This page allows you to find out about our Governing Body. 

The Governing Body has three strategic core functions:

• ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction;
• holding leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils; and the performance management of staff;
• overseeing the financial performance of the organisation and making sure that its money is well spent.

Whilst the Governing Body operates a circular model; we still operate a committee for Attendance; Pay and Health and Safety.  We also have a governor who is solely responsible for Finance and reporting back to the FGB after meetings with the school bursar and headteacher.

Finance - Mr D Noble

Attendance - Mrs R Green; Mr M Pitts and the headteacher

Safeguarding - Mrs H McAdam

Pay - Mrs R Green; Mr M Latham and the headteacher

Health and Safety - Mr D Noble and the headteacher

Headteacher Performance Reviewers - Mrs R Green and Mr D Noble

The links below enable you to find out more information about our governors including their business and financial interests within school, roles in other schools and the structure and responsibilities of the governing body and committees.  There is also an attendance chart for full governing body meetings this academic year.

Further Information about Governors

Attendance

The Governing Body meets six times a year and operates in a circular model - agenda focus is decided at the start of each term and is linked to the time in the financial and academic year cycle.

Attendance at Full Governor Body Meetings - 2022- 23

p - present; a - apologies received; n - non attended.

Resignation received during academic year 2022-23:

Mr D Clark (3.10.22) - attendance at 3.10.22 meeting; no interests in school but local business owner.

Mrs K Johnston (20.1.23) - no attendance during 2022-23; no interests in school but local nursery owner that feeds the school.

New elections during academic year 2022-23 - Mrs H McAdam, Mrs B Bond and Ms D Wells.

Monitoring

A key role for any governor is monitoring.  On a regular basis, governors formally monitor activities in school to ensure that the strategies, polices and decisions of the Governing Body are being implemented appropriately and to learn from this implementation.  These monitoring activities change each year as they are linked to the school development plan and current actions in school.  Each governor is also a link governor for certain subjects/areas.

Further Information

 Our clerk to the Governors is Mrs Sharon Kelly who can be contacted on 01522 681923 or Sharon.kelly@stmichaels.lincs.sch.uk

Governors are responsible for overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure that its money is well spent.  Here you can find a link to our 'schools financial benchmarking' page.

Our dedicated page on the schools financial benchmarking service

As a school we recognise that a diversity of thought, voices and perspectives is essential to good governance and the effective running of any organisation.  We collect diversity information from our Governors and, depending on current data, can use this to:

• target recruitment to address gaps in experience and diversity
• develop and adapt board practices to ensure full participation
• prioritise training and awareness-raising in identified areas
• address potential 'blind spots' through seeking wider advice and perspectives on current and upcoming opportunities, challenges and risks.

However, we are unable to publish this information as it would mean that individual members of our governing body could be identifiable.