Governance
REAch2 Governance
We have 2 layers of governance in REAch2: local governing bodies which oversee individual schools and our Board of Trustees who are ultimately accountable to the Department for Education for the running of the Trust.
All our schools share the same governance structure and you can find information about the trust on the REAch2 website at https://www.reach2.org. The https://www.reach2.org/governance page gives details of how the Trust is organised, including the Articles of Association, the Master Funding Agreement and all the documents which relate to how the Trust was founded and how it runs today. You can also find details of who our trustees are.
Our school, like most schools in the Trust, has a local governing body (LGB). There are terms of reference, which detail how the LGB should work and what its responsibilities are. On the REAch2 website, terms of reference are available for all our boards, including the Trust Board. You can also find documents which show how all the different layers communicate and how responsibility and accountability is distributed.
Governance in our school
The LGB holds meetings during the year in which they help to support the school, its leadership and pupils, whilst challenging to make sure that everyone achieves as much progress as they can and should.
Our school’s LGB is made up of 2 Trust-appointed Governors, who are volunteers, 2 Parent Governors, 2 Staff Governors, 1 Co-opted Governor and the Headteacher. They can invite other members of staff to meetings to discuss current issues. They have to declare that they are working for the school in an open and honest way and so fill in a declarations of interest form annually and declarations of interest is an item on every LGB meeting agenda.
For the REAch2 financial statements please follow the link https://www.reach2.org/financial-statements/
We have to share this information with you about our governors and governance:
Our Governors
Trust-appointed Governors
Stuart Lester - Chair of Governors
Jayne Franklin - Vice Chair of Governors
Staff Governors
Charlotte Trew - Headteacher
Kate Churnin
Gerry McGann
Parent Governors
Kate Tench
Jenni Stone
Co-opted Governors
Nosheen Akhtar