GOVERNORS
Welcome from the Chair
Dear Parents and Friends,
At the Carlton Junior Academy, Governors, staff, parents and children work together in a happy, creative and high attaining environment; with our core values of excellence, determination, respect, relationships and responsibility underpinning everything that we do.
The Governing Body is involved with our academy at every level. This includes finance, safeguarding, premises management and staff appointments. As Governors, we consider our most important role to be the safety, welfare and education of our pupils.
The children in our academy achieve high standards across the curriculum. We are justifiably very proud of them and would like to thank the parents who encourage and support their children so admirably. In a good academy, such as ours, parents take a great interest in their child’s learning and development so together “We Grow Greatness.”
Governors are appointed to ensure that objectives are met, and that future planning is both visionary and realistic. We provide strategic direction and ensure the clarity of vision and ethos needed for the improvement of the academy; we monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the academy; we hold the leaders to account for the educational performance of the academy and its pupils, and the performance management of its staff; we ensure that the academy fulfills its statutory duties, for example under the Equality Act 2010, and other duties for example in relation to the ‘Prevent’ duty and safeguarding; and we oversee the financial performance of the academy making sure that the money is well spent including the pupil premium.
We are here to support and encourage our Headteacher, Senior Leadership Team and all academy personnel to ensure that every one of our children has access to an enriched education and to all the opportunities that they deserve to prepare them for the next stage of their education.
The priorities for academy improvement, this academic year, are as follows:
Quality of Education
- Further improve outcomes for higher attaining pupils in all year groups.
- Integrate the routine and effective use of iPads to improve teaching & learning.
Leadership & Management
- Develop new line-management strategy for teaching assistants.
- Develop and support new leaders in their roles.
Personal Development
- Integrate a trust-wide approach to the delivery of handball as part of the academy’s co- curriculum offer.
Behaviour & Attitudes
- Further develop strategies to reduce the absence of all pupils whose attendance is below national average.
- Embed Redhill Academy Trust Equality Diversity and Inclusion objectives.
Finance & Operations
- Re-structure of the administrative team.
Should you wish to contact me to discuss any matter further, I can be reached via the school office.
I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible throughout the school year.
Best regards
Michelle Sills
If you would like to get in contact with The Chair of Governors please call on 0115 9110402, email Michelle Sills at office@carltonjunior.org.uk or ask at the school office.
For information about governance in the Redhill Academy Trust, please click here.
Trust Scheme Of Delegation May 2023
Supplemental Funding Agreement
Redhill Academy Trust – Official Governance Documents
For the Trust’s financial information, please click here
Our governors at TCJA:
Mrs Michelle Sills – Chair of Governors
Staff Headteacher
Mrs Sharon Wood
Staff Governors
Mrs Beth Hunter
Mrs Annette Satterley
Parent Governors
Ms Leanne Hoban
Miss Nadia Laxton
Community
Ms Pat Clarke
Mrs Heather Hallam
Martin Kerry
Ms Lynne Thompson (Vice-Chair)
Further information on the governors can be found below:
