Brakenhale Chair of Governors: Mr T Sterry

Brakenhale Clerk to the Governors
Email Contact: brasgbclerk@greenshawlearningtrust.co.uk

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Clerk to Governors, Brakenhale School, Rectory Lane, Bracknell, Berkshire  RG12 7BA

 

Brakenhale School is an academy in the Greenshaw Learning Trust.

The Greenshaw Learning Trust is a charitable company, limited by guarantee, with the sole purpose of maintaining and developing academy schools to provide comprehensive and inclusive education for the public benefit.

You can find out more about the governance of the Trust by clicking on the links below:

 

Brakenhale School Governors

The Trustees of the Greenshaw Learning Trust have overall legal responsibility for all the schools in the Trust, but they delegate powers and responsibilities with respect to the governance of each school to its governing body and headteacher. The governing body is formally called a ‘Local Governing Body’, and is a committee of the Board of Trustees that reports to and is accountable to the Board of Trustees under a Scheme of Delegation of governance functions which sets out the rules for operation.  

The governing body is responsible for the strategic leadership of the school, for oversight of the school’s financial and academic performance, and for holding the Headteacher and school’s senior leadership to account.

Governors are appointed in a number of different ways to reflect the school’s various stakeholders and to bring a range of skills and experience to the governing body:

• Trust governors are appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Greenshaw Learning Trust.
• A parent governor has to be a parent of a student at the school at the time of their election and is elected by ballot of all parents and carers of current students.
• Community governors are appointed by the governing body to reflect its community and stakeholders.
• A staff governor must be employed by the school as a member of teaching or non-teaching staff and is appointed following a ballot of all teaching staff and/or non-teaching staff as appropriate.
• The Headteacher is a governor ex-officio.

All governors except the Headteacher serve for a term of office of four years, but can be reappointed.

Governors act collectively as the governing body and work closely with the Headteacher and senior leadership team of the school. Governors exercise their powers in a primarily strategic leadership role; they should not get involved in the day-to-day running of the school.

As well as attending governing body meetings, governors serve on governing body committees, take part in governor briefings and development activities, visit the school and meet school staff attend and engage in a range of school activities.

The Headteacher is responsible for the day-to-day running of the school, including the internal organisation, management and control of the school and the direction of teaching and the curriculum, and for the implementation of the policies of the Trust and Local Governing Body

Please explore the menu to the right to find out more about our governors

• our constitution
• details of each governor’s appointment and their roles on the governing body
• information about the committees and the attendance record of governors at meetings
• register and declaration of interests for governors and non-trustee members

The governing body has agreed a set of rules for how it operates that are set out in its Governance Procedures Scheme of Delegation on the Greenshaw Learning Trust website:

Find out more / Contact us

For further information or to contact the Local Governing Body, please contact the governing body via the details at the top of the page and explore the menu on the right.