Chair of Governors

As chair of the governors I’d like to welcome you, on behalf of all the governors to the Danbury Park Community Primary School website. We are very proud of our school both the children and the staff. We are also proud of our results, both the academic ones that you can read in the league tables and the less tangible ones that show in the way that the children conduct and express themselves. If you want to know more about the school we think that the 2006 Ofsted report offers a very fair and accurate picture of our school.

You may like to know a little about the governing body. As with all schools the governors are volunteers from different sections of the school and the wider community, some are parents of children at the school, some are appointed by the LEA, some represent the village. The governing body also includes the head (Mike Arnold), and representatives of teaching and non teaching staff. You can read who they are elsewhere on the site.

The governing body shapes and sets the strategic direction of the school, its aims and objectives. Obviously we also set targets for these aims and objectives and monitor against them. We are not involved in the day to day running of the school, but the head teacher and the professional staff are accountable to the governing body for the school’s performance. It can seem like a lot of responsibility, but it can also be challenging and rewarding.

Being a governor is open to anyone (though a police check is required). Parents of children at the school may wish to stand for election when a vacancy is announced in the school newsletter. Other people with an interest can contact the governing body via the school to see if any vacancies exist for community or LEA governors. Though we have been fortunate in recent years to have a reasonable number of applicants this might easily change and we are always interested in hearing from new people who feel they have something to offer.

If you wish to contact me or the governing body you can do so via the school office, but please remember that for most school related matters your first port of call should be the head or the relevant member of the professional staff. Do also note that it’s the governing body as a whole that make decisions, not individual governors, so its not always possible to give an instant response.
Thanks for reading and enjoy the website.

Sophie Wilson
Chair of Governors