Meet the Governors
Governor Information - Growing Together Federation
The Growing Together Federation is a federation formed between Bowerdean, Mapledean & Henry Allen Nursery Schools. They are the only stand alone maintained Nursery Schools in Buckinghamshire. The federation started on 1.9.2017. Our Governing Body is made up of representatives from the local authority, community, parents and staff. They meet together termly at full governor meetings and within committees covering pupil progress, premises, finance, curriculum and personnel. Governors take an active role in monitoring the services and providing a clear path of progress and development.
- The school is accountable to the Governing Body
- The Chair of Governors is Mrs Karen Bates
If you would like to speak to Karen then please contact her: -
Phone: 01494 726257
Email: office@henryallen.bucks.sch.uk
School Governance
This is currently carried out by a Governing Body. Members of the Governing Body make important decisions about the school for example teaching & learning, safeguarding, policies, recruitment, building & premises, health & safety and financial & budgetary matters. They ensure the nursery is governed in accordance with legal requirements and they support and challenge the Headteacher.
If you would like to know more or are interested in being a Parent Governor, please let the Headteacher know.
2019 / 2020 Governor Information
Committee Structure
| Growing Together Federation | |||||||||||||||
| Governor Attendance 2019-20 | |||||||||||||||
| Name | Committee membership | 02-Oct | 23-Oct | 06-Nov | 15-Jan | 12-Feb | 18-Mar | 01-Apr | 06-May | 20-May | 03-Jun | 08-Jul | end date | ||
| FPP | Pupil | FGB | Pupil | FPP | FGB | Pupil | FPP | FGB | FPP | Pupil | FGB | FGB | |||
| HT | Sue Skinner | Y | Y | AR | / | / | / | / | Aug-25 | ||||||
| LA | Karen Bates (Chair) | Y | / | obs | / | / | Sep-21 | ||||||||
| ST | Glynn Laffan | / | AR | Sep-21 | |||||||||||
| PA | Kym Dawkins | AR | |||||||||||||
| PA | Catherine Wright | Y | / | / | / | x | Sep-21 | ||||||||
| CO | Catherine Holdsworth (Vice Chair) | Chair | / | / | / | / | Sep-21 | ||||||||
| CO | Charlie Macdonald | Y | AR | / | / | / | Sep-21 | ||||||||
| CO | Anita Boekee | Y | / | / | AR | / | Oct-22 | ||||||||
| CO | Graham Dolan (Finance) | Chair | / | / | / | Sep-21 | |||||||||
| CO | Linda Rose | Y | / | / | / | Sep-21 | |||||||||
| CO | Lindsay Dixon | Vice chair | / | / | / | / | Sep-21 | ||||||||
| CO | Lisa Latchford (resigned 14 Jan) | Y | / | AR | x | Sep-21 | |||||||||
| Ass | Emma Lad (Policies) | clerk | / | / | Sep-21 | ||||||||||
| Ass | |||||||||||||||
| % attendance | 82 | 100 | 80 | 72 | 100 | ||||||||||
| FGB | Full Governing Body meeting | 12 voting members | |||||||||||||
| FPP | Finance, Premises and Personnel Committee | 6 voting member. As of 6 Nov: one vacancy | |||||||||||||
| Pupil | Pupil Progress Committee | 6 voting members | |||||||||||||
| / | Present | ||||||||||||||
| AR | Apologies received and accepted | ||||||||||||||
| Associate Members do not need to attend FGB and are not included in attendance % | |||||||||||||||
Governors are asked to declare any pecuniary interest.
- Mrs Skinner is Executive Headteacher at Henry Allen, Bowerdean and Mapledean Nursery Schools in the Growing Together Federation.
- Mrs Macdonald is a governor at Hyde Heath Infant School
- Mrs Dixon and Mrs Holdswoth and Mrs Wright all have children currently attending Nurseries within the Federation
FINANCES
We are a maintained Nursery School.
Local Authority funding for the Nursery comes in the form of funding for our 2-year olds (15 hours) , funding for our 3-4 year olds (15 hours or 30 hours) and of a lump sum received as a maintained Nursery. There are some paying sessions subject to availability.
There are no employees earning a gross annual salary of £100,000 or more.
Please click the link to the webpage which is dedicated to the schools financial benchmarking service.
https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/