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	Resources
Anthea Mitchell (Vice Chair)	Co-opted	Governing Board	June 2021 - June 2022	Health and Safety	Resources
Sarah Moore	Headteacher	Ex-officio	Aug 2020 -		Resources
Katie Stringer	Staff	Elected by staff	Sept 2020 - Sept 2024
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
Christine Cookman	Co-opted	Governing Board	Sept 2019 - Sept 2023	Early Years	Resources
Helen Spring	Co-opted	Governing Board	Sept 2021 - Sept 2025	SEND
Vacant	Co-opted	Governing Board
Helen Ashdown	Associate (No voting rights)	Governing Board	Jan 2021 - Jan 2022	Quality of Education Leadership & Management
Vanessa Jones	Associate (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

Susan Van Hout

Co-opted Governor

21 May 2018

5 June 2021

	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 Federation (Associate)	Spouse - Chair of Governors at Linton on Ouse Primary School
Anthea Mitchell	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
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
Helen Spring
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	Governor/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