Welcome to our Governor Section

The three main functions of the Governing Body are to:

Ensure clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction.
Hold the Headteacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils, and the performance management of staff.
Oversee the financial performance of the school and make sure its money is well spent.

Our Instrument of Government can be found here

The Governing Board is comprised of 9 governors as follows:

Stillington School Governing Board has one sub-committee:
The Resources (Finance, Health & Safety and Premises) Committee. Terms of Reference.

*Name*	*Type of Governor*	*Appointed by*	*Term of office*	*Area/s of responsibility*	*Committee membership*
Corinne Cross (Chair)	Local Authority	Governing Board	May 2021 - May 2025	Safeguarding Quality of Education Leadership & Management Health and Safety	Resources
James Strangeway	Parent	Elected by parents	Jan 2019 - Jan 2023	Finance	Resources (Chair)
Sian Lacy	Parent	Elected by parents	Nov 2020 - Nov 2024	Behaviour & Personal Development Equalities
Christine Cookman	Co-opted	Governing Board	Sept 2019 - Sept 2023	SEND Early Years	Resources
Vacant	Co-opted	Governing Board
Vacant	Co-opted	Governing Board
Vacant	Co-opted	Governing Board
Sarah Moore	Headteacher	Ex-officio	Aug 2020 -		Resources
Katie Stringer	Staff	Elected by staff	Sept 2020 - Sept 2024	Stakeholder Engagement
Helen Ashdown	Associate member (No voting rights)	Governing Board	Jan 2022 - Jan 2023	Quality of Education Leadership & Management
Vanessa Jones	Associate member (No voting rights)	Governing Board	Mar 2021 - Mar 2022	Staff Welfare

The Clerk to the Governing Board is Mr Paul Gregory (NYES Clerking) contact: paul.gregory@northyorks.gov.uk

The Chair of Governors, Mrs Corinne Cross, can be contacted: via the school office or: cofg@stillington.n-yorks.sch.uk

	BUSINESS INTERESTS					PERSONAL INTERESTS
Governor	Name of business	Nature of business	Nature of interest	Start date	End date	Governor at any other educational establishments	Relationship with any school staff / Governing Board member
Corinne Cross	National Trust	Heritage Charity	Employee	2013	-	NYCC Schools Forum Foston and Terrington C of E Federation (Associate member)	Spouse - Chair of Governors at Linton on Ouse Primary School
Sarah Moore	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Executive Headteacher at Foston and Terrington C of E Federation	Spouse – ICT technician
James Strangeway	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
Christine Cookman	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
Katie Stringer	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Staff Governor at Foston and Terrington C of E Federation	Nil
Sian Lacy	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
Helen Ashdown	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Chair of Governors at Foston and Terrington C of E Federation	Nil
Vanessa Jones	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Governor at Foston and Terrington C of E Federation	Nil

2021
Monday 27th September 2021, Monday 29th November 2021

2022

Monday 24^th January 2022, Monday 28th March 2022, Monday 23rd May 2022, Monday 4^th July 2022

Minutes of Governing Board meetings are public documents and can be viewed by arrangement with the school office.

X = Attended AA = Apologies Accepted DNA = Did not Attend

	8.11.21
James Strangeway Committee Chair	X
Corinne Cross	X
Anthea Mitchell	X
Christine Cookman	X
Sarah Moore (HT)	X

X = Attended AA = Apologies Accepted DNA = Did not Attend

	9.11.20 Virtual	8.2.21 Virtual	17.5.21 Virtual
Anthea Mitchell (Committee Chair)	X	X	AA
Corinne Cross	X	X	X
James Strangeway	Temporarily stood down (Covid-19)
Christine Cookman	X	X	X
Sarah Moore (HT)	X	X	X