Governors

Welcome to Mesne Lea Community Primary School.

My name is Kate Cowpe and I have the privilege of being the Chair of Governors at Mesne Lea. We have 12 members on our Governing Body and they are:

Head Teacher: Mrs J Finlay

Staff representative: Mrs F Zino

Local Authority Representative: Mr A Stribling

Parent Governors: Ms L Bevan, Lauren Sullivan, Colin Patel and Kristie Conroy

Other Governors: Jenny Davies

Co-opted Governors: Mrs S Crank, Mrs P Owen, Mr R Mellor (vice Chair), Mrs K Cowpe (Chair), Miss G Smith

We also have one associate member who shares with us their additional skills – Mrs N Taylor Whitehead.

Meet our Governors

Chair of Governors

Kate Cowpe

Vice Chair of Governors

Mr Robert Mellor

Co-opted Governors

Paddy Owen Sue Crank

Gill Smith

LEA Governors

Mr Alan Stribling

Associate Governors

Nicola Taylor Whitehead

Parent Governors

Lisa Bevan

Lauren Sullivan, Kristie Conroy, Colin Patel

Staff Governors

Fiona Zino

Other Governors

Jenny Davies

The Roles of our Governors

The Governors represent the different communities of Mesne Lea – The staff, the parents, the local authority and the local community itself. We come from a variety of backgrounds including Health, Education, Business, Information Technology , Sales and Marketing. We aim to provide a school that delivers the best education and life experiences for the children of Mesne Lea within the finances provided for the school, and for it to be a place of work that the best teachers and support staff want to work.

Governors are responsible for the Strategic direction of a school rather than the day-to- day operational decisions. We support and challenge school leaders and hold them to account for the quality of teaching, pupils’ achievement, behaviour and safety. In doing this we must manage the finances of the school well and more recently this has included the use of Pupil Premium monies to overcome barriers to learning for our more disadvantaged pupils.

A Governor has a four year term of office – parent and staff governors are elected by their peers, the others are appointed either by the Local Authority (1 member) or by the governing body itself. It is a voluntary position, hard work but very rewarding.

Chairperson Mrs Kate Cowpe

Vice Chairperson Mr Bob Mellor

Headteacher Mrs Julie Finlay

Co-opted Governor Mrs Paddy Owen

Co-opted Governor Mrs Sue Crank

Co-opted Governor Mr Alan Stribling

Parent Governor Kristie Conroy

Parent Governor Mrs Lisa Bevan

Parent Governor Colin Patel

Parent Governor Lauren Sullivan

Other Governor Jenny Davies

Staff Governor Mrs Fiona Zino

Associate Governor Mrs Nicola Taylor Whitehead

Register of Interests

Attendance Record of Governors Meetings

From Sept 2016 - May 2017

July 2017

Autumn 2017

Staff and Governors

Here's a photo of our Staff and Governors at our first joint forum - demonstrating we are "one team" as we continue towards our objective to be an outstanding school.