Our Governors

Welcome to the Governing Board of Featherstone Wood Primary School

Governors work as a team. We are responsible for making sure Featherstone Wood Primary School provides a good quality education for all of our pupils.

Raising educational standards in our school is a key priority. We all have the best chance of succeeding when there are high expectations of what all our pupils can achieve.

Governing boards are accountable to parents, the local community, and the Local Authority (Hertfordshire County Council). Appointments to our Governing Board are made for three or usually for four years. The governing board’s main role is to help raise pupils’ standards of achievement.

Our Governing Board:

• is accountable for the performance of the school to both parents and the wider community plans, along with the senior leadership team of the school, the school’s future direction
• selects a head teacher, where appropriate
• scrutinises decisions on the school’s budget and staffing including the performance management policy
• makes sure the agreed Curriculum is well taught, and often visits the school to observe lessons and school activities
• agrees how the school can encourage pupils’ spiritual, moral, and cultural development
• ensures the school provides a great learning environment for all pupils, including those with special needs.

Governors are at the heart of how our school operates. It’s important we get things right. How we do our job effects the interests of pupils, staff, and the reputation of the school in the community.

Governors support and critically appraise the school’s performance by gathering views, asking questions, and discussing what’s best for the school as whole. As a team, we can significantly contribute to the overall, ongoing successes of Featherstone Wood Primary School.

Every school Governor is proud to work alongside a team of dedicated, professional management and teaching staff and we always welcome open and honest conversations.

We are not here to rubber stamp decisions. We must be prepared to give and take advice and must be loyal to decisions made by the governing board. Often, as Governors, we have to undergo comprehensive training, legal inspections and Safeguarding circumstances.

To be a Governor at Featherstone Wood Primary School, you must consistently show commitment, demonstrate tenacity and spend time reading reports, analysing articles and data and perform duties in the ilk of being a ‘critical friend’ of the school.

If we act within the law and take appropriate advice, Governors are protected from any financial liability for the decisions we take.

Meet Our Governors