Board of Governors
School governors provide strategic leadership and accountability in schools. Governors appoint the head teacher and deputy headteacher. In some schools the site is owned by the governing board. It is governors who hold the main responsibility for finance in schools, and it is governors who work with the headteacher to make the tough decisions about balancing resources.
Each individual governor is a member of a governing board, which is established in law as a corporate body. Individual governors may not act independently of the rest of the governing board; decisions are the joint responsibility of the governing board.
The role of the governing board is a strategic one, its key functions are to:
- set the aims and objectives for the school
- set the policies for achieving those aims and objectives
- set the targets for achieving those aims and objectives
- monitor and evaluate the progress the school is making towards achievement of its aims and objectives
- be a source of challenge and support to the headteacher (a critical friend)
Our Governors
Stuart Clowes
Kevin Cook
Craig Harris
Helen Keast
Adam Kelland
Jenny Moore
Julie Summerhayes (chair)
Rob Sutherland (vice chair)
Brian Walton (Headteacher)
Jan White
To contact the Governors email the Clerk Greg Jones
grjones@educ.somerset.gov.uk
To contact the Chair of Governors direct please use the following postal address:
Chair of Governors
Brookside Academy
Brooks Road
Street
Somerset
BA16 0PR
Governors Details 2018-19
Academy Articles of Association - July 2011
Brookside Model Funding Agreement - June 2011
Previous Minutes are available by request to the school.
