Governance

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:

In response to the impact of Covid-19, continue to diminish the differences in achievement between disadvantaged pupils and others across all the year groups in Maths, Writing, Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling and Reading.
Continue to develop teaching of systematic Phonics for targeted pupils, particularly Year 3 pupils.
Embed strategies to support memory and recall.
Following the pandemic, refresh and relaunch a high-quality comprehensive curriculum for personal development including embedding ‘seeds to success’ (Redhill Academy Trust Pledges) and reintroducing the wider curriculum offer.
Improve attendance and punctuality.

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

Meeting Attendance 2022 23

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

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:

Name	How appointed	Date of appointment or last reappointment	Term of office	Business/pecuniary interests declared as at September 2023	Governance roles in other educational institutions	Attendance 2021/2022	Attendance 2022/2023
Vanessa Alhinho	Parent	28/01/2021 Resigned from Local Academy Board on 2 Oct 2023	4 years	None	None	3/6	1/4
Patricia Clarke	Community	01/04/2023	4 years	None	None	4/6	2/4
Heather Hallam	Community	14/11/2021	4 years	None	None	1/6	3/4
Beth Hunter	Staff	03/11/2021	4 years	None	None	6/6	1/4
Martin Kerry	Community	24/06/2023	4 years	None	None	5/6	4/4
Nadia Laxton	Parent	20/03/2024	4 years	None	None	n/a	n/a
Wendy Murphy	Community	26/01/2021 Resigned from Local Academy Board on 5 Feb 2024	4 years	None	None	2/6	0/4
Annette Satterley	Staff	01/09/2022	4 years	None	None	4/6	2/4
Michelle Sills	Community	19/05/2020	4 years	Provides PPA cover & runs an after-school Dance Club at this school	None	4/6	4/4
Bibiana Sokal-Green	Parent	15/11/2019 Term of office ended on 14 Nov 2023	4 years	None	None	4/6	3/4
Lynne Thompson	Community	27/09/2020	4 years	None	None	4/6	3/4
Sharon Wood	Staff Headteacher	01/09/2019 - ex-officio	n/a	None	None	6/6	4/4