Governance

Martin Cox (Chair of Governors)

I have always believed that primary schools are important to the areas they support, especially in our small village where we are the hub of the community - educating, developing and caring for your children. I am very pleased to say my two boys have attended the school and benefited from the education and environment we provide.

The first stages of childrens education is critical for their future and I personally wanted to play a small part in how this is done in Hartwell. I am currently the School’s Chair of Governors (or Directors as the Government calls us) and have been a governor since 2013.

The role of governors is to ensure the school provides the best primary education for your children - from curriculum, sporting/creative activities to behaviour and social skills. We support our professional teachers and staff, provide direction through agreeing development plans for the future and are responsible to you and the Government for the school’s financial budgets, policy and asset management.

Please feel free to contact any governors and myself with any feedback and suggestions about our school.

Contact details

Martin Cox
c/o Hartwell Primary School
School Lane
Hartwell
Northampton
NN7 2HL

01604 862880

If you would like to see a copy of the Funding Agreement please request this either via the 'Contact Us' page or by asking at the school office.

Governance at Hartwell Primary School

Structure

Our governance structure is shown below:

The Members meet once a year at an Annual General Meeting, whilst Trustees meet every half-term. Other than statutory ones, there are no committee meetings. The rationale behind this is:

To use governors time to best effect and reduce time burden on key governors. By governors meeting burden becoming less (in most cases), more time focus can be put on governor visits and monitoring activities
To avoid repetition between meetings and in turn, being mindful of Headteacher and School Business Manager workload
To allow decisions to be made immediately rather than having to be passed through several committees, ensuring rapid turnaround of changes and actions generated at a meeting
To ensure that every governor has an understanding of the full range of Governing Body responsibilities, enabling more informed and rounded discussions and decisions

Members

As defined in our Articles of Association, our Members are:

The Diocesan Corporate Member Represented by Peter Cantley, Diocese of Peterborough
The Chair of Trustees Martin Cox
Two other individuals Richard Alcock and a vacancy