Governors

Working together to provide strategy, oversight, challenge and support excellence and to make Westbury CE Junior a school which respects, cares and inspires.

Thank you for taking time to find out a little bit about our governing body. A governing body is made up of volunteers from all walks of life who act something like unpaid directors to make strategic decisions on behalf of the school and to review its performance. We don’t run the school – the head teacher does that. All issues about the school should be taken to him; our relationship is much like that of a board of directors to the managing director. There are further details about what we do below.

It has been my honour to chair this hard-working body for the last few years and I would like to pass on my thanks to governors, past and present, who have done so much to help this wonderful school.

If you might be interested in serving as a governor at our school, please get in contact with me, the head or the school office.

Ian Cunningham
Chair of Governors

Governors Annual Report 20-21

Governor Attendance 2021-22

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Governors

GovernorNameStart DateEnd DatePositionPhoto
Mr Richard HattHead Teacher
Finance & Premises Committee
Foundation GovernorMr Brian Osborne10.03.201909.03.2023Vice-Chair
Data Committee (Chair)
Pay Panel
Foundation Governor
(Previously Community Governor to 14.07.15)
Mr Ian Cunningham14.07.201913.07.2023Chair
Finance & Premises Committee
Data Committee
Pay Panel
Ex Officio Foundation GovernorRev. Rebecca Harris16.03.202116.03.2025
LA GovernorMr Keith Harvey07.12.201906.12.2023Finance Governor
Finance & Premises Committee (Chair)
Pay Panel
Staff GovernorMs V Heslop22.01.202122.01.2025Data Committee
Co-opted GovernorVACANCIES
Co-opted Governor
(Previously Parent Governor to 03.10.17)
Mrs Naomi Styles03.10.202102.10.2025Data Committee
Curriculum Committee
Parent GovernorMr Andrew Down06.11.201905..11.2023Finance & Premises Committee
– Premises Governor
Parent GovernorMr Gavin Davis06.11.201905.11.2023 
Parent GovernorMr Jason Greatley06.11.201905.11.2023Finance & Premises Committee
Parent GovernorMrs Jen Austin06.11.201905.11.2023Safeguarding Governor
Parent GovernorMrs Judit Hunkar-Anderson21.11.202221.11.2026

Governors register of interests

The Governing Body – what is it?

Every school has to have a Governing Body made up of a number of governors to oversee the running of the school.

Our Head Teacher, Mr Hatt, with the Leadership Team, organises and manages the school on a day to day basis, within policies and guidance agreed by the Governing Body.

The governors are accountable to the Diocese, the local authority and, most importantly our community – our children, our staff, our parents and our local people as well as Ofsted.

The governing body is responsible for

  • Making sure the school provides the best possible education for all its pupils.
  • All major decisions about the school and its future.
  • Setting the school’s vision and strategic aims,
  • Maintaining the Christian ethos of the school
  • Monitoring and evaluating performance to ensure the school is accountable to those it serves.
  • Acting as a challenging advocate to the head teacher and staff.
  • Agreeing budgets, policies and targets
  • Monitoring our pupil premium funding to ensure that the money is spent efficiently in helping our disadvantaged children to achieve as well as they can

What sort of people make up the Governors?

To be a really effective set of governors it is healthy to have a good cross section of the community represented.  Each school’s governing body has a specific make up depending on what type of school it is.

Our school is a Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School and the Governing Body is made up of:

  • Foundation Governors who are appointed by the church
  • Parent Governors who are elected by parents
  • Staff Governors (including the Head Teacher) who represents the staff
  • One Local Authority Governor who is appointed by Wiltshire Council
  • Community Governors.

How do you know what the Governing Body are doing?

The minutes of the Governing Body meetings are available upon request from the school office, so you can read up about what’s going on.

Important decisions are also communicated through our School website and you can read about what we have been doing in the Governors Annual Report below.

Governors Annual Report 20-21

How you can contact us?

If you would like the Governors to consider an issue, please write to or email the Clerk to the Governors, Caroline Ayton on caroline.ayton@westbury-jun.wilts.sch.uk  or contact the school office.

You can also come and talk to us when you see us around the school, at events or on one of our frequent school visits.