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Members, Trustees, and The Local Governing Body

Members and Trustees of South Bank Academy Trust.

Welcome to our Local Governing Body section. 


Please find below details of how our Governing body is structured, including the names, categories, responsibilities and terms of appointment for each Governor.

If you wish to contact the Governors, then please email scarcroft.primary@york.gov.uk in the first instance, making it clear in the subject header that you wish to contact the Chair of Governors. Your email will then be forwarded on receipt. Alternatively, you may hand a letter into the school office marked 'For the Attention of Chair of Governors' and this will be delivered as soon as possible.

 

The current composition of the school’s Governing Body is 12 members:

 

  • One Headteacher
  • One elected Staff Governor
  • Two elected Parent Governors
  • Eight Co-opted Governors

 

Apart from the Headteacher, all governors are volunteers. Parent governors are elected by the parent body, staff governors are elected by the staff (with the exception of the Headteacher), and community governors are nominated by governors and approved by the full Governing Body. Each post is held for a maximum of four years, at which point a governor must stand for re-election.

The position of Chair and Vice-Chair of Governors is elected by the full Governing Body at the start of each school year in September. These roles are re-elected each year.

The Governing Body delegates the everyday management of the school in its entirety to the Headteacher, including its discipline, the well-being of staff and pupils, the organisation of classes, learning and teaching, and the curriculum.

The Governing Body is responsible for the strategic planning of the school, the budget, staffing and legislative responsibilities. The Governing Body works closely with the Headteacher and staff to ensure that Scarcroft School is an effective and successful school for the children.

All Governors are asked to fill in a ‘Declaration of interests’ form annually. This provides us with a ‘Register of interests’, maintained by the Clerk. This will be used to ensure that Governors declare an interest, where appropriate if an item under discussion relates directly to their business, personal or family interests. An opportunity to declare a conflict of interest is provided on the agenda of every Full Governing Body meeting and every Committee meeting.

 

All governors have equal status. Although governors are appointed and elected by different groups, their central concern is the welfare of the school as a whole.

 

Parent Governors

 

It is important to remember that each parent governor is “a representative parent, but not a parent representative.” In other words, a parent governor has a role in sharing views and concerns that they hold as a parent, and yet remaining independent of the other parents that they represent. It is important that parents of children at the school use the appropriate channels to voice any concerns (i.e. to talk to the class teacher or the Head) rather than expecting a parent governor to take their views to a Governing Body meeting. If their concerns are not met by these usual means, they have the right to put their views to the Governing Body, but this should be done in writing via the Chair.

Governing Body 2021-22 - The Chair of the Governing Body is Mr David Rowsell

Category of Governor

Appointing body

Governor’s name

Term of Office

Additional responsibilities

Headteacher

In post by virtue of their office

Mr Paul Edwards

01/09/2018

 

Staff

Staff body

Mrs Gillian Marshall

17/10/2020-16/10/2024

  • Class Teacher
ParentParent BodyMrs Michelle Smith23/09/2020-22/09/2024
  • Link Governor for Safeguarding,  Languages & SEND

Co-opted

LGB

Mr David Rowsell

 

14/03/2018-13/03/2022

 

  • Chair
  • Link Governor for Curriculum, Music & Maths

Co-opted

LGB

Mr Phil Cooke

14/03/2018-13/03/2022

  • Link Governor for IT & D&T

Co-opted Parent

LGB

Mr Sam Healy

08/02/2017-07/02/2021

  • Link Governor for Reading & Writing
Co-opted ParentLGBMrs Emma Mackenzie-Hogg09/07/2019-08/07/2023
  • Link Governor for PE & PSHE

Co-opted Parent

LGB

Cllr Jonathan Crawshaw30/09/2020-29/09/2024
  • Link Governor for Science, History & Geography
ParentLGBMr Dan StaplesTBCTBC
Vacant    
Vacant    
Vacant    

Clerk to the Governing Body is to be confirmed following the departure of the previous clerk at the end of December 2021.

Governors’ Register of Business Interests

 



Name

Term of office
start date

Term of office
end date

Date
stepped down

(if applicable)

Appointed by

Nature of Interest
including details of
company or organisation

Date of start of Interest

Governor of another
school or Trustee of another Academy?

Relationship with any member of school/MAT staff?

Paul Edwards

01/09/2018

 

 

Ex Officio

Adam Cooper – Knavesmire Headteacher / Interim Trust Principal – brother-in-law

01/09/2018

No

Adam Cooper

Gillian Marshall

17/10/2020

16/10/2024

 

Staff

South Bank MAT employee

01/09/2016

No

No

Michelle Smith

23/09/2020

22/09/2024

 

Parents

Freelance Forest School Assistant Leader at Wild Things Forest School

March 2019

No

No

Daniel Staples

25/11/2021

24/11/2025

 

Parents

Yorkshire Coordinator for Chess in Schools & Communities (runs two chess clubs at school)

April 2015

No

No

Phil Cooke

14/03/2018

13/03/2022

 

Trust

Vodafone Limited – employee / share holder

Oct 2007

No

No

Brewdog PLC – shareholder

Nov 2017

125 Group Limited – Volunteer

Sep 2014

Sam Healy

08/02/2021

07/02/2025

 

Trust

-

-

No

No

David Rowsell

14/03/2018

13/03/2022

 

Trust

Associate High Performance Learning

June 2016

Big Picture Learning Doncaster

Ian Wiggins, Chair of Trustees (son-in-law)

Emma Mackenzie-Hogg

09/07/2019

08/07/2023

 

Trust

-

-

No

No

Cllr Jonathan Crawshaw

30/09/2020

29/09/2024

 

Trust

City of York Councillor (Labour Party)

June 2017

No

No

Becca Welch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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