The Governing Body

The main responsibility of the Governing Body of Highwood Primary School is to determine the aims and conduct of the school with a view to promoting high standards of educational achievement.

The governing body holds the school to account for the quality, standard and effectiveness of the teaching and learning. In practice, the governing body works with the Head Teacher to determine how the school should develop to ensure continued improvement, and with the Head and staff agrees plans, policies, targets and procedures that work towards that development. Our aim is to be supportive, yet challenging, in order to support the school and to promote its improvement effectively.

We welcome the involvement of parents, both as Parent Governors and through feedback. Contact can be made with the Chair of Governors, via the School Office. Individual governors bring their own experience and expertise to the group, and as a governing body we benefit from the skills of all our governors.

The Governors visit the school regularly and attend a Standards Committee Group and a Full Governing Body meeting twice a term. 

Highwood Safeguarding Statement

The Governing Body is committed to:

• safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety, and the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, of children and young people;
• promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion where the diversity of different backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued;
• the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share this commitment

The names and responsibilities of our governors are:

CHAIR
Alan Oddy (Co-opted Governor) until 28/02/2027

VICE CHAIR
David Donoghue (LA Governor) until 31/12/2026

PARENT GOVERNORS
Rebecca Parker until 11/03/2028

CO-OPTED GOVERNORS
Clare Atkins until 20/11/2026
Hannah Mordew untill 04/02/2029

STAFF GOVERNOR
Ashley Abbott until 17/04/2025

EXECUTIVE HEAD
Marie Staley