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 Health and Safety Data Protection/GDPR SDP - Curriculum Development	Resources
Sian Lacy	Parent	Elected by parents	Nov 2020 - Nov 2024	Teaching & Learning Love of Reading
Vacant	Parent	Elected by parents
Christine Cookman	Co-opted	Governing Board	Sept 2019 - Sept 2023	Phonics and Early Years	Resources
Kofi Mensah	Co-opted	Governing Board	May 2022 - May 2026	Finance	Resources (Chair)
Ross Waddell	Co-opted	Governing Board	March 2022 -
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	SEND
Vanessa Jones	Associate member (No voting rights)	Governing Board	Mar 2022 - Mar 2023	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)	Nil
Sian Lacy	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
Christine Cookman	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
Kofi Mensah	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Spouse – School Administrator
Katie Stringer	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Staff Governor at Foston and Terrington C of E Federation	Nil
Sarah Moore	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Executive Headteacher at Foston and Terrington C of E Federation	Spouse – ICT technician
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

Governor Attendance (Full Governing Board Meetings) 2022/23

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