The Governing Body at Brookside Primary School welcomes you!
Governors are a group of volunteers who include parents, staff and members of our local community. Our main role is to promote ongoing improvements in standards throughout the school, in partnership with Equals Trust.
The Full Governing Body meets twice per term to focus on business and financial matters, and school development, pupil welfare and the curriculum. We ensure that school policies are in place and adhered to and have a Policy Working Group to support this. We sometimes focus on more specific areas including Brookside’s future development.
We work with Equals Trust and the Headteacher to plan the school’s long-term strategic direction and to monitor and evaluate pupil progress. We help set the school’s aims and values and are involved in staff recruitment, including the appointment of the Headteacher. Many of our responsibilities carry a statutory requirement, which means that we are obliged by law to carry out our statutory duties.
Our role is sometimes described as a ‘critical friend’. This does not mean that we are there to criticise the Head or the school. Instead we try to ask useful questions to gain a greater understanding of the school and to foster an ethos of continuous improvement.
Here is some information on our Governors. We are a friendly bunch, so please feel free to stop any one of us in the playground, or contact the Chair of Governors via the school office, with any question you might have about the school. If we don’t know the answer there and then, we’ll know someone who does.
Brookside Primary School is a member of Equals Trust Multi Academy Trust.
Details of the trust members and directors, their remit and the structure of the board can be found by clicking on the following here.
Other information on our Governance is available on the Equals Trust website, for example:
Memorandum of association – here
Funding agreement – here
Annual accounts – here
Register of interests for the accounting officer – here
