Queen Eleanor Primary School

Community Aspiration Resilience Empathy

Welcome to our Governors Section.

Please find below details of how our Governing body is structured, including the names, categories, responsibilities and terms of appointment for each Governor.

We have also provided a Register of Governor Interests and an Annual Statement of Issues for your information.

All schools have a governing body which is composed of people that fit the governing bodies skills audit to provide a wide ranging skill set that best aids the school and its development. We have just carried out a statutory re-constitution and our governing body is made up of the following groups:

1) 3 Parents

2) One elected Staff Member

3) Three Co-opted members

4) The Headteacher.

5) One LA Governor.

Working together, governors support the school, particularly in making key decisions about its overall vision for children’s education.  As a group, we never lose sight of the school’s most important people: the children.  We want the best for them trying always to keep what will improve their future life chances at the front of our thinking.

The purpose of having a governing body is to:

- help the school to set high standards by planning for the school's future and setting targets for school improvement

- keep the pressure up on school improvement

- be a critical friend to the school, offering support and advice

- help the school respond to the needs of parents and the community

- make the school accountable to the public for what it does

- work with the school on planning, developing policies and keeping the school under review

- exercise its responsibilities and powers in partnership with the head teacher and staff

- not to intervene in the day-to-day management of the school unless there are weaknesses in the school, when it then has a duty to take action.

The work of the governing body is shaped by committees:

- The Full Governing Body meeting, which is held twice a term, The Chair of Governors, Kathryn Ramsay chairs these meetings.

Individual governors have specific links with areas of the school’s work and its priorities for improvement, see below Governor Responsibilities.

Statutory information:

Mrs Kathryn Ramsay: kramsay@queeneleanor.notts.sch.uk

Chair of Governors appointed by the Governing Board 24.07.2025 until 23.07.2029 reviewed annually.

Does not sit on any other educational institution governing body

Has no business and pecuniary interest related to the school

Has no material interests arising from relationships with other governors or school staff

Mr Jonathan Statham– Jstatham@queeneleanor.notts.sch.uk

Parent Governor

Appointed by the parents 08.05.2025 until 07.05.2029

Does not sit on any other educational institution governing body

Has no business and pecuniary interest related to the school

Has no material interests arising from relationships with other governors or school staff

Mrs Shelly Wright – head@queeneleanor.notts.sch.uk

Headteacher

Does not sit on any other educational institution governing body

Has no business and pecuniary interest related to the school

Has no material interests arising from relationships with other governors or school staff

Ms Carly Goldstraw – office@queeneleanor.notts.sch.uk

School Business Manager

Staff Governor

Appointed by the Staff 18.09.2023 until 17.09.2027

Does not sit on any other educational institution governing body

Has no business and pecuniary interest related to the school

Has no material interests arising from relationships with other governors or school staff.

Mr Colin Barnard: - cbarnard@queeneleanor.notts.sch.uk

Co-opted governor

Appointed: 14.05.2025 until 13.05.2025

Has no business and pecuniary interest related to the school

Has no material interests arising from relationships with other governors or school staff.

Governor Meeting Minutes:

Governor meeting minutes and the annual Governor’s Statement is available from the school office upon request.