Board of Trustees
The Shaw Education Board is the overall governing body of the Trust and all its Academies. It is charged with the strategic direction of the Trust and is responsible to the Secretary of State for Education for executing its statutory duties. Trustees of the SET boards functions are:
- Setting annual performance targets
- Determining all statutory and other policies
- Ensuring that curriculum requirements are met
- Setting the budget for the Trust and each academy
- Being the employer of all staff
- Being the ultimate body of appeal within the Trust
- Agreeing all major building work with the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA).
Accountability is a key part of our values and, as such, our local governance model is vital to this. We have two models operating across our schools as follows:
- Academy Councils (ACs)
- Interim Executive Boards (IEBs)
Academy Councils offer a more traditional model of local governance, with an appointed membership board working regularly with schools under our scheme of delegation. Academy Councils work to a standardised agenda produced by SET, which covers a wide range of school business to ensure the school is meeting the needs of its pupils and the local community. As such, the Academy Council will have 2 parents as members. IEBs are an interim measure put in place when SET judges a school to require rapid impact. IEBs are made up of education and support services professionals from within the Trust who have the expertise to challenge and support the school to succeed. Once the school has achieved improvement expectations, the IEB will transition into an Academy Council.
Within Shaw Education Trust our function of governance at local level is:
“To be responsible for supporting and challenging our Academy and Trust leaders, ensuring that decisions made at a local level are for the benefit of pupils, and directly linked to the strategic vision of the Academy and Trust. To ensure these decisions consider the views of our other stakeholders (parents, staff and local community) and effective communication exists between all. These decisions centre mainly around areas of educational standards & provision, and operational functions, as detailed in the Scheme of Delegation.”
Kidsgrove Primary currently works with an Academy Council.
For more information, the Trust’s Scheme of Delegation (Delegated Accountability Framework) can be viewed here.
Kidsgrove Academy Council
The main functions of the our local Academy Council/Local Advisory Board are:
- monitoring school improvement work carried out
- providing understanding of the local context and the challenge that the local environment presents
- acting as a sounding board for senior leaders, especially the Headteacher
- providing regular monitoring of health and safety matters, safeguarding provision, the welfare of looked after children, and provision for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
- monitoring and quality assuring the curriculum
- building and maintaining positive local perceptions of the school
- building and maintaining relationships with the local and regional business community
- building and maintaining relationships with community partners (e.g. health services, police, social services)
- the Chair assisting in the recruitment process for leadership roles
The Academy Council is as follows:
- Emma Johnson - Headteacher
- Nigel Butler – Co-opted Councillor - Safeguarding and SEND
- Alison Landon-Gallimore - Chair
- Yvonne Brough – Staff
- Lucy Newbon - Staff
- Sophie Ward - Parent
- Jessica Weatherby - Parent
Others Supporting:
- Stuart Taylor - Quality Assurance Link for the school
- Rachel King - Primary National Director