The Governing Body
Welcome to Brindle Gregson Lane Primary School Governing Body
Our Governing Body
Our governing board is the strategic decision maker and vision setter for Brindle Gregson Primary School. It's members play a vital role in ensuring the best possible education for every child by creating robust accountability for our school leaders. Crucially, that means using and being familiar with objective data on the performance of pupils, teachers and finances to ask the right questions and ensure resources are allocated to school priorities. It also means ensuring that schools prepare pupils for life and the workplace by building their character and resilience.
The Essentials of Effective Governance
Our board has three core functions:
- Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction
- Holding the headteacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils, and the performance management of staff.
- Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent.
Governor Diversity
As a school we recognise that a diversity of thought, voices and perspectives is essential to good governance and the effective running of any organisation. We regularly collect diversity information from our governors and, depending on current data, can use this to
- target recruitment to address gaps in experience and diversity
- develop and adapt board practices to ensure full participation
- prioritise training and awareness-raising in identified areas
- address potential ‘blind spots’ through seeking wider advice and perspectives on current and upcoming opportunities, challenges and risks
The below list details all our governors & their roles within the governing body.
Governors 2023 - 2024 Committees |
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| Name | Category | Appointed From | Appointed To | Nominated Governor Area | Resources | Quality of Education |
| Mrs K Esa |
Headteacher |
01/09/2024 |
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| Mrs A Hardman |
Chair Co-opted Governor |
20/12/2018 | 08/12/2025 |
Link Training Website |
x Chair |
X Chair |
| Mrs L Latham |
Vice Chair Co-opted Governor |
14/03/2019 | 27/04/2027 |
SEND
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x | x |
| Mrs C Grimbaldeston |
Co-opted Governor |
12/03/2019 | 11/03/2027 |
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x |
x |
| Miss K Pass | Staff Governor | 01/10/2022 | 10/10/2026 |
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Dr K Baron |
Parent Governor | 21/04/2023 | 20/04/2027 |
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x | x |
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Mr R Wilkinson |
Parent Governor | 21/04/2023 | 20/04/2027 |
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x | |
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Mr P Jackson |
Parent Governor | 21/04/2023 | 20/04/2027 |
Wellbeing
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| Vacancy | Co-opted Governor |
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| Vacancy | Co-opted Governor |
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| Vacancy | LA Governor |
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| Mrs R Beard | LA Governor | 09/07/2022 | 05/2024 |
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| Mrs J Webster | Co-opted Governor | 22/01/2018 | 26/06/2024 |
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| Mrs A Mills |
Co-opted Governor |
15/03/2016 | 31/08/2024 |
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A Safeguarding is monitored termly as a standard agenda item within the Buildings, Health and Safety Comittee - all Governors received updated safe gaurding training in school on the 7th September 2023 with the next training session booked for 10th September 2024. The last safeguarding and online audit was undertaken by governors was on the 26th February 2024.
The governors of Brindle Gregson Lane can declare that there are no business or financial interests; no governors hold governance roles in other institutions and that there are no material interests arising from relationships between ourselves and school staff (inclusive of spouses, partners and close relatives).
The Chair of Governors can be contacted c/o school office - office@bgl.lancs.sch.uk
On the below link you will find a list of governing body meetings for this academic year along with attendances over the previous 12 months.
You can request a paper copy of any of the information provided on our school website free of charge.