The composition of the Board of Governors is set out below.
Following the reconstitution of the Board in July 2019, we have 13 Governors. This allows us to bring together a strong and focused Board, with the necessary skills, experience and passion for Springfield to support the school in its expansion to the 3-form entry across all year groups.
SPRINGFIELD GOVERNORS | |||||
NAME | Declaration of Interest | Governor Type | Appointed by | Term of Office Start Date | Term of office end date |
Mrs Alison Chard | None declared - 30/11/2020 | Head teacher | Ex-Officio | N/A | N/A |
Cllr Mike Freeman (Chair of Governors) | Local Trafford Councillor Exec Member Trafford Council - 07/10/2021 | LA | Board | 20.03.19 | 19.03.23 |
Mrs Lesley Dowdall
| Withington Girls School employee - declared 20/09/2021 | Co-opted | Board | 21.09.19 | 22.09.23 |
Mrs Tracey Sutton
| None declared - 20/09/2021 | Co-opted | Board | 26.09.21 | 25.09.22 |
Ms Marzita Abdul-Rahman | None declared - 8/11/2020 | Co-opted | Board | 21.09.20 | 25.09.24 |
Mrs Jenny Sykes (Chair of FAM) | None declared - 20/09/2021 | Co-opted | Board | 20.03.19 | 19.03.23 |
Miss Alexandria Flowers | None declared - 20/09/2021 | Co-opted | Board | 25.09.19 | 24.09.23 |
Mrs Clare Bruce (Chair of CSE) | None declared - 17/09/2021 | Parent | Parents | 24.02.20 | 24.02.24 |
| Mr Gareth Holly | None declared - 9 March 2022 | Parent | Parents | 26.11.21 | 26.11.2025 |
| Miss Jenny Beddow | None declared - 20/9/02021 | Staff | Staff Election | 01.12.20 | 30.11.24 |
| Dr Clara Cheung | None declared - 4/11/2021 | Parent | Parents | 11.05.21 | 10.05.25 |
| Mr Tony Martin | None declared - 1/3/2022 | Co-opted | Board | 29.11.21 | 29.11.25 |
| VACANT | Co-opted | ||||
Past Governors
| Name | Office | Type | Appointed by | Term of office start date | Term of office ends |
| Suzannah Sutton | Chair | Co-opted | Board | 4.10.19 | |
| Rev Barbara Sharp | Co-opted | Board | 23.03.20 | March 2021 | |
| Lee Egerton | Parent | Parent Election | 04.01.16 | 04.01.20 | |
| Jennie Brown | Staff | Staff Election | 09.11.16 | 09.11.20 | |
| Amy Pritchard | Co-opted | Board | 23.03.20 | 23.11.20 | |
| Anrdew Rainford | Parent | Parent Election | 06.12.16 | 06.12.20 | |
| Thomas Debost | Parent | Parent Election | 01.11.17 | 31.10.21 |
Our Board meets four times a year, once as an Annual General Meeting in October and three times as normal business meetings. The AGM deals with procedural matters: review of the committee remits and their membership, agreement to financial delegations and review of our code of conduct. The business meetings focus on progressing strategic matters, including discussion of a termly report from the Head teacher. We also consider reports from Trafford such as admissions, SLAs and government guidance. Much of our day-to-day business is delegated to the individual Committees, which allows governors to discuss and analyse trends, policies, issues and developments in more detail. These are reported formally to the full Board via their minutes.
To support our work, we have an annual meeting of the Chair, Vice Chair, the Committee Chairs and Mrs Chard to discuss progress, areas for improvement and succession planning. This discussion feed into the annual Governor Action Plan, approved at the AGM. The Chair and head teacher also meet formally once a month to retain a high-level overview of developments across School and Governor Committees.
As Governors, we are actively involved in the school outside the Committees and the Board. We have a long-standing tradition of link governors, governor involvement in working parties and participation in many, if not all, school events. We also report back to the wider school community via the Monthly Mention, the School Newsletter.
All Governors’ personal profiles are on the School website as part of the dedicated governor section.
ATTENDANCE AT BOARD MEETINGS 2020/21
| Springfield Primary School Attendance | ||||||
| Y = Attended, N = Apologies Accepted, NA = Apologies not Accepted, NS = No Apologies sent, ? = Attendance Not Marked, Blank = Not Required | ||||||
| Full governing board | Full governing board | Finance and Asset Management Committee | Full governing board | Full Governing Board | ||
| Governor | Governor Type | 21 Sep 2020 | 16 Nov 2020 | 01 Feb 2021 | 22 Mar 2021 | 14 Jun 2021 |
| Ms Marzita Abdul-Rahman | Co-opted governor | Y | N | Y | Y | |
| Jenny Beddow | Staff (Teaching) Governor | Y | N | |||
| Miss Jennifer Brown | Y | |||||
| Clare Bruce | Parent governor | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Alison Chard | Headteacher | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Clara Cheung | Parent governor | Y | ||||
| Mr Thomas Debost | Parent governor | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Mrs Lesley Dowdall | Co-opted governor | Y | Y | Y | Y | N |
| Miss Alexandria Flowers | Co-opted governor | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Mike Freeman | Local Authority Governor | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Mrs Charlotte Prastka | Y | Y | ||||
| Miss Amy Pritchard | Y | |||||
| Andrew Rainford | Y | Y | ||||
| Rev Barbara Sharp | Y | N | ||||
| Tracey Sutton | Co-opted governor | Y | Y | Y | N | |
| Mrs Jenny Sykes | Co-opted governor | Y | Y | Y | N | Y |
| Miss Gemma Tyrer | Clerk | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |