Meet the Governors | Leigh Primary School

Welcome to our Governors’ section.

Role of the Board of Governors
The Governing Body of a school is responsible for ensuring that it is run to promote pupil achievement.

Its duties include:

Setting strategic direction, policies and objectives
The school budget
Reviewing progress against the school's budget and objectives
Appointing, challenging and supporting the Head Teacher

The Governing Body is made up of:

Trust Governors
Staff representatives
Co-opted Governors (appointed by Governing body)
Parent Governors (elected by parents)

Please find below details of how our Governing body is structured, including the names, positions, responsibilities and terms of appointment for each Governor.

The Governors can be contacted at any time via a sealed envelope in the school office, which will be handed to the Chair of Governors Mr Robert Cummins.

Name	Position	Date of Appointment	Term of Office	Responsibility	Year Group Responsibility	Appointment by	Governance role in other educational institutions	Business and Financial Interests
Mr Robert Cummins	Chair	01/01/2019	4 years	Safeguarding	1 & 2	Directors	Marlborough Primary School	Member of the Core Partnership Ageing Better Birmingham. Member of grants panel Hodge Hill Neighbourhood Network Scheme.
Miss Stephanie Prince	Head Teacher	01/09/2019		Health & Safety		Directors		None Declared
Miss Samara Azam	Deputy Head Teacher (Associate)	01/09/2019						None Declared
Mrs Clair Hollis	Staff Governor	13/02/2018	4 Years	SEN/ Pupil Premium	3	Staff		Trustee of Marston Green Village Charitable Trust
Mrs Shahzana Iqbal	Vice Chair	22/01/2019	4 Years	EYFS	Nursery & Reception	Directors	Marlborough Primary School	None Declared
Mr Richard Apthorp	Co-Opted Governor	01/01/2019	4 Years	Sports Premium	6	Directors	Marlborough Primary School	None Declared
Mr Zaheer Akbar	Parent Governor	31/01/2019	4 Years	Personal Development/ Welfare/ Behaviour	4	Parents		None Declared
Mrs Halima Parveen	Parent Governor	07/10/2020	4 years	tbc	tbc	Parents		tbc
Ms Yvonne Wakefield	Clerk			Link to governor training				None Declared
RESIGNATIONS WITHIN LAST 12 MONTHS
Mrs Kathryn Nend		31/08/2020
Anita Ward		29/09/2020

Attendance Records

LEIGH LGB ATTENDANCE TO DATE

SEPTEMBER 2020 – JULY 2021

NAME	ATTENDANCE
Robert Cummins - Chair	1/4
Stephanie Prince - Head Teacher	1/4
Clair Hollis - Staff Governor	1/4
Shazana Iqbal - Vice Chair	1/4
Anita Ward - Co-opted Governor	1/4
Richard Apthorp -Co-opted Governor	1/4
Zaheer Akbar - Parent Governor	1/4
Halima Parveen - Parent Governor	/3

Attendance Records

LEIGH LGB ATTENDANCE TO DATE

SEPTEMBER 2019 – JULY 2020

NAME	ATTENDANCE
Kathryn Nend - Chair	4/4
Robert Cummins - Vice Chair	4/4
Stephanie Prince - Head Teacher	4/4
Clair Hollis - Staff Governor	4/4
Shazana Iqbal - Co-opted Governor	2/4
Anita Ward - Co-opted Governor	3/4
Richard Apthorp -Co-opted Governor	3/4
Zaheer Akbar - Parent Governor	4/4
Resignations/End of Term
Mr Z Mian - Parent Governor (end of term 10/11/2019)