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"St Simon's mission is to work, learn, pray and play together to fulfil God's unique plan for each and every one of us."

Governors

Kent Catholic Schools’ Partnership

 

Kent Catholic Schools' Partnership is a charitable trust and a company limited by guarantee. The Trust was established in August 2012 by the Archbishop of Southwark.

 

The Trust Board of Directors ('Trustees') are responsible for overseeing the management and administration of the Trust and they fulfil this role by delegating functions to committees. 

 

The Trust understands the importance of the role of governance committees and the Trust has set out guidance and support in its Governance Handbook and Scheme of Delegation.

KCSP Governance Model

St Simon of England Local Governance Committee

 

The Local Governance Committee is a ‘critical friend’ of the school. It provides Strategic Leadership in school improvement. It does this by being appropriately involved in the school improvement cycle as follows:

 

  • Developing and sharing the values and vision
  • Setting out the aims and objectives of the school
  • Setting out the policies and procedures by which the aims and objectives will be achieved
  • Establishing the criteria by which the aims and achievements will be seen to be achieved
  • Taking the views of stakeholders into account
  • Evaluating evidence on how well the school is doing
  • Finding out how well the school is doing in comparison with similar schools
  • Agreeing targets for improvement
  • Planning to achieve improvement
  • Ensuring that deployment of staffing and resources match the school’s priorities.


Key Issues

 

The Local Governance Committee will consider and keep under review: the progress and attainment of all groups of pupils, evidence of narrowing gaps between under achieving groups and other pupils, improvements in the quality of teaching, the school’s improvement since the last inspection, and the school’s self-evaluation of how well it is doing currently. Governance committee members are not expected to be involved in the day to day running of the school.

 

 Who can be a governance committee member?

 

  • Almost everyone over 18 can become a member. Governance committee members are volunteers from all walks of life – everyone has experience and skills to offer
  • An effective governance committee has people from different backgrounds and with a mix of skills. No formal qualifications are needed to be a member
  • Governance committee members are not education experts – they are there to offer a fresh perspective

 

What makes a good governance committee member?

 

  • The ability to work in a team
  • An interest in education and a commitment to the school
  • Patience, energy and enthusiasm
  • A willingness to listen, learn and to spend time in school
  • A willingness to undertake training

 

 

St Simon of England RC Local Governance Committee

 

Governor Name

Category

Appointing Body and Term of Office

Details of Responsibility

Register of Business Interests

Mrs Marcia Stevens

Foundation Governor

Roman Catholic Diocese Southwark

13 Dec 2020-12 Dec 2024

Chair

P.E, Maths, Englis, Science, Computing,

D & T

Nothing to Declare

Mrs Margaret Eldridge

Foundation Governor

Roman Catholic Diocese Southwark

4 Feb 2022- 3 Feb 2026

Vice-Chair

English, R.E, Art, History

Nothing to Declare

Mr Phil Monday

Foundation Governor

Roman Catholic Diocese Southwark

18 Dec 2020-17 Dec 2024

Health and Safety, Pupil Premium, Computing

Nothing to Declare

Mr Titus Msoka

Foundation Governor

Roman Catholic Diocese Southwark

8 Jan 2020- 17 Dec 2024

Music, D & T

Nothing to Declare

Mrs Elizabeth Willis

Foundation Governor

Roman Catholic Diocese Southwark

9 Nov 2022-8 Nov 2026

Curriculum, MFL

Son H/T at Catholic Primary School, Rochester

Mr Dino Dimarco

Co-opted Governor

23 May 2019- 22 May 2023

Safeguarding, Science, RHE, P.E, Maths, MFL, Art, EYFS

Nothing to Declare

Mrs Dawn Smith

Parent Governor

29 July 2021- 28 July 2024

Pupil Premium, SEND, EYFS

Nothing to Declare

Mrs Heidi de Wynter

Parent Governor

8 Sept 2021- 7 Sept 2025

Curriculum, Geography, History

Nothing to Declare

Mrs Rufina Ebenebe

Staff Governor Teaching

Elected Teacher Governor

17 Oct 2018- 16 Oct 2022 Expired

 

Nothing to Declare

Mrs Julie Gibbs

Staff Governor

Support

Elected Support Staff

1 July 2018- 30 June 2022 Expired

 

Nothing to Declare

Mr Peter McCabe

Headteacher

Roman Catholic Diocese Southwark

13 Sept 2013 to present

 

Nothing to Declare

 

Meeting attendance list for last academic year (2021-2022)

Governor

Governor Type

25 Nov 2021

20 Jan 2022

24 Mar 2022

16 Jun 2022

Mr Dino Di Marco

Co-opted governor

Y

Y

N

Y

Mrs Rufina Ebenebe

Staff governor

Y

Y

Y

Y

Mrs Margaret Eldridge

Foundation governor

Y

Y

Y

Y

Mrs Julie Gibbs

Staff governor

Y

Y

N

N

Mr Peter McCabe

Headteacher

Y

Y

Y

Y

Mr Philip Monday

Foundation governor

Y

Y

N

N

Mr Titus Msoka

Foundation governor

Y

Y

N

Y

Ms Lauren Riby

Clerk

Y

Y

Y

Y

Mrs Dawn Smith

Parent governor

Y

Y

Y

Y

Mrs Marcia Stevens

Foundation governor

Y

Y

Y

N

 

Our Chair of Governors, Mrs Marcia Stevens, can be contacted by email:

Email address for chair: marcia.stevens@st-simons-ashford.kcsp.org.uk

 

The Clerk to the committee Ms Lauren Riby, can be contacted by email:

Email address for Clerk: lriby@kcsp.org.uk

 

Copies of Governing Body minutes are available from the School Office.

 

Documents to be included:

 

Governance handbook - https://primarysite-prod-sorted.s3.amazonaws.com/kent-catholic-partnership-redesign/UploadedDocument/18c257f9-bd34-40fb-9ff8-a16e952b961d/governance-handbook-final-2022-23.pdf

 

Scheme of delegation - https://primarysite-prod-sorted.s3.amazonaws.com/kent-catholic-partnership-redesign/UploadedDocument/95d08f06-7623-45b0-a589-84717782db76/scheme-of-delegation-final-2022-23.pdf

 

 

Governor Handbook

Scheme of Delegation

Local Governance Committee Terms of Reference

Our Mission and Values

"St Simon's mission is to work, learn, pray and play together to fulfil God's unique plan for each and every one of us."

Read Our Vision & Values

Trust Information

St Simon of England RC Primary School is an academy, and part of the Kent Catholic Schools’ Partnership. The Kent Catholic Schools’ Partnership is an exempt charity and a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales under company registration number 08176019 at registered address: Barham Court, Teston, Maidstone, Kent, ME18 5BZ. St Simon of England RC Primary School is a business name of Kent Catholic Schools’ Partnership.

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