Welcome!

 

The Local Governing Board at Heathfields Infant and Wilnecote Junior Academy are fully committed to working together to ensure your children flourish in all areas of school life, their priority being that they enjoy their learning and strive to achieve their full potential through the broad curriculum we can offer. 

What is the role of a Governing Board? Answer: To become a ‘critical friend’. 

Supporting the work of the Headteacher and other staff, this looks like challenging decisions to ensure they are the best for the direction of the school, analysing and questioning data about both the budget and the pupils' progress, evaluating strategies and holding the school accountable to ensure these are followed through and most importantly making sure all decisions are with the children at the forefront of our minds. 

We meet as a governing body twice a term to review progress and re-evaluate future decisions to ensure we stay on track to meet the overall focus in the schools. We also have link governors that are heads of topics covering Health and Safety, Curriculum, SEND and Safeguarding. Their role is to meet with key members of staff and talk with the children about their work.  The Chair and Vice-Chair meet regularly with other Chairs/Vice-Chairs from all schools within the Fierté family to ensure cohesion of governance across the Trust.  

We have termly Curriculum and Standards meetings and Local Governing Board meetings. All governors attend these meetings and the chair is Matthew Fletcher.

Fierté Multi Academy Trust is committed to promoting and prioritising diversity and inclusion.  We encourage our academy local governing boards (LGB’s) to recognise the benefits of diversity and appoint governors from a variety of backgrounds. 

A proportion of our trustees/governors are from ethnic minorities, with an approximate 50% being female.  However, the trust understands that more needs to be done to increase representation on LGB’s, and we are working with them to grow the networks we engage with to further this aim. 

Getting people from diverse backgrounds onto our LGB’s is an important step.  The Trust supports LGB’s throughout the process of recruiting new governors, with strategies they can put in place to ensure all governors feel included, which leads to improved retention.  This is an ongoing process which we will need to keep reflecting on as to how we achieve this. 

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Below are some useful question and answers about governing bodies and a link to their national online support network: www.governornet.co.uk

Chair of Governors

Our Chair of Governors is Mr Matthew Fletcher who can be contacted at the addresses below.

mfletcher@hiwj.fierte.org

Alternatively, Mr Christopher Watson can also be reached via email at

cwatson@hiwj.fierte.org

Name	Category	Appointed/voted by	Link Governor	Responsibilities	From	To	Declaration of interest: Business/Body	Nature of business	Date declared
Gareth Woods	Co-opted	The Governing Body			01.09.23	01.09.27	none		08.07.24
Chris Watson	Co-opted	The Governing Body	Health and Safety	Vice Chair	24.09.18	30.11.24	none		08.07.24
Adam Winstanley	Local Authority	Councillor Adams	Maths		26.11.18	30.11.24	none		08.07.24
Ben Clarke	Co-opted	The governing Board			01.12.20	30.11.24	none		27.09.23
Anja Hartveld	Parent	Parent appointed by GB /board due to no election candidates.	Pupil Premium/SEND		12.11.21	11.11.25	none		08.07.24
Matthew Fletcher	Co-opted	The Governing Body	EYFS and Safeguarding	Chair	29.11.21	28.11.25	Yes	married to PTFA chair	08.07.24
Kelly Williams	Executive Head Teacher	Ex-officio by virtue of office as headteacher/principle					none		08.07.24
Ian Melloy	Head of School (HIA)	Ex-officio by virtue of office as headteacher/principle					none		08.07.24
Nicola Glover	Head of School (WJA)	Ex-officio by virtue of office as headteacher/principle					none		08.07.24

 

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