Local Governors
Welcome to the Governors' page on the Houghton on the Hill Primary School website. THIS IS CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF BEING UPDATED.
Houghton on the Hill Primary School is a member of Learn Academies Trust (Learn-AT). Learn-AT has a Board of Trustees and members who are responsible for overseeing all the schools in the Trust. For more information about the Trustees, please see Learn-AT’s website.
Houghton on the Hill’s Local Governing Body works on behalf of the Trust Board in these key areas:
1. Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction within the academy.
2. Acting as a critical friend to the school; holding the academy’s senior leadership team to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils and the performance management of staff.
3. Assuring Health and Safety procedures, including safeguarding within their school.
It is the responsibility of the Headteacher and staff to guide and advise governors, implement the plans and deliver the curriculum.
School Governors are drawn from different parts of the community and some are elected by parents or staff. This helps ensure the Governing Body has sufficient diversity of views and experience, but does not mean governors of a particular category represent that group on the Governing Body. For example, Parent Governors do not represent the parents at the school and do not report back to them.
Clerk to the Governors: Rebecca Miles
Types of Governor
Parent governors: elected by parents (or appointed if insufficient people stand for election) and drawn from parents and carers of children at the school.
Staff governors: elected by teaching and support staff paid to work at the school.
Foundation governors: appointed by the school's founding body, the Leicester Diocesan Board of Education.
Co-opted governors: appointed by the governing body if they have, in the opinion of the governing body, the skills to contribute to the effectiveness of governance and the success of the school.
Governors whose appointments ended in the last 12 months:
Chloe Shipley (Parent Governor) retired April 2024
Helen Brown (Foundation Governor) retired February 2024
You can contact any of the governors via the school office with comments or concerns relating to the school at any time.
We value your feedback.
Register of Business Interests
Local Governing Body declarations of interests - Houghton-on-the-Hill CE Primary School
Local Governing Body historical members - Houghton-on-the-Hill CE Primary School
Local Governing Body meetings - Houghton-on-the-Hill CE Primary School
Local Governing Body members - Houghton-on-the-Hill CE Primary School
Mark Newman
Vice Chair and Finance link governor. Co-opted governor.
Roger Bettles
Foundation governor and SIAMs link governor.
Patricia Ford
Co-opted governor and safeguarding link governor.
Ann Foster
Sits on the Safeguarding Committee.
Harriet Hurdley-Lees
A co-opted governor and curriculum and standards link governor.
Anjum Matharu
Co-opted governor and Health and Safety link governor.
Sarah Moore
Co-opted governor and curriculum and standards link governor.
Revd Steve Ransley
Foundation governor and Pupil Premium link governor.
Ali Woollerson
Headteacher
Ex officio governor.
Tim Dolan
Foundation governor and curriculum and standards link governor.
Mel Pickford
Staff governor and curriculum and standards link governor.
Elizabeth Morrison
Parent governor and the SEND link governor.
Jo Mould
Support staff governor, Pupil Premium link governor and Sport & PE Premium link governor.