Our School Governing Body
Our school governing body is a group of elected volunteers from within our school and the local community, who freely give up their own time to monitor the school's effectiveness. All the members, with the exception of the Head Teacher, are elected to serve a fixed term in office. When a member's term expires, the school will advertise the vacancy and invite candidates to stand for election. Our school staff and parents are then asked to vote for their preferred staff / parent candidate; local community governors are appointed by the local authority.
The role of the governing body is to provide oversight and scrutinise the running of the school. It is an invaluable forum for representatives of all our stakeholders, to decide how to continually improve the quality of our school.
They are responsible for managing and approving courses of action in the following areas: teaching and learning, the curriculum, staff recruitment, staff training and professional development, policies and practices within school, finance and procurement, school buildings and grounds, health and safety, pupil attendance and welfare and safeguarding/child protection.
Our governors receive specialist advice and support from the Department for Education and the London Borough of Havering Education Authority, to help them in their roles.
If you wish to contact our Chair of Governors, Mr G Brome, his email is: gbrome.311@lgflmail.org
GOVERNING BODY AT HAROLD WOOD PRIMARY SCHOOL
NAME OF GOVERNOR | TYPE OF GOVERNOR | COMMITTEE/FOCUS | TERM OF OFFICE ENDS |
Mrs Kathryn Armand | Local Authority Governor |
| 09.12.2024 |
Mr Greg Brome | Co-Opted Governor (Chair) | Finance Sub-Committee Focus: Safeguarding | 05.12.2025 |
Mr Bob West | Co-Opted Governor (Vice Chair) | Finance Sub-Committee (Chair) Pupil Premium Sub-Committee Focus: Finance, Wellbeing | 05.12.2025 |
Mr David Waters | Co-Opted Governor | Finance Sub-Committee Focus: Numeracy
| 05.03.2024 |
Mrs Michelle Gubbings | Co-Opted Governor | Focus: PSHE/ RSE/ SMSC
| 05.12.2025 |
Mr Paul Westcott | Co-Opted Governor | Finance Sub- Committee Pupil-Premium Sub-Committee (Chair) Focus: Pupil Premium
| 15.07.2023 |
Mr Jonathan Goodwin | Parent Governor
| Focus: Digital | 23.02.2024 |
Mr Darren Cox | Co-opted Governor
| Focus: History/ Geography/ Science | 12.07.2024 |
Mrs Anne Ling | Co-opted Governor | Finance Sub-Committee Pupil Premium Sub-Committee Focus: EYFS/ SEND
| 03.07.2025 |
Ms Sarah Jennings | Parent Governor | Focus: Literacy | 09.05.2025 |
GOVERNING BODY PECUNIARY INTERESTS
Mr Greg Brome (Chair) | Spouse employed by London Borough of Havering
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Mr Jonathan Goodwin | Spouse employed by another school in the London Borough of Havering
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Mr Darren Cox | Employed as Project Manager for the London Borough of Havering
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INVOLVEMENT WITH THE GOVERNING BODY OF ANOTHER SCHOOL OTHER THAN HWPS
Mr Greg Brome (Chair) | Chair of Governors at Dame Tipping C of E Primary School
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Mr Bob West (Vice Chair) | Vice Chair of Local Governance Committee at Redden Court School (Secondary Academy) (Part of Success For All Educational Trust – MAT)
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Mrs Anne Ling | Member at Hornchurch Academy Trust (MAT)
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ATTENDANCE AT GOVERNING BODY MEETINGS 2020/21
Full Governing Body Meetings (including Head Teachers Report Meetings)
| 92% Attendance |
GOVERNING BODY ISSUES FACED AND ADDRESSED BY GOVERNING BODY 2020/21
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Governors were unable to visit the School during the Academic Year 2020-2021 and all 6 Full Governing Body Meetings were conducted through the Zoom facility arranged by Havering Governor Services. For the same reason, no face-to-face meetings were possible for the Finance & Pupil Premium Sub Committees and issues which arose which would normally have been discussed by these Sub Committees were integrated with the Full Governing Body Meetings, as evidenced by the Minutes of those Meetings.
As a result, much of the work carried out during the academic year 2020-2021 was centred around the monitoring functions of our duties with particular emphasis on Risk Assessments, Online Learning and its’ impact, and Wellbeing for both Staff & Pupils; as is generally known it was a particularly stressful time for the School Community as a whole and consequently our role was scaled back and requests for information were kept to a minimum to allow the School’s SLT to concentrate on day-to-day issues – of which there were many!