Welcome to the Governors' and Trustees' Information Page

As a Local Governing Board, we have responsibility for providing highly effective, searching and ambitious governance through determining, monitoring and keeping under review the school improvement plan and the application of policies, plans and procedures within which the school operates.  To achieve this we work very closely with the Headteacher (who is a member of the board) and the strategic leadership team. 

The strategic function of our Governing Board can be summarised as:

1. Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction
2. Holding the Headteacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils, and the performance management of staff, and
3. Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent.

The Board of Trustees of the True Learning Partnership (TLP) retains its core strategic functions as detailed within the “Scheme of Delegation”.  These can be summarised as:

1. Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction of the multi-academy trust, and
2. Overseeing the financial performance of the schools and making sure the trust’s money is well spent.

Please refer to The True Learning Partnership’s website for full details on the Trust Board and how the local governing body works with the Trust to ensure the vision and values of The True Learning Partnership are embedded at a local level.

https://truelearning.org.uk/governance

Please refer to TLP's website for key financial information about the Trust. https://truelearning.org.uk/policies-and-documents

The School Governing Board is made up of the following members:

The Governors below stepped down from the Local Governing Board in the last 12 months.

Our Governing Board structure is made up of the following committees:

1. Full Governing Board

2. Staffing & Resources Committee

3.  Curriculum & Welfare Committee

The Full Governing Board meets 5 times per year.  Committees meet three times in the year.  Dates of our meetings can be found below in the Quality Improvement Framework. There are other committees that meet on a less frequent or when required basis. 

Parents/carers are welcome to attend governing body meetings as observers if they wish.  Please e-mail info@poyntonhigh.org.uk if you wish to discuss such attendance.  Minutes of meetings are able to be viewed through appointment, please e-mail info@poyntonhigh.org.uk if you wish to make an appointment to view minutes of a particular governor meeting.

The Governing Board Quality Improvement Framework includes a full breakdown of which committees governors serve on and which aspects of our School Improvement Plan and school teams they link to.  This can be found below.

Each governor takes a lead within their strategic role over an element of our School Improvement Plan and in particular:

• Mrs Liz Derham; Safeguarding Link Governor
• Dr Rachelle Donn; Pupil Premium Link Governor
• Mr Rob Westbrook; Health and Safety Link Governor
• Mrs Janine Dixon; SEND Link Governor
• Sixth Form Link Governor
• Dr Rachelle Donn; Wellbeing Link Governor
• Mrs Margaret Aldridge; Careers Link Governor
• Miss Charlotte Fazackerley; Sustainability Link Governor; 

A full breakdown of the “register of interests” within the Governing Board can be found below.

Below you will also find our Attendance Register.