Governors
Welcome to our governors' section. Should you wish to contact the Chair of Governors for any reason please make an appointment through the school office. For the current academic year (2021/2022) the Chair role is managed by Michael Hartley (Chair of P and F).
We encourage parents and carers to communicate regularly with us. Once a term our Parent Governors hold a Parent Governors forum. Details of dates are held with the school office and you will hear about this via the newsletter. Governors send an Annual Report to parents in September and at least one other newsletter during the academic year.
The Governors meet every half term as a Full Governing Body (FGB). Each of the Governors are in committees (Curriculum & Standards/Personnel & Finance) and these groups also meet once a half term. Some Governors have key responsibilities and/or links to specific subjects.
Governors serve an initial term of office of four years and are subject to re-appointment/re-election thereafter. As of 1 November 2017 the school became an academy under HAMWIC Education Trust and as a result the Governing Body reconstituted.
The Governors are an essential part of the leadership & management of Thornhill Primary School. They also work together to be the best they can be!
Current Governing Body
Name | Role | Responsibility | Interests to Declare/ Relationships | LGB Attendance 2020/2021 (updated each academic year) | Date appointed (reconstituted FGB Nov 2017) |
Michael Hartley | Co-opted | Chair of Governors
Chair of Personnel & Finance Committee
Pupil Premium & English Governor | None | 100% | Appointed by LGB on 1 November 2017 |
Andrew Harvey | Co-opted | Personnel & Finance Committee.
Safeguarding & Maths Link Governor | Retired Deputy Headteacher at Chamberlayne College for the Arts | 100% | Appointed by LGB on 1 November 2017 |
Sarah Taylor | Staff Governor | Curriculum & Standards Committee
| Teacher of School |
100%
| |
Ali Beechurst | Head Teacher | Head Teacher | Headteacher of School | 0% | Appointed by LGB on 2 September 2021
|
Jodie Boomsma
| Parent Governor | N/a | Parent of children in school | 70% | Appointed by LGB on 7 October 2020 |
James Fanner | Community Governor | Curriculum & Standards Committee
Foundation Subject Governor | Parent of child in school | 80% | Appointed by LGB on 10 October 2018 |
| Danny Bratcher | None | 0% | Appointed by LGB on 13 October 2021 |
The Chair of Governors can be contacted via school through the clerk to Governors dfarragher@thornhillsch.net. The link to Hamwic governance: https://www.hamwic.org/governance
