Teaching Staff and Governors
Headteacher
Mrs J Betts
Deputy Head
Mrs H Sheehan
Senior Teacher
Mrs E Burton
SENCO
Mrs E Burton / Mrs Sheehan
Designated Safeguarding Leads
Mrs Sheehan
Mrs E Burton
Mrs J Betts
Data Protection Officer
Mrs J Betts
Classroom Teachers:
Mrs A Kelman -Year R
Miss N Soames – Year 1
Mrs R Ellul / Mrs S Curtis – Year 2
Miss S Valentine – Year 3
Miss K Garnett-Year 4
Mrs S Jennings & Mrs H Sheehan -Year 5
Mrs D Beckley – Year 6
HLTA
Mrs S Curtis
Teaching Assistants
Mrs F Thorpe
Mrs L Perkins
Miss C Summers
Ms R Thompson
Ms J Howard
Mrs A Wright
Mrs L Baldry
Miss H Airey
School Office
Mrs F Pipe – School Business Manager
Mrs J Clark – Administration Assistant
Mrs E Lucas- Harness – Administration Assistant
Ms J Howard – Finance Officer
Other Support Staff
Mr J Esteves – School Caretaker
Mrs S Gray – School Cook
Mrs F Thorpe – Breakfast Club Leader
Mrs G Topal – Afterschool club activity worker
Miss A Scoggins – Afterschool club activity worker
Mr J Hurd – PE coach
Mrs D Freestone – Music Teacher
MDSA’s
Mrs S Creasey – Senior MDSA
Mrs C Green
Mrs M Catania
Mrs L Perrott
Mrs M Macgregor
Mrs S Singh
Mrs G Topal
Vicar
Rev M Prentice
The Role of the Governing Body The governing body is responsible for the conduct of its school, and must promote high standards of educational achievement at the school. It is the school’s accountable body and:
- provides a strategic view of the school by establishing a vision and setting the purpose and aims of the school within an agreed policy framework. It appoints and performance manages the headteacher, agreeing the school improvement strategy which includes setting statutory targets with supporting budgets and staffing structures;
- monitors and evaluates the work of the school by reviewing the performance of the headteacher, the effectiveness of the policy framework, progress towards targets, and the effectiveness of the school improvement strategy;
- signs off the self-evaluation process and responds to school improvement service and Ofsted reports as necessary. In addition it holds the headteacher to account for the performance of the school and ensures that parents are involved, consulted and informed as appropriate, with information to the community being made available as required
The Governors meet as a whole group twice a term and at one of the meetings a representative of the LA is present as clerk. In between, the various sub-committees and working groups meet. Minutes of these meetings are circulated to all Governors electronically. The Governors have to have some committees by law, for Hearings, Appeals and Pupil Discipline. At St John’s CE VA Primary School, we also have committees for Admissions, Finance, Personnel and Curriculum. Email our governors office@st-johns.suffolk.sch.uk
Governors Behaviour Written Statement
Governors Pecuniary Interests 2024/25
