Governance

Who are we?

Following the decision for Tiverton High School to leave the Federation of Tiverton Schools on 27th January 2025 a new Governing Body has been appointed by the Local Authority

What we do

We work with our school and leaders to ensure a high quality, inclusive education which enables all students to maximise their potential and make greater progress than expected.

We have three core functions:

• Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction;
• Holding leaders to account for the educational performance of our schools, their pupils, and the performance management of staff; and
• Overseeing the financial performance of the schools and making sure money is well spent.

Governors are not involved in the day to day management of a school. We are “eyes on, hands off”.

We provide strategic oversight of the processes, policies and practices of our schools to ensure that that they are statutorily compliant and to monitor and evaluate their impact.  For example, we do not set the school behaviour policy – that is the head teacher’s role. Our job is to ensure that school behaviour systems are fair and support inclusion and achievement for all pupils.

How we do it

To achieve this we will:

• support and challenge leaders
• have knowledge of the student experience
• have a comprehensive understanding of how our schools work
• have the benefit of our pupils at the heart of all our decisions
• strive to engage with parents
• ensure governors are well trained

Our structure

The Full Governing Body (FGB) meets monthly in term time.

The FGB also has First and Second Committees to deal with Disciplinary issues, Exclusions or Appeals.

Governors

Sue Brewer – Co-opted

Debbie Wigginton – Co-opted 

Max Graesser – Co-opted

James Lamb – Acting Headteacher Ex-officio

Sue Madgewick – LA

Cathy Noble – Foundation TCLP

Jim Porteous – Co-opted