Governors

Every school has a governing body who, together with the headteacher, manage the school. They monitor the school curriculum, decide how the budget is spent and have a responsibility for interviewing and appointing staff. They meet twice each term as a body, and also in regular committee meetings managing: Personnel; Finance; Premises and Policy and Curriculum.

The school's latest Ofsted report can be found an the Ofsted website.

The Governing Body was reconstituted on 1st Sept 2004 and has a complement of twelve governors. There are different categories of governors serving specific terms of office. The current governing body is listed below.

Governor Name	Type of Governor	Position Term of Office
Mrs J Reeves	Local Education Authority (Chair)	4 years
Mrs K Warriner	Local Education Authority (Vice Chair)	4 years
Mrs R Gaskin	Staff Headteacher	1 year
Mrs M Holl	Staff	1 year
Mrs S Sinclair	Staff	1 year
Mrs D Sims	Community	4 years
Ms R Heelan	Community	4 years
Mr P Wilson	Community	4 years
Mrs C Goldfarb	Parent	3 years
Mrs S Jones	Parent	3 years
Mr N Steward	Parent	3 years
vacancy	Parent	3 years

Mrs C Keightley is the Clerk to the Governing Body and is responsible for taking minutes of the full Governing Body meetings and circulating any necessary paperwork.

The Majority of governors are lay people with a wide range of experience and expertise. The Governing Body holds two full meetings a term and works through delegated committees that meet more regularly.

Southbourne Infant is a happy and successful school achieving good results and the governors’ role is to help maintain and improve that high quality of standards and provisions.

The Governing Body is actively involved in all aspects of the school, overseeing the management which is primarily delegated to the Headteacher, setting the financial budget, agreeing targets and implementing the School Improvements Plan. Training is available through the Local Authority to help governors fulfil their role in all areas from curriculum matters to building maintenance.

Several of our governors come in to school to help in the classroom and others attend school workshops and other functions when work commitments allow.

Being a governor can be hard work and time consuming but being involved and help to make a difference can be hugely rewarding. If anyone is interested in becoming a governor or has any questions regarding governance, the Chair of Governors or Headteacher will be only too pleased to help and can be contacted through the school.