Towers Schools Governing Body

Governors

Our Governing Body is composed of the following categories of Governors:-

Executive Head Teacher (1)
Local Authority Governor (1) – appointed by the Local Authority
Parent Governors (1) – elected by parents
Staff Governors (1) – elected by staff
Co-Opted Governors (8) – appointed by the Governing Body
Associate members (2) - Associate members without voting rights
Observer (1) – without voting rights

The full governing body meets termly and discusses the Quality of Education, Personal Development of pupils and staff, Leadership and Management, personnel and premises issues including health and safety. and Behaviour and attitudes and finances of the schools.

The following committees will also meet where appropriate:

Pay Committee – annual meeting regarding teachers’ pay review,

Pupil Discipline Committee – meet as required to deal with any permanent exclusion cases. Membership of this panel will be determined as required.

Staff Dismissal Committee – meet as required to deal with any staff dismissal cases. Membership of this panel will be determined as required.

Appeal Committee - meet as required to deal with any staff appeals following disciplinary procedures. Membership of this panel will be determined as required.

Executive Head teacher’s Performance Management Committee – meet annually to review Executive Head Teacher’s performance management targets and determine salary increments. Membership of this committee is determined at the Full Governing Body Meeting in the summer term.

Our current Governing Body membership is

Name	Category and Responsibility	Term expires	Relationships
Mr Matthew Dineen	Executive Headteacher Governor – Member of all committees Mr Dineen is currently on a secondment with the local authority. His new role is Schools Improvement Advisor – SEND.	Duration in post	None
Mrs A D’Silva	Co-opted Governor. Chair of Governors, Responsibility for Safeguarding, Governance, British Values, Disadvantaged pupils, Early years Quality and Standards and Executives Head teachers Performance Management.	02/05/2026	None
Mr P Sass	Co-opted Governor, Responsibility for Governance and British values. Executive Head teachers Performance Management.	24/02/2027	None
Ms S Jalil	Local Authority Governor	24/01/2027	None
Mrs J Taylor	Parent Governor. Quality of Education linked governor	11/02/2028
Mrs J Bryant	Co-opted Governor. Vice Chair of Governors Quality of Education linked governor	05/05/2028	None
Mrs C Hurley	Co-opted Governor	22/11/2024
Ms L Blurton	Co-opted Member	23/02/2028	None
Mr A Bryan	Co-opted Member. Responsibility for Finance. Health and Safety linked governor	02/05/2026
Mrs L Hickling & Mrs D Broom	Observer - Schools Business Manager, Finance and H and S link.		None
Miss Souriya Gad	Staff Governor	25/11/2024	None

All governors have full membership and voting rights. Currently only the Executive Head Teacher as a governor sits on governing bodies of two other schools. The Bridge - Independent school, part of Life Education Trust and St. Alban's Catholic Primary School.

Agenda and associated papers are put together for the Chairs approval by Governing body support unit from Havering. The Clerk to the Governing body is Anesta Broad.

Annual pecuniary interest declarations are signed by all governors and there are currently no governors with business interests linked to the school.

The Governors play an important role in our school. Please click the link to read more about what their role entails.

• Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction;

• Holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils, and the effective and efficient performance management of staff; and

• Overseeing the financial performance of the organisation and making sure its money is well spent.

Health and Safety matters:

The governing body has to plan for the school to be able to implement the health and safety policy by setting health and safety objectives and performance standards for their school. This will promote a positive view of health and safety and control risks.

Asbestos;

Asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) were used extensively in the construction of schools and other public buildings from the 1950s until the use of asbestos in Great Britain was completely banned in 1999.

We can assure our parental community, alongside visitors to site that there are effective management systems in place. It is expected that staff refresh their understanding of the asbestos register at the start of every academic year, and mid year inductions to school life include reading the asbestos register. Contractors prior to starting work also have to sign they have read and understood the asbestos register and these signed documents confirming they understand our asbestos register are kept on file. This is managed by the Schools Site Manager. If parents/carers request information regarding known asbestos materials on our site please email our school office FAO of our Schools Business Manager.

Further information about asbestos in schools can be found here;

https://www.hse.gov.uk/education/asbestos.htm

Governors declaration of interests 2024

Governors declaration of interests 2023

To see a record of attendance at meetings June 2024 - please click here

To see a record of attendance at meetings - please click here.

To see our governors attendance records at meetings 2018/19 - please click here

To see our governors attendance records at meetings Oct 18 - Feb 19

To see our governors attendance records at meetings 2019/20 please click here

To see our Full Governors Attendance Records at meeting Oct 18 - July 19 - please click here

To see our governors attendance records at meetings 2020/2021 please click here

To see our governors attendance records at meetings 2021/2022 please click here