | Governing Body 22.07.2018 |
21.07.2022 | School Council Governor. Chair of the Pay Panel. |
Governor of Mengham Infant School (resigned) Governor of Bancroft Primary School (resigned) |
| Heather Limb | Co-opted | Governing Body 26.09.2019 |
25.09.2023 | Member of the Headteacher Performance Panel. | Husband governor of Mengham Infant School (resigned) |
| Christine Moore | Co-opted | Governing Body 22.07.2014 |
21.07.2022 | Chair of the Headteacher Performance Panel. | |
