Governors
Beecroft Garden Governing Body
We are very lucky at Beecroft Garden to have a very active Governing Body that works closely with the school to improve educational attainment.
The Governors are:
- Chair of Governors: Hugh Morris
- Vice Chair of Governors: Claudine Munro-Lafon and Nicholas Ostrowski
- Co-opted Governor: Lucy Kirkland
- Parent Governor: Barny Day
- Parent Governor: Sarich Khizer
- Co-opted Governor: Adam Benedykt
- Associate Member: Terry O'Donovan
- Associate Member: Sharon Ferguson
- Co-opted Governor: Clare McGread
- Staff Governor: Tembisa Yawa
- Headteacher: Graham Voller
All Governors can be contacted via the school office either by email admin@beecroftgarden.lewisham.sch.uk or by letter, please mark your envelope private and confidential and it will be forwarded to the named Governor.
About the governors
Governors are appointed for four years.
It’s a voluntary role, so governors aren’t paid for the work they do for the governing board. The chair of governors leads the governing board and is elected every two years by them. Each committee is also headed by a chair, elected by the committee members. Parent governors are elected to the governing board by parents and teachers elect a teacher representative. Community governors are appointed from within the local community providing the governing board agrees.
Role of school governors
The governing board at Beecroft Garden Primary School is made up of 10 governors.
We provide strategic leadership and accountability for the school. We appoint the Headteacher and with the Headteacher, we appoint the Deputy Head.
We meet regularly to assess how the school is performing and to make sure it is managed effectively. We don’t get involved in the day to day running of the school, individual complaints or do fundraising.
We all meet twice a term for a full governors meeting.
We have two committees:
- the resources committee looks in detail at how the school’s money is spent
- the curriculum committee looks at how and what the children are taught and how they are performing
Each committee meets separately at least once a term.
Discussions of each meeting and the decisions made are recorded in writing. Lewisham Council provides us with a clerk who independently minutes our meetings.
You can view the published minutes of the governor’s meetings. Please contact the school reception for details.
Declaration of Business Interests
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How Lewisham Council helps us
Beecroft Garden is a local authority maintained school, supported and held to account by Lewisham Council.
The council supports governors by providing information, training sessions and conferences. They publish a governor’s handbook every term that highlights any key changes that could affect the running of the school.
Lewisham Council decides if our governing body structure complies with rules set by the Department for Education.
School priorities for 2024-25
The governors have agreed that the school’s priorities for 2024 to 2025 are:
- To exceed national expectations for end of key stage results and ensure consistent progress throughout the school towards these.
- To provide a range of inspiring and purposeful opportunities to raise cultural capital with a specific focus on disadvantaged children and underrepresented groups.
- To embed positive attitudes and core values across the school by ensuring that rules, expectations and consequences for behaviours are explicit, clear and consistently applied.
- To ensure continued professional development opportunities for staff at all levels.
- To ensure that early reading and writing are fully imbedded.
THE GOVERNING BODY OF BEECROFT GARDEN PRIMARY SCHOOL
(Crofton Park Ward)
Beecroft Road
London SE4 2BS
Tel 0208692 2762/Fax 020 8694 9976
GOVERNING BODY STRUCTURE
Reconstituted 13/11/19
10 governor places
Headteacher 1
Staff 1
Nominated by the London Borough of Lewisham 1
(appointed by the Governing Body)
Elected parents of pupils attending the school 2
Co-opted 5
Chair of the Governing Body – Mr Hugh Morris
Vice Chair of the Governing Body – Ms Claudine Munro-Lafon and Mr Nicholas Ostrowski
COMMITTEE STRUCTURE
Curriculum Committee: Chair – To be confirmed
Resources and Pay Committee: Chair – Mr Nicholas Ostrowski
Pupil Discipline Committee / Staff Discipline Committee / Dismissal Committee / Complaints Committee / Pay Appeals Committee
Membership to comprise any three members of the Governing Body having regard to availability, personal knowledge or involvement in a case, and any advice from Lewisham HR regarding the appropriate make up of a committee.
Clerk to the Governing Body: Mrs Jackie Woods, c/o Beecroft Garden Primary School
Governors’ details (for each governor who has served at any point over the past 12 months) – October 2024 and Governors' attendance over the past 12 months.
Please open this Document for the above information
Please open this Document for Beecroft Garden Primary School Committee Membership
